Shall we have another bit of music chatter and carry-on to wile away the weekend? There’s still no voucher but we know you’re not it for the money (loud guffaws down the back).
This week, I want to know: What’s your favourite song whose title or lyrics mention metals, as in gold, silver, bronze etc.
Here’s mine.
Lines close on Saturday Midday!
Please include video link if possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
Meanwhile…
Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves
Last week, we asked you to name your favourite song whose title or lyrics refer to Autumn or the Autumnal months.
Ghost Of Yep won my esteem with this excellent entry:
“Heartbreakingly apt and just an incredible performance.”
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
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Oh it has to be Ghost Riders! While the film was not great, the version was wonderful. But you cannot beat The Outlaws live!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWjX4BpC24
you can’t beat a bit of Pavement – “Gold Soundz”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPvhKV3Yg2k
The cover/reinterpretation of Black Steel from the album Maxinquaye by Tricky.
https://youtu.be/9ZJTM03UByU
Awesome track. 25 years old now but could have been released yesterday and sound modern.
Tho a reinterpretation, the Chap’s a genius.
Great choice!
+1 ya big ride ya :)
Class choice, class album. Slick 66 is on repeat in the car.
Great cover from a great, great album
one more – Lambchop “The Old Gold Shoe” – so beautiful, but god knows what he’s singing about…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BtPq_-NZQg
Neil Young – Heart of gold
A magnificient ballad off a magnificient album. The Loner does it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3IA6pIVank
Gets my vote.
Fleetwood Mac – Gold dust woman
Always loved this song, the production on this album is superb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ti1b-RRBjI&ab_channel=FleetwoodMac-Topic
Lou Reed -Hold On
take more than the angels or iron mile tyson…..
https://youtu.be/S06ASxOGiVk
hoping that it doesn’t have to be a precious metal
happy friday
All about america right now,
Horslips – the man who built america
Golden Nails, Silver Bars.
Only had to hear it once, never forgot it.
Never had the excuse to post about it on the interwebs tho.
https://youtu.be/NynajakSbV0
From an Irish perspective, U2 also had Silver and Gold on Rattle and Hum…
Golden slumbers / carry that weight / the end
https://youtu.be/6qrDlRsARwk
+1
That’s a hard one.
How about ‘Gold’ by Spandau Ballet
https://youtu.be/ntG50eXbBtc
“You are Gold”!
Man I played this tune over and over again down through the years from when it was first released as part of the glorious Portishead, Massive Attack and Tricky trifecta of albums.
A cover that exceeds the Public Enemy original, I choose Black Steel from Tricky’s Maxinquaye..
https://youtu.be/9ZJTM03UByU
Sorry Fergalito, but I got in earlier! That particular trifecta as you refer to was just fantastic and a major influence on my musical appetites back then.
Damn you and your impeccable taste in music. Yer probably a ride as well.
Then you get my vote ROS.
So Madam Rosette tells me… ;)
Well it has to be the late 1980’s dance floor filler Fools Gold by The Stone Roses. It has one hell of a bass line and drum beat. https://youtu.be/BBsazIACpYM
Oh yes!
Classique
This little gem:
https://youtu.be/0H6re3PCP3E
The Pretenders : Brass in Pocket
And this gets me every time:
https://youtu.be/daxiMb0rITA
Freda Payne: Band of Gold
me too
You have my esteem also Ghost of Yep, that is a lovely song.
+ well done yep ghost
Rotary Connection
Black Gold of the Sun.
https://youtu.be/4DR_NMtBEj4
The Klaxons – Golden Skans
https://youtu.be/q-SJjFcnsGs
One hit wonders that somehow managed to snag a Mercury Prize. Disappeared as quickly as they came but left us this proper slice of old school indie.
Simple Minds – New Gold Dreams (81-82-83-84)
https://youtu.be/GWAC4UeWGd0
To paraphrase George Harrison, back when they were fab Simple Minds could produce belters like this.
Golden Brown.
The band that has something for everybody, once you like spectacular hip hop from three loons.
Beastie Boys and Brass Monkey! https://youtu.be/acY2VSskD80
+1 –
The Stranglers – Golden Brown
https://youtu.be/z-GUjA67mdc
I have inadvertently created a golden trilogy and saved the best for last. Whatever the subject matter may be the lyrics meant nothing to the young me watching Top of the Pops in 1982. This song got stuck at number two behind A Town Called Malice from The Jam. For that reason I loathed A Town Called Malice for a long time after; eventually calming down and realising it was a good song. I loved the video with its evocation of fading empire. What made this for me the most was the harpsichord. I was mesmerised by it because I hadn’t heard one before. This became my first official favourite song of all time.
Here’s Dave Brubeck’s version of Golden Brown, recorded 20 years before it was written.
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
Seeing as Rosette of Sirius somehow managed to telepathically access my subconscious and plant the theme of this week’s competition for Nick’s esteem in there before I even read the post in order to extract my choice for his own purposes I post this as an alternative. I’d hidden this one in a password protected neuron that proved impenetrable to his mental powers thankfully.
Another great artist to check out live, tis John Murry and the moseying “Silver and Lead” – hah, not one but TWO metals!
https://youtu.be/aBHSp3t0V0g
Nice one. He’s living in Longford these days.
He is indeed.
He’s had a tough auld paper round.
Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
https://youtu.be/xvaEJzoaYZk
I don’t like country music. I like this song. I still don’t like country music
This was the first song that came into my head…. Sting Fields of Gold
https://youtu.be/KLVq0IAzh1A
“Everything’s getting older…”
A wry rumination on life and death by Bills Wells and Arab Strap’s Aiden Moffat.
The Copper Top – https://youtu.be/eu_qjcsF6Gs
it is kanye o’clock
gold digger
https://youtu.be/6vwNcNOTVzY
+1
The always brilliant Cat Power performs Metal Heart on the Letterman Show in 2008.
https://youtu.be/gkWGGmnbRrI
David Bowie’s perfect song, full of hope and glory – Golden Years
I think it’s one of his best and I love to shuffle to it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRD0ghlFSgk
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere, angel
Here’s Gold a wonderful slow jam from Chet Faker (known to his mum and dad as Nick Murphy). Bonus marks for the the Hiro Murai-directed video featuring rolling skating sirens.
https://youtu.be/hi4pzKvuEQM
peak cracked actor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xfa4BAeo2c
Doves – Kingdom of Rust
https://youtu.be/dFM0pUn4dcA
doh, just spotted Verbatim above… touche & chapeau!
“Mining for gold” – Cowboy Junkies 1988
Too much Gold and Brass. Not enough Silver.
“Hawkwind – Silver Machine” featuring Lemmy on vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfniG-AdSC4
(It’s about a bike)
Iron Horse by Motorhead. Lemmy on Vocals here too. https://youtu.be/HVUqfdzcCtY
Yesterday, for the first time in aeons, I got to book tickets for a gig. These guys are playing Vicar St in April.
Low – In Metal
https://youtu.be/PqaTCX_tCJw
Rock God Robert Plant covers Low’s Silver Rider.
https://youtu.be/jP2Ex5_nqJo
Low live??? Brillo…! Give Mimi & the Great Destroyers my best regards.
meanwhile: back to the battle of wits… :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB2mLDJdn5A
Behold the Original Ice Maiden, inventing Post Punk, Goth, Grunge… 1977
“watching a stretch of road…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0D0e6WvcMY
They’ve been featuring in the Friday music comp quite a bit recently. All’s well in the world.
Thom Yorke covers Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush.
https://youtu.be/E8TwYN_4tSg
The wonderful Lost Brothers, not brothers by blood but brothers nonetheless. Their folk music style is soft and subtle, but yet very powerful, and there is not a bad song to be found on their first five albums. The song is Gold and Silver from two Irish diamonds. Long may they perform their fine craft.
I would normally throw in a few lyrics but could not find any for this song, so I created them myself, by all means correct any errors that I may have made, laptops speakers are not the greatest. The misspelling in the last line is on purpose, to see if my work turns up on some lyrics site someday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDl7OM8L0k
The Lost Brothers – Gold and Silver
Moonlight fills the river bed
And shines like treasured stone
Church bells from the town below
Will lead our way back home
Pine tress drop their needles down
Where on the ground we stand
To swallow up the path we walk
And steal it from our hands
All we have is Gold and Silver
It’s running through those veins of ours
Who can stop this gold and silver
from taking all this life of ours
Shadows of the fallen ones
Who came and went before
Echoes of their broken dreams
Will hang for ever more
Night stood still
And drew them in
With riches on their mind
The mist that stings the eyes of sins
So greed will bleed them blind
All they have is Gold and Silver
It’s running through those veins of theirs
Who can stop this gold and silver
From draining all this life of theirs
From draining all this life of theirs
Rain falls down
On high ground
Hear the sound
Now we sleep
On stolen ground
And waste the night away
Those who lost their die was cast
But no-one won the day
All we have is Gold and Silver
It’s running through those veins of ours
Who can stop this gold and silver
From taking all this life of ours
From draining all this life off ours
Raining down like poison,
Showerrs
Waxahatchee – Silver
https://youtu.be/MBpMXuzHR3I
The K.L.F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndB0poUC6xs
“Elvis on the radio, steel guitar…”
“On a steel horse he rides!”
Wanted, dead or alive by Bon Jovi
https://youtu.be/SRvCvsRp5ho
Who hasn’t done this in the mirror? Truthfully now.
Bright Eyes – Land Locked Blues
And tge moon’s laying low in the sky
Forcing everything metal to shine
And the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelery store case
They argue “walk this way”, “no walk this way”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Me85PztkYP0
Dave – Titanium
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mgsfS_nyNFk