Win Nick’s Esteem [Extended]

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Thank Franny it’s Friday.

Ready everyone? It’s time to put your feet up and indulge in another voucherless Friday music banter fest.

This week, I want to know: what’s your favourite song about the ocean or whose lyrics contain a reference to the ocean?

Here’s mine.

Please include video link if possible.

Lines close at 5.45pm EXTENDED until Saturday Midday.

Nick says: Good luck!

Meanwhile…

Last week, my esteem was won by Lilly who chose a classic Irish standard sung by Enya as her favourite song to fall asleep to.

“If I were to pick a song to nod off to – preferably with the dying embers of a fire flickering on the ceiling – it would be Enya, I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls.”

Nick says: Well done Lily and thanks all.

Pic: Bunker Vinyl, Cork

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69 thoughts on “Win Nick’s Esteem [Extended]”

  3. Rosette of Sirius

    I was gonna go with Richard Hawley until I saw Nick’s tune… What a gorgeous, gorgeous song… Great album too…

    Anyways, that leaves me with another gorgeous song to make you smile…

    Ocean and a Rock by Lisa Hannigan and I’ll go with her performance from Other Voices in Dingle.

    https://youtu.be/K7DeZ2hn8_M

  7. CapernosityandFunction

    The Smiths – Nowhere Fast

    https://youtu.be/uzCdf3Myazw

    “And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion
    I’d get such a shock I’d probably jump in the ocean”

    The Smiths at their best. Wonderful, quotable lyrics and a tune that tears along and gets the job done in less than three minutes.

    What would these lads have been doing if their parents hadn’t emigrated to Manchester?

  18. Fergalito

    Another one has bobbed to the surface, lovely tune – though I would say that wouldn’t I? Here’s hoping Here We Go Magic and Over the Ocean fits the bill and may well result in my being buoyed for some time by Nick’s esteem – considerable or otherwise….

    “Over the ocean
    We’ll have a vodka
    Your card is left open
    So nothing can stop ya”

    https://youtu.be/dH79W3xHJ5w

  30. Verbatim

    Taken from Wikipedia:- Bring Back My Bonnie to Me
    Although the song’s origin is uncertain, its subject may be Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile, his Jacobite supporters could have sung the tune in his honour; and thanks to the ambiguity of the term “bonnie”, which can refer to a woman as well as to a man, they could pretend it was a love song.
    In 1881, under the duo of pseudonyms H.J. Fuller and J.T. Wood, Charles E. Pratt published sheet music for “Bring Back My Bonnie to Me”.
    Theodore Raph in his 1964 book American song treasury: 100 favorites, writes that people were requesting the song at sheet music stores in the 1870s, and Pratt was convinced to publish a version of it under the pseudonyms, and the song became a big hit, especially popular with college singing groups but also popular for all group singing situations.
    And, if that hasn’t put you to sleep listening to it will.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYpK9UiAA-A

    1. Ben Madigan

      Think there’s a Pixies song for all of Nick’s competitions :)
      How about:

      I was swimming in the Caribbean
      Animals were hiding behind the rocks
      Except for little fish
      Bump into me, swear he’s trying to talk to me…

      https://youtu.be/I_aBmrYChfQ
      Where is My Mind?

  32. Will

    Another Tom Waits suggestion:

    The gorgeous lyrics, “I fell into the ocean, when you became my wife; risked it all against the sea, to have a better life”
    All The World Is Green from the album Blood Money. Containing the most delicious key change with marimba and bass clarinet solo.

    https://youtu.be/3CfF7vKyO5A

  41. Ben Madigan

    “The ocean is the river’s goal
    A need to leave the water knows”

    “The river to the ocean goes
    A fortune for the undertow”

    The beautiful closing track to 1992s Automatic For The People. I listened to this album on repeat on a long car journey to France as a youngster and many of the lyrics are still etched in my mind.

    REM – Find The River

    https://youtu.be/KIJGlTu5sEI

  44. GiggidyGoo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZonmQZG0GQ
    John Denver – Calypso

    “To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean
    To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm
    To work in the service of life and the living
    In search of the answers to questions unknown
    To be part of the movement and part of the growing
    Part of beginning to understand
    Aye, Calypso, the places you’ve been to
    The things that you’ve taught us, the stories you tell
    Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit
    The men who have served you so long and so well”

    etc.

  47. eamonn

    never a bad day for some galliano –

    leg in the sea of history
    https://youtu.be/28pov9idREg

    today not a bad day at all – sun is out, the sky showing flashes of blue. the dog mad for a wander, elements of bliss abound.
    happy saturday to each and all.

  48. Andy Pipkin

    I know I’m way too late, but Mrs P has been ramming up the plans for the nuptials, so I haven’t had a chance too send in my suggestions.

    But couldn’t let this week go without this belter!
    The Undertones – Julie Ocean

    https://youtu.be/9-QzQ9sw8fo

    Enjoy!

  50. benblack

    I know the competition is over, but I’d like to make up for my earlier mistake and introduce some people to a band that have been a staple throughout my life.

    Indigo Girls – Galileo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCbjGH2gO6Y

    “And then I think about my fear of motion
    Which I never could explain
    Some other fool across the ocean years ago
    Must have crashed his little airplane”

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