What music you guys listening to?

[netzerkaiser]

He's got that deadpan yet charismatic delivery. Zappa I mean.

For some reason this was my most listened to Steeleye Span song from their first LP. Only now re-discovrting it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rB7H_EpBq_I

Thanks, that is gorgeous.

[netzerkaiser]

He's got that deadpan yet charismatic delivery. Zappa I mean.

For some reason this was my most listened to Steeleye Span song from their first LP. Only now re-discovrting it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rB7H_EpBq_I

Thanks, that is gorgeous.

It's more than gorgeous. A Lincolnshire songwriter 'borrowed' this old melody to write a song called 'fiddler's green' which seems to have taken off particularly in Ireland. So good to hear the original song.

[Anselm_Weinberg]

I wasn't aware of there being similar songs. I literally just started listening to this again

Digging out more stuff that I had got into a long time ago right now. German psych folk I had listened to years ago. Crazy that I still recognise parts of it.

Langsyne
https://youtu.be/O-KTMig9Z8w

[netzerkaiser]

I wasn't aware of there being similar songs. I literally just started listening to this again

Digging out more stuff that I had got into a long time ago right now. German psych folk I had listened to years ago. Crazy that I still recognise parts of it.

Langsyne
https://youtu.be/O-KTMig9Z8w

In fairness, this album sounds good, but I'd need time to listen to the full thing, which I don't have now, but I will. In credit to me, calling out the link between the two previous wasn't entirely obvious.

So it goes.

[Anselm_Weinberg]

I wasn't even aware of Fiddler's Green. You pointing that out sure helped to expand my horizon and for that I am grateful.

[netzerkaiser]

I wasn't even aware of Fiddler's Green. You pointing that out sure helped to expand my horizon and for that I am grateful.

Thanks!

[netzerkaiser]

I wasn't even aware of Fiddler's Green. You pointing that out sure helped to expand my horizon and for that I am grateful.

Thanks!

But greater thanks to you Brother, for expanding MY musical horizons, because they were fixed on the 'fiddlers green' stuff, you were the one who expanded my horizons, not the opposite.

[netzerkaiser]

If you've been out on the road for 14 hours & face the same tomorrow, the pleasure & relaxation of those soothing harmonies, the lamentable tale, the steady beat... with a few bottles of Newcastle Brown ale is a pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB7H_EpBq_I

[Anselm_Weinberg]

Brother, these people were born out of the ashes of Slapp Happy and Henry Cow. With Robert Wyatt doing vocals on some songs. This album is very special to me. I think the music was mostly composed by the one and only Lindsay Cooper.

News from Babel - Letters Home
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F2FXHylCrE4

[netzerkaiser]

Brother, these people were born out of the ashes of Slapp Happy and Henry Cow. With Robert Wyatt doing vocals on some songs. This album is very special to me. I think the music was mostly composed by the one and only Lindsay Cooper.

News from Babel - Letters Home
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F2FXHylCrE4

Thanks. It sounds promising. It's melodic & that's a good start for the ears. I'll catch up when I'm off next week. Thanks again!

[netzerkaiser]

I'm of these islands & what grabs me with both Steeleye Span & Fairport is the beautiful clarity of the female vocals.

Now this is complicated. These ladies are well spoken, middle class girls. They are singing in a stylised manner, attempting to effect an imaginary rural peasant vocal accent, almost like Thomas Hardy's imagined 'Wessex' of his marvellous output.

But it works. It's never contrived. It doesn't seek sanctuary in any particular Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or indeed re: England, west-country or Lancashire or Yorkshire or Lincolnshire or Geordie or Yorkshire accent... it works.

It just sounds so damned genuine & unpretentious. And its both sensual & sexual.

The vocal art of these ladies, & Richard Thompson's wife Lind, too, just seems like a lost art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8avrOiI6F4

Thanks man, for bringing me here. English folk always had an unjust inferiority complex where the whole colonial thing made & makes them ashamed for being English, whereas the Scots & Irish could always draw on that 'rebel' thing.

But I take this anyday.

[netzerkaiser]

*Linda

[netzerkaiser]

F^ck me... this kicks little Matty Grove's arse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPvHBlDW-cE

[Anselm_Weinberg]

I tend to agree with most of what you said in broad strokes. I think it's also important to remember The Pentangle, they stood out insofar as they approached this kind of music from a purely acoustic side of things. I mean Bert Jansch himself is a legend in his own right if you ask me. Such a versatile guitar virtuoso. He's singing himself on Springtime Promiss

Anyway, a few songs from their great Basket of Light album.

The Pentangle - Once I Had A Sweetheart
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TRXPslHDVI0

The Pentangle - Springtime Promises
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PBGHQRbvXTs

I realise they may not even be objectively the best songs off that album, though still excellent, but I really dig them.

[Anselm_Weinberg]

That Lowlands of Holland song immediately reminded me of something else. Haha. I haven't listened to that Steeleye Span in full in God knows for how long so not every song is as fresh and present in my mind.

[netzerkaiser]

That Lowlands of Holland song immediately reminded me of something else. Haha. I haven't listened to that Steeleye Span in full in God knows for how long so not every song is as fresh and present in my mind.

Thanks, I'm really going to make an effort to get into them later on in the week. I reason that if I like the Fairport Span stuff then I'll surely like them. Last night I found this gem by Steeleye on an internet 'Steeleye vs Fairport' forum page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQDgA0S1I0o

It's gorgeous. On reflection I think that 'all around my hat' put me off venturing into English folk years ago, but at the time I probably wasn't mature enough to appreciate this music.

Thanks again.

[netzerkaiser]

That Lowlands of Holland song immediately reminded me of something else. Haha. I haven't listened to that Steeleye Span in full in God knows for how long so not every song is as fresh and present in my mind.

Thanks, I'm really going to make an effort to get into them later on in the week. I reason that if I like the Fairport Span stuff then I'll surely like them. Last night I found this gem by Steeleye on an internet 'Steeleye vs Fairport' forum page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQDgA0S1I0o

It's gorgeous. On reflection I think that 'all around my hat' put me off venturing into English folk years ago, but at the time I probably wasn't mature enough to appreciate this music.

Thanks again.

I thought the Steeleye Span song I mention, I'd heard before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQDgA0S1I0o

But I realise I was thinking of this one. Was never mad about her, but it's a nice song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbre5Fs9m8I

[Anselm_Weinberg]

You know Maddy Prior had an interesting collaboration called "Silly Sisters". I recall it being not too bad. I also just saw a mimed performance of All Around My Hat and it's interesting I had kind of forgotten about that song and I guess that may be due to it being kind of overly poppy and frankly somewhat generic. I still like it somehow, though and Maddy Prior does have some vibes going in that performance.

[netzerkaiser]

You know Maddy Prior had an interesting collaboration called "Silly Sisters". I recall it being not too bad. I also just saw a mimed performance of All Around My Hat and it's interesting I had kind of forgotten about that song and I guess that may be due to it being kind of overly poppy and frankly somewhat generic. I still like it somehow, though and Maddy Prior does have some vibes going in that performance.

Can you recommend any songs by the incredible string band? I don't know where to start with them. Thanks! I guess they'd fit in with Steeleye Convention & Pentangle, even if they didn't have a beautiful female voice there?

[Anselm_Weinberg]

I have to say I'd only ever managed to get into their first two albums, though not so much due to their later work being inaccessible but rather because I had lost track somewhere along the way and got distracted by other groups. Though I think it's universally agreed upon among most fans that Wee Tam and The Big Huge are still pretty good but I simply don't remember much about them unfortunately. I am going to list some of my then-favourites, but it's entirely subjective, I am very fond of their idiosyncratic approach and stranger songs.

Little Cloud
https://youtube.com/watch?v=o4Z1HIk0sSE

Painting Box
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fubpTvwzq2k

The Hedgehog's Song
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n9AbjxbpVlk

First Girl I Loved
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RsYgRw-ViZY

Koeooaddi There
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_s3KHT5JYdU

The Minotaur's Song
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iUdKs2UhbFc

Three Is A Green Crown
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EKPOoZwgFlk

A Very Cellular Song
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmeGpov2P5k

[Anselm_Weinberg]

I have to say I forgot they had a self-titled debut so it was their 2nd and 3rd albums I'd listened to mostly.