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Post by yateleysaint on Apr 26, 2024 7:50:08 GMT
I’m ready to do a week when there’s a gap in the schedule.
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Post by THE BEAST on Apr 26, 2024 9:49:26 GMT
Right, last day, I reckon a 5 day week is civilised in terms of this kind of thing, I could go on for a month quite easily really but I think everyone needs a step change and give someone else a chance to take over with a clear window of space between one person's choices those of the next, so I'm going to call it a day after this final track.
One of my favourite bands ever, and some nice people to, New Model Army have to finish the week off.
I've seen this band live in loads of places, with loads of different support acts (including the levellers) and never, not once, did they fail to deliver anything other than a stirring, thundering, heartbreaking (because of the lyrics and what they sing about) yet joyous experience.
I have sat and talked with Justin Sullivan (lead singer) in the back of a little pub in Poole while he was doing one of his side hustles as an acoustic folk singing troubadour with The Red Sky Coven, I've sat in an enormous auditoriums while the walls shook and the floors bounced and I was surrounded by the family (dedicated fans) all singing our hearts out… You get older, you stop following bands so religiously or so frequently, life gets in the way of the stuff you did when you were younger… But I've never forgotten these guys or stopped listening to the music.
Anyway, they sing about loads of things that just click with me, so many things I can't even begin to start telling you what they all are. they are a little Luddite at heart, which is really weird for me because I'm such a technology -dependent freak and enthusiast, but there's something about them that just calls out to me… And many others as well. But this track, this track is old now, but it could have been written yesterday. The words are a lament and a lash about humanity and its inexplicable and inescapable drive to destroy itself and everything around it, and yet it's also a love song for the earth and, right at the end of the song, a faint plea, and maybe even a recognition of potential hope, even whilst recognising all the evil done against mother Earth.
This band are electric, driving, insistent, irresistible, and yet they can also be poignant and resonant and they still squeeze my heart when I hear most of the songs, even when it's talking about a friend of theirs being beaten to a pulp.
There's a lovely version of this track with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra but I'm going with the original, I can't ever get the sound of the harmonica on this track out of my head, when they did it with the orchestra they used other instruments and whilst it was grand and different, as far as I'm concerned, the beauty of the original song and its simplicity just can't be bettered.
So to lead out this first week of mine, New Model Army with Ballad
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Post by threehundred on Apr 26, 2024 10:29:31 GMT
Haunting.
A great choice to close out another cracking week.
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Post by Mandochris on Apr 26, 2024 14:26:20 GMT
Thanks Beastie. I only just caught up with your choices as I had a manic week. I liked Little Simz and Rainbow Kitten Surprise, and then New Model Army. The other two were a bit of a stretch for me  . This is a lot of fun. Who's next? |
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Post by OneBeat on Apr 26, 2024 14:36:09 GMT
New Model Army played in town this week, I didn't go. I saw them a couple of times in the 1980s, but I only have the Vengeance and No Rest For The Wicked albums, and associated singles. I really enjoyed them live back then, but haven't kept up with them sicne 1985.
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Post by threehundred on Apr 26, 2024 15:46:44 GMT
Thanks Beastie. I only just caught up with your choices as I had a manic week. I liked Little Simz and Rainbow Kitten Surprise, and then New Model Army. The other two were a bit of a stretch for me . This is a lot of fun. Who's next? Spot is up next… looking forward to it! |
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Post by threehundred on Apr 26, 2024 15:47:49 GMT
299 says she saw New Model Army at Reading around 1988…
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Post by yateleysaint on Apr 26, 2024 16:25:58 GMT
I’ve got a couple of NMA songs on my running playlist but don’t have any albums and hadn’t heard this one before.
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Post by THE BEAST on Apr 26, 2024 16:56:24 GMT
I’ve got a couple of NMA songs on my running playlist but don’t have any albums and hadn’t heard this one before. probably the most accessible ones are "Thunder & consolation" & "the ghost of Cain", but as you like punk you might like the earlier stuff as well. I don't think I've got anything from them that they've done in the last 10 years, but I have heard individual tracks which I like from different albums, they are still recording to this day. They play Germany a lot |
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Post by OneBeat on Apr 26, 2024 18:40:58 GMT
I’ve got a couple of NMA songs on my running playlist but don’t have any albums and hadn’t heard this one before. I think you’d like their Vengeance album. |
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Post by channonite on Apr 26, 2024 21:43:09 GMT
I now have a list of 40 from which I reckon I might just decide on 5. So, whenever the next week gap is. Is someone keeping track?
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Post by threehundred on Apr 26, 2024 22:45:51 GMT
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Post by melrose on Apr 26, 2024 22:55:57 GMT
Ok just one track a day? There is so much! |
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Post by threehundred on Apr 26, 2024 23:03:57 GMT
Ok just one track a day? There is so much! One track a day for 5 days. It’s deciding what to leave out that kills you! |
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Post by spot51 on Apr 27, 2024 10:08:39 GMT
Ok just one track a day? There is so much! I can see this thread outliving some of us old bastards on here! |
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