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  1. On 12/5/2017 at 6:13 PM, Farmduck said:

    Social media are cutting their own throats.

    From largely being irresponsible to generally in panic mode is a short route when free speech means "I can say anything and it doesn't matter cos no one checks!"

    All it means is Daily Mail World is here.

  2. 31 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

    Playing my all time favourite instrumental last night. " Pipeline " by The Chantays. 

    When I think about liking music I rarely reminisce and although there are some that evoke the past more than others it's still mostly a case for "life is too short for boring music" and "a life without music is a mistake and a mis-tale badly told not unlike going to the grave without TGG really! My wife was watching a cooking programme from Aunty and it was a tale of kissing bottoms of ru yet again so I went straight to the earphones on the laptop for, among others:

     

     

    Plus some NRL footy from the season past ..... T'interweb is a wonderful remedy for the beeb's shenanigans.

    "I remember when life made more sense. And everything felt so right and so good"

  3. 2 hours ago, longboard said:

     should be thrashed for that abomination of a recording of a wonderful song, with the heavy doctoring of the voices squeezing any emotion out of the performance and ending up with a robotic melange. Truly ghastly stuff. Sadly, this approach to manipulating vocal performances in recording is proliferating. Perhaps it sounds 'good' on phones.

    But other than that it was great wasn't it?

     

  4. Plus one that might've been better on the paradise papers, lovely Tories, NHS threads .....

     

    Ditto:

     

     

     

    "Of all the money that e'er I had I've spent it in good company And all the harm that e'er I've done Alas it was to none but me And all I've done for want of wit To memory now I can't recall So fill to me the parting glass Good night and joy be with you all"

  5. Il n’y a que treize ….

    Angry Hill – George Ezra  

    If You Love Me  – B B King & Van Morrison

    Without Her  – Blood, Sweat & Tears

    Things Go Wrong  – Chris Isaak

    Mary’s Prayer – Danny Wilson

    The Last Laugh – Mark Knopfler & Van Morrison

    Maybe Not Tonght – Glen Hansard

    Just to Walk that Little Girl Home – Mink DeVille

    Love Looks Good On You – Guy Davis

    Don’t Look Back – John Lee Hooker

    Every Time It Rains – Randy Newman

    White Winos – Loudon Wainwright

    Fast Train – Solomon Burke

  6. Baker’s Dozen:

    Every time we say goodbye  -  Ella Fitzgerald

    Less than the Song – Hoyt Axton

    I’ll be Here in the Morning – Jimmy LaFave

    Seduced – Leon Redbone

    Let Me Dream a While - Passenger

    You and Me – Penny and the quarters

    Tom Traubert’s Blues – Tom Waits

    Heartstrings – Gregory Page

    If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot

    Be Good (Lion’s Song) – Gregory porter

    They Didn’t Believe Me – Elvis Costello

    What’s Wrong with This Picture  - Van Morrison

    When the Day is Done – Nick Drake

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