What music are you listening to right now?

[Fantasio]

I like them too, but I really would love to see a Paul Banks / Julian Plenti solo gig.

Saw Interpol this week. A band I have a great amount of respect for and have been listening to for a very long time, but this is my first time seeing them live.

[tribe125]

I’ve been having an Amy Winehouse night, comprised of three BBC programmes that were aired this week.

What a talent that girl had, what a loss.

[gnuyork]

What a talent that girl had, what a loss.

Completely agree.

[Raza]

I’ve been having an Amy Winehouse night, comprised of three BBC programmes that were aired this week.

What a talent that girl had, what a loss.

Indeed. As talented as she was troubled.

[Seriously]

It's got a funky beat

[rodia77]

[mlcor]

I suppose I should have posted here rather than just in the chat thread, but my daughter's album is out now on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, etc. She's not a professional but (as a completely unbiased source ), I think she has an excellent voice. The songs are all original, and she plays piano on some tracks. The rest of the instruments, plus mixing etc., are me. If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll PM her name and the album title.

I'm very proud of her, of course.

[rodia77]

Info on the poem used as lyrics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_pro...cz%C5%82owieka

Absolutely brilliant translation into English by Marcel Weyland:

TO THE SIMPLE MAN

When every wall is hid by many
new posters freshly pasted up,
when ‘to the people’, ‘to the Army’,
in black print stare appeals alarming,
and any dolt, and any pup
will take for gospel each old lie
that one should go and shoot off guns
and murder, poison, rob, at once;
start drumming into all our noggins
the ‘Fatherland’; the mob incite,
bamboozle with bright-coloured slogans,
egg on with ‘Our historic right’,
‘every inch’, ‘glory’, ‘sacred borders’,
with ‘our forebears’, ‘pay the price’,
with ‘heroes’, ‘flag’ and ‘sacrifice’;
when bishop, pastor, rabbi come
to say a blessing on each gun,
for God has told them, that His will
is that for Country – you should kill;
when gutter tabloid screams and rages
in letters huge on its front pages,
and herds of females lose their voice
throwing bouquets at ‘our brave boys’,
– O, my untutored simple friend,
mate from this land, or other land!
Know that the bells for these alarums
kings strike, with girls with ample charms,
Know it’s all hogwash, lies perverted,
And when these call out: ‘Shoulder arms!’
That somewhere from the ground oil spurted,
With dollars soiling the bright colours;
That in their banks there’s something rotten,
They smelled some moneybags, it looks,
Or cooked some scheme, the oily crooks,
For higher import tax for cotton.
Drum on the pavement with your gun!
Ours the blood, the oil is theirs!
And through each capital and town
Scream out, to guard your cash blood-won:
‘Tell us another, noble sirs!’.

More translations: https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone...=36782&lang=en

In the vid, the guy wearing the scarf is a 'conscript-turned-reservist'. I don't know much about what's going on in the Polish army now, but back in the day when conscripts were about to be released from duty and moved to the reserve, they would prepare these colourful, decorated scarves, and if I remember correctly, they would be (informally) granted less strict treatment by their superiors. They would wear these scarves on the way back home, often hang out in groups, and people would generally turn a blind eye to or forgive them their drunken behaviour.

[Henry Krinkle]

Jah Wobble isn't always dubby, trippy and mellow.

[tribe125]

Luc may well be one of the finest guitarists you've never heard of.

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