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ventaThere is, they tell us, nothing new under the sun. Which is why every so often, when listening to a new album, I'll find myself suddenly hearing a song I know from my childhood. The first time I ever listened to Exile From Coldharbour Lane I was delighted to find a new version of Speed of the Sound of Loneliness, a song I've loved since I first heard Annette singing it at the folk club in the mid 80s. (Alabama 3 did muck about with the words a bit, admittedly).
I was rather less surprised to find a screamy cover of the nursery rhyme Little Bunny Foo Foo lurking about towards the end of the Moldy Peaches' eponymous album. With their childish approach and bunny suits it seemed like exactly the sort of thing they would do.
This morning I took delivery of an exciting parcel, from Amazon, containing some CDs I'd ordered. One of which is Bleeding Light, by Holy Ghost Revival. I think that was one of Amazon's own recommendations to me; I listened to the streamables on their website, and was lured into ordering.
I put Bleeding Light - which has, incidentally, probably the cheapest-looking sleevenotes I've paid for since, er, I last bought an antifolk CD - on the stereo and threw myself back into tussles with Visual Studio. I was enjoying the album, but wasn't giving it my full attention owing to aforementioned tussling. Until it reached the unlisted extra track... a slightly scary-sounding version of Old Pendle, a Lancashire folk song. Old Pendle was on one of the first records I ever owned - a double Spinners album, featuring folk songs from all round the world. I spent ages when about 6 trying to figure out the words to the chorus; I didn't manage it until some years later when I read Harrison Ainsworth's Lancashire Witches at which point the lyrics immediately resolved themselves into a list of placenames.
Despite a pretty good knowledge of English folk songs, I'd never claim to know them all. And I'm not much of a reader of sleevenotes, so I wonder how many other bands have sneaked songs past me.
I was rather less surprised to find a screamy cover of the nursery rhyme Little Bunny Foo Foo lurking about towards the end of the Moldy Peaches' eponymous album. With their childish approach and bunny suits it seemed like exactly the sort of thing they would do.
This morning I took delivery of an exciting parcel, from Amazon, containing some CDs I'd ordered. One of which is Bleeding Light, by Holy Ghost Revival. I think that was one of Amazon's own recommendations to me; I listened to the streamables on their website, and was lured into ordering.
I put Bleeding Light - which has, incidentally, probably the cheapest-looking sleevenotes I've paid for since, er, I last bought an antifolk CD - on the stereo and threw myself back into tussles with Visual Studio. I was enjoying the album, but wasn't giving it my full attention owing to aforementioned tussling. Until it reached the unlisted extra track... a slightly scary-sounding version of Old Pendle, a Lancashire folk song. Old Pendle was on one of the first records I ever owned - a double Spinners album, featuring folk songs from all round the world. I spent ages when about 6 trying to figure out the words to the chorus; I didn't manage it until some years later when I read Harrison Ainsworth's Lancashire Witches at which point the lyrics immediately resolved themselves into a list of placenames.
Despite a pretty good knowledge of English folk songs, I'd never claim to know them all. And I'm not much of a reader of sleevenotes, so I wonder how many other bands have sneaked songs past me.
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Date: 2007-08-01 07:10 pm (UTC)Rage Against The Machine covered the old Dorset favourite, Killing In The Name Of.
Alabama 3 did muck about with the words a bit
Because "coming home curly" doesn't actually mean anything? Also, change-of-person is valid.