Song of the day, add your current favourite....

[Stretch]

michael and natalie also did a lot of collaborative work together. they also both wrote songs at the same time highlighting the plight of the american indian..Stipe wrote green grow the rushes on the same album as above (fables) and Natalie wrote the brilliant Among the americans which features on 10 000 maniacs highly underated first album wishing chair

 

here's an 18 year old natalie singing it

 

 

the Red Sticks first and

the Dancing Ghosts were

pierced with arms of fire

and the weeping widows

left could not avenge

so the Western Star manifest its will

drove them clear into the Pacific O

 

gone the way of flesh

turned pale and died

by your god's decree

 

for he hated me

[Stretch]

Yeah Monster was really crap. Automatic for the ppl also started getting a tad bland IMO.

Out of time the worst - wow.

I bought a double cd with out of time & green, out of time I played to death, green I never got.

 

Doccie on Morrisey... *wants* deets... Will trawl the dark web.

 

I lie - they rate around the sun worse! http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rem-mn0000325459/discography

 

that morrissey doccie.... I cant remember the name..hence the reason I havent found it but a lot of it was just one on one interview in his lounge and in the famous cemetery 

[Uni]

 

During VHS days I was listening to dodgy stuff

While you think back... Let's have some of this...

[edit]Refer to Stretch's post below...

 

Grrr it's doing that stupid not embedding vids again...

Edited August 24, 2015 by Uni

[Stretch]

just take everything away after the v property

 

[Stretch]

Incredible women Natalie Merchant..I'll leave it with the song she wrote for River Phoenix

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jos2HoTPMag

 

Young and strong Hollywood son 
In the early morning light 
This star fell down 
On Sunset Boulevard 

Young and strong beautiful one 
We embraced so close 
Is gone 
Was torn away 

Let the youth of America mourn 
Include him in their prayers 
Let his image linger on 
Repeat it everywhere 

With candles, with flowers 
He was one of ours 
One of ours 

Why don't you let him be? 
He's gone 
We know 
Give his mother and his father peace 
Your vulture's candor 
Your casual slander 
You murder his memory 
He's gone 
We know 
It's nothing but a tragedy 

Lay to rest your soul and body 
Lay beside your name 
Lay to rest your rage 
Your hunger and amazing grace 

With candles, with flowers 
You were one of ours 
One of ours 

I saw cameras expose your life 
I heard rumors explode with lies 
I saw children in tears 
Cry and crowd around the sight 
Of where you had collapsed that day 
Where your last breath and word 
Had been sighed 
Where your heart had burst 
Where you had died 

I saw how they were lost in grieving 
All half believing you were gone 
The loss and pain of it 
Crime and shame of it 
You were gone 
It was such a nightmare raving, 
"how could we save him from himself?"

[Stretch]

ok uni..I obviously never looked very hard before...because its this one..and its a doccie about the smiths and not just morrissey

 

[Uni]

Incredible women Natalie Merchant..I'll leave it with the song she wrote for River Phoenix

 

Never heard that before. She must've been quite young when she wrote that.

[Uni]

ok uni..I obviously never looked very hard before...because its this one..and its a doccie about the smiths and not just morrissey

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhU_REp71w

Cool. Will have a look tomorrow. Right now bandwidth - or lack thereof is annoying me immensely.

I only remember seeing the importance of being Morrisey - early 2000s doccie.

[Stretch]

Never heard that before. She must've been quite young when she wrote that.

 

not really...she was 30 almost to the day when he died

[JohnnyReggae]

I remember discussing this is the covers thread..i love the placebo version. I never recovered from Kate Bush and babushka ... i really really dislike her music i know the aficionados are going dafuq but ja....

I agree Babushka was a bit over-done, and quite a strange song for the time. I've never listed to a lot of her music also because of that. But I do like her version of Running up that Hill better than the Placebo one, as much as I like Placebo.

[JohnnyReggae]

[Uni]

not really...she was 30 almost to the day when he died

didn't realise she's like 50 (i forget we're all getting on 

 

had a nice day working from home. instead of sitting in traffic for 2 hours - gonna go for a nice arvie ride instead.

this was today's soundtrack

 

[Hairy]

Incredible women Natalie Merchant..I'll leave it with the song she wrote for River Phoenix

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jos2HoTPMag

 

Young and strong Hollywood son 

In the early morning light 

This star fell down 

On Sunset Boulevard 

 

Young and strong beautiful one 

We embraced so close 

Is gone 

Was torn away 

 

Let the youth of America mourn 

Include him in their prayers 

Let his image linger on 

Repeat it everywhere 

 

With candles, with flowers 

He was one of ours 

One of ours 

 

Why don't you let him be? 

He's gone 

We know 

Give his mother and his father peace 

Your vulture's candor 

Your casual slander 

You murder his memory 

He's gone 

We know 

It's nothing but a tragedy 

 

Lay to rest your soul and body 

Lay beside your name 

Lay to rest your rage 

Your hunger and amazing grace 

 

With candles, with flowers 

You were one of ours 

One of ours 

 

I saw cameras expose your life 

I heard rumors explode with lies 

I saw children in tears 

Cry and crowd around the sight 

Of where you had collapsed that day 

Where your last breath and word 

Had been sighed 

Where your heart had burst 

Where you had died 

 

I saw how they were lost in grieving 

All half believing you were gone 

The loss and pain of it 

Crime and shame of it 

You were gone 

It was such a nightmare raving, 

"how could we save him from himself?"

really awesome track!

[Frosty]

Really like this one

Ed is live (pun intended) at Carnival City next month... looking forward to it.

[Uni]

Ed is live (pun intended) at Carnival City next month... looking forward to it.

Yup. Got my tickets, see you there

[Stretch]

didn't realise she's like 50 (i forget we're all getting on 

 

 

completely grey now

 

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