First, let me say congratulations. I know you're happy that your candidate won, and I can't blame you. It was a hard-fought battle, and as McCain said later, the American people chose who they wanted, and made it very clear. So, enjoy your moment of victory. However, I have some issues I would like to mention. In the days before and since the election, I have been hearing more and more outr...
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This English folk-rock group recorded their arrangement of a traditional folk song "Lovely in the Water" in late 1970 for their second album Please to See the King. In the lyrics, provided below for those of you who, like me, often find it easier to understand lyrics if they're transcribed, a Navy sailor tells his unhappy girlfriend he has to go help fight in an ocean battle, saying, "Oh, we ...
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Aside from Jason & the Scorchers raveups on Dylan and Hank Sr tunes, this may be my favourite odd cover version of a song that *isn't* a piss-take like Big Daddy's.You kinda wonder whether Buddy would even have recognised his song, much less approved - but i think he would have.(Less than a minute from a two-minute song, downsampled to about AM radio quality, but it ought to make the point.)
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On this rendition of the old story about the sailor outsmarted and rolled by the hooker, Steeleye enlisted the instrumental (ukelele) and vocal services of someone rather better known as an actor - Peter Sellers.As an accompanist, Sellers does quite well... and intejects some comments in the voices of Henry Crun and Min Bannister, two characters from the old BBC radio "Goon Show", on which Sell...
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Well, lets start with the good news shall we?Well, not exactly good. Possibly a little sad... But hey fun news. Metal slug. Arcade legend. Neo Geo. Emulators. WiCKED. I Spent a great deal of time this weekend playing metal slug one and two. It was waaaay fun. Also played it two player with some awkward controls, but it made for some crazy gaming. There is also an apalling choice of music. For a...
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