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Unread 05-09-2021, 12:23 AM
Mark McDonnell Mark McDonnell is offline
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Thank you for introducing me to Loma, Sarah-Jane. I like that a lot and others I subsequently listened to.
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Unread 05-09-2021, 11:21 PM
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I'd never heard of Loma, Sarah-Jane. Loved what I heard (like Mark, I ended up listening to more of their music). It reminded me somewhat of Julee Cruise. Thank you!
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Unread 05-14-2021, 01:00 AM
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There's probably about 6 or 7 Dylan albums that I adore (and some Bootlegs as well), and even though I probably like a few others more than it, the one I always get a pick up from is Desire:

The segue that merges ‘Romance in Durango’ into ‘Black Diamond Bay’ on side 2 is sheer beauty.

In fact, I think side 2 of Desire is one of Dylan’s most exotic and mercurial moments (the aforementioned songs along with ‘Joey’ and ‘Sara’). I like to think of ‘Joey’ as a Scorsese gangster film in song and verse.

In fact it’s an incredibly cinematic album: you go from a boxer framed for murder in a Jersey bar, to two cowboys on the adventure of a lifetime to the pyramids, to the beaches of Mozambique, to the gypsies of Southern France, to a Scorsese gangster tale, to a bloodthirsty Peckinpah Western in Durango, to the Bogart-inspired Black Diamond Bay where a volcano is about to erupt on a tropic isle, and then you finish with the white goddess Sara (who inspired Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands).

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Unread 05-14-2021, 05:01 PM
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Greetings, Aussie!

Here are two favorites of mine by the Rumjacks:

Pot and Kettle www.youtube.com/watch?v=YklPK6DwOzM

Foreman O'Rourke www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL04q3nNlyM
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G'day Bill, sorry I'm only about three weeks late with my reply - I somehow completely missed it. Love your taste in music. The Rumjacks are Bobby Dazzlers! Love them.
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Aldous Harding, The Barrel - https://youtu.be/QyZeJr5ppm8
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Unread 06-12-2021, 11:05 PM
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So, two songs I keep listening to at the moment:

John Prine, "Lake Marie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzCjQwt2rgI

and The Band covering Springsteen's "Atlantic City", off his Nebraska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFxXTO1t5yo

Both I find simply inexhaustible. Levon Helm's voice, for one thing. "There's winners and there's losers, and I'm south of the line" is The Band's invention.

Cheers,
John
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Unread 06-13-2021, 04:11 PM
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"Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line"

is in Springsteen's original.
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Unread 06-13-2021, 06:18 PM
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This is so. The Boss in that particular moment reminds me a bit of the old limerick:

There was a young man of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When asked why this was
He said: It's because
I always try to cram as many syllables into the last line as ever I possibly can.


John
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Unread 06-14-2021, 12:20 AM
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OK, I can’t resist. There’s a sequel which I find absolutely worthy of mention:

There was a young fellow of China,
Whose metrical scheme was much finer.
It was his design
To make the last line
Short.

John
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