For those of us feeling vengeful towards the evil IT guys at the Grauniad...here are some revenge songs.
1 Young Waters, by June Tabor. I hadn't quite remembered this right when I recommended it. In fact it's a 'wily lord' who asks the queen who the handsomest man is...but the king is standing right there, so her response is still pretty stupid.
2 Guns Are The Tongues, by Richard Thompson
3 The Black Freighter, by Steeleye Span. AKA Pirate Jenny, I believe.
4 If I Had a Rocket Launcher, by Maggie Holland. Because I know her!
Young Waters
Guns Are The Tongues
The Black Freighter
If I Had a Rocket Launcher
7 comments:
Your play button's appeared! Thanks for posting these - I loved 'The Black Freighter'.
Only because I reinstalled it...Thanks!
the black frieghter has scary connetations for me....
How come, Blimpy?
have you read "watchmen" , i did when i was quite wee. and it's scary, the black freighter stuff!
Ah...no, but Wikip. says the Black Freighter in Watchmen is a deliberate allusion to the song - which is really called Pirate Jenny, and is from The Threepenny Opers by Brecht/Weill.
So you're quite right to be scared!
Watchmen movie next year:
http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/
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