tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post8323921132415340629..comments2024-03-17T11:05:22.464+00:00Comments on The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Olden Days (1)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-11366551430624932782010-02-18T05:55:58.111+00:002010-02-18T05:55:58.111+00:00"The material resembled Jeremy Clarkson's..."The material resembled Jeremy Clarkson's worst nightmare of what folk music is like."<br /><br />That's such a wonderfully descriptive phrase I'm tempted to nick it.Jody Macgregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520002439512692667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-64233170049788059542010-02-16T18:36:08.087+00:002010-02-16T18:36:08.087+00:00I shall now display my ignorance.
So long have I ...<i>I shall now display my ignorance.</i><br /><br />So long have I waited for this moment of triumph and superiority that I will inevitably start monologuing...<br /><br /><i>But I had an overriding sense of having walked in at the very end of the party. </i><br /><br />...well actually you hit it spot on there. If you really want to know what was special about Fairport Convention, and don't have access to a time machine, you need to listen to Liege and Lief. (It's on Spotify.) (Or at least skip the first two albums, where they were just generically Sixties and pre-folk.) Nowadays they aren't even really a shadow of their former self, more a tribute band to their former self. Seeing Richard Thompson solo is still a good idea, however. <br /><br />Your thoughts on The Imagined Village seem <a href="http://lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com/2007/11/imagined-village.html" rel="nofollow"> somewhat similar to mine.</a><br /><br />Folk tends to be very good when its good, but when its bad it's horrid. So you need a strong sticking-with ability, but if you read comics through the Eighties you probably evolved that.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-78429136246080334372010-02-15T14:38:35.006+00:002010-02-15T14:38:35.006+00:00an unaccompanied cri-de-coeur from all the animals...<i>an unaccompanied cri-de-coeur from all the animals that man is horrid to ("I am whale" "I am fox")</i><br /><br />I absolutely refuse to take this sort of thing seriously until they get beyond the charismatic megafauna and start singing about mosquitoes and liver flukes.Sam Dodsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534273379447820097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-47371458520521521782010-02-15T08:39:47.675+00:002010-02-15T08:39:47.675+00:00To be fair, Space Girl sounds absolutely nothing l...To be fair, Space Girl sounds absolutely nothing like anything else MacColl ever did. I've got it on an old vinyl copy of "The World Of Ewan MacColl And Peggy Seeger", and it's a quite extraordinary thing - all tootling jazz clarinets.Andrew Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07412263807838661843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-57797334353596617822010-02-15T06:41:04.448+00:002010-02-15T06:41:04.448+00:00"David Bowie's Port of Amsterdam"
J..."David Bowie's Port of Amsterdam"<br /><br />Jacques Brel by way of Scott Walker.Nick Mazonowiczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01672027642700116849noreply@blogger.com