Gaudette Saucy sailor Jigs Royal Forester Dark eyed sailor Alison Gross One misty moisty ... more
morning Bold poachers Thomas the rhymer To know him is to love him Drink down the moon Now we are six New York girls Little Sir Hugh Black Jack Davy Hard times of ...
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most familiar incarnation of the legendary Steeleye Span (Bob Johnson on guitar, Peter Knight on fiddle, Liam Genockey on drums, Rick Kemp on bass) rerecording many of their greatest songs as voted for by visitors to the band's record company Web site. The resulting renditions--although warm, spontaneous and thoroughly professional--can hardly hope to supersede the original versions (there is absolutely nothing wrong with the original versions) but the wistful and therefore more empathic "Hard Times of England" is a thoroughly exceptional piece of work, meriting a place on any future career retrospective. Other deviations from the script include a lovely, surreptitious hidden a cappella rendition of "Rosebud in June" and a jury's-out, funk-twang Gang-of-Four-gone-folk-style assault on "Blackleg Miner" in which the normally placatory Maddy Prior fulminates like a seething Socialist Worker activist. But that's always been the deceptive thing about Steeleye Span. Although they're not exactly Slipknot, search beyond the proper-jolly-we-are tea-room etiquette of "All Around My Hat" and other such joyfully folky odes to sheep, beer and blacksmiths and their songs are often frightfully bloodthirsty post-watershed dramas about wrathful members of the aristocracy, child-killing bogeymen lurking in the darkness on the edge of town ("Beware the moors" on "Long Lankin") and--why not indeed--syphilis. Take the excellent medieval psych-rock of "King Henry", for example. Why, the poor old chap has to save his own life by sacrificing his greyhounds and lying down to procreate with a hideous, horse-blood drinking, dentally-imperfect old ghoul. Not even Nick Cave at his nastiest could possibly conjure up such a vision of sanguinary malevolence. --Kevin Maidment
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Reunited with former mainstay and folk-rock matriarch Maddy Prior MBE,Presentfinds the ... more
most familiar incarnation of the legendary Steeleye Span (Bob Johnson on guitar, Peter Knight on fiddle, Liam Genockey on drums, Rick Kemp on bass) rerecording many of their greatest songs as voted for by visitors to the band's record company Web site. The resulting renditions--although warm, spontaneous and thoroughly professional--can hardly hope to supersede the original versions (there is absolutely nothing wrong with the original versions) but the wistful and therefore more empathic "Hard Times of England" is a thoroughly exceptional piece of work, meriting a place on any future career retrospective. Other deviations from the script include a lovely, surreptitious hidden a cappella rendition of "Rosebud in June" and a jury's-out, funk-twang Gang-of-Four-gone-folk-style assault on "Blackleg Miner" in which the normally placatory Maddy Prior fulminates like a seethingSocialist Workeractivist. But that's always been the deceptive thing about Steeleye Span. Although they're not exactly Slipknot, search beyond the proper-jolly-we-are tea-room etiquette of "All Around My Hat" and other such joyfully folky odes to sheep, beer and blacksmiths and their songs are often frightfully bloodthirsty post-watershed dramas about wrathful members of the aristocracy, child-killing bogeymen lurking in the darkness on the edge of town ("Beware the moors" on "Long Lankin") and--why not indeed--syphilis. Take the excellent medieval psych-rock of "King Henry", for example. Why, the poor old chap has to save his own life by sacrificing his greyhounds and lying down to procreate with a hideous, horse-blood drinking, dentally-imperfect old ghoul. Not even Nick Cave at his nastiest could possibly conjure up such a vision of sanguinary malevolence.--Kevin Maidment
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Advantages: Great variety of songs, enough tracks to keep anybody occupied for some time. Disadvantages: Slightly genre-specific, I suppose.
What is there to say about SteeleyeSpan to the unacquainted? The immediate comparison that leaps to mind is to the contemporary British folk-group, Fairport Convention, but it is unlikely that many of Fairport's fans will have managed to miss out on Steeleye altogether, and they, too, have faded rather into obscurity, rendering the comparison quite useless. Therefore, to start from the beginning:
SteeleyeSpan are one of those groups who don't seem to be able to keep a static line-up for more than two albums at a time. That said, the thing about Steeleye is that it doesn't matter what incarnation of the band you are listening to, they are *always good*. My RealOne Player informs me that they fit into the category of 'folk-rock', but with the exception of a few songs - such as the techno-enhanced Thomas The Rhymer - I would say ...
Advantages: Lively, entertaining and well-written Disadvantages: None really
as an MP's wife, and many of his Westminster colleagues were unaware that he was married. He seems to have been much happier at the offices of the Telegraph, which he edited for several years, than at home. His children found him remote, untactile and emotionally frozen, and he was at a loss as to how to deal with his second son Julius, whose bone marrow disorder was diagnosed in infancy and who was clearly destined for a short life (he died at 23).
Though he may have come across in the media as a bit of a snob, Deedes had a sense of humour, and it's particularly illuminating to learn that he made a creditable job of his appearance on Have I Got News For You at the age of 86.
The last few pages of this book inevitably make harrowing reading. Old age is an undignified business at the best of times, and the picture of him doggedly ...
Advantages: A great read if you love sci-fi Disadvantages: Too small a read
Having read pretty much every one of Asimov books I would categorically state that the foundation series is by far the best of the batch.
This book is the first in a series of ten books which catalogue the history of the galaxy starting with the foundations hero Hari Seldon who invents a new type of science called ''Psychohistory'' which using the law of mass action, can predict the future.
Using psychohistory Seldon soon discovers that the current empire under the emporor Cleon will collapse, resulting in twenty thousand years of anarchy.
The unlikely hero then puts in motion a series of events that allow for the beginning of a newer, stronger galactic empire on a planet at the other side of the galaxy.
This planet is called Terminus and is the capital of the ''Foundation.''
The backdrop for this first story is ...
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