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[Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names.
- Thread starter marlowe
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I learned of this beautiful quote from Fernando Pessoa, from this beautiful track by Fraunhofer Diffraction.
"I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. ...I have in me all the dreams in the world."
How I feel about that is summed up in my current user pic.
"I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. ...I have in me all the dreams in the world."
How I feel about that is summed up in my current user pic.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,714
I learnt that the band Lindisfarne are sole owners of the fog on the Tyne
- Oct 17, 2008
- 15,039
Gazza briefly claimed part-ownership in the 1980’s.
The third minute of this exposed me to the wreck of the Hesperus.
(Miniatures is a work of genius. Eight five minute tracks, each comprising of one minute miniature tracks by different artists.)
I also learned that this can be done. It can.
(Miniatures is a work of genius. Eight five minute tracks, each comprising of one minute miniature tracks by different artists.)
I also learned that this can be done. It can.
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- #126
This song would have taught you something had you not already known it....
Flex Your Head
Well-known member
Never knew about the rather terrifying Doomsday Clock until I heard this on Peel. Scary times back in the early 80s.
- Jan 3, 2012
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https://www.google.com/search?q=joh...ate=ive&vld=cid:06a121ba,vid:DebpwhDeJng,st:0
from Fairport Convention - early 1970s
John Babbacombe Lee - found guilty of murder but they couldn’t hang him because the trapdoor on the gallows wouldn‘t open
(PS - what do I have to do to get the picture to appear rather than just the text for the link. I give up
from Fairport Convention - early 1970s
John Babbacombe Lee - found guilty of murder but they couldn’t hang him because the trapdoor on the gallows wouldn‘t open
(PS - what do I have to do to get the picture to appear rather than just the text for the link. I give up
Steely Dan
Heaven 17
Heaven 17
Click on the YouTube tag on the bottom right. It opens up the vid in YouTube. Copy the url. Hay diddly diddly presto
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
10cc, or is it?
Thinking about it now it was as much an educational safety information record . . . . Along with baggy trousers and the specials . . . my parent's were barely 30 at the time and pretty liberal, and protected us from the like of Jimmy Saville et all!Must have been hilarious for a ten year old listening to In the Middle of the Night
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- #134
I learnt about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton on Christmas day in 1895 from Mississippi John Hurt...
If I hadn't first learnt it from him I would have learnt about it later from Nick Cave who did his own very different version.
If I hadn't first learnt it from him I would have learnt about it later from Nick Cave who did his own very different version.
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- #135
@Harry Wilson's tackle judging by your emoji reaction you didn't understand my reference, which was to the obvious benefits you reap from your fondness for ignore function
Theatre of Trees
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John Wayne is Big Leggy - that potting the difficult brown was a possibility.
Listening to my parents records as a kid I also learnt
Trevor wasn't that clever
Patricia from Plaistow was in a bad way
Blockheads have black and orange cars, they've sometimes got roll bars.
An inkling as to what I might do if I was with a woman.
and waking up . . . . . Well I didn't get that bit till much later.
Trevor wasn't that clever
Patricia from Plaistow was in a bad way
Blockheads have black and orange cars, they've sometimes got roll bars.
An inkling as to what I might do if I was with a woman.
and waking up . . . . . Well I didn't get that bit till much later.
- Oct 12, 2022
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I had assumed that Bluebeard was a pirate like Blackbeard, yet through the Mountain Goats song Scotch Grove, and some follow-up digging around the tale, I learnt that Bluebeard was a very specific character in a very specific tale.
Norman Potting
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Solomon Browne - Seth Lakeman
About the Penlee Lifeboat disaster
About the Penlee Lifeboat disaster