[Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names.

[chip]

I found out about quite a lot from this. Still makes me angry today.

Same for me but this album, smoking dope on a houseboat in the 80s:

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I learnt that the band Lindisfarne are sole owners of the fog on the Tyne

 

[jcdenton08]

I learnt that the band Lindisfarne are sole owners of the fog on the Tyne

Gazza briefly claimed part-ownership in the 1980’s.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

 

[marlowe]

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.

This song would have taught you something had you not already known it....

 

[Flex Your Head]

Never knew about the rather terrifying Doomsday Clock until I heard this on Peel. Scary times back in the early 80s.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

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

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Steely Dan
Heaven 17

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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

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?]

10cc, or is it?

 

[marlowe]

I learnt about the symbolism of a yellow ribbon from Tony Orlando and Dawn

 

[zefarelly]

Must have been hilarious for a ten year old listening to In the Middle of the Night

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!

 

[marlowe]

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.

 

[marlowe]

This song would have taught you something had you not already known it....

@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]

John Wayne is Big Leggy - that potting the difficult brown was a possibility.

 

[zefarelly]

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.

 

[loz]

Frankie Teardrop by suicide is based on a true story…a song you only listen to once it was once said.

It’s a hard listen and if you are a bit depressed don’t listen to it.

 

[chickens]

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]

Solomon Browne - Seth Lakeman

About the Penlee Lifeboat disaster