@kevin-eleven saidI met Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade Hines of HuDost at a house concert/zikr at the home of one of the Sufi teachers in Dallas. It’s nice to see how they have grown through the years.
I wanted to post a link to "The Word is Love" by HuDost, but couldn't find a good YouTube. Makes sense. Maybe that's the track that makes money for the band.
But it was cool to learn they have worked with Jars of Clay and Steve Kilbey from The Church.
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I am listening to the sound that mutant children make when they pretend to be normal for the sake of their human parents, specifically the sound they make when they use the provided crayons to color upon the desert diner's placemats while the bright lights obscure the stars.
Old England
The Waterboys
A man looks up on a yellow sky
And the rain turns to rust in his eye
Rumours of his health are lies
Old England is dying
His clothes are dirty shade of blue
And his ancient shoes worn through
He steals from me and he lies to you
Old England is dying
Still he sings an empires song
And still he keeps his beliefs strong
And he sticks his flag where it all belongs
Old England is dying
You're asking what makes me sigh now
What it is makes me shudder so
Well
I just FREEZE in the wind
And I'm numb from the pummeling of the snow
That falls from high in yellow skies
Where the well-loved flag of England flies
Where the homes are warm and the mothers sigh
Where comedians laugh and babies cry
Where criminals are televised politicians fraternized
Journalists are dignified and everyone is civilised
And children stare with heroin eyes, heroin eyes, heroin eyes
Old England!
Evening has fallen
The swans are singing
The last of Sundays bells is ringing
The wind in the trees is sighing
And old England is dying
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I've just finished going through the catalogue of Declan McManus.
At work (to banish from my coding concentration, the advertisement- and autotune-riddled radio stations preferred by my cow-orkers, if nothing else), I've been youtubing the collected works of the rock/n/roll/pop/chart classics and high-hitters. I've done Queen, Madness, Billy Joel, Cream, TMBG, you name it. I've had - almost - anything that is anything. Next up is probably Adi Celentano, Doe Maar or ABBA, but I'm running out.
So, erm... does anyone have another lead for me? A classic, but if possible a hidden classic? From the 1980s or earlier? I'm not interested in "this is the newest of the hot, you must listen to this" Billie Eilish or Ed Sheeran electronically flattened pablum, obviously.
More personally (I'm showing my prejudices here) I don't care for disco or Motown. Stax - yeah, but I think I've done them. So, does anyone here have a tip for some band or artist who was a real force; who isn't so obvious I haven't heard him yet; and who has a decent catalogue on YouTube I can binge?
(I'd post the artists I've binged already, but it's a bit of a list. I will if anyone cares. All of them are mostly available on YT, which is good.)
