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#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic The piano part really completes what is already a stunning song. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely Hey, that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDIDawmeeI0

#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic For the piano part mid-song. Derek & the Dominos - Layla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngViNw2pOo

#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth They say in Heaven, love comes first We'll make Heaven a place on Earth Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2F4INQFjEI

#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty Bonnie Tyler - Loving You's a Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do It) I can't explain it away, it doesn't make any sense To know what it's like, I guess you gotta go through it I guess you gotta go through it, I guess you gotta go through it It doesn't matter, baby Loving you's a dirty job But somebody's gotta do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcfLoyxJTro

#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand Circle in the sand, round and round Never ending love is what we've found And you complete the heart of me Our love is all we need Circle in the sand (circle in the sand) Circle in the sand (circle in the sand) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgpXSoWBAVA

#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust I got my finger on the trigger But I don't know who to trust When I look into your eyes There's just devils and dust We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie Home's a long, long way from us I feel a dirty wind blowing Devils and dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25lVyZLtYM

#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty Gaz Brookfield - Sand and Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8ITOKELTk

#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic Chas N' Dave - That Old Piano That old piano, with old and worn-out keys Just an old piano, with faded ivories But it was a treasure It give so much pleasure That old piano When them old hammers, bounced off off them old strings You just couldn't help yourself, it just made you wanna sing No question about it We couldn't do without it That old piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSko3OIwEac

#JukeboxFridayNight#History Finishing up tonight with a 1980s song about the Nore mutiny in the 19th century Royal Navy with references to the Jacobeans, William Pitt, Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke! The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Colours I am a member of the council of the naval mutiny And no traitor to my conscience having done my sworn duty These are my last words before the scaffold and I charge you all to hear How a wretched British sailor became a citizen mutineer Pressed into service to carry powder I was loyal to the crack of the whip If I starved on the streets of Bristol, I starved worse on a British ship Red is the colour of the new republic Blue is the colour of the sea White is the colour of my innocence Not surrender to your mercy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS8gP8lFMgs

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist Back to that question of 'What song would you like when you walk onto a stage?' - this would have to be another candidate, just for the opening guitar rifss! Iron Maiden -- Phantom of the Opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jaRipA5_M

#JukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld Discovered this on the Rough Guide to the Music of China CD and had been something of an anthem of rebellion around the Tiananmen Square protests. 崔健 - 一無所有 / Cui Jian - Nothing to My Name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uk0-vlpP0

@tc_morekindness@c.im #jukeboxfridaynight has proven surprisingly good at making me think about various aspects of life: it's becoming as much of a philosophical exercise as a song selection one!

#JukeboxFridayNight#History ABBA - Waterloo My, my At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender Oh, yeah And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way The history book on the shelf Is always repeating itself Waterloo I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo Promise to love you forevermore Waterloo Couldn't escape if I wanted to Waterloo Knowing my fate is to be with you Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Waterloo Finally facing my Waterloo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4

#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty Bruce Springsteen - This Hard Land Hey there, mister Can you tell me what happened to the seeds I've sown? Can you gimme a reason, sir As to why they've never grown? They've just blown around from town to town 'Til they're back out on to these fields Yeah, where they fall from my hand Back into the dirt of this hard land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssg4_KMrS0o

#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Lion and the Unicorn I'll tell you tales of Kings and sailors Puritans, outlaws, thieves and traders Show you round the land we made Whisper something we betrayed So where's the hope and where's the reason? Poisoned by the years of treason Where's the justice? Where's the grace? Disappeared without a trace Who went mad, who drowned in drink? Who's in a cage and who's extinct? Who ended up in a uniform? The lion and the unicorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feyn09sWfu0

#JukeboxFridayNight#History Lessons of history... Frank Turner - 1933 If I was of the greatest generation I'd be pissed Surveying the world that I built slipping back into this I'd be screaming at my grandkids: "We already did this" Be suspicious of simple answers That shit's for fascists and maybe teenagers You can't fix the world if all you have is a hammer The first time it was a tragedy The second time is a farce Outside it's 1933 so I'm hitting the bar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmnBcNijvo

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist Can we have retrospective personal playlist songs? This didn't come out till we left London for Wellington but that was probably just as well as Frank Turner was our last London gig and this song would have wrecked us, with departure imminent. Frank Turner - Farewell To My City I guess I got older, that’s how it goes, And I know it sounds weak but I’ll still see you at shows. I got tired of London, not tired of life. I’m so sorry, my darling, to leave you behind. We had a hell of a run there, but I must go down to the sea. While you’re always changing, it wasn’t you, it was me. Farewell to my city. I’m just one more of your ghosts. I’ll still see you at shows. London,you can keep my bones. So it goes, so it goes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWtDLdXAzM

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist Frank Turner - Get Better So try and get better and don't ever accept less. Take a plain black marker and write this on your chest: Draw a line underneath all of this unhappiness, Come on now let's fix this mess. We can get better, because we're not dead yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB4Avdlz3lk

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist Hmm... interesting theme. These days, most relevant is probably this one or the one that follows, especially on the eve of my Birthday! Bon Jovi - Just Older I like the bed I'm sleeping in It's just like me, it's broken in It's not old -- just older Like a favorite pair of torn blue jeans This skin I'm in it's alright with me It's not old -- just older https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdl_D1TtV3A

#JukeboxFridayNight#History Iron Maiden - Invaders Longboats have been sighted and the evidence of war has begun Many Nordic fighting men, their swords and shields gleam in the sun Call to arms, defend yourselves, get ready to stand and fight for your lives Judgement day has come around, so be prepared, don't run, stand your ground They're coming in from the sea They've come, the enemy Beneath the blazing sun The battle has to be won Invaders pillaging Invaders looting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O5No2TLw0g

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist And now a rather sweary song about commuter life in London and my introduction to the Amateur Transplants. Amateur Transplants - London Underground Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KplTcCK2h9Y

#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic Piano's pretty prominent in this one. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

#JukeboxFridayNight#History I could probably spend all night just posting historic-themed songs by The Men They Couldn't Hang! The Men They Couldn't Hang - Ghosts of Cable Street Like Caesar marching to the East Marches Mosley with his men Dressed in their clothes of deepest black Like a gathering hurricane This is the British Union With its flag of black and red A flag that casts a shadow in Berlin and in Madrid So listen to the sound of marching feet And the voices of the ghosts of Cable Street Fists and stones and batons and the gun With courage we shall beat those blackshirts down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33856y22RVc

#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic Can't honestly say I actually like this song much but it did strike me as fitting the theme! Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXAlfh6QKQs

#JukeboxFridayNight#AWiderWorld There's a bar/restaurant in Helsinki called Zetor, named after the Czech tractors. One of my favourite places when working there, they played a lot of Finnish music which, of course, I understood none of (bar the Finnish Country & Western covers) but I still loved listening to it. On a long overdue return visit after many years, I noticed they sold a CD. The barman was surprised to learn this when I asked about this, found a CD, concluded that EUR17 was too much for a CD like that, reduced the price and threw in a hat. I since learned that was not the actual official soundtrack CD but I still like listening to it from time to time! Kouvola United - Oli rakkauden vuoro lähteä https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdUlif0FwdY

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist I have often described Babylon 5 as my One True Love, fandom-wise and this particular early music video is one I always closely associate with those heady days of early online 90s fandom. Have to admit, I'd be hard pushed to name another song by this band! East 17 - Stay Another Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-2rspvQfM

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist For a guy who's 14 years younger than me, Frank Turner doesn't half write a lot of songs that seem to speak to my stage in life! Frank Turner - Polaroid Picture But in the stillness of the moment it takes for a polaroid picture To capture our faces forever, The world has turned a touch on its axis, and the only thing certain Is everything changes. ... So honey, I just need a little time to take a little time with today, To savour all the triumph and tragedy, before it slips away. So let go of the little distractions, Hold close to the ones that you love, Because we won't all be here this time next year, So while you can take a picture of us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw9UwJr5f8I

#JukeboxFridayNight#History When my father was posted to Ventiane, Laos, one of the cassettes we had was a compilation of songs by Johnny Horton. Even at that age, I figured that songs like this one were not normal country and western song topics! Johnny Horton - Sink The Bismarck For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail Churchill told the people "Put every ship a-sail 'Cause somewhere on that ocean, I know she's gotta be We gotta sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea!" We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss We gotta sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us Yeah, hit the decks a runnin' boys and spin those guns around When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2hI4FM

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist One of the songs that got me through my first breakup. On the bright side, nothing else has ever felt that bad! Big Country - Alone It's not my life in those old pictures The ones you threw away For I was always someone else And always far away Walking in the darkest places Where the mission meets Waiting for the ground to open up Beneath my feet Alone inside my head Alone inside my room I feel alone inside my head Alone inside my tiny little world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYqAJ4JuTGI

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist The London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony was probably the last I felt really optimistic about the future of the UK as it depicted a country proud of its past and achievements but also realistic about them and its place in the world and that was also the first time I ever heard Frank Turner and this song. Frank Turner - I Still Believe And I still believe (I still believe) in the saints. Yeah, in Jerry Lee and in Johnny and all the greats. And I still believe (I still believe) in the sound, That has the power to raise a temple and tear it down. And I still believe (I still believe) in the need, For guitars and drums and desperate poetry. And I still believe (I still believe) that everyone, Can find a song for every time they've lost and every time they've won. So just remember folks we not just saving lives, we're saving souls, And we're having fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mqZZjSGog

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From a time when being an Arsenal fan was emotionally a lot harder. This would be my go to song after another of their occasional more abject performances, along with quoting Lt Colonel John Paul Vann after the Battle of Ap Bac and posts of wanting the Arsenal squad to lower me into my grave when I died so they could let me down one last time. Ah, fun times :-)

Frank Turner - Plain Sailing Weather

Just give me one fine day of plain sailing weather And I can **** up anything, anything It was a wonderful life when we were together And now I've ****ed up every little goddamn thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ1yZFHhf7w

#JukeboxFridayNight#History Iron Maiden do Charge of the Light Brigade Iron Maiden - The Trooper You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through So when you're waiting for the next attack You'd better stand, there's no turning back The bugle sounds, the charge begins But on this battlefield, no one wins The smell of acrid smoke and horses' breath As I plunge on into certain death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bgXH3sJ2Q

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist Thinking about @Kay@mastodon.nz 's original post - 'What song would you like when you walk onto a stage?' - This would have to be a strong candidate: The theme song from the Once Upon A Time In China films - "A Man Should Be Better" or "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant" (男兒當自強 - Nan Er Dang Zi Qiang) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhje-4Rexk

#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty Hey remember when we thought Dubya was the bottom of the barrel? Steve Earle - Little Emperor Hey little Emperor, come down from your throne The hourglass is empty, your time has come and gone The battlements are crumbling, the walls are tumbling down Your counselors and concubines are getting out of town Some say it’s an omen, some say it’s the winds of change Which every way it’s going, it’s blowing like a hurricane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjrY9lsbCMk

#JukeboxFridayNight#History Country Joe & The Fish - Vietnam Song Well, come on all of you, big strong men Uncle Sam needs your help again Yeah, he's got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in Vietnam So put down your books and pick up a gun Gonna have a whole lotta fun And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn Next stop is Vietnam And it's five, six, seven Open up the pearly gates Well, there ain't no time to wonder why Whoopee! We're all gonna die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk

#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts Playing with the Queen of Hearts knowing it ain't really smart The joker ain't the only fool who'll do anything for you Laying out another lie, thinking about a life of crime That's what I'll have to do to keep me away from you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLwrCbj6Xbw

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist Wouldn't exactly say it's a favourite but I suspect I spent enough time listening to this while in the phone queue it warrants an entry! Warning - still not great despite (because of?) being autotuned to within an inch of its life! Immigration New Zealand - Come On Over So you’re thinking to make the move To another place and time The pasture just seems greener on this side Will you come and take a ride? We’ll dance all through the night To the tune of the southern stars up on high So you’ve packed your bags to fly You could be here tonight To start a brand new chapter in your life Take a road trip down the line Let the memories fill your mind And the Southern Cross keeps dancing through the night So come on over, come on over To the land of the long white cloud and the southern skies Where the locals make you smile Come play and stay a while Don’t you worry, take your time, and she’ll be right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF7eRDY2vg8

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist Still on the subject of the Arsenal's role in my life, this song wasn't adopted as an anthem till after we left London but does it ever get straight to the heart (well, the chorus anyway). Still trying not to take it too personally that their great resurgence was after we left London! Louis Dunford - The Angel (North London Forever) North London forever Whatever the weather These streets are our own And my heart will leave you never My blood will forever Run through the stone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DivH1dWGbw

#JukeboxFridayNight#History First I knew of 9/11 was sitting at my desk in the office in London seeing a CNN headline email coming in saying a plane had flown into one of the WTC towers. I was still trying to figure out what that meant (Was it an accident? How big a plane? etc) when another came in saying a second plane had done the same. I then knew it wasn't an accident. I can still remember all of us in reception watching the towers collapsing on the TV. Written as a tribute to the firefighters climbing the towers Bruce Springsteen - The Rising Can't see nothing in front of me Can't see nothing coming up behind Make my way through this darkness I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me Lost track of how far I've gone How far I've gone, how high I've climbed On my back's a sixty pound stone On my shoulder, a half-mile line Come on up for the rising Come on up, lay your hands in mine Come on up for the rising Come on up for the rising tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-fiRgbpr4

#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty Saw these guys just the once, supporting Bryan Adams at Wembley Stadium, I think... Thunder – Dirty Love I don't need your dirty love I don't want you touching me I don't want your dirty love It's enough, trying to live with the memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW2hul7_Pn4

#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty Roxette - Queen of Rain There's a time for the good in life A time to kill the pain in life Dream about the sun You Queen of Rain It's time to place your bets in life I've played the loser's game of life Dream about the sun You Queen of Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27eClHQxXls

#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty Bobby Prince - DooM soundtrack Episode 1 Level 1 - At DooM's Gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsfjHCFosw

#JukeboxFridayNight#History Obviously, one of the many songs about 9/11. Strangely, the lines that struck me most were: I'm not a real political man I watch CNN, but I'm not sure I can tell you The difference between Iraq and Iran Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwcWVs4Eejg

#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic Discovered this when I first started exploring Australian country music! Adam Brand - Grandpa's Piano Grandpa had a piano, it was built in 1904 He brought it down from Sydney town before the First World War He'd sit down and crack his knuckles and put his glasses on his head When he'd start to play, the cat would run and hide behind the bed Well, his right foot stomped the pedals and his left foot stomped the floor His wrinkled hands would skip the keys that wouldn't play no more He'd play Onward Christian Soldiers and the window panes would shake When the man of 87 played his old 88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkJ7xZU2Es

#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic Still on the subject of Roy Bittan, I recently discovered he played piano on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell in 1977! Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGMCSCFoKA

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist I prefer Dolly Parton's version but this was the version playing on the radio just after someone very dear to me let me down gently but unambiguously. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of And I wish you joy and happiness But above all this, I wish you love And I will always love you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist China Beach was the first TV series to really bring home to me the passage of time and the inevitability of change, especially its fourth and final season where episodes cut back and forth between the characters' time in Vietnam and back in the US in the then present day - that everything we'd been was just a part of their lives. So the theme song naturally stuck in my mind. Diana Ross and The Supremes - Reflections Through the mirror of my mind Time after time I see reflections of you and me Reflections of The way life used to be Reflections of The love you took from me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV72YrB1454

#JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist This is one that gets me through stressful, high workload times. Rush - Marathon From first to last The peak is never passed Something always fires the light That gets in your eyes One moment's high And glory rolls on by Like a streak of lightning That flashes and fades In the summer sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9qOIV16zgE

#JukeboxFridayNight#History Worth a post just for the lines And got let down again by some poor excuse for protest - By idiot ****** hippies in fifty different factions Who are locked inside some kind of Sixties battle re-enactment. and So come on old friends to the streets Let's be 1905 but not 1917, Can you tell he did history at university? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEpHL9GG1N4

#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty Nightwish - Crownless Crownless again shall be the queen Trophy on her grave still remains unseen A boat on the river confessing the sins The Riddler revealing the deep hidden things Crownless again shall be the king A gull covered in oil with a broken wing A hitcher on a road alone and lost Iron sharpens iron, a truth that once was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvG58wNFJJI