It started off in a dangerous place!
Well i downloaded them but don't really like anything i've heard
Holy shit, The Strawbs
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Well i downloaded them but don't really like anything i've heard
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
I don't like them either.
Well i downloaded them but don't really like anything i've heard
Shit aren't they?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Gawd Citizen smith, remember it so well, "Power to the people!"
"Freedom for Tooting"
I still find myself wanting to shout that when I go through Tooting!
Are you a member of the Tooting popular front?"Freedom for Tooting"
I still find myself wanting to shout that when I go through Tooting!
Do you wear a Che Guevara hat?
I gave them a go. I wanted to like them but their music does nothing for me. Each to their own innit?
The Strawbs with Sandy Denny album (late 60s) sounds great, from the little I've heard of it. Much better than anything I've heard from either Denny or the Strawbs in other contexts. Doesn't seem to be available on CD though (or only on a long-deleted one). Vinyl copies on ebay, and quite cheap too, but I don't have a record player no more...
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I'd say that you're listening to the wrong Denny then i nall honesty, because if it's better than the more known stuf...
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Sandy voice always sounded good, but she didn't always make the best choices in material. Even so, aside from Sail Away to the Sea (which I'll grant you), the Strawbs stuff isn't amongst the best vehicles for her voice. (Although Fotheringay did cover a couple of Dave Cousins' songs).
It should be noted that this material all comes from before the Strawbs first LP proper, and comes from a time they were playing pretty straightforward folk/bluegrass stuff.
It should be noted that this material all comes from before the Strawbs first LP proper, and comes from a time they were playing pretty straightforward folk/bluegrass stuff.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
"Freedom for Tooting"
I still find myself wanting to shout that when I go through Tooting!
Yeti!
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Have to admit I always thought "Part of the Union" was a pro-union song. I saw the Strawbs live once and Dave Cousins claimed he'd written it with Jack Jones (whom he greatly admired) in mind.
They were a great band though. If you only get one Strawbs album the 2CD "Halcyon Days" collection is probably the best one to have IMO.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Halcyon-Days-Very-Best-Strawbs/dp/B000006TKB
They were a great band though. If you only get one Strawbs album the 2CD "Halcyon Days" collection is probably the best one to have IMO.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Halcyon-Days-Very-Best-Strawbs/dp/B000006TKB
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
They've recently done a short UK tour and did one in the US/Canada last year.
My wife's boss is their manager.
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
How did they hit upon the freaky name?
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
I think Clicker's right, it was from the name of their teacher training college.
MC5; I agree, that's probably my favourite of theirs too especially as I myself get older (it's a concept album about one man's life from beginning to end, and the last two tracks - "Is It Today Lord" and "Journey's End" - also remind me of my late father).
But of the ones I've heard, all the ones from "Witchwood" to "Ghosts" are good (as is Dave Cousins' 1972 solo album, "Two Weeks Last Summer").
