Tag: music

amarguerite:

urlocalhotmess:

amarguerite:

Holy shit that last note!!!! Sign me up as a vibabdiere for the Revolutionary Army, Citizen Chauvelin has convinced me as to the justness of his cause.

@ablative-absolute

literally my only complaint about falcon in the dive was that the note in “dive” didn’t sound “””intense””” enough to me and here norm lewis absolutely SOLVES THAT MOTHERFUCKING PROBLEM 

IKR??? Forget Sir Percy. Give me a tricolor sash, the Jacobins know what’s what.

leafstranger:

goddamnshinyrock:

my current favorite bizarre folk song plot is Willie o’ Winsbury:

A king comes home from war to find his daughter pregnant, and demands to know who knocked her up. She tells him it was Willie of Winsbury, so the king sends his men to arrest him and declares that he will hang for this. But when Willie is brought before him, the king is so impressed by just how dang hot Willie is that he tells his daughter “…wow, you know what, fair enough, if I were you I’d have totally hit that. Here’s some land and wealth, get it girl go ahead and marry him.”

(To cross the streams a bit here, this is a GBS / Newfoundland version of the above folk song plot.)

vimyvickers:

Songs and ballads concerning smuggling.
Cover image is a print by John Atkinson entitled “Smugglers”.

  • Schooner I’m Alone– Woods Tea Company
  • Valparaiso In A Rowboat– Shanghaied on the Willamette
  • Boston Smuggler– Martin Simpson
  • The Smuggler– Jess Arrowsmith
  • The Female Smuggler– Pete Castle
  • A Smuggler’s Song– Peter Bellamy
  • Acadian Saturday Night– Stan Rogers
  • Smuggling the Tin– Liam Weldon
  • The Poor Smuggler’s Boy– Angela Brasil
  • French Perfume– Great Big Sea
  • Smuggler– The McCalmans
  • Nellie J. Banks– Manchester Run

12 tracks; 42 mins. {Playmoss}

please. tell us more about your ‘folk bangers’ playlist. that sounds relevant to all of my interests. (folks and banging)

ventureonwilderseas:

axonsandsynapses:

auber-jean:

lotstradamus:

if you want a playlist for banging folks this probably isn’t the one for you, but if you want to Go Off, Historically then WHAT’S UP 

🤘🏻

@axonsandsynapses

a) This is terrific

b) Have some more! (Most of these are traditional, a few of them are more contemporary)

c) I’ve put them all in an actual YouTube playlist, here, for your listening convenience

Oh, hey! My favorite genre! I hope you all like shanties and Irish:

English (but not shanties):
Hills of Connemara – Gaelic Storm
Shady Grove – Crooked Still (a good band for this sort of thing)
The Elfin Knight – Kate Rusby

Shanties/shanty-style sea songs:
Ring Down Below – Storm Weather Shanty Choir
South Australia – The Kilkennys
Barrett’s Privateers – The Real McKenzies (modern but you’d be hard-pressed to tell)
Blood Red Roses – Storm Weather Shanty Choir
10,000 Miles Away – The Seadogs

Irish:
Dúlamán – Anuna
Nil Na La – Solas
Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile – Seo Linn
’Si Do Mhaimeo I – Méav Ní Mhaolchatha and Mairead Nesbitt

Instrumental:
The Landlord’s Walk – Blair Douglas
Gravel Walk – The Rogues (WOW what a jam!)
O’Sullivan’s March – (Linked is The Chieftains’ version, here’s the Boston Pops version I grew up on)

Bonus Macedonian song: Sto Mi et Milo – Kitka (a great group if you’re interested in Eastern European music)

some of my favorite silly plotlines from Scottish ballads

rottenappleheart:

  • Small village thinks illicit whiskey stills are its biggest problem until raiders show up and trash their everything. Death, destruction, etc. Raiders find whiskey still, get lit, pass out. Villagers murder them. Peace restored. Whiskey is king.
  • Shepherd lad spots fair maid skinny-dipping. Fair maid pleads for her virtue and/or clothing. Shepherd lad is complete gentleman, escorts her home with clothing and virtue intact. Fair maid demands to know what she has to do to get laid around here.
  • Plucky heroine’s boyfriend goes to sea, fails to return.
    Plucky heroine dresses in drag and goes to find him. Plucky heroine discovers
    boyfriend happily married to someone else. Plucky heroine shoots his head right
    off.
  • Do Not Stop By The Local Weaver’s House, You Will Get So
    Pregnant, Like, Super Pregnant, I’m Not Kidding, This Has Been A Public Service
    Announcement.
  • Wealthy farmwife habitually searches her maidservants’ dorm
    for SIGNS OF MEN out of concern for their virtue. Maids less concerned for
    their virtue are having None Of It. Maids hide scarecrow in dorm, farm mistakes
    scarecrow for prowler, farmwife decapitates scarecrow. Farmwife believes
    herself a murderer. Maids now permitted to do as they please, virtue-wise. 
  • Idiot son sent to market to sell cow. Scheming lass seduces
    idiot son out of cow, pants, and even shoes.
  • Dad returns from business trip to find daughter Super
    Pregnant, demands to meet the man responsible. Dad takes one look at man
    responsible and tells daughter “okay, you’re off the hook, I would have banged
    him too.”
  • Handsome stranger bribes fair maid to leave town with him.
    Fair maid rejects various bribes until handsome stranger flat-out offers her
    money, which she accepts. Handsome stranger turns out to be, to no one’s great
    surprise, the actual devil. Fair maid regrets her life choices.
  • Gallant knight goes forth to slay dragon. Dragon eats knight, but has indigestion.

ETA: If anyone has been reblogging this and wants to know what the songs are, here is the list! Or if you’re too lazy to click things, The Devil Uisge Beatha + Shepherd Lad + Billy Taylor + Tae The Weaver’s Gin Ye Go + The Straw Man + Cow Song + Willie Winsbury + The Devil’s Courtship + Sir Eglamore