#jake thackray

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Old Molly Metcalfe - Jake Thackray From his 1972 album, Bantam Cock (BBC Four TV broadcast from 1971) More info: • Old Molly Metcalfe - Jake Thackray | Mainly Norfolk: English and Scottish Folk and Other Good Music • Beware of the Bull: the extraordinary life of singer Jake Thackray revealed | Music | The Guardian

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I took an orange from the street And gave it to my heart. My heart is thereby none so sweet; My love is such as acid on my heart. Dear love, so cheap it was to meet, And as bitter now to part, My love is such, as acid on my heart. To yellow love a sweet sun did impart What health? That we can eat My heart, is thereby none so sweet. But slowly our strange lips did greet Each other; such a foretaste, as tart My love is, such as acid on my heart. And then who knows where such loves start? What sicknesses do we repeat? My heart, is, thereby, none so sweet? I took an orange to my heart And it gave love to eat. My love is, such as acid, on my heart. My heart is, thereby none, so sweet.

A Villanelle, Jake Thackray, 1960

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"... so one day she went into the church, her simple heart to unclothe. lord! dont leave me in the lurch! dont turn up your nose! god knows that im not much cop... but me legs... go right up to the top! so tell me why... youve passed me by... and if you can, dear lord on high, get me a maaaaaaaaaan!"

"she, she was in for a shock, for high in the tower like a bird. the blacksmith was mending the clock, and he had overheard! every word. he almost fell off his perch with delight, but stout fella, he kept his head. he didnt snicker as a lot of men might, but in the tones of jehovah instead, he said: YOURE NOT BEREFT, THERES A GOOD MAN LEFT, hes... nothing flash but still... reliable... staunch and true... dear daughter, will... will a blacksmith dooooooo?"

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Bad Music Bracket: Rounds 7 and 8

I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel for these goddamn comedy songs. I am learning a lot from this bracket.

Anyway, the match ups with week are:

My Pal Foot Foot by the Shaggs vs Karma Chameleon by Culture Club

And

My Humps by Black Eyed Peas vs the Hole by Jake Thackray

Judge's Opinion's Below the Cut

Adam's Votes: My Pal Foot Foot and My Humps

My Pal Foot Foot vs Karma Chameleon:

One of these songs was a major influence on Frank Zappa & Kurt Cobain. I vote for My Pal Foot Foot but as a badge of honor. It’s an all-time legend of outsider music, and the story behind it is fucking insane and wonderful. Boy George wishes he could have the same cultural footprint.

My Humps vs The Hole:

It’s another comedy song. I guess I understand why comedy songs keep coming up on this list, but the Hole sounds fine. I don’t hate My Humps the way some other people do, but I don’t have any affection for it either and Jack Thackary’s voice is charming enough, so I vote My Humps.

Sol's Votes- My Pal Foot Foot and My Humps

My Pal Foot Foot influenced Frank Zappa and that is a misdemeanor in music history. At the same time, it gets my vote because it is interestingly bad, whereas Karma Chameleon is part of what I call the lame 80's. Basically take every part of the new wave and drain it into an annoying husk.

I want all comedy songs to die. My Humps get my vote because it is a perfect example of a legendarily bad song. It is in the top 5 of the worst Black Eyed Peas songs, but stuff like The Time(Dirty Bit) and Double D'z have dethroned it as their worst.

Joe's Votes- My Pal Foot Foot and The Hole

My Pal Foot Foot” is so obviously fucked on a fundamental level, with obviously incorrect rhythm and tone that falls below what can even be excused as amateur that it makes me immediately suspect there’s some level of intention to it being poorly played. Whether they can’t play and that’s the point or whether they are trying to play bad intentionally, the result is a sound that is awful and genuinely unpleasant to listen to. It’s certainly interesting and I can understand why someone might be fascinated by it, but I find it totally unpleasant. “Karma Chameleon” on the other hand is just a kinda cheesy 80s pop jam that’s genuinely fun and has a fun melody and some fascinating instrumentation like its implementation of harmonica and I think it slaps. For me, “My Pal Foot Foot” takes worst song here, no contest.

“My Humps” is filled with vapid and pretty silly lyrics and the melody can come off as repetitive and kind of annoying after a while. On the whole, however, it’s still a pretty catchy jam that feels quite fitting among its ‘05 contemporaries and even has some interesting background tracks and turns like the piano outro towards the end, something I didn’t even know since I’m so familiar with the portion that would play in movies and on the radio. All in all, it’s still a decent time, but nothing to write home about. “The Hole” is clearly meant to be an absurd comedic song about the unexceptional event of having one’s finger stuck in a hole and an escalating series of shocked and punitive reactions from the world at large. It’s not the best joke, but it’s silly enough that I’ll admit I enjoyed it a bit, though it doesn’t really push its premise enough to be more than mildly amusing, at least to me. The music is serviceable for creating a sort of folk-story song kind-of feel, though it is pretty simple flat and doesn’t gain any complexity or notable change throughout the song, making it overall feel pretty dull. To be honest, neither are particularly terrible, but I think I’d choose to listen to “My Humps” again for the interesting and catchy instrumentation, so “The Hole” gets my vote for worst song in this round, but it’s not a particularly enthusiastic vote.

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Alison Eales - Mox Nox - chamber folk/pop songs inspired by sundial mottos

Alison Eales is a long-standing member of the band Butcher Boy, playing piano, accordion and other keyboards as well as arranging for choir and brass. The band have made three studio albums: Profit in Your Poetry (2007), React or Die (2009) and Helping Hands (2011). All of these albums have been well-received, with React or Die featuring in The Times’ top 100 pop albums of the 2000s. The band have also released two EPs. A compilation album, You Had A Kind Face, was released on Needle Mythology in 2022, along with three new songs, with tracks mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road. Butcher Boy have supported bands including Belle and Sebastian, Scritti Politti and The Wedding Present. Taking inspiration from sundial mottos, Mox Nox is an album about the passing of time – most specifically, the transition from day to night. Its twelve songs explore experiences of all-nighters, anxiety, travel, frustration, and friendship. The album combines acoustic and electronic instrumentation with samples of environmental sound, resulting in an indie pop record that is by turns playful and melancholy and that is likely to appeal to fans of Saint Etienne, The Magnetic Fields, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stereolab, Jake Thackray and Kirsty MacColl. With support from Creative Scotland, the album was produced by Paul Savage at Chem 19 studios. Cover artwork was designed by Rhian Nicholas at The Passenger Press in Glasgow, using a mix of traditional printmaking techniques. The design represents a sundial and was inspired by the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with its stylised Doomsday Clock.

The strings on Ever Forward were arranged and recorded by Pete Harvey at Pumpkinfield and performed by the Pumpkinseeds: Simon Graham (violin), Emma Connell-Smith (viola), Harriet Davidson (cello) and Chris Sergeant (double bass). Strings on other tracks were performed by Maya Burman-Roy (cello) and Cat Robertson (violin). Guitar on The Broken Song, Shadow Blister, A Natural History of California and Goodbye was played by Basil Pieroni. Diljeet Kaur Bhachu played flute on Negligence, Through Hoops, and Mox Nox. Joanne Murtagh played glockenspiel on Rapunzel, Negligence, Fifty-Five North and Mox Nox.

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Artist/Gig: Crywank

Genre/s: Folk-Punk; Anti-Folk; Acoustic; Singer-Songwriter

Venue: The Lanes

City: Bristol, England

Date of Performance: 14/11/23

TSW Review retrieval Hashtag: #tswcrybris

This was a stripped down headline performance of Jay Clayton on acoustic guitar & vocals, later supported by bass and drums, then switching back to solo, an approach I’ve seen before…think Evan Dando of The Lemonheads, (who has performed in a similar fashion) but in reverse, solo-band-solo over a live set rather than band-solo-band. The natural blend of lyrics & poetry half-sang, half-projected, with a guttural yell sit perfectly with gentle arpeggios, then abrasive Punk-Folk guitar. Vocal delivery is somewhere between AJJ and Jake Thackray. Jay Clayton’s guitar-abilities mesh with his vocals…percussive guitar conjuring up a full band, think Rodrigo Y Gabriela meets Sonic Youth, that builds in intensity and drops or skyrockets to serve the song. There were different tunes from various Crywank albums that generated a warm buzz amongst the audience, emotional ear worms burrowing as song after song gushed from the stage. Jay has a command of his emotions, with a great range in his creative pallet linked to his feelings and is able to distil these into visceral acoustic songs that resonate timelessly with the fans. Jay’s empathy, humility and humanity manifest in Crywank, part folk-rebel, part beat-poet, part kitchen sink dramatic storyteller, an emotionally hardcore spokesman for the misshapes.

🇬🇧🇮🇪Crywank UK & Ireland tour 2023: https://linktr.ee/crywankband?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=3437c6ad-615c-423b-bfd9-64c3eb5a216a

⏯️ Listen to Crywank in Bandcamp: https://crywank.bandcamp.com/album/just-popping-in-to-say-hi

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decided to just go with mine that have some kind of relatuonship w Gortash otherwise this would get SUPER LONG

aiight first we have Wyn! the woman, the MILF, the legend she's the only one I have so far with an actual relationship w Gortash that goes both ways

Next up, my durge, Innocence, who is just the worst, her relationship w Gortash is p much entirely one sided, she isn't really, y'know, capable of love

aaand lastly is Tiff, she actually gets an extra song because she has a MASSIVE character arc and is such a different person by Act 3! her relationship w Gortash is... none-sided for lack of a better term, Gortash just leverages her parents' desperation to marry her off against her and she's NOT having it

these are the rest of my BG3 OC playlists;

Wyn Wyn/Gortash Ollarum Innocence Dhaveira Dhav/Astarion Tiff Pitre and Phenaia (co-Tavs) Pennah

Will y'all do something really cool and reblorg (or whatever you do on this website) with a song that represents your Durge or Tav?

And/Or a song that represents your characters x Gortimer ship??

(I wanna listen!!)

(yt music link here if no Spotify)

Oo maybe pics too! I'm greedy, sorry 😅

Doesn't have to be reblogging specifically! However you want!

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no one says Bracken quite like jake thackray. which is i imagine why he says it so much

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Where all my fellow Untermentioned Comrades? They can't stop this party

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Play ▶ Jake Thackray 

01 - Brother Gorilla (Le Gorille) 02 - On Again! on Again! 03 - The Castleford Ladies Magic Circle 04 - Lah-Di-Dah 05 - Ulysses 06 - Personal Column 07 - The Bull 08 - Bantam Cock 09 - Joseph 10 - The Remembrance 11 - The Kg Girl (The Kirkstall Road Girl) 12 - The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington 13 - Sister Josephine 14 - The Black Swan 15 - The Gravedigger 16 - Greasy Joan (One Eyed Isaac) 17 - Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray 18 - Jumble Sale 19 - The Rain on the Mountainside 20 - The Brigadier 21 - Isobel 22 - Old Molly Metcalfe 23 - The Shepherdess 24 - Family Grave 25 - Scallywag 26 - Jolly Captain 27 - The Hole

Info Artist: Jake Thackray

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Bantam Cock - Jake Thackray

He was a fine upstanding bantam-cock So brisk, and stiff, and spry... With a springy step, and a jaunty plume, And a purposeful look in his eye In his little black blinking eye!

So I took him to the coop and introduced him to My seventeen wide-eyed hens And he tupped and he tupped as a hero tupps, And he bowed to them all, and then, He up and took 'em all again!

Then upon the peace of my ducks and geese He boldly did intrude And with glazed eyes and opened mouths They bore him with fortitude... And a little bit of gratitude!

He jumped my giggling guinea-fowl! He thrust his attentions upon Twenty hysterical turkeys, And a visiting migrant swan! And the bantam thundered on!

He groped my fan-tail pigeon doves, My lily-white Columbine, And as I was locking up the budgerigar, He jumped my parrot from behind! And it was sittin' on me shoulder at the time!

But all of a sudden, with a gasp and a gulp, He clapped his hand(?) to his head! He lay flat on his back with his feet in the air; My bantam-cock was dead! And the vultures circled overhead!

What a noble beast! What a champion cock! What a way to live and die! As I dug him a grave to protect his bones, From those hungry buzzards in the sky, The bantam opened up his eyes!

He gave me a wink, and a terrible grin, The way that rapists do.... He said, "Do you see them silly daft buggers up there? They'll be down in a minnit 'er two! They'll be down in a minnit 'er two!"

@curseofmeatthawsmoth thought youd enjoy :^P

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Jake Thackray

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#201 David Bowie - London Boy

#201 David Bowie – London Boy

It’s easy to dismiss this as Bowie’s juvenilia, which of course it is, but there’s a lot more to it than dodgy mock-cockney Anthony Newley impressions and vaguely psychedelic music hall musings. This album is a compilation effectively of Bowie’s recordings for Decca’s Deram label, most of which featured on his debut album, along with the B-sides to the singles released from the album: Rubber…

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Jake Thackray’s “The Bull”: The bigger the bull, the bigger and quicker and thicker the bullshite falls. Unless I’m mistaken, he didn’t ever release this on record. This 1980 performance comes from a BBC documentary, Jake On The Box.