Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face
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Bowie forever, Deadhead, original punk, designer, coach, musician, lover, poet, gonzo.
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I've been wondering what
#MusicChallenge
I was going to do for December. I reckon this is the one.
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about 11 hours ago
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Introduce yourself with 5 gigs you've seen: Grateful Dead James Brown Idles Fugazi Pavement
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3 days ago
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I might be old but I have got a very puerile sense of humour. I laughed way more than an adult should.
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his tounge was out thats not good đ #fumny #shorts #shortsvideo #funnyvideos #shortsviral
YouTube video by 803 Serious Shotta
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7 days ago
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#ArtistFave15
Last one from Brel. My very favourite song of his. It builds and builds to a soaring crescendo, it's absolutely astonishing. Lyrically it's like if Hotel California had been written by Baudelaire. Listen.
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Ces Gens-LĂ
YouTube video by Jacques Brel - Topic
https://youtu.be/_G8MniQNKTY?si=W4gTh4yahhzAeZw3
7 days ago
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This one goes out to the Liverpool fans out there. I empathise with you.
#LFC
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So Good To So Bad
YouTube video by Shel Silverstein - Topic
https://youtu.be/5TWK48LcX0w?si=h1G4Hg2eiR2MyR0g
8 days ago
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This Brel song is right up there with his best, but I think Scott Walker's version just pips Jacques to the post.
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Jacques Brel - Fils de... (Live officiel Les Adieux Ă lâOlympia 1966)
YouTube video by Jacques Brel
https://youtu.be/QrprWI_bABc?si=vtWnKTBsywbAAG5g
8 days ago
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Now listening to...
9 days ago
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And now I pull out the big guns. Jackie by Brel is level pegging with Scott Walker's version. What do you think?
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Jacques Brel - La chanson de Jacky
YouTube video by Jacques Brel
https://youtu.be/jxYVa0q8q_U?si=9pq3unoxYgf1qnxf
9 days ago
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Today's Brel song is a great one, that was immeasurably improved by Scott Walker.
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Jacques Brel - Les filles et les chiens
YouTube video by Jacques Brel
https://youtu.be/uMwumoZ8yMw?si=8Tdu1dXymulVIrvq
12 days ago
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I'm going to start putting Brel songs that had arguably better cover versions than the original. However the very famous version of this song isn't better than this.
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Jacques Brel - Le Moribond (french lyrics)
YouTube video by Robert Allen
https://youtu.be/cXAKq5QvX4k?si=fRpgvFTlmB1C-RCL
13 days ago
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It's been a couple of days since I posted. So today's Brel is the wonderful Marieke, with it's lyrics in both French and Dutch. It's a lovely thing.
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Jacques Brel ~ Marieke
YouTube video by Felix Offenbach
https://youtu.be/jalwU5D8Kag?si=WYk6LB32c0GwefmI
15 days ago
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So she said that in 2016 and USA still elected him President. And again in 2024.
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16 days ago
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#ArtistTop15
Next up. Top tune. We forget nothing, nothing at all. We forget nothing, we just get used to it. That's all.
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Jacques Brel - On n'oublie rien
YouTube video by Jacques Brel
https://youtu.be/3aLWa_sZhto?si=uTuHWLSbA-ydz-7_
16 days ago
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#ArtistTop15
Next up. Top tune. We forget nothing, nothing at all. We forget nothing, we just get used to it. That's all.
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Jacques Brel - On n'oublie rien
YouTube video by Jacques Brel
https://youtu.be/3aLWa_sZhto?si=uTuHWLSbA-ydz-7_
16 days ago
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What exactly is "alternative support"?
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17 days ago
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Next one from Brel. Maybe his most famous song, which he never recorded for an album, so we only have one live version of it. Apparently he didn't like it that much.
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Jacques Brel - Amsterdam live
YouTube video by David Thessaloniki
https://youtu.be/EFl1kCYTHcw?si=yOY6HTVTQmweEv1l
17 days ago
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If there were a god, this would be as famous as Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. But it isn't, so there obviously isn't.
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Dio
YouTube video by Throwing Muses - Topic
https://youtu.be/yMNm3zto8FM?si=But_tAUHHEGJ3p_u
18 days ago
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Been listening to hip hop. After The Clipse, I've been digging this. Far out.
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Doing My Best
YouTube video by Hit-Boy - Topic
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18 days ago
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It's almost as if Rodney King never happened. USA, wake up, it's time to riot.
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19 days ago
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#ArtistFave15
Today's Brel is a beauty. If you have 3 minutes and 53 seconds to spare, feast your ears and feel your soul swell.
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Les marquises
YouTube video by Jacques Brel - Topic
https://youtu.be/nGxclxrwVO0?si=IoNwPWSXBsKNB7Ex
19 days ago
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19 days ago
Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut! (November 11, 1922 â April 11, 2007)
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My Great Grandfather, Alfred Willetts, died at Paschendaele 1917.
20 days ago
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Nâ°5 from Brel. A homage to Jean Jaurès, a socialist pacifist anti-militarist who was assassinated in 1914 just before he was to have a meeting to dissuade belligerents from going to war. Pourquoi ont ils tuĂŠ Jaurès?
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Jaurès
YouTube video by Jacques Brel - Topic
https://youtu.be/DXfHxN7x5vY?si=YE03qY1_5H0yemH3
21 days ago
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I've been binging on Brel. There's going to be a couple of tracks from this album over the next few days in my
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21 days ago
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4ème partie of my Brel collection. This one was famously and brilliantly covered by Scott Walker and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. An absolute bijou of a song, which even mentions gonorrhea, hey.
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Au suivant
YouTube video by Jacques Brel - Topic
https://youtu.be/37JXRx6Ceec?si=jMiJBC5A1wyRc6u6
22 days ago
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Numero 3 of my favourite Brel songs. Here's one about the elderly, and getting old. This hits a little harder every year. With the line that says "I'm waiting for you".
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Les vieux
YouTube video by Jacques Brel - Topic
https://youtu.be/50J67s-zTCU?si=H34-iiSNv7So-s_v
22 days ago
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The Reformistas will bang on about Rotherham, but ne'er a peep about this.
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23 days ago
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Part 2 of my top Brel songs. If you know the Scott Walker version you'll know that the lyrics are super sad, in its original version, it's even sadder.
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Ne me quitte pas (RĂŠ-enregistrement 1972)
YouTube video by Jacques Brel - Topic
https://youtu.be/sk1jfXB6IU0?si=bYKYd0bNBMyVmCAU
23 days ago
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I'm going to do a
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on Jacques Brel. If you don't know his stuff, I'll be posting some wonderful music. He was so great both Bowie and Scott Walker covered his songs. So, first up...
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Jacques Brel - Vesoul
YouTube video by JacquesBrelVEVO
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24 days ago
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25 days ago
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The worst thing about BlueSky is that I don't get to see the MAGA cultists totally losing their shit.
26 days ago
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When it's over, I'd like to see whoever is the next president: tear down the ballroom, give the plane back to Qatar, rip all the gold plated shit off the White House and replant the roses.
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26 days ago
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This needs to be done.
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27 days ago
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One more for Donna.
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Sugar Magnolia (Live in Paris, 1972) (2001 Remaster)
YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic
https://youtu.be/DL-lXXFSAtI?si=uupwUXXxqVymGLp0
27 days ago
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RIP Donna. 7 beautiful years with the Grateful Dead, her voice is on some of my favourite albums.
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Looks Like Rain, 5/13/77 - Grateful Dead
YouTube video by chasefukuoka61
https://youtu.be/yxUSLi5IZBo?si=cP39SNeSef0AFgGr
27 days ago
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So I drop my daughter off as she leaves for a 7 week internship far away. This came on the stereo, and kinda fits my mood.
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Air
YouTube video by C Duncan - Topic
https://youtu.be/sbrPTLqwof8?si=ZBfBeuC8wx1TrgqQ
29 days ago
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29 days ago
King Charles has had close friendships/mentorships with Laurens Van der Post, Jimmy Savile, Bishop Peter Ball; & was very close to uncle Louis Mountbatten. All were paedophiles. To befriend 1 paedophile is unfortunate, to know 4 or 5 looks ... darker.
#downwiththecrown
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#80sTop30
Last one from 89, and last one for this
#MusicChallenge
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Bea
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29 days ago
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about 1 month ago
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2nd song from 89, from the album that dominated that year. A very good friend of mine did the editing on the album and is responsible for the "gleep" towards the end of this track.
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I Am the Resurrection (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Stone Roses - Topic
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about 1 month ago
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I'm totally going to get this.
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about 1 month ago
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I woke up this morning with this in my head. I have no idea why.
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Wishing on a Star
YouTube video by Rose Royce - Topic
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about 1 month ago
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I remember back in 1989, having a laugh with my housemates. We were imagining the most unlikely Stars in Their Eyes contestants, and I said "Matthew, tonight I'm going to be Kurt Cobain from Nirvana". Everyone laughed. A couple of years later it actually happened.
about 1 month ago
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#SongsIHaveCovered
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about 1 month ago
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Remember Duane Allman.
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Dreams
YouTube video by Allman Brothers Band - Topic
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about 1 month ago
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#80sTop30
First one from 1989, I absolutely loved this from the very first bars. I passed the baton not too long ago and my son is also a massive hip hop fan.
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N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by NWAVEVO
https://youtu.be/TMZi25Pq3T8?si=ZrN8QmOmzOp89tfG
about 1 month ago
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I just had a chat with God. And He told me that there's a special place in Hell for people who steal bicycles. If you steal a push bike, especially a crappy one that obviously belongs to someone who doesn't have any money, you will spend all eternity being buggered by a donkey.
about 1 month ago
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So Jay blocked me for suggesting that Stalin wasn't a Marxist. I don't understand some people. That's the weirdest reason to block me.
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about 1 month ago
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#80sTop30
Third pick from 88. Maybe the funkiest bass ever, debatable, but it sho is funky ass bass.
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Bonin' In the Boneyard
YouTube video by Fishbone - Topic
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about 1 month ago
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This is what Reform want the UK to look like. Don't let it happen.
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about 1 month ago
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