Music.

[Sam Lord]

As near to perfect as music gets;

Better than the Chieftains?

I saw him live about 10 years ago. A memorable evening.

[5intheface]

Better than the Chieftains?

No chance, with a Protestant name like that?

[C. Flower]

What happens when people are deprived of music... Bloc in London this weekend (The youtube is not accurate - organisers, not police, shut the event down due to overcrowding)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_cnqdYmbC0"]Angry partygoers go wild as Bloc 2012 is shut down by the police - YouTube[/ame]

[Sam Lord]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQ-QrCFMjs&feature=related"]Rodriguez - Inner City Blues - YouTube[/ame]

[5intheface]

Rodriguez - Inner City Blues - YouTube

Over 40 years old now but something timeless about it. Good call.

[5intheface]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zpGvuOTFYw&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9A6Lsb4961FMX08jrdFxHx7"]John Prine - Quiet Man - YouTube[/ame]

[Trow]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uy88HL4cus"]***** POWER - TURN ON ,TUNE IN ,COP OUT (T-empo's Club Mix)extended version - YouTube[/ame]

[Trow]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uy88HL4cus"]***** POWER - TURN ON ,TUNE IN ,COP OUT (T-empo's Club Mix)extended version - YouTube[/ame]

[Andrew49]

50 years ago today - July 12 1962 - the Rollin' Stones performed in public for the first time.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZkfa6GUewg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZkfa6GUewg[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJGo0RcY_k"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJGo0RcY_k[/ame]

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMeNC1IPUnQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMeNC1IPUnQ[/ame]

[C. Flower]

Creggan Churchyard -

Wonderful song, magical lyrics. Just heard it on "Hidden Voices" on RTE

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/11637

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8611765-Cr...by-Art_McCooey

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTl170DofsY"]Úr-Chill An Chreagáin * * *- YouTube[/ame]

Creggan Graveyard

In Creggan graveyard I slept last night in despair
With the rising of the morning a woman came to me with a kiss
Bright burning were her cheeks and her hair shone like gold
It would be medicine to the world to behold that young queen

"Good generous man, be not consumed in clouds of sorrow
But rise up now and come with me, westward on the road
To a good land of honey, yet untouched by the stranger
There will be pleasant melody in our halls when you play your music"

'Righteous queen, are you Helen from Troy
Or one of the nine women of Parnassus(1), taking on this form
What land of the world has raised you, queen without peers
With your wish for the likes of me to conspire with, out on the road?'

"Do not ask me why I sleep on this side of the Boyne(2)
I am a child of the sidhe, brought up beside Grainne the young
In the true fort of the Ollams (3), I openly strike up the music
In the night I am at Tara, in the morning in the middle of Tyrone"

'And it is My sharp-cutting fervor to be wanted by the Gaels of Tyrone
And the joyless scions of The Beeches(4), deteriorating in their inheritance
That the clean-colored heirs of Neil Frasaigh would not forsake song
And give clothing at Christmas to the Ollams who are loyal to them'

"Since the plowing of the tribes in Eachroim and—alas!-- beneath the Boyne(5)
The signs are that the powers will bring pressure to every druid, without battle
Would you not rather be in the fairy rath, with me by your side every day
Than have the archers of Clan Volley pierce your heart through and through?"

'I would not forsake you for all the gold in the world
But it would be cowardly to leave my friends yet in this land
I’ve a wife, her that I wooed when she was young
If I abandon her and go with you will she not be in sorrow?'

"I think that you have no friends left among your living kin
You are bare, without posessions, poor, barren, aimless, without goods
Wouldn’t you rather be off with a hot blooded maiden
Than in this land where there is mocking under every tuft of grass for your songs?"

'O, righteous queen, you have persuaded me with your treasures
Let us go as you promise me in the morning on the road
If I die below the Shannon, In Mannannan’s land(6), or in Great Egypt
In fragrant Creggan Graveyard lay me in the clay below the sod'


“Úirchill a’ Chreagáin” (Creggan Graveyard)
sung by Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
Poet
Ag Úirchill a’ Chreagáin sea chodail mé aréir faoi bhrón
‘S le héirí na maidne tháinig ainnir fá mo dhéin le póig
Bhi gríosghrua gharta aici agus loinnir ina céibh mar ór
‘S gurbh é íocshláinte an domhain bheith ag amharc ar an ríoghain óir.
Fairy woman
Ó a fhialfhir charthannaigh, ná caitear thusa néalta bróin,
Ach éirigh go tapaidh agus aistrigh liom siar so ród
Go tír dheas na meala nach bhfuair Gaillibh inti réim go fóill
‘S gheobhair aoibhneas a’mo hallaí do do mhealladhsa le siasaí ceoil.
Poet
‘S é mo ghéar-ghoin tinnis gur theastaigh uainn Gaeil thír Eoghain
Agus oidhrí an Fheadha gan seaghais faoi lig dár gcomhair
Géaga glandaite Néill Fhrasaigh nach dtréigfeadh an ceol
‘S ‘chuirfeadh éideadh fán ar na hollaimh bheadh ag géilleadh dóibh.
Fairy woman
A théagair’s a chuisle, más cinniúin duit mé mar stór
Tabhair léagsa is gealladh sula rachaidh muid ar aghaidh sa ród
Má éagaim fán tSionainn i gCríoch Mhanainn nó fá Éigipt Mhór
Gurb’ I gCill chumhra an Chreagáin a leagfar mé i gcré faoi fhód.

[Holly]

Today in history: 17 July 1947

Wolfgang Flür, born on this date, is a German musician, best known as a member of the electronic group Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987, playing electronic percussion. Before the Bundesrepublik decided to halt all nuclear power stations in Germany and before the Japanese disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, Kraftwerk warned of the danger of radioactivity in 1975.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBTn_3DBYo&feature=related"]RADIOACTIVITY - KRAFTWERK - HD Live - YouTube[/ame]

[Holly]

Today in history: 24 July 1927

Born on this date, Wilfred Josephs was an English composer is best remembered for composing the music for several television series, including I Claudius which was based on the novels written by Robert Graves who coincidentally was also born on this date in 1895.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_65NrdFzPY&feature=related"]I Claudius Intro. 1976 - YouTube[/ame]

[TotalMayhem]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr3oHEGDR7Y"]Kinks - Im Not Like Everybody Else (Live) - YouTube[/ame]

[Holly]

Today in history: 26 July 1782

Born in Dublin on this date was John Field, pianist, composer, and teacher. Field was very highly regarded by his contemporaries and his playing and compositions influenced many major composers, including Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt. He is best known today for originating the piano nocturne, a form later made famous by Chopin, as well as for his substantial contribution, through concerts and teaching, to the development of the Russian piano school.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANzygSZ3z1Q&feature=related"]Field: Nocturne No 10 in e minor. [Pedroni, piano] - YouTube[/ame]

[Holly]

Today in history: 28 July 1914

Born on this day, Carmen Dragon was an American conductor, composer, and arranger who in addition to live performances and recording, worked in radio, film, and television.

Dragon was born in Antioch, California. He was very active in pops music conducting and composed scores for several films, including At Gunpoint (1955), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Night into Tomorrow (1951), and Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye (1950).

Do not watch the clip if you are alone at night.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQrhvSn1fV4"]Carmen Dragon-Music from INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - YouTube[/ame]