song lists.

@trapper wrote:

make the effort ffs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tilSPmpXo

It pains my northern pride to admit to having a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the Kaizer Chiefs and even more so to declare that I think the last good band to come from Leeds was probably The Wedding Present.

But the George Jones song made me go all Grand Ole Opry, which is never a bad thing, and I remembered another relevant song my Old Pa loved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aa_PLBWx7Y

File next to the Willie Nelson created song Hello Walls and Faron Young by Prefab Sprout.

@sceptical guy wrote:

“look out, Jack, that son of a b it ch is coming”

Actually there is at least one redneck song which avoids easy-tears, good-ol-boys, cheap sentiment, and as I’m hardly an expert there must be more.

Goy Clark’s Desperados Waiting for a Train…about an old folks home where these old guys with unshaven chins and no teeth in their heads sit, like desperados, waiting for Mr Death. It’s genuinely moving at the end, and brilliant music at that point too in getting across those moments when someone realises it’s near.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSxs89qT-r0

And how do you like your blue-eyed boy, Mr Death? as the poet wrote

Hmmmm…. not sure the tears are easy to come by or the sentiment cheap, but i’ll leave that for another thread. If you’re intimating that there must be a lot of songs that don’t take the more populist route then I’m in total agreement.

Townes Van Zandt and Gram Parsons come quickly to mind.

Thinking of Parsons tempted me to post red dirt girl, emmylou harris in response, as it’s a paean to a dead friend who was unlucky in love and unlucky in life but had that plucky stoicism so often noted in songs of this ilk…… But i didn’t.

And then I thought of the pop/country/comedy stylings of The Weepies song Dating a Porn Star….. But I didn’t post it.

That song made me automatically think of a go to song for me, Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis, Tom Waits and that got me thinking of Hold On… But a Tom Waits response from me would have been sooooooo predictable, not excluding the fact I’ve mentioned the Xmas Card from a hooker song once or twice on these boards before….. So I didn’t

And then I thought of Springsteen songs I love, which got me to Highway Patrolman a song about being torn between love and duty, but Springsteen would have been just as predictable for me…. So I didn’t.

So I was faltering for a suitable response, and with the Guy Clark song still in my mind plus your liking of the son of a bitch line, I thought of LA Freeway (‘that son of a bitch has always bored me’) and I decided that’s the one. Not sure it qualifies a song about the flipside of love, perhaps speaks more of a desire to leave things behind and move forward, but he name checks his wife Susana, so I think it qualifies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUMthAXJ-o

You sound like an expert to me, old bean.

@sceptical guy wrote:

I hate to say I’ve not only seen Emmylou, but also wept to this one from the McGarrigle Sisters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrkUmxrxpQ

but twas embarrassing, coz the song has all the horrors of mixed metaphor etc

Lol. i’ve just realized that the JC profanity police censored the title of song i suggested by the weepies. the song is Dating a P-orn’ star not dating a cuddle and hugs star.