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12 Sep 19 - 12:06 PM (#4008557) Subject: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Mrrzy What do you all think? http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190911-pata-pata-the-worlds-most-defiantly-joyful-song I don't even know it. I'm depressed. Makes sense...? |
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12 Sep 19 - 12:11 PM (#4008559) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Steve Shaw Always look on the bright side of life. Sung as you dangle nailed to a big vertical plank. |
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12 Sep 19 - 12:38 PM (#4008565) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: fat B****rd "keep a Twinkle In Your Eye" Buck and Bubbles |
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12 Sep 19 - 12:41 PM (#4008566) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: David C. Carter "Singing in the Rain". |
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12 Sep 19 - 12:48 PM (#4008567) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler "We'll all go together when we go"? Robin |
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12 Sep 19 - 01:08 PM (#4008571) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: GUEST,Jon Flower of Scotland |
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12 Sep 19 - 01:19 PM (#4008572) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: peteglasgow free nelson mandela... |
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12 Sep 19 - 01:35 PM (#4008576) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Mrrzy Robin, the Tom Lehrer one? |
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12 Sep 19 - 02:45 PM (#4008590) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Joe_F Funiculi, Funicula |
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12 Sep 19 - 04:11 PM (#4008606) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: John C. Bunnell "Just No Time At All", from the musical Pippin. |
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12 Sep 19 - 04:53 PM (#4008615) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: meself Not 'Hallelujah'? 'Closing Time'? |
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12 Sep 19 - 05:16 PM (#4008619) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: gillymor Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Keep on the Sunny Side by the Carter Family Tramps and Hawkers, I like the Old Blind Dogs version. |
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12 Sep 19 - 05:26 PM (#4008622) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: gillymor The song mentioned in the OP, Pata Pata. Me likey. |
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12 Sep 19 - 07:12 PM (#4008630) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Tattie Bogle You are my sunshine. Singing in the Rain. |
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12 Sep 19 - 07:29 PM (#4008631) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Bee-dubya-ell Jimmy Buffet - "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus" |
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12 Sep 19 - 08:45 PM (#4008637) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Steve Shaw Jesus' blood never failed me yet... |
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13 Sep 19 - 11:07 AM (#4008664) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Mrrzy Ok, my question was meant to be, what do y'all think of the article I posted about a song they termed most defiantly joyful? |
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13 Sep 19 - 11:56 AM (#4008672) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Steve Shaw We know. We couldn't resist. ;-) |
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13 Sep 19 - 12:01 PM (#4008674) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: leeneia 1. I won't link to the BBC article, because BBC music messes with my own music software. 2. I listened to part of the recording. It does not sound joyful. There is no trace of a smile in Miriam's voice, and it seems like a song of protest or ridicule. |
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13 Sep 19 - 12:56 PM (#4008689) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: lefthanded guitar (Reposting - first post seems to have been erased) Read the BBC article ( I think) on Google, then went to the song. I did not find the story of the song depressing - thought it was upbeat and lyrical and I was amazed at how timeless it sounded. I can see why it survived so long. And it outlasted apartheid - perhaps because it was a celebration of living ( defiantly happy in the face of crushing oppression) . |
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13 Sep 19 - 01:39 PM (#4008691) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: GUEST,Modette This fits the bill for me. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Pa'lante |
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13 Sep 19 - 02:44 PM (#4008700) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Jim Carroll Most defiantly Joyful line line: "For we are young and the world is wide" (Rambling boys of pleasure) Most defiant verse "Early in the morning I paced thhe guardhouse round, I jumped out of a window and knocked three of them to the ground The Corporal and his buddies they was quickly after me, But I made me way to Birkenhead and so gained me liberty I am a Rambling Roayal, Jame Cronin is me name I can fight as many officers as you'll see in the Marines I can fight as many Orangeman as ever banged a drum And I'll make 'em run before me like a bullet from a gun" (Rambling Royal aka as Belfast Shoemaker) Jim Carroll |
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13 Sep 19 - 02:57 PM (#4008702) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Jim Carroll Joy of lLiving always brings tears to my eyes (probably because I only hear it at funerals nowadays) but it's pretty definitely joyful (like the feller wot rote it) Jim Carroll |
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13 Sep 19 - 03:48 PM (#4008709) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: mg maybe 4,000 welsh miners singing diadem. and ladies can be miners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC12Arb71U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC12Arb71U |
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13 Sep 19 - 06:13 PM (#4008720) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Mrrzy Lemme creep over to songs others find uplifting but I can't stand: amazing grace (I am not a wretch, and neither are you), also usually heard at funerals. |
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13 Sep 19 - 08:08 PM (#4008727) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Steve Shaw Damned fine tune though, and, in my experience, no-one knows the words beyond the first line anyway... |
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13 Sep 19 - 10:16 PM (#4008738) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: leeneia You're not the only one who doesn't like "wretch". I don't either, and I've seen versions that go Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved and set me free... Nonetheless, I have told the DH that if he permits Amazing Grace to be sung at my funeral, I will come back and haunt him. |
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14 Sep 19 - 06:55 AM (#4008782) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: gillymor I don't waste time with songs I don't care for. Life's too short. Back to the O.P, my wife and I were preparing dinner last night and Pata Pata started playing on my Happy Stuff Spotify playlist and we danced in the kitchen. Another joyful song Enjoy Yourself by Jim Kweskin Also the Byrds version of Dylan's You Ain't Going Nowhere. |
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14 Sep 19 - 10:33 AM (#4008800) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: GUEST,HiLo Vivaldi's Spring as sung by Cecelia Bartolli, Aerial, Kate Bush |
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14 Sep 19 - 10:46 AM (#4008801) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Steve Shaw Aerial? Wasn't that sung by Anne Tenor? |
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14 Sep 19 - 12:32 PM (#4008809) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: GUEST,Hilo Yes, Steve,perhaps it was. I don,t know AnneTenor at all. ( will have to check her out ) “Ariel” is the title track from KB’s double album of the same name. came out in the mid nineties I think. |
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14 Sep 19 - 12:48 PM (#4008811) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Dave the Gnome I put "Happy shiny people" on the jukebox in the Little Angel in Whitby during a Goth weekend. Definitely defiant and joyful. Until I got beat up... :D tG |
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14 Sep 19 - 12:49 PM (#4008812) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: GUEST,Some bloke Monty Python's "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me." |
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14 Sep 19 - 12:50 PM (#4008813) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: gillymor I think Constance Tralto covered it as well. |
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14 Sep 19 - 12:53 PM (#4008814) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: GUEST,HiLo What did Con Tralto cover ? just curious! |
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14 Sep 19 - 01:10 PM (#4008816) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: gillymor Probably not the Monty Python song but who knows. Another defiantly joyful song- If I Should Fall From Grace With God by the Pogues. |
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15 Sep 19 - 05:21 PM (#4008985) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: GUEST,silver We shall not be moved! |
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15 Sep 19 - 08:31 PM (#4009010) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Stewie This earworm's a good's: Uncle Nobby's steamboat --Stewie. |
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16 Sep 19 - 11:51 AM (#4009109) Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song? From: Mrrzy Monkey wash donkey rinse |