The Great Thread of YouTube Magnificence!

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Heston wrote:
09 Mar 2021, 6:21pm
This is the greatest song on YouTube with under 20,000 views.

Good innit.
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Marky Dread wrote:
09 Mar 2021, 6:24pm
Heston wrote:
09 Mar 2021, 6:21pm
This is the greatest song on YouTube with under 20,000 views.

Good innit.
Totally. And the back story to the lyric is quite inspiring and tragic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqbal_Masih#Biography
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
09 Mar 2021, 6:28pm
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Mar 2021, 6:24pm
Heston wrote:
09 Mar 2021, 6:21pm
This is the greatest song on YouTube with under 20,000 views.

Good innit.
Totally. And the back story to the lyric is quite inspiring and tragic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqbal_Masih#Biography
Yep a total inspiration. The bonded labour camps were just plain evil.
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I loved The Jeanies album (I think they were on Terry Six's label?) and just came across this great cover of Phil Seymour's version of Looking For the Magic, which has been one of my songs of the past 18 months:



Love it!

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This is my fave off their album, by the way, in case anyone else digs:


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revbob wrote:
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Hello,
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gkbill wrote:
05 Apr 2021, 2:34pm
revbob wrote:
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Hello,
I had to look up ergoenic

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Stumbled upon these guys this morning. Decent enough darkwave, if you're up for that kind of thing.
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The exact opposite of what Doc posted above:


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Inder wrote:
09 Apr 2021, 3:13pm
The exact opposite of what Doc posted above:

A punk band should cover this and change the riff slightly. It could be a hit.
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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Man, early B-52's—even beyond that perfect first album—is still stupendous. Concept, execution, just fantastic.
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