too many great things to comment on here!

first - Caps, YES!! i'll get on it, fucking genius!!

second - HAHAHA Cider drinking bearded lunitics, sooo spot on! but thats the best bit about it all surely?!

finally, i don't know if i have made this clear enough in this thread. i do really love folk music, especially british folk music. to me its part of our history and what makes us part of this contry, its honest and simple music, that has a real depth of history and meaning. i love singing along to the traditional songs because you know its something that has been going on for hundreds of years and you are just the next step in the chain. there is something very special about it.
but in general acoustic music always "gets my dick hard" (i've been watching Some Kind Of Monster again..!) and other than british folk i really like the whole psycadellic folk scene of the late 60s and early 70s. some bands who stand out in particular to me are Comus, Full Moon, The Rainbow Band and Baldwin & Leps.

Resilience Records wrote:too many great things to comment on here!

first - Caps, YES!! i'll get on it, fucking genius!!

second - HAHAHA Cider drinking bearded lunitics, sooo spot on! but thats the best bit about it all surely?!

finally, i don't know if i have made this clear enough in this thread. i do really love folk music, especially british folk music. to me its part of our history and what makes us part of this contry, its honest and simple music, that has a real depth of history and meaning. i love singing along to the traditional songs because you know its something that has been going on for hundreds of years and you are just the next step in the chain. there is something very special about it.
but in general acoustic music always "gets my dick hard" (i've been watching Some Kind Of Monster again..!) and other than british folk i really like the whole psycadellic folk scene of the late 60s and early 70s. some bands who stand out in particular to me are Comus, Full Moon, The Rainbow Band and Baldwin & Leps.

More honest.

Anyway, yes, you've hit the nail on the head there. Right on the head. Although I personally don't love singing along to the traditional songs because I don't know any of the words. But I like listening to them being played. You're right though, it is indeed quite a special thing that these are songs people have been singing along to for billions of millenia. You (I'm using 'you' in a general sense now) don't really think about that sometimes, and kind of take it for granted, but when you think about it, it really is a great thing. It's one of the very few links we have to the ancient past of men. Like fire, and boobs.

aye its that link with the past that i love about it, and thats not just because im training to become an archaeologist haha, the music has so much meaning behind it, and its a testament to how important the songs and events must have been for them to have survived by ear for so many years.

amok wrote:and its a testament to how important the songs and events must have been for them to have survived by ear for so many years.

Yes, that's just it. That's bloody it! I've never really thought about it in that way before, but it's absolutely unbelievable, when you realise that these songs have passed through generations, as you say, by ear. Not by songs that people download if they want to listen to, but songs that you hear from lovely men and boys (yes, thats a phrase I just said) playing in pubs and all sorts. There are many songs I could think of that I've never heard a recording of, but I've heard different versions of them being played so many times in real life. It's amazing that songs can survive for so long that way. I can't imagine the works of Lionel Richie, for just one example, would be remembered forever if they hadn't have been recorded.