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Bush Tucker Man:
Maddy, If the 'Green Fields' link doesn't work please try;
www.members.fortunecity.com/folkfred.noman.html

Surprisingly 'Matilda' wasn't wrote until 1972 when he watched an ANZAC Day parade in Canberra.
'Green Fields' was only wrote in 1976, after a visit to (presumably?) ANZAC war graves in Northern France.

Bush Tucker Man:
Green Fields.
For some reason the links won't work for me when I check them. Hope this one will.

www.lyrics.net.ua/song/64028

Bush Tucker Man:
Sacrilege!!
Travesty!!

I've just come back from the barbers in the village and the radio was playing on the inane, sub-Alan Partridge FM station that broadcasts from  Leeds (the one that's named after the river that flows through the City)

To my horror there was a cover version of one of the greatest summer records ever emanating from the speakers (by a, presumably previously unknown girl)
Someone has actually covered (ruined) Don Henleys 'Boys of Summer'

That's my own opinion obviously.


It's not my favourite track of all time, but surely it's one of those classic tracks that shouldn't be messed with.
It's a bit like;
1. Madonnas turning the 'silk purse' that is American Pie', into a 'pigs-ear'.
2. Ronan Keatings version of 'If Tomorrow Never Comes'
3. Whitney Houstons 'I Will Always Love You'
4. Maria Careys 'Without You'
5. Chers 'Walking In Memphis'
6. Soft Cell 'Tainted Love


Similarly, much as I like Rolf Harris, I think he should have certainly left 'Stairway' alone.
Surprisingly he hadn't actually heard of it until about a month before recording it for a radio show in Australia.

(Digression) His auto-biography, 'Can You Tell Who It Is Yet?' is a brilliant book, the stories behind 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down' & 'Two Little Boys' alone make it worthwhile reading.

The writers & original artists are;
1. Don McLean
2. Garth Brooks
3. Dolly Parton
4. Nilsson
5. Marc Cohn
6. Gloria Jones (but wrote by Edd Cobb)
Much better cover version on 'Wild Youth' LP by Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang, done with guitars - not a synthesiser in sight.

Needless to say I could add more, and other people possibly may do so.

DISCO-CHRIS:
How about a few for the younger(post 1980)members? :lol:

Jake:
Right then,
These songs all have something quite big, in common.

1. Under the surface trying to break through
Deciphering the codes in you
I need a compass, draw me a map
I'm on the top, I can't get back

2.Confusion that never stops
The closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop, that you now know
Singing come out upon my seas
Curse missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease

3. so I wanna live... in a wooden house
where making more friends would be easy
oh and I don't have a soul to save
yes and I sin every single day

4. ideas that you'll never find
or the inventors could never design
the buildings that you put up
Japan and China... all lit up
the sign that I couldn't read
or the light that I couldn't see
some things you have to believe
but others are puzzles, puzzling me

 :D

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