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DJ_59 wrote:Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:37 pm
Music is my favorite thing, and I'm always curious as to what people are listening to. What are you listening to right now? What do you like to listen to while working on a log book?

Personally, I haven't worked out what feels best, musically, while working on the log sheets, but right at this moment I'm listening to The Beatles' Revolver album. "And Your Bird Can Sing" just now.

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Rather surprised to switch on BBC 6Music and hear a song about a ship stuck in ice (and a name check for Barrow). It was part of 3 themed records on icy seas. The third one is about a whaler (warning for Joan - there's a mention of eating penguin eggs!). The songs were:

Locked in Ice by Shirley Collins
Marooned by Wire
Little Pot Stove by Nic Jones

They sounds fascinating jil I'll have to catch up with those on iplayer. Well - they used to eat the penguins let alone eggs. Apparently that's why Scott (or possibly Shackleton, but I think Scott) took lots of mustard on the South Pole expedition - anything to hide the penguin flavour.

Vale Helen Reddy

I am Woman - a ready memory of Reddy from my early years
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rptW7zOPX2E

The Last Leviathan by Port Isaac Fisherman's Friends
Bert Gnomish

This is quite a ballade! The beauty of the music and the lament of the lyrics are curiously juxtaposed. In California, Whale watching has become a big tourist business and has raised the consciousness of a great many people. A few years back, I went on a trip from Monterey and saw humpbacks and a blue whale. The most interesting thing, though, was a conversation with an older gentleman from Norway. He had been one of the last Norwegian whaling boats as a very young man. This trip was obviously very moving to him.

Morgan wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:22 pm This is quite a ballade! The beauty of the music and the lament of the lyrics are curiously juxtaposed. In California, Whale watching has become a big tourist business and has raised the consciousness of a great many people. A few years back, I went on a trip from Monterey and saw humpbacks and a blue whale. The most interesting thing, though, was a conversation with an older gentleman from Norway. He had been one of the last Norwegian whaling boats as a very young man. This trip was obviously very moving to him.

My goodness - that man must have had so much emotion in his heart.

Just listened to the Last Leviathan. Very beautiful, words and tune. Off to find a lot of tissues.

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Thought everyone (who somehow hasn't heard yet) might get a kick out of this:

https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/tiktok- ... ained.html

Thanks to TikTok, a video service that lets you "duet" with other people or add on to their videos, sea shanties and other sea songs are in the spotlight. The article above gets into a bit of the how and why, but really it's about a communal music style bringing people together. "Wellerman" is the break out hit at the moment, but I've been seeing videos going around the internet with various other songs. And just in the last few days some other folk music people have been bringing things like waulking songs into the mix, too. It's pretty neat to see this kind of folk music bringing people together when we're all so isolated.

Nice find April I saw this chap on the BBC news the other night. I'm delighted for him Sea Shanties take a lot of beating in my book. They caught a snippet of another of his songs and I knew the chorus words. Found myself instantly singing out at the TV

I'm listening to the Little Pot Stove by Nic Jones, recommended by my good friend Katie. I could not trace 'Leigh Harbor' but here's a picture of the, now abandoned, Leith Harbor on South Georgia.

Leith then


and now

AHHH, from a CD labeled "Penguin Eggs" . Nice listen- with or without the Penguins! I particularly appreciate folk music; it always seems to have more heart to it. Both the lyrics and the tune.
I wonder what fresh penguin eggs are like- not enough to try one though.
Thanks for something new.

Glad you enjoyed it Morgan. I like folk music too

I'm also a moderator for the Zooniverse's Penguin Watch. I'm endlessly glad that it does not come with smell-o-rama or taste-o-rama.

Apparently the reason why Scott took so much mustard to the Antarctic was to make penguin meat more palatable (?!? ). I'm guessing that the eggs are likely to be very fishy flavoured too. I read that the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot's group ate penguin eggs when they were ill, for the high protein levels. History does not record how the eggs tasted without a good dollop of mustard

Currently doing some Kathryn Tickell music. Love those Northumbrian Bagpipes
Kathryn Tickell, 'Lads of Alnwick'

Thanks for sharing. I read British murder mysteries set in Northumbria, (US author Martha Grimmes) so my point of view is limited- glad to see this. There is always a beautiful red headed woman. I also have to laugh when Americans are cast in British TV murder mysteries- they are on of 3 types wealthy Texans, from New York City, or from Hollywood.

Morgan wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:24 pm I also have to laugh when Americans are cast in British TV murder mysteries- they are on of 3 types wealthy Texans, from New York City, or from Hollywood.

I'm sure us Yankees return the favor when casting Brits in American TV murder mysteries

Hanibal94 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:30 pm

Morgan wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:24 pm I also have to laugh when Americans are cast in British TV murder mysteries- they are on of 3 types wealthy Texans, from New York City, or from Hollywood.

I'm sure us Yankees return the favor when casting Brits in American TV murder mysteries

That's so true Chris. There was an episode of NCIS which involved a dastardly English Rose/Murderer. They mentioned that she worked in the St Cross Building in Oxford. That pricked my ears up because I worked there at the time. She turned out to be a teacher in the English Dept at the University. I wondered who they based her on? (It can't have been me)

Are you sure about that???

I think so but then again...

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