Album Intros (Three Tune Tuesday)
It's Tuesday, which means it's that day of the week when the community throws out a couple of songs that have been on their minds recently. #threetunetuesday is a lot of fun, and a good chance to share some ideas and potentially get introduced to some new music.
Chumbawamba - Shhh
I love listening to albums, when I'm doing something I don't want to constantly be changing songs, or skipping them, so typically I'd just throw on an album. I know I could shuffle a playlist or something, but sometimes you just want to stay with one vibe, rather than bouncing around randomly.
This song is really good, and I think is a great into to an album. The album itself is also called Shhh. If you haven't heard it, it's well worth checking out.
Chumbawamba - Give The Anarchist A Cigarette
This is the opening of their album Anarchy, and I think it's another great one. This album, in general, is just amazing from start to finish and is one you can just throw on and barely notice the time going by.
I've actually been listening to a lot of their albums recently, because a couple of weeks ago, I was listening to some music and the baby was stirring and a bit restless, even though he had been changed and fed.
So, I decided to throw on this album, and within the first 30 seconds of this song coming on, he chilled out and went to sleep. Since then, I have tested it on a few occasions and it works each time; needless to say, I think the baba is a fan. I'm assuming it has something to do with the melodic singing, but not too sure. Now, anytime he's fussing me and my partner sing to him and it seems to stop him in his tracks.
Conflict - You Cannot Win
Here's another great intro, imo, I think it's fairly creepy sounding, with spliced-up audio, but then that all dissipates into the actual riff, and then some vocalised harmonies come in.
This band, along with Crass and Flux of Pink Indians was my first introduction into Punk Rock and pretty much over the space of one weekend my taste in music was never the same again.
I was 14 and a few of us went over to Shepards Bush, for The Feeding of The 5,000 and it was unreal, and it feels like it was only yesterday. Funnily enough, my band, years later supported Steve Ignorant doing is Slice of Life stuff, which was kind of cool.
Speaking of Intros of albums is one thing, but here's a really good Outro, from the album that I just mentioned.
Hey bud, how you been?
Gosh, haven't heard Chumbawamba in eons. Was cool to listen again. I had a chuckle at your little one going to sleep to the music, I'm not surprised. Kids know what good taste in music is from an early age. I knew a kid in secondary school who would fall asleep to Metallica through earphones 😁
The first song by Conflict is great albeit it takes a while to get to the actual music lol. I have always enjoyed a bit of Punk every now and then. It's not my first choice but it's mixed in. The outro was quite fitting for all the nuclear war BS that's going on right now. A solemn reminder. Wish the idiots stoking the fire would chill the fuck out and sort out their shit like adults.
I hadn't heard Conflict before, even though it's my kind of time period, but I love it ! Thoroughly dark music, fitting for that era and this.
If you want something else nuclear war themed, have you heard "Dude's Dream" from The Deep Fix ? It's off the New World's Fair concept album, and even after all these years is one of my all-time favourites.
Haha, that's pretty funny. I had a video once that I could use to put my daughter to sleep until she caught on.
Those Chumbawamba songs were a lot of fun to listen to!
Hahaha, I'll use it seldomly to try and make the most of the hack. Oh man, those two albums are great, but the songs themselves would be some of my favourites of theirs.
That's great man, well figured out, he's got the good taste in music gene from his auld man, I'll have to check out more from Chumbawamba, as I would not be that familiar with them to be honest man. Give The Anarchist A Cigarette is a great song, really enjoyed that one especially, but was pleasantly surprised by them all to be fair.