ZombieCake

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• Nov 5, 2019

• #1

History happened in the past according to academics. Here's concise version I'll start with. As ever comments and thoughts welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEXthmxD4dI

 

mrodoc

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• Nov 5, 2019

• #2

Bye Bye Miss American Pie?

 

droid

Active member

• Nov 5, 2019

• #3

Anything by Alestoem. Cos it's about pirates, and they are historic...

 

Maj

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• Nov 5, 2019

• #4

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g



Maj.

 

AR

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• Nov 6, 2019

• #5

Large swathes of Blyth Power's back catalogue cover historical themes but the absolute best one is "Katharine's Will" off "Out From Under the King" - a superb tale of coping with an intolerable situation through force of will, knowing the end  can't be far away, and a track that helped me through some low points.
It's on soundcloud as a single track here - https://soundcloud.com/blyth-power/katherines-will but the whole album is on Youtube and worth a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLKreFuIk8

 

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prahja

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• Nov 6, 2019

• #6

Between the wars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVEf9NefHAo

 

Graigwen

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• Nov 6, 2019

• #7

If all you want is as much historical narrative, detailed and fairly accurate, crammed into one song, I don't think you can do better than this quarter hour history of the life and death of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) and his role in the Scottish and English Civil Wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLce6Hi6gD0

Connoisseurs of delicate acoustic guitar playing may be interested to see Martin Carthy playing rather heavy electric guitar. There are a few transcription errors in the lyrics shown.

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Roger W

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• Nov 6, 2019

• #8

Taking a little less than a quarter of an hour, but on a related theme...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zln-AAePtL0

 

A_Northerner

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• Nov 6, 2019

• #9

Got to be The Pogues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-y2ox2HPnc

 

Graigwen

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• Nov 6, 2019

• #10

Roger W said:

Taking a little less than a quarter of an hour, but on a related theme...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zln-AAePtL0

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It is a cracking song and brings back memories of singing it after very many pints during my time as part of the London Scottish front row.

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Pitlamp

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• Dec 8, 2019

• #11

This one always reminds me of a certain caving club's annual dinner at Castle Bolton!
It was a good do . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AywIL5_eYM

 

The Old Ruminator

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• Dec 9, 2019

• #12

Love Stan Rogers. Died young in a plane fire.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w

 

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grahams

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• Dec 9, 2019

• #13

Johnny Flynn - Barnacled Warship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR8rqvAQ9nM

 

droid

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• Dec 9, 2019

• #14

Gotta like Dave Mattack's T-Shirt 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBRrXCNkUU

 

ZombieCake

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• Dec 9, 2019

• #15

Gotta like Dave Mattack's T-Shirt

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