Amazing Songs & Other Delights #45 is The New and New and Old edition. It airs tomorrow, Monday 8th on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/(or on the app), 3-4pm (London/Lisboa time). Nearly all songs are new as is @c + Drumming GP that opens the programme. The old refers to Janis Ian’s Sweet Misery, which happens to be new for me since I only heard it for the first time a little while ago and Depeche Mode’s cover of the late Gordon Lightfoot’ Sundown.
Tracklist: 01: @c + Drumming GP – 63, for percussion, synthetic percussion, electronics (excerpt) 02: Janis Ian – Sweet Misery 03: Erik & The Worldly Savages – Thunder in Our Hearts 04: Beach Fossils – Don’t Fade Away 05: Special Friend – Bête 06: Los Luchos – Rollercoaster Love (single version) 07: Mother Juniper – These Little Animals 08: Rose City Band – Slow Burn 09: Depeche Mode – Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot cover as performed by Scott Walker live @ Radio 2’s Piano Room, 2023) 10: The Zoo & Joao Cabeleira – Neste Nosso Amor 11: Dan Lynch – Australia 12: Traço – Gota 13: Fibril – The Bats are Back 14: Las Robertas – Awakening 15: Isa Leen – I Have In Me All the Dreams In the World 16: John Mercy – Who Took Harry Down?
Amazing Songs & Other Delights is back with a new programme the #44 – The Dulce et Decorum Est edition. Dulce et Decorum Est is a line from Horace’s Odes of which the full sentence is “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country) used as the antithesis, “The old Lie”, as an expression of senseless loss of life of the glorious meaning in Horace by Wilfred Owen in his poem of the same name.
April 24th is the eve of 25 de Abril (April 25th) that came to be know as A Revolução dos Cravos (The Carnation Revolution) a military coup d’etat that deposed the 48 year Military than right wing running dictartorship (28.05.1926-15.04.1974) in Portugal leadimg to the demise of Portugal’s Colonial War (1961-1975) Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est while a soldier in the trenches of WWI. Wilfred died seven days before the 1918 Artistice Owne’s poems were mosty written between August 1917 and September 1918 and live on. The programme opens with Christopher Eccleston reading Owen’s poem and ends with the choir of prisoner soldiers in Merry Christmas Merry, Mr. Lawrence singing the 23rd Psalm.
Not all songs relate to war. At least not in the strict sense of war. Some approach daily struggles, the hardships of working people or racism or injustice. The Portuguese songs are from before the end of the dictartoship. From a time when every word had to carefully measured, inuendos or love, romantic and longing song spoke what could not be said. Although Reinaldo Ferreira poem sang by José Afonso is rather to the point, the soldier will only return home in a pine box. Chico Buarque’s Construção is a critique of the Brazilian social situation under the Brazilian military dictatorship (01.04.1964-15-03-1985).
Both Dulce et Decorum Est and 23rd Psalm can be read bellow the tracklist.
Tracklist: 01 – Christopher Eccleston – reads Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen 02 – Comunicado do MFA – Aqui Posto de Comando 03 – The Doors – The End (from the Soundtrack of Apocalypse Now) 04 – Billy Bragg – Waiting For The Great Leap Foward 05 – Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell 06 – Bruce Springsteen – The River 07 – Chico Buarque – Construção 09 – Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms 10 – Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Oliver’s Army 11 – Fernando Tordo – O Café (José Carlos Ary dos Santos’ poem) 12 – José Afonso – Menina dos Olhos Tristes (Reinaldo Ferreira’s poem) 13 – Manic Street Preachers – Let Robeson Sing 14 – Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On 15 – Monophonics – There’s A Riot Going On 16 – Public Enemy – By The Time I Get to Arizona 17 – Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries excerpt (from the Soundtrack of Apocalypse Now) 18 – Ryuichi Sakamoto – 23rd Psalm (From the Soundtrack of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
23rd Psalm as in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s version for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want; He makes me down to lie In pastures green; He leadeth me The quiet waters by
My soul He doth restore again And me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness E’en for His own name’s sake
Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale Yet will I fear no ill; For Thou art with me, and Thy rod And staff me comfort still My table Thou hast furnished In presence of my foes
Amazing Songs & Other Delights is back with a new programme the #44 – The Dulce et Decorum Est edition that airs tomorrow on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/(or on the app)
Dulce et Decorum Est is a line from Horace’s Odes of which the full sentence is “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country) used as the antithesis, “The old Lie”, as an expression of senseless loss of life of the glorious meaning in Horace by Wilfred Owen in his poem of the same name.
April 24th is the eve of 25 de Abril (April 25th) that came to be know as A Revolução dos Cravos (The Carnation Revolution) a military coup d’etat that deposed the 48 year Military than right wing running dictartorship (28.05.1926-15.04.1974) in Portugal leadimg to the demise of Portugal’s Colonial War (1961-1975) Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est while a soldier in the trenches of WWI. Wilfred died seven days before the 1918 Artistice Owne’s poems were mosty written between August 1917 and September 1918 and live on. The programme opens with Christopher Eccleston reading Owen’s poem and ends with the choir of prisoner soldiers in Merry Christmas Merry, Mr. Lawrence singing the 23rd Psalm.
Not all songs relate to war. At least not in the strict sense of war. Some approach daily struggles, the hardships of working people or racism or injustice. The Portuguese songs are from before the end of the dictartoship. From a time when every word had to carefully measured, inuendos or love, romantic and longing song spoke what could not be said. Although Reinaldo Ferreira poem sang by José Afonso is rather to the point, the soldier will only return home in a pine box. Chico Buarque’s Construção is a critique of the Brazilian social situation under the Brazilian military dictatorship (01.04.1964-15-03-1985).
Both Dulce et Decorum Est and 23rd Psalm can be read bellow the tracklist.
Tracklist: 01 – Christopher Eccleston – reads Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen 02 – Comunicado do MFA – Aqui Posto de Comando 03 – The Doors – The End (from the Soundtrack of Apocalypse Now) 04 – Billy Bragg – Waiting For The Great Leap Foward 05 – Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell 06 – Bruce Springsteen – The River 07 – Chico Buarque – Construção 09 – Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms 10 – Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Oliver’s Army 11 – Fernando Tordo – O Café (José Carlos Ary dos Santos’ poem) 12 – José Afonso – Menina dos Olhos Tristes (Reinaldo Ferreira’s poem) 13 – Manic Street Preachers – Let Robeson Sing 14 – Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On 15 – Monophonics – There’s A Riot Going On 16 – Public Enemy – By The Time I Get to Arizona 17 – Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries excerpt (from the Soundtrack of Apocalypse Now) 18 – Ryuichi Sakamoto – 23rd Psalm (From the Soundtrack of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
23rd Psalm as in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s version for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want; He makes me down to lie In pastures green; He leadeth me The quiet waters by
My soul He doth restore again And me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness E’en for His own name’s sake
Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale Yet will I fear no ill; For Thou art with me, and Thy rod And staff me comfort still My table Thou hast furnished In presence of my foes
Amazing Songs & Other Delighs # 43 – Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 43 – The It’s Spring Again edition as the titles says brings us back to Spring. From two excerpts of Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring to Miguel Feraso Cabral’s upcoming singe, Alegado Suspeito, through Bill Prichard singing a poem by Patrick Woodcock, The Sundays, Éme e Moxila, Donovan and more, Spring is celebrated in spirit, tone and, of course, in the work itself. The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun appears once more, it matches several seasons, here by the Glee Cast.
Monday, March 27th 2023, 3-4pm Running time: 60:02:48
Tracklist: 01: Igor Stravinsky – A Sagração da Primavera (excerpt) by Vortice Dance Company) 02: Bill Pritchard – Lance (Patrick Woodcock poem) 03: Blanche – Bottles 04: David Van Auken – Blossom 05: Cory Hanson – Twins 06: Éme e Moxila – Estocolmo 1984 07: Douglas Dare – Doublethings 08: Donovan – The Lullaby of Spring 09: Glee Cast – Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles cover) 10: Gordon Grdina | Mat Maneri | Christian Lillinger – Stand By 11: Lael Neale – Faster Than The Medicine 12: Lola Flowers – Saudades 13: Miguel Feraso Cabral – Alegado Suspeito 14: Rodrigo Amarante – Hourglass 15: Suarasama – Sea Fish 16: The Gift – Primavera 17: The Sundays – Skin & Bones 18: Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (excerpt) by The London London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Amazing Songs & Other Delighs # 43 – Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 43 – The It’s Spring Again edition as the titles says brings us back to Spring. It airs tomorrow Monday 27th, 3-4pm on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).
From two excerpts of Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring to Miguel Feraso Cabral’s upcoming singe, Alegado Suspeito, through Bill Prichard singing a poem by Patrick Woodcock, The Sundays, Éme e Moxila, Donovan and more, Spring is celebrated in spirit, tone and, of course, in the work itself.
The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun appears once more, it matches several seasons, here by the Glee Cast.
Tracklist: 01: Igor Stravinsky – A Sagração da Primavera (excerpt) by Vortice Dance Company) 02: Bill Pritchard – Lance (Patrick Woodcock poem) 03: Blanche – Bottles 04: David Van Auken – Blossom 05: Cory Hanson – Twins 06: Éme e Moxila – Estocolmo 1984 07: Douglas Dare – Doublethings 08: Donovan – The Lullaby of Spring 09: Glee Cast – Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles cover) 10: Gordon Grdina | Mat Maneri | Christian Lillinger – Stand By 11: Lael Neale – Faster Than The Medicine 12: Lola Flowers – Saudades 13: Miguel Feraso Cabral – Alegado Suspeito 14: Rodrigo Amarante – Hourglass 15: Suarasama – Sea Fish 16: The Gift – Primavera 17: The Sundays – Skin & Bones 18: Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (excerpt) by The London London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #42 is The Everything and the Kitchen Sink edition is a rather ecletic programme that can now be listened to at Yé Yé Radio’s mixcloud.
New or nearly new song. New renditions of traditional songs. From Portugal to Australia through the UK. As well as a preview of Rapariga de Truffautfrom Fire in the Lab upcoming debut album.
Monday, 13th March 2023, 3-4pm
Running Time: 60:00:04 Tracklist: 01 – 1st Base Runner – Night Stalker 02 – Alasdair Roberts – Eppie Morrie (Traditional song) 03 – Angel Olsen – Nothing’s Free 04 – Balla – Segredos 05 – Banana Leaf Boy – I Want 2 06 – Bill Rivers – Captured 07 – Fire In The Lab – Rapariga de Truffaut 08 – Fontaines D.C. – Cello Song (Nick Drake’s cover) 09 – Michael J Sheehy feat. Suzanne Rhatigan – Phoenix Island (Traditional song) 10 – Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Milk & Honey 11 – Miraculous Mule – Sinnerman 12 – Mudhoney – Move Under 13 – Panic Pocket – Mad Half Hour 14 – Quadra (feat. Miguel Santos) – Tropicália 15 – Sleaford Mods ft. Florence Shaw – Force 10 From Navarone 16 – Zebra Libra – Summer Day
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #42 is The Everything and the Kitchen Sink edition, a rather ecletic programme airs tomorrow Monday 13th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).
New or nearly new song. New renditions of traditional songs. From Portugal to Australia through the UK and the US. As well as a preview of Rapariga de Truffautfrom Fire in the Lab upcoming debut album.
Tracklist: 01 – 1st Base Runner – Night Stalker 02 – Alasdair Roberts – Eppie Morrie (Traditional song) 03 – Angel Olsen – Nothing’s Free 04 – Balla – Segredos 05 – Banana Leaf Boy – I Want 2 06 – Bill Rivers – Captured 07 – Fire In The Lab – Rapariga de Truffaut 08 – Fontaines D.C. – Cello Song (Nick Drake’s cover) 09 – Michael J Sheehy feat. Suzanne Rhatigan – Phoenix Island (Traditional song) 10 – Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Milk & Honey 11 – Miraculous Mule – Sinnerman 12 – Mudhoney – Move Under 13 – Panic Pocket – Mad Half Hour 14 – Quadra (feat. Miguel Santos) – Tropicália 15 – Sleaford Mods ft. Florence Shaw – Force 10 From Navarone 16 – Zebra Libra – Summer Day
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 – The Burt, the Tom and So edition is now available om Yé Yé Radio’s mixcloud.
It features three Burt Bacharach songs and two Tom Verlaine ones, two solo one with Television and one instrumental from Warm and Cold. There also ten onther assorted songs from Mick Harvey with A Suitcase in Berlin an Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover to Ghosts Again Depeche Mode’s latest song.
Monday, February 27th 2023, 3-4pm
Running Time: 60:23
Tracklist: 01 – Mick Harvey – A Suitcase in Berlin (Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover) 02 – Television – Days 03 – Dry Cleaning – Swampy 04 – Beabadoobee – Glue Song 05 – Black Toska – Love of Mine 06 – Hannah Jadagu – What You Did 07 – Cory Hanson – Housefly 08 – The Golden Dregs – Vista 09 – Tom Verlaine – Depot 10 – Burt Bacharach with Noel Gallagher – This Guys In Love With You (live at Royal Albert Hall 1994) 11 – JW Francis – Going Home To a Party 12 – Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello – Such Unlikely Lovers 13 – Tom Verlaine – There’s a Reason 14 – The National – Tropic Morning 15 – Manic Steet Preachers – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s cover) 16 – Depeche Mode – Ghosts Again
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 – The Burt, the Tom and So edition airs tomorrow Monday 27th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).
There are three Burt Bacharach songs and two Tom Verlaine ones, two solo one with Television and one instrumental from Warm and Cold. There also ten onther assorted songs from Mick Harvey with A Suitcase in Berlin an Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover to Ghosts Again Depeche Mode’s latest song.
Tracklist:
01 – Mick Harvey – A Suitcase in Berlin (Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover)
02 – Television – Days
03 – Dry Cleaning – Swampy
04 – Beabadoobee – Glue Song
05 – Black Toska – Love of Mine
06 – Hannah Jadagu – What You Did
07 – Cory Hanson – Housefly
08 – The Golden Dregs – Vista
09 – Tom Verlaine – Depot
10 – Burt Bacharach with Noel Gallagher – This Guys In Love With You (live at Royal Albert Hall 1994)
11 – JW Francis – Going Home To a Party
12 – Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello – Such Unlikely Lovers
13 – Tom Verlaine – There’s a Reason
14 – The National – Tropic Morning
15 – Manic Steet Preachers – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s cover)
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