there’s also this Dutch group’s hit
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Not a bar crawl. My regular watering hole in my German hometown between the ages of … 15-18. I was there almost every single night in those years, until it got torn down to make way for a subway stop. It had always been an annoyance to the town’s conservatives bc people occasionally smoked hash OMG!, and were generally on the punkier/anarchist side of the spectrum.
This song was hugely popular. I know what they’re saying. It’s a lefty, working class fighting song, plus they did a German version of it '-)
I just remembered a good Dutch singer from the early 90s, Anouk. My first band covered this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_fcGLmJd0Q
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Well, there’s the difference between German and Dutch people for you… 
Anarchists versus well-behaved…
Shocking Blue and Golden Earring both had big international hits, and Anouk was (and still is) a major figure here. Sadly, the quality of Dutch music has gone downhill. Personally, imho the best Dutch group was Doe Maar, from the early 80s, like a combination of a UK ska band with Hall & Oates quality pop songs. Not gonna bore people here with their songs though as they are all in our local language…
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I confess I’m still affected by my brother’s (and friends’) performance in our high school’s production of South Pacific. Just those words Bali Hai make me laugh! Anyways, Harry James comes to mind with a vocal-less version, and may you’ll like it too.
James is one trumpet player (and band leader) that doesn’t seem to get enough respect - although he did get some good play in several Marvel movies.
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She has an awesome set of pipes. The first time I heard her I thought it was Sandy Denny singing. The DJ I mentioned this to had never heard of Sandy Denny.
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Good one. This one’s a classic too
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Someone in a local food group just shared this, and it’s fantastic:
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It’s November now! It rained in LA. I’m not going there with GnR!
this one is cool too
there’s always Tom Waits
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Perfect music while driving through Paris on a warm summer night…
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Nothing terribly highbrow; mostly classic rock and (what was then) alternative rock. I used to be pretty faithful to country as a teen and young adult, so it’s funny that my adult-ish daughters all listen to country (along with hip-hop and everything else).
They’ve been sending me country songs that were kind of making me rethink having abandoned that genre - below are a couple of examples, Zach Bryan’s Something In The Orange and Christ Stapleton’s You Should Probably Leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8F9sIhGdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-MGpJIo2bs
But when I turn on the local country station it seems it’s mostly beer-whiskey-beer-whiskey-whiskey-whiskey…
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David Allan Coe sings the perfect C&W song.
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A Haydn divertimento in D maj
Gotta tell ya as a guy who spent about 9 years in the Army, this was our favorite song. This is what got us up onto the tabletops and singing loud.
My daughters (mentioned above) didn’t know it but once I explained it and played it, it became a family favorite.
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That just made my day. One of my favorite songs too.
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And you are
Waylon Jennings?
Charlie Pride?
Merle Haggard?
Each and All work for us . . .
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My explanation of the song to my daughters was that DAC was putting forth the ultimate both explanation for a country song and at the same time the ultimate parody of the country song. With these lyrics
Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn’t said anything at all about Mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting’ drunk
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
And after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here
Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train
And I’ll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing’ in the rain, no
But you don’t have to call me darlin’, darlin’
You never even called me
Well, I wonder why you don’t call me
Why don’t you ever call me by my name
(I annoy my daughters by playing it on loop! LoL)
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