Man requests free MP3s in order to make thoughtful yet inexpensive present.

[wardytron]

Hello, if you'll permit me to use the term, although it would be a bit weird if you didn't, wouldn't it, I mean I'm only saying "hello", I'm not asking you to take your top off or anything, no, that comes later. Anyway the point is, it's Mumward's birthday this weekend, and as part of her present I'm lovingly wasting time at work recreating an

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[wardytron]

It's a deal.

[lifesizemonkey]

London Colon. That made me laugh out loud.

I was going to suggest that you just tape all the songs you were missing off the radio. There are lots of radio stations and it's reasonably likely that those songs would be played sooner or later. Perhaps your friends' suggestions are more practical. Let me know how you get on.

[annakey]

Rihanna - Take a Bowel

Carcass - Crepitating Bowel Erosion.

(That's a real song, though, and probably wouldn't make the greatest fundraising anthem in the world.)

[annakey]

Anything by Bowel Wow Wow

(Bowel Wowel Wowel?)

[wardytron]

David Bowelie: Arses to Arses.

[oneofthose]

Ian Matthews was in Fairport Convention. He's considered important. I've got a CD of his. It was a pound. I've never played it.

[wardytron]

Is being associated with Fairport Convention better than being associated with Steeleye Span? I very briefly tried getting into Folk a couple of years ago, when I was able to get loads of it for free, and have a load of John Renbourn albums that I never listen to on some hard drive or other. Jackson C. Frank I quite liked, but he's not very prolific.

[oneofthose]

I think of Steeleye Span as the Foo Fighters of folk rock - obviously not as culturally significant and legendary as the band that spawned them but actually a lot more listenable. They're considered a bit naff, compared with Fairport because they had a hit single produced by Mike Batt which they performed on Crackerjack, and none of them are dead. But I've noticed opinion swinging their way of late.

If you want a really really good folk person then try Nic Jones 'Penguin Eggs' album. If you don't like that then it's probably best to leave the folk alone.

[burkesworks]

they had a hit single produced by Mike Batt which they performed on Crackerjack

...which also explains how Steeleye Span once had to wear Womble outfits and double up as the Wombles the time they appeared on Top of the Pops to mime "All Around My Hat". You wouldn't have got that with Richard Thompson or Sandy Denny.

Also, Ian Matthews has had more number ones than Fairport and Steeleye put together (he was the Matthews in Matthews' Southern Comfort).

[beingjdc]

Joan Baez: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Janis Ian: At Seventeen
Have those two if you haven't tracked them down yet?

[wardytron]

I've got the lot now, except our computer has mysteriously lost the ability to burn CDs, which sort of scuppers the whole project.