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Joni on Brexit?

"Don’t it always seem to be, that you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone." (Joni Mitchell: 'Big Yellow Taxi')

David Ainsworth ● 2565d21 Comments

Well yes, but you can apply that to millions of things ...

Bunny Payne ● 2565d

Certainly, but Brexit may be millions of things spread out over time and space but gone at one fell swoop.

David Ainsworth ● 2565d

David  Love your music quotes. You're obviously from the same era as I am.  Love your sense of humour too.! Definitely off the wall at times! Guess you need a sense of humour to be a remainer

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2565d

I'm a remainer, I have a terrific sense of humour but I never liked Joni Michel's Big Yellow taxi, especially her embarrassingly false laugh at the end and yes totally my era.Give me Black Sabbath any day:D

Bunny Payne ● 2565d

I quite like Mitchell and Sabbath but maybe Led Zeppelin would be more relevant?What is and what should never be ..."And if you say to me tomorrow
Oh what fun it all would be"Or"Communication breakdown ..."It's always the same
I'm having a nervous breakdown"
Just about sums it up?

Michael Ixer ● 2565d

As a Brexiteer, I am quoting Jojo’s song:“Get out (Leave) right now”.(Took me ages to like Joni Mitchell, but love her album, Blue)

Martine Guy ● 2565d

Led Zep for sure.

Lucille Grant ● 2565d

Can I go completely off Brexit for a moment, please?  I hadn’t realised until recently that Jimmy Page not only owns that magnificent house in Kensington, but he also owns Deanery Gardens, Berkshire, which was designed by our greatest architect, Lutyens, and the gardens designed by our greatest Gardner, Gertrude Jekyll.  What a lucky man he is!

Martine Guy ● 2565d

I like Mitchell too, particularly "In France they kiss on main street"...

Ivonne Holliday ● 2565d

Sorry, before the spelling checkers catch me out, yes I know it should be gardener.

Martine Guy ● 2565d

To be honest I never liked Joni Mitchel.Grace Slick, Melanie perhaps Wasn't really a great fan of female singers. Black Sabbath, definitely.  Doors, Eagles, Eric Clapton, Hawkwind, Hendrix. Still play all of them.Too many to mention.  Lovely memories. Am still stuck in the late 60's early 70's.

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2565d

The best music quote on Brexit has to have come from Mr Rotten:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8mduTEvnU0

Michael Winstanley ● 2565d

Must be Anarchy in the UK...

Michael Ixer ● 2565d

Well thanks.Music for Remainers? Well, I did love Amon Düül 2 in the early 1970s, especially "Archangel Thunderbird":-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSi1qPxBIQKrautrock was from the EU. Not that I thought about that.I'm not sure that the lyrics are much help:-"When the everywhere-eyeAsks youWho is the emperorOf the skyTake the Archangel's ThunderbirdGo to Edgar AllenIn the tower of sleepHe'll tell you a storyWhich makes you to creepThe echo of your criesIs falling so deepRent a destroyerAnd sail to Cape CodThere lives a lionThey call him GodThere is no elevator to EdenBut a hole in the sky"etcGanz klar?

David Ainsworth ● 2564d

I was always a bit of a fan of Kraftwerk.  Fahren Fahren Fahren auf der Autobahn (repeat for several minutes)

Jonathan Callaway ● 2564d

Perhaps, Jonathan. But when I look at our current leaders its easier to imagine Jeremy, Boris, Nigel and Jo performing the Bill Bailey take on Kraftwork:https://youtu.be/dwaxWoJPUC0(It was even better live.) Perhaps it could replace the head-to-head?

Michael Ixer ● 2564d

"Man strecht die linke Arm eindie linke Arm ausein, aus, ein, aus,man schwenkt es alles umman macht das Hokey Cokeyund man drecht sich herumdas ist die ganze SacheJa, das Hokey CokeyJa, das Hokey CokeyJa, das Hokey CokeyKnien geborgen, Arme gestrecht,ra ra ra"It would be one of my Desert Island Videos."Perhaps it could replace the head-to-head?"Nigel has an advantage here, with a German 2nd wife.Jeremy would be well advised to avoid speaking in German, I am afraid. Especially any mention of der rechte Arm.

David Ainsworth ● 2564d

I really hated prog. rock.  I thought Kraftwerk and Focus, remember Hocus Pocus, were just awful. Add into the mix ELP and that’s my musical nightmare from the 1970s.

Martine Guy ● 2564d

Martine. Yes ... 🎹🎹🎹🎸

Michael Ixer ● 2564d

Why would anyone want to repeat Kraftwerk for several minutes, Jonathan?  I expect you like the yodelling bit in Hocus Pocus, too.  I try my best to wipe this music from my memory and now you have brought it all back.

Martine Guy ● 2564d

And then there's the one about "the tapeworm of British politics" :-"We're only making plans for Nigel,We only want what's best for him.We're only making plans for NigelHe's got his future in British Steel" (Ironic that last line if you live in Scunthorpe!!)XTC

Bill Christie ● 2564d