Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 32 - threespires - Could have been a Contender (pg 472)

I'm not sure this song is actually about Lady Godiva, but she's in the title, and it features an awesome change of pace in the middle of the song.

"Lady Godiva and Me" - Grant-Lee Buffalo
 
"Nostradamus" - Al Stewart

Nostradamus was a 16th-century seer. He and his prophecies are still well known today, centuries after he lived.

Nostradamus was born in France in 1503. He first worked as a physician and began his medical practice in the 1530s, although he did so without a medical degree. He began making prophecies about 1547, and he published his prophecies in a book entitled Centuries (1555). He wrote his prophecies in quatrains: four lines of rhyming verse. The quatrains were grouped in hundreds; each set of 100 quatrains was called a century. Nostradamus gained notoriety during his lifetime when some of his predictions appeared to have come true.

His predictions tended to be about general types of events, such as natural disasters and conflicts that tend to occur regularly as time goes on. Some people believe that his prophecies have predicted actual events, such as the death of Henry II, the French Revolution, the rise of Napololeon, and the rise of Adolf Hitler. Others maintain that because his prophecies tend to be about general types of events that occur frequently throughout history—and are written in a cryptic and vague manner—it’s possible to find one that seems to match almost any event that has occurred.
 
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stoneblue said:
"Nostradamus" - Al Stewart

Nostradamus was a 16th-century seer. He and his prophecies are still well known today, centuries after he lived.

Nostradamus was born in Francein 1503. He first worked as a physician and began his medical practice in the 1530s, although he did so without a medical degree. He began making prophecies about 1547, and he published his prophecies in a book entitled Centuries (1555). He wrote his prophecies in quatrains: four lines of rhyming verse. The quatrains were grouped in hundreds; each set of 100 quatrains was called a century. Nostradamus gained notoriety during his lifetime when some of his predictions appeared to have come true.

His predictions tended to be about general types of events, such as natural disasters and conflicts that tend to occur regularly as time goes on. Some people believe that his prophecies have predicted actual events, such as the death of Henry II, the French Revolution, the rise of Napololeon, and the rise of Adolf Hitler. Others maintain that because his prophecies tend to be about general types of events that occur frequently throughout history—and are written in a cryptic and vague manner—it’s possible to find one that seems to match almost any event that has occurred.
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Thanks SB another one of my future nominations you’ve beaten me to.
Great song , Al Stewart has written quite a few ‘historical ‘ songs.
 
Put this on the album thread by mistake, oops

Renegades of funk - Rage Against The Machine

A handful of honourable mentions, without much substance admittedly. But it is a great beat, this version.

Now dance sucka dance, now move sucka move!
 
I'll stick with a band / music artists today:

“Friend Of A Friend” – Foo Fighters

The song title comes from Dave Grohl's music friend Buzz Osbourne from the Melvins. Osborne, along with the rest of the Melvins, knew the members of Nirvana. When Dave Grohl's previous band, Scream, disbanded, Dave approached Osborne for advice. Osborne, in response, introduced Grohl to Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic.

As Dave Grohl noted later in an interview about this song about the members of Nirvana:

I mean, I actually had to have someone get me the lyrics. But, you know, the lyrics of the song, it's almost like each verse is about each person.

So the first verse says he needs a quiet room with a lock to keep him in. It's just a quiet room, and he's there. He plays an old guitar with a coin found by the phone. It was his friend's guitar that he played. That's referring to me.

The next one is referring to Kurt. He's never been in love, but he knows just what love is. He says, never mind, and no one speaks.

And then the last verse is about Krist. He thinks he drinks too much because when he tells his two best friends, I think I drink too much, no one speaks.

So I think I was maybe 21 years old when I wrote this. But I listen to it now, and I look at it, and I think, that's one of the best songs I think I've ever written in my entire life.

I can't argue with that as I've always found this song powerful, beautiful, and sad.
 
Coatigan said:
VAR has checked it. Own goal stands.
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It's a good theme this week but we are stretching the definition of historical figures pretty thin (me included).

Once you've taken all the sportsmen and musicians out (I assume that "Malcolm's Gone" is about Ritchie Benaud's commentary on an England innings during a test match), what have we got left?
 
RobMCFC said:
It's a good theme this week but we are stretching the definition of historical figures pretty thin (me included).

Once you've taken all the sportsmen and musicians out (I assume that "Malcolm's Gone" is about Ritchie Benaud's commentary on an England innings during a test match), what have we got left?
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Writers, philosophers, assassins, inventors.

Not all make the best songs to put here though.

I seem to be able to think of more bands and albums named after historic figures, than basic songs.
 
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