Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 27 - Out on blue 6 - Gone Too Soon (pg 438)

[RobMCFC]

“We Didn’t Start The Fire” - Billy Joel

 

[Mancitydoogle]

‘Let Him Dangle’ Elvis Costello

One of the many reasons we don’t have Capital punishment in this country.

 

[threespires]

A controversial, contradictory and polarising figure but one of importance in Rastafari

Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey

 

[Out on blue 6]

This song was inspired by the poem Bidrohi, translated from Bengali as "The Rebel", and written by Kazi Nazrul during the 1920s.

Kazi Nazrul was a Bengali poet, patriot and composer during the end of the colonial era in India who supported Indian unity. Nazrul wrote Bidrohi as a call to arms for those who were oppressed in India by the British and a call for unity between Muslims and Hindus. The poem politically and metaphorically called for Indians to oppose British colonialism, by physically taking the government back and by mentally removing the imitation of British ideals and ideas from the country and returning to more traditional ways.

Asian Dub Foundation roughly translated the original text of Bidrohi on their track "Rebel Warrior" and used the song to support a modern take on Nazrul's original stance.

Asian Dub Foundation - Rebel Warrior

 

[GornikDaze]

Ode to a Black Man by Phil Lynott - references Martin Luther King amongst others. This may have been picked already, so as a back up I’ll suggest Charlemagne by Blossoms

 

[threespires]

‘Let Him Dangle’ Elvis Costello

One of the many reasons we don’t have Capital punishment in this country.

Indeed. As well as 'Let Him Have It', there was also a decent film a few years back about the life of Albert Pierrepoint our most 'prolific' hangman who executed Bentley amongst many others, think it was just called Pierrepoint.

 

[threespires]

This song was inspired by the poem Bidrohi, translated from Bengali as "The Rebel", and written by Kazi Nazrul during the 1920s.

Kazi Nazrul was a Bengali poet, patriot and composer during the end of the colonial era in India who supported Indian unity. Nazrul wrote Bidrohi as a call to arms for those who were oppressed in India by the British and a call for unity between Muslims and Hindus. The poem politically and metaphorically called for Indians to oppose British colonialism, by physically taking the government back and by mentally removing the imitation of British ideals and ideas from the country and returning to more traditional ways.

Asian Dub Foundation roughly translated the original text of Bidrohi on their track "Rebel Warrior" and used the song to support a modern take on Nazrul's original stance.

Asian Dub Foundation - Rebel Warrior

In theory for ADF/Stewart Lee you could also have Coming Over Here as it's 'inspired' by Paul Nuttall; mercifully though he's hardly an historic figure.

 

[Out on blue 6]

In theory for ADF/Stewart Lee you could also have Coming Over Here as it's 'inspired' by Paul Nuttall; mercifully though he's hardly an historic figure.

A figure who should be confined to history or forgotten about all together.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

Indeed. As well as 'Let Him Have It', there was also a decent film a few years back about the life of Albert Pierrepoint our most 'prolific' hangman who executed Bentley amongst many others, think it was just called Pierrepoint.

Yes it’s was, he was played by Timothy Spall IRC

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

“We Didn’t Start The Fire” - Billy Joel

Been waiting all week for this one... figured this was a day 1 for sure. Nice...