I sing that at the company karaoke every year, and just replace 'company' with our company's name. It usually gets good chuckles from the workers and scowls from the sycophantic managers.
I wonder if it was specifically about coal miners, or if that was just the theme of the playlist. Because if it's just the vibe, there's some great songs there. First two that come to mind are Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road" and Springsteen's "The River", but there's a lot more like that.
Definitely not about coal miners, but certainly a song about blue collar workers
I was just thinking about that song because I watched The Greatest Night in Pop, and they broke into singing Day-O at one point in the process. I was just thinking a call and response work song would have made for a much better solution for what they were trying to do, which was have a chorus, but also give soloists a chance to do a very quick solo.
God don't venture down here
The Devil's lost your name
Your life hangs in the balance
on this fragile human chain
And when your spirit's waning
The fear is yours to tame
When you feel the darkness closing
Turn up your carbide flame
So tell God and the Devil they can try
But today's not gonna be the day we die
Learned the hard way. Got this experimental radio I love and tended to have on most of the time. Well, a children's choir bursting in full swing at the exact moment we were both peaking with my partner worked great as a contraceptive.
Test Dept made an album with the 'South Wales Striking Miners Choir' called Shoulder to Shoulder. It contains the track ' Shockwork ' which starts with a speech, rallying up the protestors. Test Dept is an industrial band with an emphasis on percussion. Another track on the album is called ' Fuel to Fight '. They accomplish exactly that with their music. I can't imagine a more appropriate band to be at such a rally.
I sometimes miss the sort of politically engaged anger of the 80s. I was born in the 90s so perhaps it's just a romantic look at a past that never was. People are angry now too, but I wonder if it's not, more than in the past, fused with algorythmically induced hatred of the 'other', instead of honest, rightful anger. Like the difference between: 'I am angry because there is this injustice, and we're not going to tollerate you standing in our way to solve this injustice' and 'I am angry at you because there is this injustice, which is your fault and therefor I hate you'. Clearly the first version leaves room for the 'unjust person' to change and choose to go along with this new move towards justice. The second one leaves the 'unjust person' feeling, "wait, what... I am not deserving of such hate, I am not evil, you must be crazy for hating me, and therefor I will hate you in return and together we will spiral down into the depths of civil war'.
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GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 209 pts · 255d
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 27 pts · 255d
That one's the best by far.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 24 pts · 254d
I sing that at the company karaoke every year, and just replace 'company' with our company's name. It usually gets good chuckles from the workers and scowls from the sycophantic managers.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 255d
Love this one. Absolute banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j91-18Kb4
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 255d
Geoff Castellucci (the bass singer from Voiceplay) made a great cover version of that one btw ❤️
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 255d
Damn, that was really good. I've only ever heard the original, but brava
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 255d
Right?! I highly recommend that you rabbit hole the shit out of both his solo stuff and Voiceplay! So damn good!
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 254d
that's the first version I heard and tbh the original can't hold a flame to his voice
leya@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 253d
halvar@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 253d
cipő did it better
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 255d
I don't have a link anymore, but this playlist does exist.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org · 48 pts · 255d
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TwmS2Fps3wdCIoBy9r4BX
but that's just shy of an hour.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 255d
I have a good many of these in a personal "class war" Playlist but this increases my collection
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 254d
Seems to be missing "Pound a Week Rise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zr51fv4uiA
waldfee@feddit.org · 7 pts · 255d
I think it's this one Sexy Time Although it doesn't seem to actually be nine hours long
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 255d
But the banks are made of marble
With a guard at every door
And the vaults are filled with silver
That the miners sweated for
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 28 pts · 255d
I wonder if it was specifically about coal miners, or if that was just the theme of the playlist. Because if it's just the vibe, there's some great songs there. First two that come to mind are Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road" and Springsteen's "The River", but there's a lot more like that.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 255d
But just believe in me, baby, and I'll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane
I've seen desperation explode into flames
And I don't want to see it again
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 255d
If it even exists. The coal miner part was obviously added in after the fact and not part of the original tweet.
egrets@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 255d
Indeed, the original read, "It was 9 hours of non-stop Star Wars cantina band."
https://xcancel.com/spectissa/status/1148709655385976833
MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
I'll begrudgingly accept this reality over the striking songs, because I also like non-disney star wars + Andor.
Man I hate having to make that distinction.
Look what they did to ma boy 😭
merc@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 254d
Definitely not about coal miners, but certainly a song about blue collar workers
I was just thinking about that song because I watched The Greatest Night in Pop, and they broke into singing Day-O at one point in the process. I was just thinking a call and response work song would have made for a much better solution for what they were trying to do, which was have a chorus, but also give soloists a chance to do a very quick solo.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 253d
I really like "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" by The Band (also not about coal mining).
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org · 26 pts · 255d
God don't venture down here
The Devil's lost your name
Your life hangs in the balance
on this fragile human chain
And when your spirit's waning
The fear is yours to tame
When you feel the darkness closing
Turn up your carbide flame
So tell God and the Devil they can try
But today's not gonna be the day we die
MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
I also like this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whdzP0GHuc4
beSyl@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 255d
Need YouTube playlist link! Please
(Bcuz fuck Spotify. But also fuck Google. But ya.)
scala@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 255d
I miss Grooveshark
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 255d
subsonic is a similar setup though nowhere near as much love yet
beSyl@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 254d
I dont think subsonic is recommended anymore. It is closed source now. It has been forked and there are several forks available. Suck as navidrome.
I don't use any of these though, so do your own research!
ibot@feddit.org · 10 pts · 255d
Do people have sexy time playlists?
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz · 32 pts · 255d
Yes, it is just cbat on repeat
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 255d
Is that the radio version of C-Span?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 255d
Its a reference to a viral post from reddit
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 255d
cbat
JordanZ@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 255d
harcesz@szmer.info · 3 pts · 254d
Learned the hard way. Got this experimental radio I love and tended to have on most of the time. Well, a children's choir bursting in full swing at the exact moment we were both peaking with my partner worked great as a contraceptive.
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 254d
This is my go to album https://youtu.be/njB4CDHElUQ
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
I don't need a Playlist, this is long enough
leya@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 253d
Godric@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d
Throw on some Utah Phillips, nothing better than an old Wobblie to preface getting wobbly with someone special, thank me later.
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 255d
Put down your bibles, pick up your guns.
Blair Mountain here we come.
Wren@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 255d
Mine is just sixteen hours of this:
https://m.soundcloud.com/cod-gone-wild/process-man
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 255d
Are there even enough Billy Bragg albums to do this?
J92@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
After listening to his rendition of She's Leaving Home, does there need to be even be one Billy Bragg album
fubarx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
Barry White's growly rendition of "Coal Miner's Daughter."
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 254d
Here's another one for the sexy time
Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social · 3 pts · 254d
Test Dept made an album with the 'South Wales Striking Miners Choir' called Shoulder to Shoulder. It contains the track ' Shockwork ' which starts with a speech, rallying up the protestors. Test Dept is an industrial band with an emphasis on percussion. Another track on the album is called ' Fuel to Fight '. They accomplish exactly that with their music. I can't imagine a more appropriate band to be at such a rally.
I sometimes miss the sort of politically engaged anger of the 80s. I was born in the 90s so perhaps it's just a romantic look at a past that never was. People are angry now too, but I wonder if it's not, more than in the past, fused with algorythmically induced hatred of the 'other', instead of honest, rightful anger. Like the difference between: 'I am angry because there is this injustice, and we're not going to tollerate you standing in our way to solve this injustice' and 'I am angry at you because there is this injustice, which is your fault and therefor I hate you'. Clearly the first version leaves room for the 'unjust person' to change and choose to go along with this new move towards justice. The second one leaves the 'unjust person' feeling, "wait, what... I am not deserving of such hate, I am not evil, you must be crazy for hating me, and therefor I will hate you in return and together we will spiral down into the depths of civil war'.
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 253d
Methamphetamine by Old Crow Medicine Show
Times, they ain't like nothing they used to be
From rocky mount' to northeast Tennessee
Where the river flows with a dusty, coal disease
And the babies whine cause they can't find nothing to eat
But, mama, she ain't hungry no more
She's waiting for a knock on the trailer door
[Chorus]
It's gonna rock you like a hurricane
It's gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep
It's gonna rock you 'til you're out of a job
It's gonna rock you 'til you're out on the street
It's gonna rock you 'til you're down on your knees
It's gonna have you begging pretty please
It's gonna rock you like a hurricane
Methamphetamine
Don't need no PhD for a hundred dollar card
Just find a crooked cop and that doctor disregard
Cause when it's either the mine or the Kentucky national guard
Um, I'd rather sell him a line than to be dying in the coal yard
Now, papa, he ain't hungry no more
He's waiting for a knock on the trailer door
[Chorus]
Well, it's a war out there, and it's fought by poor white men
From the plateau to the falls of the Cumberland
You better watch your back, cause you just can't trust a friend
And the method man is going to get you in the end
So listen to the whispering wind
It sounds like a big storm rolling in
It's gonna rock you like a hurricane
It's gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep
It's gonna rock you 'til you're out of a job
It's gonna rock you 'til you're out on the street
It's gonna rock you 'til you're down on your knees
It's gonna have you begging pretty please
It's gonna rock you like a hurricane
Methamphetamine
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
Blackleg Miner (traditional - Roud 3193) - listen to the Steeleye Span version, ideally from the Back in Line album - and don’t break the strike!
ceenote@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
over_clox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
Tay Zonday - 16 Tons
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MhV-ak3H52s
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 255d
https://youtu.be/RRh0QiXyZSk
Not about striking but still a good one
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 255d
here is a nice album of them i found recently.
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 253d
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdqQ2BdgOA
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
There are about 14,000 coal miners in West Virginia.
We could give each of them a million dollars and close all of the mines for a little more than the cost of a single aircraft carrier.
lemming741@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
https://bluegrasstoday.com/battle-of-blair-mountain-from-will-clark/
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
classic sexy time playlist