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Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
This must be his answer to Dark Side of the Moon.
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
BACK OF THE BACK OF THE MOON
"I'm going to tell you how it's Gonna be."
"I'm going to tell you how it's Gonna be."
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
Bo Diddley!
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
Saxophone!!
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
The mixing of styles here is reminiscent of Ricky-T.
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
All the band's here.
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
It is over.
I found that a very affecting album. The miserable songs worked better than the happy ones - and, fortunately, there were lots of miserable songs. I still insist that Bomber's Moon is the most moving anti-war song of all time.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
I found that a very affecting album. The miserable songs worked better than the happy ones - and, fortunately, there were lots of miserable songs. I still insist that Bomber's Moon is the most moving anti-war song of all time.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
His vocals are a bit weak. But I suspect it's better than any album Paul Simon has made since about 1974.
You've got admire a man who can put their own similar song after The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda and it not getting a total slap down.
Talking about which:
You've got admire a man who can put their own similar song after The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda and it not getting a total slap down.
Talking about which:
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
In fact it's better than a lot Richard Thompson's ones too.
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
It's done.
Musically, lyrically and thematically it was effective and tasteful in an admittedly morose, almost mawkish, sense, but it also tended to drag with a fair few songs lasting for a lifetime.
He seemed to have assembled some very good musicians, but other, dare I say, better, bands would've spun out anything long with really exceptional musicianship rather than just a repetition of the sung chorus.
Of course, I'm being churlish, but then again, I am a churl and a member of the metropolitan elite, so I can't help it.
That said, it was most notably and commendably socialist.
A kind of working class lament you'd be hard pressed to find now, in the time of an hopeless Post-Thatcherite Br*xitism where the North has surrendered itself seemingly to knee-jerk rage.
Harding was presenting a world that, at the time, was trapped in the pitch black dark of a seemingly endless Thatcherite Winter.
I genuinely respect him for that, as I'm also genuinely touched by his tribute to the forgotten men of the disingenuously labelled 'Golden Generation'.
Just young lads who died for God only knows what.
Musically, lyrically and thematically it was effective and tasteful in an admittedly morose, almost mawkish, sense, but it also tended to drag with a fair few songs lasting for a lifetime.
He seemed to have assembled some very good musicians, but other, dare I say, better, bands would've spun out anything long with really exceptional musicianship rather than just a repetition of the sung chorus.
Of course, I'm being churlish, but then again, I am a churl and a member of the metropolitan elite, so I can't help it.
That said, it was most notably and commendably socialist.
A kind of working class lament you'd be hard pressed to find now, in the time of an hopeless Post-Thatcherite Br*xitism where the North has surrendered itself seemingly to knee-jerk rage.
Harding was presenting a world that, at the time, was trapped in the pitch black dark of a seemingly endless Thatcherite Winter.
I genuinely respect him for that, as I'm also genuinely touched by his tribute to the forgotten men of the disingenuously labelled 'Golden Generation'.
Just young lads who died for God only knows what.
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
BTW, I always think this is by Mike Harding.
But it isn't.
When I was a kid, people like DLT and Noel Edmunds would play it on Radio One and, oh, did they ever laugh...
But it isn't.
When I was a kid, people like DLT and Noel Edmunds would play it on Radio One and, oh, did they ever laugh...
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
Nightjar wrote:He looks like my ex-girlfriend's Dad on the back of the album.
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Re: Mike Harding - Bomber's Moon (1986).
Have you heard the B-Side?Nightjar wrote:BTW, I always think this is by Mike Harding.
But it isn't.
When I was a kid, people like DLT and Noel Edmunds would play it on Radio One and, oh, did they ever laugh...
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