All Along The Blacktower
Posted by PaulHThompson on 14 May 2008 - 9:20am.
I am very encouraged to read today that Prof Adrian North of Heriot Watt University has been spending his research grant wisely. Apparently he's been investing in drinking wine and listening to music.
"The research showed that when a powerful, heavy piece of music is heard, a wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon is perceived as being 60 per cent more powerful, rich and robust than when no music is heard."
According to his list of the ideal tracks to accompany wine, a Chardonnay slips down nicely accompanied by Atomic from Blondie, and Merlot is good with Otis Redding singing Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. Jimie Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower is recommended with a 2006 Chilean Cabernet Sauvingnon.
David Williams, editor of Wine and Spirit magazine, said: "I love the idea that music has such an enormous effect on the way we taste wine. Maybe one day there will even be music lists in Michelin starred restaurants."
And I always find that things improve considerably after the first bottle. Anybody got any tried and test pairings that we could have a go at validating?
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Reminds me of this
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/bra-research-must-go-on%2c-vow...
My reshersh grant 's late arrivin' in th' posht,
but I've manashed to carry out a f,f, feww eshperimentsh anyway.
Ashally, I've dishcovered that Radiohead sound b,b, brrrilliant after sish or seven cansh o' Shtella Artwar. Weird or wha'?
Time for a list of drinks related songs?
Special Brew by Bad Manners
The Pina Colada song by Rupert Holmes (sorry.......)
Wine, do your stuff by Commander Cody
2 more bottles of Wine by Emmylou
Red red wine by Neil Diamond (I ain't gonna credit UB40)
Alabama Song by BrechtWeill (later the Doors)
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer by John Lee Hooker
Over to the rest of you!
There Stands The Glass...
...by Webb Pierce
and we have to have some George Jones:
A few drinks
Mick Farren - Half price drinks
Buster Poindexter - The worst beer I ever had (I have to acknowledge and thank David Hepworth here, as he played it a few times on his old GLR programme).
Laura Cantrell - The whisky makes you sweeter
Rod Stewart - What made Milwaukee famous (although I know he didn't write it).
Shurley...
...yew canNOT missssss Chumbawumba's -urp, pard'n me- Tubthumping?
A couple more drinks
John Hiatt has produced a few:
Ethylene
The wreck of the Barbie Ferrari
The Tiki bar is open
while Uncle Tupelo sang of
Whiskey bottle
& Moonshiner
and Gillian Welch gives us
Whiskey girl
& Tear my stillhouse down
Ryan Adams while in Whiskeytown sang
Dancing with the women at the bar
Drank like a river
& Too drunk to dream
and solo reminded us
The bar is a beautiful place
That German combo Can
I find a nice chunk of L_______ G___ helps "Future Days" and "Ege Bamyasi" go down a real treat. Warning!!! Please avoid "Augmn" off "Tago Mago" at all costs. It makes you a bit paranoid, what with that bloody dog barking and people falling down lift shafts etc. It's 17 minutes long but sounds like a three hour nightmare.
Oh and King Tubby and Lee Perry mix extremely well with a nice glass of lemonade. Honest Guvnor!!
Apologies for continuously posting lyrics....
....but I love lyrics!!
Talking Thunderbird Blues by Townes Van Zandt
PMSL ROTFLMAO
Among the strangest things I ever heard
Was when a friend of mine said man, let's get some thunderbird
I said what's that? he just started to grin
Slobbered on his shirt, his eyes got dim
He said you got fifty-nine cents?
I said yeah, I got a dollar, but don't be a smart-aleck
I ain't gonna spend it on no indian relic
And he said thunderbird's not an old indian trinket,
It's a wine, man, you take it home and drink it.
I said it sure don't sound like wine to me
And he said he'd bet me the change from my dollar
We hustled on down to the nearest u-tate-um
The guy wanted my id, I whipped her out and showed him
He got a green bottle from the freezing vault
My friend started doing backward somersaults
Through the cottage cheese
Took it back to his house, started drinkin'
Pretty soon I set in to thinkin'
Man, this thunderbird tastes yummy, yummy, yummy
And I know it's doing good things to my tummy, tum..., t...
It's the way you reason when your on that crap
Got a few more bottles, chugged them down
I pulled myself up off the ground
Decided I go see my dearest sweet wife
Who met me at the door with a carving knife
Said get them damn grape peel from between your teeth.
I could see we're gonna have a little misunderstanding
I said dear, I better get in touch with you later
She said forget it, man, you're never touchin' me again!
Now I've seen the light and heard the word
And I'm staying away from that ol' dirty thunderbird
A message come from heaven radiant, and fine,
All I drink now is communion wine
Six days a week