Welcome to my Blog
Posted by Martin Chinnery on 22 November 2008 - 11:19am.
Hello everyone in The Word online community. I have been an avid reader and subscriber for some time, but this is my first attempt at blogging. I really just registered to add comments and thoughts on The Big Issues of the day, but my lovely wife seems to think that I should consider writing about the music I love, and perhaps publishing it online. And who better to share my thoughts with than the discerning people who read and write for The Word?
I shall be considering my Festive Fifty options over the next few days. Watch this space (or don’t bother, it's up to you).
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sporting anthems
Am on a hot coach on way to a significant sporting occassion. Contemplating the game ahead.
Two music questions to ponder:
1. What is the best national anthem?
2. What is the best sports song?
I offer you the Welsh anthem and Hymns and Arias by Sir Max of Boyce.(You may be able to deduce the game I'm en route to. Second clue: we are sitting on a bridge right now)
France
I'm always jealous when I hear a full throated crowd give a rendition of the Marseillaise. It's just a great anthem.
Non sequiteurs
...is, I think, the correct term for the above two comments, which appear to have ignored the blog post to which they are ostensibly responding, in favour of lauching their own topic. Didn't know you could be boarded by pirates on this site, did you? Anyway, Martin, writing about the music you love is a fine and noble thing, and I wish you well in your endeavour. Before long, however, I daresay you'll realise nobody responds to musings on one's musical loves, and you'll be resorting to posting blatant comment-hooks like "Which are the crappest Christmas singles ever, then?", and watching gleefully as your post attracts comments in triple figures...
It's "Christmas In Smurfland", by the way.
"PIrate Raid" on Blog
Thanks very much for the tip! I hadn't quite realised that "Your Blog" works in the way that it does, having naively believed that I was somehow entitled to my own blog page hosted on The Word website. Having now seen the error of my ways I will adjust my blogging comments accordingly.
Personally I always hated Merry Christmas (War Is Over). War wasn't over then, and it certainly isn't now. How about The Best Christmas Song That Has Never Been A Christmas Single? My vote is for one from a band I don't generally like, but U2's Peace On Earth is one of their best songs ever, and has never been released to my knowledge. Why on earth not?
By the way, Avid Merrion's "Proper Crimbo" is truly cringeworthy as a song, but the full length video that accompanied it was an absolute scream.
triple figures!
oh i dream of triple figures, the best i have ever got, has been 70...on another variation of lets talk about cover versions!
Triple figures, good luck to you with that.
Not exactly
I just thought Dolly's comment was deserving of a response. Not that I'm trying to put Martin off, but I couldn't think of anything to post in response to him.
sorry
I posted in the wrong area. Am now ver ver drunk. Gawd bless us all...
sorry
I posted in the wrong area. Am now ver ver drunk. Gawd bless us all...
you one of those drunks
that keep coming back and repeating yourself aren't you?
Significant sporting occasion?
Presume it was not Bolton's "thrashing" of Middlesborough then?
Ha!
cymru
Seland newydd
Which means
Wales v New Zealand.
I'm a Bluebird though and one of our favourite chants is, ahem,
'you can stuff your bloody rugby up your....'
( Didn't someone comment that rugby is for fat lads who can't play football? )
Ahem.... As a former pro-footballer
And son of a former pro-footballer
I think I disprove that rule. And from personal experience, rugby is much more fun to play and to watch. In fact watching a live football match is usually a pretty grim exercise in human LCD behaviour. Come to think of it LCD summed up the football culture that I experienced. To be thick in pro football is to one of the gang.
But yes it was Wales v NZ.
Digon Teg Dolly.
Curious sport though. I can't understand how you can allow someone to grind a fist into a person's brain but then penalize them for standing two inches away from some 'line' or other. All rather ugly and brutish in my view...no grace or elegance ( unlike the beautiful game ). It's stop/start/stop/start all the way with more rules than physics. ( And Cardiff is horrible when a match is on!! )