Haunting Rippercast Theme

[Sam Flynn]

While there might be sum truth in this, he is also the greatest song writer since Wolfgang Amedeus Motzart....

... you missed out Schubert, Schumann and Mahler. Also Cole Porter, Sondheim, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Viv Stanshall (in their different ways). Morrissey is a fine musician, though - I've no doubt about that.

However, all these pale into insignificance before the majesty that is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1fMkvb6J8

... the "Flight of the Bumblebee", played on farting hands.

[Roy Corduroy]

Sam, it's Smokin'

Caught that interlude of the 007 Theme

Roy

[Jeff Leahy]

... you missed out Schubert, Schumann and Mahler. Also Cole Porter, Sondheim, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Viv Stanshall (in their different ways). Morrissey is a fine musician, though - I've no doubt about that.

However, all these pale into insignificance before the majesty that is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1fMkvb6J8

... the "Flight of the Bumblebee", played on farting hands.

What a wonderful moment, My list would be different (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0h6H_vcSKc, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXXHY...eature=related, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhcR1ZS2hVo,) but I agree (apart from the sex pistols) with the sentiment

Pirate

Missed one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI9ak...eature=related https://,http://www.youtube.com/watc...eature=related , this is a better mix of Bald mountain

[Simon Wood]

Hi Sam and Pirate,

Hand farts?

I'm now seriously considering Frank Chacksfield for JM's theme.

This tune used to scare the sh*t out of me when I was around seven or eight years old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO9RzlWS5fM

Regards,

Simon

[Robert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Kq0qMMpgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU8tzGQCwd4&feature=related

[redelevator]

Here's my favorite Jack The Ripper song...really not about Jack, but I love Nick Cave...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxvJmXUiuFM

but Morrissey is pretty good too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq3m4H5kFUE

[Iago Galdston]

The Smiths "Suffer Little Children" is amazing...

a song about the Moors Murders that was even approved of by the victims' parents (who were rightfully suspicious at first I believe)...one of the most haunting songs you will ever hear

[George Hutchinson]

The song is 'Suffer The Children', B-side to 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' and last track on the eponymous debut album from 1984.

I remember hearing a news item on the radio about this at the time. I can't recall which parents are concerned, but the song polarised opinion. One parent was saying it was sick, and another that they thought it a tribute. There's no doubt it's the latter and clearly anti Brady/Hindley, but because it's subtle and poetic, some might mis-interpret the intentions.

Unlike 'Very Friendly' by Throbbing Gristle which certainly does earn disapproval.

PHILIP

[jmenges]

Surely Philip meant to say that indeed the song is 'Suffer Little Children' (and it is thought, but never confirmed by Morrissey, that the band's name The Smiths comes from Hindley's sister Maureen Smith and her husband David, whose testimony led to the capture of the Moors Murderers).

The grandfather of victim John Kilbride began a protest in the Manchester press after hearing the song, but the controversy was settled when Morrissey met with the mother of Lesley Ann Downey, explained to her the songs intent, and she came out in support of it.

JM

[Iago Galdston]

Thanks for the bit about the band's name

I never knew that!

[JTRSickert]

Hey, I know this is an old forum, but I just wanted to say one thing.

Whiel I do enjoy Morrissey's JTR song and do think it fits the Podcast, if there was one other song to substitute for that one for the opening introduction, only 1 other song comes to mind:

"The Ripper"-Judas Priest.

That's all.

[Iago Galdston]

the final word...

One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

[Robert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMW_ROS94Kk