Every song needs a hook and rapper KRS-One nailed it with his siren whoops. Careful or you'll be 'whooping' too.
The song, with its attack on generations of police behaviour, is part of a rap tradition which arguably began with NWA's 'Fuk tha Police' in 1989. Not that all police were offended. Apparently in 2014 two Essex policemen were caught blasting it out of their patrol car.
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If, like your Bulletin editor, you can't remember what was in the Bulletin last week, you can now access previous Bulletins via a link at the bottom of each week's Bulletin. I would put the link here as well, but you might miss Song of the Week if I did.
Thanks to marvellous Dave Miller in IT for setting it up.
Cormac McCarthy write a novel, later a film, entitled No Country for Old Men. He can't have had music country in mind. Eightysomethings the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney has just released new albums and Tom 'the Voice' Jones is still going strong at 86. Do eightysomethings in the audience still throw their underwear at him?
This is his two-minute masterpiece. Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin says he played as a session musician on the track.
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With a lead singer who spent a lot of time during early gigs wearing an overcoat and standing on one leg playing the flute (he also owned salmon farms), 'Tull' fitted the Prog Rock stereotype perfectly. But like other Prog Rock bands, in-between the concept albums and overlong songs, there was the odd banger such as this.
For the musician - and mathematician - in you, it's written in asymmetric 5/4 time.
Not an old warhorse, but offering something new each time, as one critic said of 23 year-old American composer Samuel Barber's masterpiece. Barber himself got a bit tired of its success, the price of peaking early.
Leonard Bernstein takes it slowly as he conducts the New York Philharmonic. Contemplation for a summer's evening.
A song that dates back to the seventeenth century, here nailed by Joan Baez during the folk boom years of the early 60s.
Like many a folk song, folks, it isn't a happy tale (Barbara denies a dying man's love and then dies of remorse herself), but ironically it is mentioned by seventeenth century diarist Samuel Pepys as being sung at New Year's celebrations, and features in the Christmas celebrations in the 1951 film version of A Christmas Carol. Who listens to lyrics?
There are songs that change your taste in music, especially when you are young and don't know what you like. They may not be great songs, but they do something. In your Song of the Week editor's teenage years, hearing this one lunchtime from an older boy's low-fi stereo made him realise that he didn't need to listen to Pink Floyd any longer.