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Sunday, 10 November 2024

Ball and Chain

 


On Friday at the gym the song Ball and Chain popped up on the MP3 player. Not  by XTC as you and I would  have expected but by British rock band Broken English who were active between 1987 to 1991.

This led me to wondering whether there were any other Ball and Chains in the Music folder. There were two. One by Sam Brown from her 1988 debut album Stop  and one by London folk rock duo The Rails.

On checking Google the first one that popped up was by Janis Joplin so here is a You Tube clip of her performing it with Big Brother & the Holding Company

Apologies for the lack of a Mandatory Reggae Version © Ernie Goggins


Broken English - Ball and Chain.

XTC - Ball and Chain

Sam Brown - Ball and Chain

The Rails - Ball and Chain





3 comments:

  1. No need to apologise. These are different songs with the same titled so the usual rules don't apply.

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  2. Very impressed to see Broken English here - I thought I was the only person in the world he liked / remembered them.

    Although it's not an exact fit, I put Golden Ball & Chain by Jason & The Scorchers onto the latest Sam CD...

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  3. My two cents... Social Distortion's Ball and Chain is the greatest Ball and Chain ever made!

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