It's amazing where inspiration for Post themes come from.
Often they are fairly random. For instance, I was in the shower yesterday and I thought I should post some farm related songs. And no, I wasn't covered in slurry.
It makes sense to start with The Farm and Groovy Train. Alternately I could have started with The Farmer's Boys and In the Country.
Not to be outdone here are The Housemartins with Me and the Farmer or perhaps XTC and Love On a Farmer's Wages .
Bob Dylan's Maggie's Farm took on a whole new meaning in the 80's courtesy of the Evil Witch
There may be a subsequent farmyard visit in due course.
Feel free to don your wellies and pitch in with any thoughts.
The Farmer's Boys - In The Country
"Maggie's farm" British 80's meaning was seized upon by The Specials, who released the song on a single B-side in 1980. That's how I first heard Dylan's song.
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Always good to see The Housemartins pop up, they seem to be somewhat overlooked these days. A banger.
ReplyDeleteI humbly submit Butch Hancock's 'Dry Land Farm' & 'Farmyard Connection' by Fun Boy Three for consideration.
Crass were Sheep farming in the Falklands and Neil Young and Crazy Horse were very much into Farmer John's daughter.
ReplyDeleteA fab farm selection there, CC. No doubt a collective sigh of relief that Toyah’s 1979 album Sheep Farming In Barnet didn’t have a title track, although I quite like it.
ReplyDeleteIn other sheep related tunes, I’d have to choose The Sheep Look Up by Fad Gadget, from 1982.
More broadly speaking, I’d also pick A Man Called Adam with their 2019 song (& album) Farmarama.
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This would make a great future Pun Fun theme. Ernie (somewhere in the tropics)
ReplyDeleteMy fave XTC track there! As a Kinks fan I humbly submit Animal Farm from their Village Green Preservation album
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