This because it's William Blakes birthday today. Nationalistic Bombast at its best..

adrian4acn 28 Nov 2012

I think Blake would have liked this version!   5

culturalfatwa 13 Sep 2012

#ElectionJam A short series of musical accompaniments to the UK GE2015. Listening is not an endorsement. Some are tenuous at best. Number #17. Dear Jammee's. thank you for indulging this theme with more than 300 'loves' and loads of comments. Ending the run with some huge prog and the words of a truly visionary Englishman and one of my most admired artists. In the words of another Blake inspired poet "Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth, I want to be ready".   5

adrian4acn 7 May 2015

What I probably was listening to most this week...40 years ago. I thought initially about posting the best-known track from ELP's Brain Salad Surgery ("Still...You Turn Me On") but I'm going instead with the beginning of Side 1, using a video that pretty accurately reproduces the experience of putting the vinyl on a turntable and hearing what's probably a pretty odd lead track for a popular album. It was my first exposure to "Jerusalem" and I still perk up anytime I hear any version -- including the choral version at the end of one of my favorite movies, Chariots of Fire. ELP may have been pompous and overblown -- but so were a few of the college professors from whom I learned something. (Album released November 19, 1973)

jcopestuf 21 Nov 2013