Steeleye Span - Long Lankin Reaction
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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2023
- In this video we're listening to another one from Steeleye Span. This band is really interesting, and we're eager to continue this journey with them. Enjoy!
P.S. It's 1am here. Our video editor went crazy on us. It took a lot of work to get this to you. And I'm sure it will be worth it.
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Enjoying watching your channel. So glad you're getting into these guys. I was lucky to have seen them open for Jethro Tull in 1973 and they blew the place away. Their vocals were as clear and clean live as in the studio. Folk with rock instruments and beautiful vocals was a new sound out West. If you haven't listened to their album Commoner's Crown, you need to. It's brilliant. I think their best.
Been a fan of Span my whole life (thank you, Mum) and this is one of my all time favourite songs of theirs.
Hugely important band to me.
I had to smile when you first paused and commented on the slow pace and how the drummer seemed to want something faster, knowing the tempo was about to pick up. There are many versions of this ballad, and what they’ve done is blend two versions together, with th the first part setting a tone of foreboding and dread, followed by the fast paced action of the murders, and then reprising the slower pace, but this time it feels like lament.
Great rendition and interpretation of a dark ballad of ritualistic infanticide and murder. And Maddy Prior’s voice and vocal control is wonderful. Thanks!
Thanks so much for following up on my recommendation! I had never seen this live version -- very cool. This is one of several songs from this period of Span that match calm, smooth, pretty vocals with completely horrific lyrics. "Little Sir Hugh" is similar, from the same album. The studio versions accentuate that contrast between sound and sense.
like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span revolutionized Medieval and Renaissance period folk music into "Folk Rock" during the 1970's....Maddy Prior was the female vocalist for many years.......this is the story of a nurse's betrayal and the violence that followed...."Beware the moss, beware the moors"
You both are young! I’m so glad you are interested in this genre of music. Like Fairport Convention, Steeleye took to re-arranging traditional folk songs and made them rock. The two bands took different approaches, but they both made the concept work. Looking forward to seeing more in the future. All the best to you and thank you.
A lot of Steeleye's were taken from "Popular Ballads of England and Scotland" collected and edited by Francis James Child (who, I think, founded Harvard University). Variations of Lankin can be found in Child's Ballads.
I love Steeleye Span. I also love Terry Pratchett's books. They both collaborated on sn amazing album called Wintersmith. I recommend it. Also have you found The Red Hot Chilli Pipers? Bagrock!
I adore this song . . . also fuck that lord. Who's like 'there's a serial killer around and I'm going on a business trip, bye!'
Great to see you experience one of the most influential English folk-rock bands of all time. Perhaps move on a couple of decades next time with Oysterband or The Men They Couldn't Hang?
I love Maddy Priors voice, fits the olde English folk vibe very well, not heard this song before but loved it. Great reaction again, yip the durmmed we pretty great.
If you are looking for someting a bit fun check out The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's version of Tom Jones's Delilah. The OGWT video, I loved Whispering Bob Harris, intorduced me to soo much great music.
Such a unique and beautiful voice.
the studio version on the album 'Commoner's Crown' is way better
Yeah, the tempo really picks up when it gets to the child-murdering part lol
I haven't listened to a huge amount of Steeleye Span, but this is my favorite track of theirs I've heard. It's an entertainingly gruesome song, the meaning of which is easily lost in this format.
It was so entertaining, though.
"Lord Randall" is another good "dark" one, as well as "King Henry," "Edwin," "Little Sir Hugh," "Demon of the Well," etc.
A great band with a huge oeuvre of songs from 4-5+ decades of albums...
And many / most of their songs are on CZcams in one form or another [maybe not always legally? but always worth a listen, regardless]...
Long Lankin is definitely one of their "darker" songs. Along with "King Henry," "Lord Randall," "Edwin," and a few others...
Don't worry, the song picks up ... right after you paused it. Heh. Don't know if that timing was intentional or not? ;)
But a few songs are like this, where it starts out kind of soft, and then you hit the transition and goes into like full rock-opera mode.
Great dark song, this one... ;)
And I think the album version was a tiny bit punchier... This live version was a tiny bit less so. But still pretty good.
Good stuff again , love the Brit "Folk Rock" bands Just wish you could feature the absolute best of them all i.e. Fairport Convention !
I think you tried to show them once before but got denied.
Would love it if you tried again. Look for "Tam Lin" and "Matty Groves" or the fantastic instrumental "Lark in the Morning" from the stellar "Liege and Lief" album
Definitively an album you guys should explore
We have a video for Tam Lin. We will add the others to our list.
@@hanierfamily Can't wait to see you share it ! Hopefully all goes well with the upload. Think it would be the first time (?) you've been able to share a reaction too, for me, the best Brit folk rock band ever.
Can't be enough Olde English Hippy songs.. Though love Kate & Hannah McGarrigle ;)
This is just brilliant 👏.
My recommendation today is Paul Rodgers and Joe Bonamassa playing Walk in my shadow, 2012 performance. Being the weekend, this could be counted as Canadian content because Paul has lived in Canada for many years.
Lol .. hey nonny no AGAIN 😅
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Try Alison Gross next or Saucy Sailor.
The vocal style is based on rural music that lasted five hundred years. It’s music by and invented by peasants who were extremely poor and got worked to death in British fields. It’s not American influenced like today’s music and was before amplification. Listen to Steeleye’s song The weaver and the factory maid it’s about when the Industrial Revolution made craftsmen/women obsolete.
Steeleye Span and Steely Dan are kind of the same band in my head, i know their not, but it still happens.
As a result, i know very little about either band.
Reminds me of a band i can't remember the name of.... Richard Thompson was the guitar player, someone put me out of my misery!
Fairport Convention.
@@delorangeade haha, yes, thank you.
Oh my word ! I am going to have to phone the Samaritans ! Im about to end it all ! Her voice man is really grating !!¬
If you check out " Jethro Tull " tracks such as "Cross Eyed Mary " or " My God " or "Minstral in the Gallery "
If you want to see incredible Flute solos ! this is your bag it sounds so Medieval and a lot of Fun !
Needs to be listened to straight away after this track or will might not listen to any thing remotely folkey ever again !
And of course this is just MO !!
Agree 100%
@@markferrett700 Ha ! Have you recovered yet ? or do you need to lie down in a dark room ?
@@ghichens3418 I'm in the darkest room I've been in....omg that was grim.
@@markferrett700 Now now ! Just think of a lovely place when you were a Child !!
Cool! Now I finally know what they actually sound like too, after having known them by name forever and always having suspected them to be a Steely Dan spoof band 😅 Anyway, this did have some really good moments indeed! 😀👍 And yes, she does have a good voice, it just wasn't sound-mixed too great for this performance and could've used a tad less treble and a bit of reverb 🙂
Live in the 70's. And in mono. And it still impressed the hell out of us.
@@hanierfamily - That must've been from the _Beat Club_ TV show and channel; Lots of great 70's-80's live performances on there! 😀👍 German TV have always been good with archiving 'they're' stuff 😊