Who is going to win the Afterword referendum? The REMAIN playlist or the LEAVE playlist? By 10pm this evening, the count will begin, and the thread with the most comments will be declared winner. This will obviously be reflected by the national vote.
I will kick off things here at LEAVE with some Bessie Banks…
I guess this is how I’d feel tomorrow morning:
I know the bloke playing the bodhran. He’s a drummer called Pete who plays on those sixties revival tours. Nice chap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ZkTndbHpk
Unfortunately, if you leave and change your mind this time, that phone will just ring and ring.
Si Tu Dois Partir would presumably be much too continental for this play-list, ne c’est pas?
Well you can always have the translation, If You Go Away. I would pick Dusty’s version out of preference, but she does break into French half way through, so here is Frank Sinatra singing it, who doesn’t.
Oh that was a brainfail. I was thinking of Ne Me Quitter Pas, which belongs on the Remain list, if it isn’t there already.
Don’t worry – barely anyone on here will have heard of Richard Thompson or his band, so no-one will have noticed.
If it may please you,
Or perhaps, your honour …
Beta Band:
“If you would, I’d like to know
will you think of me when I’m gone?”
That album is so bad, it’s almost good
(Oh, poor misguided me – I really did think (in my long lost youth) it was one of the greatest slabs of vinyl ever)
Couple of Canadian faves…
The Tragically Hip, “Leave” (which is not even directed as an instruction to Quebec to the best of my knowledge, let alone the UK).
Or Odds, “Leave It There”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_JesAyMNgw
Perhaps Joe Cocker, “You Can Leave Your Chapeau On”
You know how reliable opinion polls are these days?
I doubt if we’re asking the correct demographic here.
…and of course people don’t always tell pollsters the truth…
Napoleon XIV (and what a pain in the arse his great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was.
Pete Brown and Piblokto – Thousands on a Raft
Which made me think of The Pogues: Thousands Are Sailing
https://youtu.be/PSYkKpii1kc
Which brings me to Turkish Song of the Damned
The Song Of The 90 Million Damned Turks on their way here, stealing our benefits etc etc etc
Fleetwood Mac
https://youtu.be/e5HkuhSEnPQ
I for one welcome our new Fats Domino impersonating overlord
(….are the lights still on?… phew…)
That’s the original by Gene Autry that he’s ‘doing’ there.
Oh yes! How clever of him! But then how could he be anything else? Right??
*sweats profusely*
If Mrs Thatcher was a frequenter of the Afterword (and still alive) I would imagine she’d be getting in touch at this point to request Dawn Penn’s “No! No! No!”
Keef Hartley Band – Leaving Trunk
Here’s a bit more French
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tXdksLQpE
Unless I’ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick.
Roger Daltrey is prominent in the debate but, alas, I can’t remember on which side. Still, he made it very clear in 1964:
The Animals – We gotta get out of this place
Supergrass – Going Out
Stiff Little Fingers – Gotta Getaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDLjxyZGI0
If you don’t wanna fuck me then fuck off…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FEH4dXjUkk
Trans Sexual Express
Blondie – Just Go Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZLajAfBOS0
Bob’s got a vote on the Remain thread, but he’s predicting ‘Leave’
‘standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange…’
I voted Leave because “…don’t be afraid of your freedom…”
Bad luck leavers. It seems REMAIN has won, 60.8 % of the comments posted. I expect the actual results tomorrow to be an EXACT MIRROR of this wee experiment.
Of course there might just be more songs about pleading with someone to stay than telling them to piss off of course…
Can’t believe no one posted this: The Immigrant Song (is it OK to like LZ again now?)
Just
Trying
To
Reflect
The
Will
Of
The People
Here…