Everything starts as somebody's daydream (Larry Niven)
So, here we are on the last day of the year, playing once more with words and listening to New Years Day songs.
“ Let's toast to new beginnings, raise up a glass and say,
'For all of our tomorrows, and what was yesterday…”
Bon Jovi - New Year's Day [2016]
Charlie Robison - New Year's Day [2004]
U2 - New Year's Day (1983)
Music brings us closer and radio brings music closer to us.
For many years I like listening to the radio, but I always felt like an unknown listener. Then, one day an old friend, who lives in Georgia now, set up an internet radio and brought closer a group of familiar people. The daily contact of friends, through music, is the best thing that has happened in the last four years.
Listening to WolfClubPack Radio is an interactive experience, while you can “talk” with your friends and enjoy the music you like at the same time, without restriction on the genres of music but also without the songs promoted by the music industry.
Try this : https://wolfclubpackradio.radio12345.com/ and you’ll understand what I mean.
Here is a compilation I made, with the 20 most played songs in WolfClubPack Radio.
Enjoy the songs, enjoy life!!
I always liked The Walkabouts for their own songs, and listening to their albums of covers didn't change my feelings. I feel satisfied with the way they treated all these songs. I hope you'll like them too.
“Satisfied
Mind is a definitive artistic statement masquerading as a loose-knit collection
of acoustic covers. Sometimes a group's selection of cover material, combined
with their ability to make the songs their own, winds up revealing as much
about their craft as their original music, and such is the case here; mining
the work of diverse artists like the Carter Family, Gene Clark, Mary Margaret
O'Hara, John Cale, and Nick Cave, Satisfied Mind represents the purest
evocation to date of the Walkabouts' aesthetic and its standing at the
crossroads of country, rock, folk, and punk. By casting well-known songs in an
entirely new light -- Patti Smith's "Free Money" becomes an ominous
waltz, while Charlie Rich's "Feel Like Going Home" is renewed as an
epic dirge -- the album makes explicit all of the implicit connections in the
Walkabouts' work. By extension, it underlines the connections binding the
spectrum of roots music as well; Satisfied Mind doesn't simply suggest that
diverse sounds can coexist together -- it proves that they always have”. [Satisfied
Mind Review by Jason Ankeny /
allmusic.com]
The Train Leaves at Eight [2000]
The Walkabouts' second collection of covers comes with a quite definite theme, a musical tour of Europe, ranging from Greece in the South all the way up to Norway. And it's most definitely a journey, one which suits the darker, more introspective, and very literate nature of this Seattle band. But the ground covered is more than geographic; not many bands could move from Greek icon Mikis Theodorakis to Krautrockers Neu! on the same record. But the Walkabouts, whose career has largely happened in Europe, handle it with aplomb, throwing up plenty of changes in arrangements and working hard to penetrate to the core of a song, even the enigmatic "Solex in a Slipshod Style," on the face of it an odd choice, coming from Dutch sampling queen Solex. A few of the writers might be familiar to Americans, like Jacques Brel and Scott Walker, but the majority of the names will be unknown -- a good thing, since the music can be judged on the interpretation, not the original version. A few famous friends, like R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Los Lobos sax man Steve Berlin add contributions, but it's the band who make it special, with Carla Torgerson's velvety voice caressing the lyrics while Chris Eckman worries his way into others. It might not be the most relaxing journey on offer, but it's one of the most rewarding, a night train across a Europe, not only through the countries, but also the hearts, minds, and souls.
"To Treno Fevgi Stis Okto" ["The Train Leaves At Eight"] is a song of the great Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, who passed away last September, with lyrics by Manos Eleftheriou.
It was released in 1968 performed by Maria Dimitriadi.
In 1981 a cover version of the song was released by two of the greatest greek singers Haroula Alexiou and Dimitra Galani.
In 2000 the train left Greece and traveled the world, covered by The Walkabouts.