You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
That one’s the best by far.
Love this one. Absolute banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j91-18Kb4
Geoff Castellucci (the bass singer from Voiceplay) made a great cover version of that one btw ❤️
Damn, that was really good. I’ve only ever heard the original, but brava
Right?! I highly recommend that you rabbit hole the shit out of both his solo stuff and Voiceplay! So damn good!
God don’t venture down here
The Devil’s lost your name
Your life hangs in the balance
on this fragile human chain
And when your spirit’s waning
The fear is yours to tame
When you feel the darkness closing
Turn up your carbide flameSo tell God and the Devil they can try
But today’s not gonna be the day we dieBut the banks are made of marble
With a guard at every door
And the vaults are filled with silver
That the miners sweated for
I don’t have a link anymore, but this playlist does exist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TwmS2Fps3wdCIoBy9r4BX
but that’s just shy of an hour.
I have a good many of these in a personal “class war” Playlist but this increases my collection
I think it’s this one Sexy Time Although it doesn’t seem to actually be nine hours long
I wonder if it was specifically about coal miners, or if that was just the theme of the playlist. Because if it’s just the vibe, there’s some great songs there. First two that come to mind are Dire Straits’ “Telegraph Road” and Springsteen’s “The River”, but there’s a lot more like that.
Come, mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and me wan’ go home) Come, mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and me wan’ go home)
Definitely not about coal miners, but certainly a song about blue collar workers
I was just thinking about that song because I watched The Greatest Night in Pop, and they broke into singing Day-O at one point in the process. I was just thinking a call and response work song would have made for a much better solution for what they were trying to do, which was have a chorus, but also give soloists a chance to do a very quick solo.
But just believe in me, baby, and I’ll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'Cause I’ve run every red light on memory lane
I’ve seen desperation explode into flames
And I don’t want to see it again
If it even exists. The coal miner part was obviously added in after the fact and not part of the original tweet.
Indeed, the original read, “It was 9 hours of non-stop Star Wars cantina band.”
Put down your bibles, pick up your guns.
Blair Mountain here we come.
Do people have sexy time playlists?
Yes, it is just cbat on repeat
Is that the radio version of C-Span?
Its a reference to a viral post from reddit
Because there’s always a relevant XKCD.
This is my go to album https://youtu.be/njB4CDHElUQ
Are there even enough Billy Bragg albums to do this?
After listening to his rendition of She’s Leaving Home, does there need to be even be one Billy Bragg album
Need YouTube playlist link! Please
(Bcuz fuck Spotify. But also fuck Google. But ya.)
I miss Grooveshark
subsonic is a similar setup though nowhere near as much love yet
Barry White’s growly rendition of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
Here’s another one for the sexy time
Mine is just sixteen hours of this:
It’s in the evening after dark
When the blackleg miner creeps to work
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg minerSo join the union while you may
Don’t wait till your dying day
For that may not be far away
You dirty blackleg minerBlackleg Miner (traditional - Roud 3193) - listen to the Steeleye Span version, ideally from the Back in Line album - and don’t break the strike!
Not about striking but still a good one
