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Northern Songs

by jd meatyard

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Gavin Hellyer This record is just so good. It starts off with the greatest song of hero worship and super cool name dropping I've ever heard, and just continues around that standard right through the entire album. Favorite track: Standing on the Shoulders of....
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    second jd meatyard album.
    cover foto by the great simon barber.
    great contributions from steven lindley, natasha lea jones, johan visschers, phil hutchinson, jim donaldson...

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of A Long and A Winding Road..., DEEP FAKE, Reggae at the Mill Town, Live The Life, Jd Meatyard Live at The Eagle 2015, Calvin Party (Jd Meatyard) John Peel Session, The Batchain Pullers, Collectivise, and 9 more. , and , .

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and god made the PIXIES, so take off yr dress and send it to me we could all be debasers so where is my mind send it to me we're standing on the shoulders ... of better wo/ men there's a hip priest in salford, all over my daubings who made the nazis? we're all carrier bag men in hilarious corner, stand up for the hip priest. we're standing on the shoulders ... of better wo/ men i work thru the veil of the already spoken, the already said the mould's never broken, jonathan richtman faster miles an hour radio radio radio on it's a modern dance its a modern dance, pavement pavement brighten my corners, Its a wonderful life on a sparkled horse, king of nails eye pennies eye pennies... beck Elliot Smith he had songs to die for, you're just a girl that I used to know hi times hi times junk bond traders, you're just a girl that I used to know john cale john cale john coltrane, andalusia now that I've seen ya. Robert Wilson he had perfect lives, sonic youth I got Daydream Nation Eels Eels Eels Eels shane mcgowan kirsty mccoll ... patti smith, woody guthrie don van vliet eeeeeeee lectricity....hank williams ...U Roy U Roy U Roy ... free free... louden wainwright... etc etc
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there's da lying at the end of the street, ribs done broken by that bottle discreet, oh broken da, I wonder where you are. there's da playing that broken guitar, fog of smoke strumming that guitar. ohhhhhh hank williams smokin n wine and that cracked guitar. oh oh oh no sweet wine oh oh oh no sweet wine raging at the law when Anna got jailed, minor drugs bust, still got jailed ohhhh you screamed and wailed, you knew a rich man's kid would, never got jailed. oh oh oh no sweet wine, oh oh oh no sweet wine there's da cursin the queen on the tv no ma fkn queen, says he there's da lying on his dying bed got the 'tic game score and then... he's dead. oh oh oh no sweet wine oh oh oh no sweet wine that father of mine.
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Colour my life in those happiness hues fallout the sketch of my life that was blue black and grey all fade away, yellows and greens come to stay. Telephone calls in the heat of the night render me new in the heat of the night crackling airways of texts, nobody said middle - sex. So if you come, if you come will you come here to stay So if you come, if you come will you never go away we'll lie in bed with the papers we'll lie in bed with red wine. Amsterdam man said I'd no happy songs I guess he was right, my life sad songs its easy to write when you're down, self pity is fertile ground. So if you come, if you come will you come here to stay So if you come, if you come will you never go away we'll lie in bed with the papers we'll lie in bed with red wine. but stop... no more.
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Plain speak plain song its ok, to tell this story any other way its unnecessary anyway. Mixed metaphor, a rose is a rose, phatic emphatic stinks my nose its unnecessary anyway. I just want to dance with you, hitch your body close to mine the way that you do. I just want to dance with you... and love you love you true. In the empire of signs I'll think of you, in a meta langue I'll see you through that cotton dress my hair is a mess its true. Inn the deconstruction of myself, I see your hyperreality self Guess we'll have to meet real time its true. I just want to dance with you, hitch your body close to mine the way that you do. I just want to dance with you... and love you love you true. "jaques derrida jaques lacan roland barthes did you ever dance vladimir props did you ever bop, I'm thinking not, in your life. All I want to do is,,,,, dance with you.
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Photographs they're on fire, can't remember the things that I said or did, come closer you won't... there's a knife in the wall now and glass on the floor. And nothing to say works well, surveying the wreckage I wonder aloud what the fk have I done here... least the blood on the wall it comes off easily. so where do we go from here when we open the door in the morning the sky looks bigger somehow... one last waltzing.
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I'm curious to ask 'bout your minor depression the boots that you wore as your mark of despair, could be I've stumbled on some dysfunctional family psycho trait of yours. I cracked... you're better now. Family pictures family stories we exchanged in the sun where we lay, curiouser curiouser foto's and stories into your darkness and darkness we lay. But I cracked...you're better now. Now you don't have me to blame but your darkness still remains an in those photographs your story there is mapped. I cracked...you're better now. I cracked...you're better now.
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Come rest your head, see I'm not dead. Its just a wicked rumour, just some girls a wishing. yes it'll be alright, you know it'll be alright, yes it'll be alright, you know it'll be alright Don't mind me drinking, its just the way I'm thinking I don't want to worry you, guess I need the drinking. yes it'll be alright, you know it'll be alright,yes it'll be alright, you know it'll be alright...........
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Jesse James 02:58
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All Remains 03:02
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Jesus Call 03:19
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Shop 00:28
SHOP... SHOP SHOP TIL YOU DROP SHOP TIL YOU DROP SHOP... SHOP... SHOP.

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the second jd meatyard album... featuring live favourites Jesse James, Standing on the Shoulders, Love That Girl and A Political Song...
Here's a vid for Standing on the Shoulders... youtu.be/S1A1nJWneJw

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released May 20, 2014

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jd meatyard

well, via the great lamented john peel we were given a run around europe with our rackety post punk noise... as Levellers 5 then Calvin Party,,, Peel sessions n all... now on the 5th album as jd meatyard 'solo' project... new york anti folk and regular shows around uk/europe and 5 star reviews...wow, huh! 'The Batchain Pullers' December 2018 release on Probe Plus ... A big big love to all. ... more

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