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Poll Question: Which three are your favorites?
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3 [4.92%]
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4 [6.56%]
6 [9.84%]
1 [1.64%]
2 [3.28%]
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3 [4.92%]
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2 [3.28%]
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4 [6.56%]
5 [8.20%]
5 [8.20%]
1 [1.64%]
3 [4.92%]
7 [11.48%]
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0 [0.00%]
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Here's one from me, it is a Deep Purple track once again. No matter the fact that it is a cover, I believe it qualifies, off the band's self-titled third album.
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Second from me is an artist I have nominated before, Mark Eitzel. While the "Southend on Sea" of the title is probably referencing the town, the song is full of water imagery, so hopefully this works.

Mark Eitzel "Southend on Sea"

Edit for a different video that should play for more of you. 


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This gives me the opportunity to bring up two further artists that I love big time and have never used in these polls - I'm pretty close to running out I guess but there's still something to be found.
Mice Parade - Waterslide (the search function tells me that in this forum they were only mentioned once by somebody else, twice by me, but in the youtube comments you read "prog" and "math rock"...)
Probably quite a bit better known is this one, Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines, in a great 2012 live version (Lorenzo will call this guilty synth pop pleasure and of course it is, and originally from the early 80s; I'm guilty as ever).
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Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Do tears count as water too? If yes I suggest this one:

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The German title "Naturträne" translates as "Tear of Nature" or "Natural Tear". Some phenomenal singing by Nina.





Of course tears count as water (as one of my selections is called "Tears").  Anything water-based counts, even contact solution (saline), but I challenge anyone to find a song about contact solution.

Looks like we've had some great selections so far.  I wasn't sure if this would be a difficult one or not, but it seems to be working out well.  (Well.  Get it?)



Maybe someone should nominate this:



With a song like that, perhaps the band should be called Weeing.
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Nice topic. First one from me has Ian Gillan possibly going for a third poll appearance in a row. Previously nominated in the April Fools poll and then in the last one with Deep Purple, I have this different one from the duo of Gillan & Glover. Probably recorded on break from Richie Blackmore, er... Deep Purple, they collaborated on some non-Deep Purple type songs, including this one.

Gillan & Glover "Clouds and Rain"
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Do tears count as water too? If yes I suggest this one:

Video removed for space

The German title "Naturträne" translates as "Tear of Nature" or "Natural Tear". Some phenomenal singing by Nina.

Of course tears count as water (as one of my selections is called "Tears").  Anything water-based counts, even contact solution (saline), but I challenge anyone to find a song about contact solution.

Looks like we've had some great selections so far.  I wasn't sure if this would be a difficult one or not, but it seems to be working out well.  (Well.  Get it?)


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^ yes, thank you! Thumbs Up

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Cristi, does this one work?
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Do tears count as water too? If yes I suggest this one:



The German title "Naturträne" translates as "Tear of Nature" or "Natural Tear". Some phenomenal singing by Nina.


Edited by BaldFriede - April 30 2021 at 13:45


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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

... Here's my nomination: Handel - Water Music....


Wonderful music! This young Turkish boy, stuck in the seventies, judging by the length of his hair, is talented, in my opinion he will give us satisfaction!


Historians get the true story of Handel's [sic] Water Music wrong. It is said that King George I asked Handel to provide music for his River Thames barge party, and the suite was the result. In reality, it was Boy George I (who also sported long hair) that asked DJ Handles to create music (Handles' Passing Water Music) to help with his urinary retention, but it worked far too well as he developed chronic urinary incontinence. A very pissed Boy George I later wrote a song about Handles, who George unfairly blamed for Handles' great success, called "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Do you Really Want to Make Me Pee)" which featured the lyrics:

"Do you really want to hurt me,
Do you really want to make me pee...
Come inside and catch my whizz
I've been piddling but believe me
If it's true you do not know
This boy wees without a reason
I'm prepared to let it go
If it's piss you want from me
Then feel my spray
Please take it away" (The UnCultured Club).

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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Well, Springsteen's "The River" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" would be both shoe-ins for this poll, but - as per Mike's initial post - I'd rather go for songs that don't have such a high profile. This one is probably not as well-known as either of them:


I need to think about a couple more at least. I've stuck to just one song for the past two polls, but now it's time to have a wider range of selections!


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My second selection, which came to mind almost as quickly as my first, is Adenine. This is the ambient alter-ego of Scottish harpist Ailie Robertson. She has released plenty of more traditional harp fare under her own name, but this is her first ambient release – and the music is lush and beautiful. I’ve been listening to it and loving it since being introduced to it in March 2020. The eponymous Adenine opens up with possibly my favourite track, Smirr (which Adenine’s Bandcamp page tells me is a Scottish word to describe a fine, drifting rain or drizzle). The sounds of this smirr are omnipresent in the track, and provide the most gorgeous accompaniment to the sounds of the harp. It’s the most effective use of precipitation as an instrument that I’ve ever encountered, and not at all the cliché that the sound of rain can often take in music. 

The watery theme continues with Spindrift, and has a suitably weightless and breathy sound that perfectly evokes the swirling spray blown from creating waves. There’s a sensation of floating, and being carried along – being taken where the wind blows you. Apparently, spindrift in Scotland can also refer to the fine snow that is blown off hills in a similar way. So this is perhaps the intended meaning (though I can’t help but imagine the sea, rather than snow), as the following track is Flindrikin, which is one of (so I’m lead to believe) over 400 words the Scots have for snow. Strangely, a flindrikin is a light shower of snow, while this track feels considerably heavier, and crunchy. Aftak is an easing or lull in a storm, which only furthers the impression that Flindrikin may have been named somewhat ironically. Aftak lives up to its name, a beautiful and quiet oasis of minimalism. The watery theme returns with final track, and my second favourite after Smirr, Haar. A haar is a cold sea fog that is blown inland, but there’s nothing cold about this haar. It’s as perfect a closing number as Smirr was an opening number. This album was well worth the wait. Another favourite album from last year!

https://adenine1.bandcamp.com/album/adenine




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Fluturi Pe Asfalt  - Munti Sub Mari (Mountains under the Sea)


Celelalte Cuvinte - Paraul (The Stream)


I'll be back with a couple more songs tomorrow. 
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Well, Springsteen's "The River" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" would be both shoe-ins for this poll, but - as per Mike's initial post - I'd rather go for songs that don't have such a high profile. This one is probably not as well-known as either of them:


I need to think about a couple more at least. I've stuck to just one song for the past two polls, but now it's time to have a wider range of selections!
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The first thing that immediately sprang to mind was Nau Mai e Kā Hua, which was an album that really resonated with me last year. Between Monday 16th and Friday 20th November, Rattle decided to do something they’d not done before, and release five albums in five days - or “Five-in-Five” as they promoted it.year. 

Nau Mau e Kā Hua was the third release, and it would take something quite special to follow, let alone top, the last two offerings, as both David Harrow and the Tania Giannouli Trio albums are top notch, but this third offering on a hump day was definitely no slump. It’s an absolutely stunning album from Ariana Tikao and Al Fraser. Whether it’s because I hail from Aotearoa, I’m never sure, but I’m a real sucker for taonga pūoro (the traditional musical instruments of the Māori). Ruby Solly’s album, Pōneke, released earlier in 2020 and full of glorious and gorgeous taonga puoro, remains one of my favourite releases of that year, and Nau Mai e Kā Hua is right up there with it - an album which is all about water.


I love the cover image of Nau Mai e Kā Hua, as it perfectly portrays what I will hear from any taonga puoro music: something deep, mysterious and immersive. The artwork is titled “Te Korowai o Tangaroa” – the cloak of Tangaroa (god of the sea and fish), and that also makes sense. There’s something remarkably intimate and sensitive about the music of taonga puoro that doesn’t just sound natural, but at one with nature.

The multitude of sounds from the various instruments played provides a quite beautiful tapestry of different textures and tones. Deep thrums, breathy whistles, birdsong, and more; the expressive voices of taonga puoro would all be quite beautiful without further adornment. But there’s no denying that the vocals of Ariana Tikao add yet another colour to the palette, and another layer of depth (to keep to the watery theme that the cover art inspires). Indeed, midway through the album is a track called Te reo o te wai. Now my knowledge of Maori is rudimentary at best, but even I can recognise that immediately as “the language of the water”, and it’s exactly as you might expect it to sound. This is an album I can see myself returning to time and time again.

I don’t think there are any videos for any of the tracks, but here is the Bandcamp page:

https://rattle-records.bandcamp.com/album/nau-mai-e-k-hua
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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

I was not gonna participate this time, as I'll not be very active here for some time; but couldn't resist the water... Star

Here's my nomination: Handel - Water Music




Wonderful music! This young Turkish boy, stuck in the seventies, judging by the length of his hair, is talented, in my opinion he will give us satisfaction!LOLWink





Edited by jamesbaldwin - April 30 2021 at 13:02
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I know, it's more than 3 or 4...so sue me. LOL
Plus, all my favourite songs about water on artists on PA :
ELP - Take A Pebble
Peter Gabriel - I Go Swimming
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Genesis - Ripples
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon

You get the picture.
Enjoy (I already know which one I'll pick) Thumbs Up

The Doobie Brothers - Black Water


Enya - Orinoco Flow



Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald



Gowan - Oceania


Men At Work - Down By The Sea



Men Without Hats Walk On Water





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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

I was not gonna participate this time, as I'll not be very active here for some time; but couldn't resist the water... Star...


Yep, I love this topic. It's absolutely not water bored. Or water boredom, or waterboreding to be rather tortuous about it.

My favourite kind of waterboarding is windsurfing, by the way, though that could also be torture for some.
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My selection:

1) Alberto Fortis: Mary




2) Dave Matthews Band: Dont Drink The Water (Lp version)





3) Francesco Guccini once again: Acque






Edited by jamesbaldwin - April 30 2021 at 12:28
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I was not gonna participate this time, as I'll not be very active here for some time; but couldn't resist the water... Star

Here's my nomination: Handel - Water Music
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