There are about 14,000 coal miners in West Virginia.
We could give each of them a million dollars and close all of the mines for a little more than the cost of a single aircraft carrier.
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.
I sing that at the company karaoke every year, and just replace ‘company’ with our company’s name. It usually gets good chuckles from the workers and scowls from the sycophantic managers.
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!
that’s the first version I heard and tbh the original can’t hold a flame to his voice
cipő did it better
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
Seems to be missing “Pound a Week Rise”
I think it’s this one Sexy Time Although it doesn’t seem to actually be nine hours long
But 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 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.
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.”
I’ll begrudgingly accept this reality over the striking songs, because I also like non-disney star wars + Andor.
Man I hate having to make that distinction.
Look what they did to ma boy 😭
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.
I really like “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” by The Band (also not about coal mining).
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 dieI also like this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whdzP0GHuc4
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
I dont think subsonic is recommended anymore. It is closed source now. It has been forked and there are several forks available. Suck as navidrome.
I don’t use any of these though, so do your own research!
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
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Learned the hard way. Got this experimental radio I love and tended to have on most of the time. Well, a children’s choir bursting in full swing at the exact moment we were both peaking with my partner worked great as a contraceptive.
This is my go to album https://youtu.be/njB4CDHElUQ
Throw on some Utah Phillips, nothing better than an old Wobblie to preface getting wobbly with someone special, thank me later.
Put down your bibles, pick up your guns.
Blair Mountain here we come.
Mine is just sixteen hours of this:
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
Here’s another one for the sexy time
Barry White’s growly rendition of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
