Remembrance Day Playlist

[BBMmk2]

There's plenty of brit music out there that be most suitable

[cloughie]

By the time you came on the receiving end the problems had been long entrenched, however. Right now I'm re-watching the wonderful TV series of 1996 "Our Friends in the North", which I would recommend anyone to to help refresh memories of what had been going on in high places since the 1960s at least, giving the accurate picture of the ways in which it all unfolded and the corrupted structures and people, though fictionalised, involved.[/QUOTE]

...and when we hear of cabinet papers in the 80s where serious suggestions were made to leave Liverpool to wither - this was the era in which greed and the wealth gap really took hold.

[Lat-Literal]

Many thanks for a wonderful post, L-L!

Thank you Tony for your kind comments.

That's OK - lots more people probably do than are prepared openly to admit it, Lat. I only get the thing because at least the Legion are doing something on behalf of squaddies where the state is failing disgracefully at taking care of them.

By the time you came on the receiving end the problems had been long entrenched, however. Right now I'm re-watching the wonderful TV series of 1996 "Our Friends in the North", which I would recommend anyone to to help refresh memories of what had been going on in high places since the 1960s at least, giving the accurate picture of the ways in which it all unfolded and the corrupted structures and people, though fictionalised, involved.

That is very true.

I was shielded from the negative aspects of the 1960s and have asked myself in recent years how there ever was a significant political strand in me. My parents were in the "we're not especially interested in politics" category which I still find bizarre given the Today programme was required to be a member of our family. The answers are shockingly banal - hippy lyrics in songs about "changing the world", the excitement of liberals emerging from a helicopter on a Devon beach and not one but two general elections during 1974.

Those elections introduced a new range of statistics and lists to enjoy along with ones pertaining to music and sport. And as they were constantly in the news, they were a bombardment which only a zombie could fail to take in, even if aged 12. Later, one finds what feels like a natural position - "support for the underdog" - and subsequently with selected historical reference - constructs some sort of a justification. "Yes, these people rather than those people were/are kindlier and they made life better for many of us".

To really think of it all now, the principal roots were essentially perceptions of parents-and-child and parents-and-their-parents writ large as some sort of antidote to the tougher complexities encountered in wider daily life. One decade later and beyond it, study and greater ability for objectivity helped to illustrate that "everywhere" has its grey areas. Whatever the evidence of there being bad rather than good, it was decades before in any understanding of political greys I viewed those not as light shades but distinctly dark.

Direct impacts change instincts!

And I'm now "Post-Political"!

[NatBalance]

Some great choices here. This is what I was doing yesterday, but not on these bells:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJSyZkZ_nQ0

The sound of half muffled bells is one of the most evocative sounds I know, and one that I feel gives respect to those who risked and gave their lives for us.

[gurnemanz]

This always gets me. Here's to Dickie A

[Flosshilde]

There's plenty of brit music out there that be most suitable

One of the reasons why I dislike the institutionalised 'Remembrance' thing. It's only recently that it's started to recognise that there were 'non-brits' fighting with the 'brits'. Still some way off from remembering that there were husbands, sons, brothers on all sides who died because they were told to.

[Mary Chambers]

One of the reasons why I dislike the institutionalised 'Remembrance' thing. It's only recently that it's started to recognise that there were 'non-brits' fighting with the 'brits'. Still some way off from remembering that there were husbands, sons, brothers on all sides who died because they were told to.

Yes. I will start to support it when it remembers all dead, including civilians, of all sides. I dislike the nationalistic military nature of the commemorations.

[visualnickmos]

Yes. I will start to support it when it remembers all dead, including civilians, of all sides. I dislike the nationalistic military nature of the commemorations.

I echo your comments, here.
Also, I don't like the way that religion is the core of the commemoration - more particularly that is has become yet another "Church of England" show. I cannot see what religion has to do with it.

[MrGongGong]

One of the reasons why I dislike the institutionalised 'Remembrance' thing. It's only recently that it's started to recognise that there were 'non-brits' fighting with the 'brits'. Still some way off from remembering that there were husbands, sons, brothers on all sides who died because they were told to.

YES

Yes. I will start to support it when it remembers all dead, including civilians, of all sides. I dislike the nationalistic military nature of the commemorations.

YES

our governments also have a nasty habit of supporting official Remembrance, whilst encouraging arms sales all over the world.
That seems to me to be pretty big problem.

YES

http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/2015/my-name-is-legion/

Having an arms manufacturer as "sponsor" is totally despicable and shows sick contempt for those who have suffered.

As the Telegraph noted, “a decision by British defence manufacturer BAE Systems to sponsor this year’s Poppy Day has been likened to ‘King Herod sponsoring a special day reserved to prevent child cruelty’”.

[Beef Oven!]

There's plenty of brit music out there that be most suitable

True, and I tend to go for British works, but it must be remembered that Remembrance Day is to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts, so we should try to consider Commonwealth composers, too.

[teamsaint]

in response to Gongers' #40, the company that I work for did a piece of commercial work with the RBL in very recent times.

The behaviour during that work of the RBL was distinctly unimpressive, sadly.

[Pabmusic]

True, and I tend to go for British works, but it must be remembered that Remembrance Day is to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts, so we should try to consider Commonwealth composers, too.

Yes. British Empire and Dominions, actually (if we're talking about the two world wars).

[BBMmk2]

I suppose it the Patriotism I feel for my country but we must not forget the multitudes of the Commonwealth populace who came to help.