Eternal search for one piece of classical music

[clive heath]

Beef Oven's elusive text bears a similarity to

For they that wasted us
Required of us mirth;
They that carried us away captive
Required of us a song.
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing the Lord's song
In a strange land?

from Belshazzar's Feast and presumably with the same biblical source.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

WTF are you two on about?

http://www.gandsmusic.com/

[Nick Armstrong]

Amazing what parco's original post has unleashed...

[ahinton]

I was playing Bernard Harrmann's Psycho

Herrmann; Harrmann's fist name is Harrrriet...

[french frank]

Thanks for clearing that up ts

Rivers of Babylon A flop? "Boney M.'s release stayed at the #1 position in the UK for five weeks and was also the group's only significant US chart entry, peaking at #30 in the Pop charts. In the UK Boney M. sold more than 1,985,000 copies of the song, meaning the single was awarded a platinum disc and is one of the top ten all-time best-selling singles in the UK, " saith the Wiki.

[Pabmusic]

Beef Oven's elusive text bears a similarity to

For they that wasted us
Required of us mirth;
They that carried us away captive
Required of us a song.
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing the Lord's song
In a strange land?

from Belshazzar's Feast and presumably with the same biblical source.

Yes. It's Psalm 137 - it appears in both Belshazzar's Feast and Boney M's (or Chickory Tip's) hit:

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Happy stuff

[ahinton]

Yes. It's Psalm 137 - it appears in both Belshazzar's Feast and Boney M's (or Chickory Tip's) hit:

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

I wonder what The Stones would have made of that at the time?...

[teamsaint]

Rivers of Babylon A flop? "Boney M.'s release stayed at the #1 position in the UK for five weeks and was also the group's only significant US chart entry, peaking at #30 in the Pop charts. In the UK Boney M. sold more than 1,985,000 copies of the song, meaning the single was awarded a platinum disc and is one of the top ten all-time best-selling singles in the UK, " saith the Wiki.

I wouldn't always trust Wiki, especially re punk heroes, FF.

[french frank]

I wouldn't always trust Wiki, especially re punk heroes, FF.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-million-sellers-the-uks-biggest-ever-selling-singles-revealed-1685/

[teamsaint]

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...revealed-1685/

Hyped !!

Can't trust them either !
Beefy actually worked on the Hyping team, he single handedly bought nearly 500 copies in the Shoreditch branch of "Our Price".

Good money in hyping, even for the runners.

[Parco]

Thank you!!!

Dvorak Symphony #9

P.S. Bet you recognise the second movement too

Thank you to EVERYONE who has replied ))) I am impressed and will be eternally grateful.

Listening to it on a constant loop

[teamsaint]

Go on, set another one parco
Or perhaps somebody else could.
Not that I would get them

[Pabmusic]

I wouldn't always trust Wiki, especially re punk heroes, FF.

Help me, please. I've never thought of Boney M as a punk band - more a sort of dance/reggae band. You've now called them 'punk' twice. Why? (I'm clearly missing something - not that I greatly desire to find it!)

[MrGongGong]

Help me, please. I've never thought of Boney M as a punk band - more a sort of dance/reggae band. You've now called them 'punk' twice. Why? (I'm clearly missing something - not that I greatly desire to find it!)

Weren't they some sort of "beat combo" ???



Hardly "punk" (but it does mean something else to Americans ) or even "Reggae"
but surely the "M" have taught the yoof more about Russian History than Gove ever will ?
So for that , it's time for "Night Flight to Venus"

[Pabmusic]

Weren't they some sort of "beat combo" ???



Hardly "punk" (but it does mean something else to Americans ) or even "Reggae"
but surely the "M" have taught the yoof more about Russian History than Gove ever will ?
So for that , it's time for "Night Flight to Venus"

A popular beat combo, M'lud.