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THE CHARGE IN C20 & C21 POP MUSIC
Manfred Mann, 54321 [ADD]
Iron Maiden, Trooper [ADD]
The Charge in poetry and song after 1950
Iron Maiden, "The Trooper", (19??). ["You'll take my life but I'll take yours too. You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through..."].
Manfred Mann, "5-4-3-2-1", (1964), [""].
Andrew Motion, "The Dog of the Light Brigade", (date), [CHECK TEXT: "We have to remember: when Raglan and others decided that hour had come, and did as they felt, and ordered their mess-mates and countrymen yes, the noble six hundred, most of whom never had even so much as imagined what shooting and shelling were like, away from the Shires..."].
The Tallywags, " Charge of the Light Brigade", (2018), ["What a palava, at Balaclava"]. [Unofficial World Cup anthem.]
Roger Whittaker, "The Charge of the Light Brigade", (1962?), ["The Charge of the Light Brigade went down in history"].
p>Roger Whittaker [ADD]?? Rosanne June - The Charge Of The Light Brigade
Label: Caprice (3) - 45-0052
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: US
Released: 1956
Genre: Pop
? Pop group called "Enoch Light [?] and The Charge of the Light Brigade"? [ADD]
Balaklava, Pearls Before Swine (1968) [TIDY UP & ADD IMAGES]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gJG38EJ46g
Balaklava, Pearls Before Swine (1968)
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"Tom Rapp's Pearls Before Swine were perhaps the greatest band venturing in psychedelic-folk during the 1960s. Their two masterpieces, One Nation Underground (1967) and especially Balaklava (1968) are mosaics of atmospheric songs that defy classification, evoking the hallucinated state of Dali's surrealism, lushly arranged, and influenced by both classical and jazz music."
Piero Scaruffi on Pearls Before Swine
YeshuaKingsKid 7 years ago
The album cover is taken from "The Triumph of Death" an oil painting on panel, painted c. 1562 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, it depicts the grotesque horrors of war. Tom Rapp wanted to produce a themed anti-war album, and chose the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava in 1854 as an example of the futility of war. The album was dedicated to Private Edward Slovik, the only US soldier executed for desertion in the Second World War. [Wikipedia]
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PB: The LP starts with the Edison C19 voice recordings Trumpeter Landfrey and ends with Florence Nightingale. It is not obvious what connection there is with the Charge in any of the lyrics, though there is a vague reference in one of the songs...
New Model Army - The Charge [DATE?]
http://www.songlyrics.com/new-model-army/the-charge-lyrics/
Album: Thunder And Consolation
New Model Army
Thunder And Consolation
The Charge
Our history speaks in thunder
From a thousand village halls
In blood and sweat and sacrifice
In honoring every hall
So the forces gathered against the thorn
A-piercing in their side
The brave new world is beckoning
So the olden world must die
In the offices of the city
At all the tables of oak and power
The snares are laid and baited
For the approaching of the hour
A hundred justifications
And the presses are ready to roll
The gateways to the nation
They are firmly under control
CHORUS:
On on on, cried the leaders at the back
We went galloping down the
Blackened hills
And into the gaping trap
The bridges are burnt behind us
And there's waiting guns ahead
Into the valley of death
Rode the brave hundreds
Well we called for reinforcements
From the friends that we had known
But this is the 1980s
And we were on our own
We never felt like heroes
Or martyrs to a cause
Just battle-weary soldiers
In a bloody civil war
CHORUS:
On on on, cried the leaders at the back
The massacre now is over
And the order new enshrined
While a quarter of the nation
Are abandoned far behind
Their leaders offer the cliche words
So righteous in defeat
But no one needs morality
When there isn't enough to eat
The unity bond is broken
And the loyalty songs are fake
I'll screw my only brother
For even a glimpsy at a piece of the cake
We only cry in private now
Behind the shuttered glass
When we think of the charge of this brigade
The severing of the past
CHORUS:
On on on, cried the leaders at the back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Model_Army_(band)
New Model Army - The Charge Lyrics
http://www.songlyrics.com/new-model-army/the-charge-lyrics/
Album: Thunder And Consolation
New Model Army
Thunder And Consolation
The Charge
Our history speaks in thunder
From a thousand village halls
In blood and sweat and sacrifice
In honoring every hall
So the forces gathered against the thorn
A-piercing in their side
The brave new world is beckoning
So the olden world must die
In the offices of the city
At all the tables of oak and power
The snares are laid and baited
For the approaching of the hour
A hundred justifications
And the presses are ready to roll
The gateways to the nation
They are firmly under control
CHORUS:
On on on, cried the leaders at the back
We went galloping down the
Blackened hills
And into the gaping trap
The bridges are burnt behind us
And there's waiting guns ahead
Into the valley of death
Rode the brave hundreds
Well we called for reinforcements
From the friends that we had known
But this is the 1980s
And we were on our own
We never felt like heroes
Or martyrs to a cause
Just battle-weary soldiers
In a bloody civil war
CHORUS:
On on on, cried the leaders at the back
The massacre now is over
And the order new enshrined
While a quarter of the nation
Are abandoned far behind
Their leaders offer the cliche words
So righteous in defeat
But no one needs morality
When there isn't enough to eat
The unity bond is broken
And the loyalty songs are fake
I'll screw my only brother
For even a glimpsy at a piece of the cake
We only cry in private now
Behind the shuttered glass
When we think of the charge of this brigade
The severing of the past
CHORUS:
On on on, cried the leaders at the back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Model_Army_(band)