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Officially released, live recordings of Fairport performances of songs that do not otherwise appear on their records are allowed.

The game pieces

My Feet Are Set For Dancing

Travelling by Steam...

Mr Lacey

Night Time Girl is particularly awful.

Jules

Uke Central - simply no excuse

This but as it has already been nominated, all the ones with London in the title, From A Distance and Rocky Road.

Yellow Bird

What?  It's an off-the-cuff bit of fun.  Plus my dad always used to sing it.  No, Will, I just won't have it.

Jules

"Dangerous"... ???

Well, I strongly disagree with both Travelling By Steam and The Game Pieces being nominated in this category too.

There's only one way to settle this.....Fi...wait for the poll!

So sad to concur, because WWDOOH is such a favorite of mine. I always skip this song...

Our Bus Rolls On

Friendship song

Big William. What were they thinking?

Currently..........................................
our bus rolls on

 ;D

Travelling By Steam

Farewell to a poor man's son, could have potentially spoilt my favourite album

Whereas I love that song so much that I once asked Swarb to help me make out some of the lyric that I couldn't quite hear.

Jules

Night Time Girl

The Crowd

What is it with people not liking this song?  It was one of my candidates for a favourite song by a non-member!

The Crowd

Rosie

It's awful  :(

Maybe if we had a bit more exposition on the subject(s) we might have a slightly better idea of why?  [;-)

Our bus rolls on....there's stiff competition but this still takes the biscuit

Well, to me, it just sums up everything that people seem to dislike about latter day Fairport. It's twee and tedious and...well, I just don't like it. (On the other hand I can't understand why people dislike Rosie or Night Time Girl, I love both)

But its still better than Uke Central!!

Love on a Farmboy's Wages.

What on earth possessed them to cover that XTC song? Sorry, but it has me hitting the FF button every time.

It is not a terrible cover though, just a bit pointless.

No, I have to disagree with you there Gub. I've just listened to the XTC original and have remembered that I do actually quite like it. Not my fave XTC song but still pretty good. But Ric's fiddle playing on the FC version ruins it and it doesn't suit Simon's voice. Just my opinion.

Chacun a son gout, I guess.  There are songs in the FC canon I could describe as twee and tedious, but Travelling By Steam definitely isn't one of them!

I haven't really listened to the last few CDs, so I can't comment on more recent releases, but I'm with David on this one.

This is the most dire thing ever recorded - probably by anybody ever!

Oh, it isn't that bad.  Just a bit of fun, really.  

Sorry ... Sloth from Full House for me.

I think we have our first full-scale controversial post!   :o

Jules

Comedy gold.
You are pulling our collective legs aren't you?
Of all the many stinkers in the FC canon, you picked one of the four pillars of Fairport.!!
If you are serious I weep for you.

While they're not "bad" songs as such, I really don't enjoy much of the band's Excalibur pieces; however, my least favourite FC song has to be "London River"... what were they thinking of?

No No sorry I won't have it... I'll allow you to say its twee... but not that its awful!

Remember when Skirky James and band - Songs From the Blue House -recorded it for Cancer Research UK?  No its a great song and not awful!

My Feet Are Set For Dancing or Gold. God they are both awful!

I forgot about My Feet Are Set For Dancing. So bad it's good, maybe???

........'and the war has begun'.  

Put a Sock In It....

Sorry, that's for the song from The Five Seasons as my pick, and not a reprimand  ;D

Oh Rob. We have found the point where we disagree. Not really a Fairport song I'll grant you but I like it none the less. Closer to some of what RT was doing at the time, albeit not in his league. Catchy as hell though (despite the mysogyny).

Our bus rolls on......

I think we have disagreed before. I'll grant you the rockier aspect of it but I guess for me what you say is the reason why-not really a Fairport song IMHO

Same for me!!!

Myths and heroes,

If I had an issue with the song it would be that it is a bit cliched, personally it always puts a smile on my face but I like Huw and Tony's arrangement. I must listen to that album I haven't listen to it in ages.

And a great bass line. In fact I think its one of the better tracks from a lacklustre album.

I agree and particularly because it interrupts the flow of the album. Maybe if it was on Rosie alongside Hungarian Rhapsody or Me With You it wouldn't seem quite so bad?

Over The Next Hill

The Crowd.

Over the Next Hill for me too. I've largely kept my head down since.....

Its a bit of a cliché but I love The Crowd and its sentiment.

Hmmm, is Festival Bell worse than that Uke thing? Festival Bell I think, by a short head.

Rui's guitar?

Wrong

 :P

It's great. It's actually folk-rocky, unlike so much of FC's stuff since Maart left. And I love the story behind its being written.

No, it is not rocky. It is jaunty and jauntiness spells death to credibility in music.

Shame because I love Huw Williams writing but I would much rather hear him & Tony perform it without the schmaltz.

What's something like Walk Awhile or How Many Times if not jaunty?

And I don't see a connection between jauntiness and lack of credibility. Tweeness, yes, and we know where maximum twee can be found...

It's not particularly good, it brings nothing to the song, the fast bits of the vocal are too fast for Simon. The nice thing is that it reminds us of the common factor between Fairport and XTC, the legend that is Dave Mattacks.

I can't remember the name " Diamonds and Gold" maybe, I'm still caring for my mom so can't look through my music shelf. A friend calls it "Fairport Soft Porn"....about the young lady who gets a real wake-up call when she leaves home after being a spoiled daddy's girl.

Bring me back my feathers....wtf?

'White Dress' .

I guess i'm just not a romantic.

And I like 'Mr Lacey'.  Maybe the problem is it comes hard on the heels of the lilting beauty of 'Fotheringay'