Is it gonna go down laughing
Is it gonna go out with a bang
Is there gonna be a fanfare
Is there gonna be a creak
Or a whole salvation army band
Are we gonna hear it beak
What kind of noise will it make?
What kind of noise will it make?
Are they gonna sing hymns round the fire
Will it crackle like the bones of the damned
Are our million little Gods gonna run for the hills
Proclaiming this is not what they had planned
Are we gonna hear it shake
What kind of noise will it make?
What kind of noise will it make?
You know I'm colour blind
Is this green or red
Cos all those monkeys who should be typing Shakespeare
Are pushing buttons instead
Will it sound like a plane through the window
Or a verse of Auld Lang Syne
Tell me that I'm wrong
Come on tell me
I've watched Bob Peck onto many times
Yeah I know just whats at stake
But what kind of noise will it make?
What kind of noise will it make?
You know I'm colour blind
Is this green or red
Cos all those monkeys who should be typing Shakespeare
Are pushing buttons instead
And is it gonna sound like Strummer
Or is it gonna sound like Brahms
Or will it not make a peep
Will we just hear the snap
Of all those useless lucky charms
Will we hear it way too late
What kind of noise will it make?
What kind of noise will it make?
What kind of noise will it make?
All I wanna know is
What kind of noise will it make?
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John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP. yellowcakeuf6
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There's a similarity in song writing between Richard Thompson and Hugh Cornwell which maybe isn't surprising as they went to the same school at the same time, although Thompson is older.
Due to Thompson's association with John French of Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band I searched for his work on the Bandcamp app. French, Thompson and Cornwell all have albums on the app which I'm very pleased about. Only Thompson has released contemporary albums, much to his credit. yellowcakeuf6
Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020