So why can’t I have all the albatross tracks on my blog? After I did say I couldn’t post everything yesterday so today, this weekend on Saturday morning but it’s only really all the ones I know? Making a top 5 in random order! If you do know more or just do have a fave an “albatross” song? Please do share with me! Off course, a couple of them I’ve just posted in the last two days so you should say it’s all not really very well planned or anything but does anyone care what the hell I post?
Corrosion Of Conformity – Albatross (1994):
Foals – Albatross (2015):
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross (1968):
Sarah Blasko – The Albatross (2006):
Public Image Ltd. – Albatross (1979):
Off course, “the word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden that feels like a curse. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).” As Wikipedia tells me/you/everyone, a lot of bands/artists do have “albatross” songs but I think my top 5 is still pretty great after looking at that list, that page is linked here.
So who wants to now watch David Attenborough talk about real wild albatross?
Apologies to everyone out there for doing three days in a row all about “albatross” songs because it really might/could be a bit tooo much?
Cheers! 🙂
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Love the idea of linking the symbology of the albatross to various songs, so quirky and so interesting.
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Oh cool, glad you enjoy it!
Cheers yet again 🙂
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Love it!!! Already a huge fan of the Peter Green version of Fleetwood Mac, and that beautiful instrumental, for decades now; then, along came PIL, and “Flowers of Romance”, and that made me take a long hard listen…. ended up loving their tune by the same name before long. Perhaps, soon, I will have a chance to check out a couple of the others on your list [not such a fan of COC, I must admit] 😉 Keep up the great posts, William!
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Oh yeah, most deaf gotta highlight Peter Green, should have credited him above! Thanks for letting me know you’re enjoying my posts!
Cheers mate 🙂
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Upon reading your previous post, I was almost going to mention the “Albatross” by my beloved Foals, so you must have read my mind! I also like the ones by Fleetwood Mac and Sarah Blasko a lot too.
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Oh yeah, that Foals one is from your fave album by them, if i remember right? Glad you dig a couple of the others toooo!
Cheers mate! 🙂
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You have a good memory, William! Yes, “What Went Down” is a great album, and I plan on writing a piece about it in the near future.
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Oh cool, i will look forward to see what you have say about!
Cheers mate 🙂
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“Albatross“ by Karat (1978); a very fine song and a very sucsessful Band from Eastgermany. Great lyrics. The Message is the longing for release over the ocean. No more borders, no Berlin Wall, no fear for life, when you get there. That Message is hidden behind metaphoric lines, so the song came legal on the record. But everyone recognized: That Bird could be me.
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Hey man that’s a cool song, just looked it up on youtube so cheers for sharing it with me! 🙂
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All worth listening to, but Sarah Blasko takes it for me.!
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Good call man! 🙂
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