https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdOFwuN8Nb0

Above is the Irish folk band Clannad, performing in 1982. They were a sibling-formed band from Ireland, with two of their uncles joining in. Straight-up, I really enjoy this tune, and appreciate the band. It’s a far cry from toothless Shane MacGowan screaming “pogue mahone!” in to the void (IYKYK), altho I certainly do love The Pogues.

BONUS PTS: maybe you remember the youngest Brennan sister above, from later projects…?

Note: this community is indeed primarily devoted to Euro Comics, but with the caveat that it occasionally branches out to other Euro artistry just for fun, at the discretion of the poster.

For myself, I’m still thinking over how to best handle this stuff, but it seems like loosening the reigns a bit on Fridays (and maybe the weekends?) seems like a fair way to uphold the project’s mission, whilst allowing our posters to exercise their creativity. <3

  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I appreciate this notion and welcome the measured, tasteful curation of thematically adjacent content! 🤩🥳🤌🏼

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Thank you!! Makes me feel good when people appreciate that.

      Posts like these are pretty important to me in fact, because when they’re met well, it means that I can look at myself as someone who doesn’t have to always produce BD-themed posts. Makes me feel appreciated as the human behind the project.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      There were some movies about midgets taking a magic ring on a national tour (or something like that), but I couldn’t remember what part she played. Checked it in WP, and the gal only wound up doing two songs for the films, but that’s slightly deceptive, as much of the soundtrack seemed modeled on her singing and song-style.

      Haha.

      Btw, have you ever heard the earlier suite of songs used for the Rankin-Bass adaptations? I was kind of gutted that they couldn’t use some of them for the films. One of my favorites was Glenn Yarbrough’s version of “Roads.” Really quite magical IMO:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdQ1E3t3Qq0&list=PL545948224B999E8A&index=4

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Oh yeah, that was a corker. The link above is actually the entire collected soundtrack, so I think that one’s in there?

          Also pretty cool to me because that one was an effective counterpart chorus, something I certainly wasn’t expecting for an all-ages / children’s film. Really, the voice-work and soundtrack were levels above the actual animation IMO.

          • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            Those goblins were not what I pictured when I’d read the books, and they stuck with me for years after. Gobblers. Vile, split-head piranha-mawed Kirby demons. 😵‍💫 Horrible, and perfectly depicted.