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Swedish doom metal band Candlemass with the heavy hitting Solitude off of their '86 Epicus Doomicus Metallicus debut.

Wipers with Romeo off of their '83 Over The Edge LP.

Marillion with their '86 non-album single Welcome To The Garden Party.

The 80's just wouldn't be complete without The Fall. Mr. Pharmacist off of their '86 Bend Sinister LP. The album itself may have been inspired from the dystopian novel of same name written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 1945 and 1946.

Some heavy metal is occasionally warranted as long as it doesn't damage my ear drums. Mercyful Fate with the title track of their '84 Curse Of The Pharaohs LP. I should be saving this for my Halloween special. Mai pen rai. I've got plenty enough.

Talk Talk performing Living In Another World live at Montreaux in '86. From their '86 The Colour Of Spring album.

The Stone Roses with their '87 non-album single Sally Cinnamon.

Depeche Mode with Personal Jesus off of their '89 Violator LP.

Joy Division with their '80 non-album single Love Will Tear Us Apart.

The Cure with an extended mix of Fascination Street off of their '89 Disintegration LP.

The Smiths with their '87 non-album single Sheila Take a Bow.

Another fine tune from The Men They Couldn't Hang. Johnnie Come Home off of the same '85 Night Of A Thousand Candles album.

Sometimes a song's lyrics are so good that I'll post them. Not only are these lyrics supremely excellent they also speak towards the ultimate folly of man's most repugnant acts . . . war. War is an accurate indication of the level of our true understanding of life. Which, it seems to prove, is very, very little. MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG The Green Fields Of France (no Man's Land) Well, how do you do, Private William McBride, Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside? And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun, I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done. And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916, Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly? Did the rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down? Did the bugles sound The Last Post in ? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined? And, though you died back in 1916, To that loyal heart are you forever 19? Or are you a stranger without even a name, Forever enshrined behind some glass pane, In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained, And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame? The sun's shining down on these green fields of France; The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance. The trenches have vanished long under the plow; No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man. And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?" Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain, For Willie McBride, it all happened again, And again, and again, and again, and again.

Some musical song history for Let's Work Together. Originally titled Let's Stick Together it was written by Wilbert Harrison and released as a single in '62. He continued to adapt it and in '69 released Let's Work Together, which became the title track of his '69 album. Canned Heat picked up the song and recorded their famous version of Let's Work Together in '70, which appeared on their Future Blues LP. Bryan Ferry then recorded Let's Stick Together, which became the title track of his '76 album. Decades later . . . . . . . and I'm posting about it all on some Internet site in Asia of all places to a bunch of displaced personages. Life's a trip.

And again for the Ladies . . . Odetta with a beautiful rendition of With God On Our Side off of her '65 Odetta Sings Dylan album.

The Fireballs with the title track of their '68 Bottle Of Wine LP.

Jimmy Ruffin's '66 hit single What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted, featured on his '67 Jimmy Ruffin Sings Top Ten LP.

Another one for the Ladies . . . Margaret Whiting with her '66 hit single The Wheel Of Hurt.

Syndicate Of Sound with the title track of their '66 Little Girl LP.

Ramsey Lewis with his jazzy rendition of the traditional African American jubilee song, Wade In The Water, the title track of his '66 LP.

Hisko Detria with a fantastic psychedelic cover of Canned Heat's On the Road Again from their 2012 Static Raw Power Kraut (demo). FYI, if you go to the band's Bandcamp page they offer a free download (mp3) of the entire album.

The Stones with Indian Girl off of their '80 Emotional Rescue LP.

Bob Dylan performing Abandoned Love live at New York City's The Other End on July 3, '75.

Roy Harper with Goodbye off of his '70 Flat Baroque And Berserk LP.

The Men They Couldn't Hang with Green Fields Of France (No Man's Land) off of their '85 Night Of A Thousand Candles album.