LIVE! Contrarians Chat: Down On the Farm... Barnyard Album Covers!

Published 2024-05-15
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All Comments (21)
  • The scarecrow show was Worzel Gummidge, which featured ex-Doctor Who Jon Pertwee.
  • Episode after episode it's so much fun listening to you guys rambling on about album covers. PLEASE keep it up, best hour spent every week! You guys (or kids, as Grant used to call his mates and us watchers the first couple of episodes) are the best! Cheers to you all!, bunch of winners!
  • If I had to pick one hands down No doubt about it lovely Linda Ronstadt and silk purse Schwing!! 😂 😍😛😛😛
  • My 10 have a focus on the harvesting of arable crops: 1. Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses (Shire horses on a farm) 2. Steeleye Span - Please To See The King (a man and horse ploughing a field against a sack-cloth background) 3. The Albion Band - Battle of the Field (farm labourers harvesting wheat) 4. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die (a sheaf of wheat) 5. Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me (Arthur Russell standing in a field of maize) 6. Anthony Phillips - Private Parts and Pieces (wheatfields in which the wheat has been cut in interesting patterns) 7. James Gang - Straight Shooter (Texas Longhorn cattle grazing) 8. ZZ Top - Tejas (Texas Longhorns again) 9. George Duke - I Love the Blues, She Heard My Cry (sharecroppers standing in a cotton field) 10. Fred Wesley & the JBs - Damn Right I am Somebody (small independent farmers with a mule and cart
  • @zanezeiter
    Fantastic seeing Marco back! damn yankees don't tread, the band jericho, 38 special tour de force
  • Not an album cover, but, in the early days of Kansas, guitarist Rich Williams wore overalls 99% of the time in concerts/band photos Kansas: Somewhere To Elsewhere--a plane in a cornfield
  • @Dan-Gaucher
    Warhorse was another Jethro Tull/Deep Purple offshoot
  • Here are some recommendation: - Paw "Dragline" - Tusmørke "Hestehoven" - Ulrich Roski - "...dass dich nicht die Schweine beissen" (1970) : that means "... That the pigs don't bite you", he was a German singer-songwriter mostly in the 70's.
  • @Chaz4543
    Primus - Pork Soda Motley Crue - Generation Swine Alter Bridge - Fortress Institute - Distort Yourself Citizen Soldier - Scarecrow
  • @thomaswery3087
    Where Were You When I Needed You-Grassroots Wanted-Mason Profitt
  • @Dan-Gaucher
    I missed the Black Oak Arkansas talk.Want an album ranking for them!
  • @JoeMay-wc6nv
    Fright Pig - Out of the Barnyard. Great Music & cover art the fits the theme of the show. If you haven't heard it you need to.
  • @TheChadmiral69
    Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die was the first one I thought of.
  • @thestevec
    2 from The Cosmic Psychos ( Oz punk rockers) Down on the farm EP Go the Hack
  • Quicksilver Messenger Service - Just For Love features a painting on the band standing in front of a marijuana plantation holding guitars with scythe-like attachments for cutting the grass. I guess this qualifies as a type of farming. It has to be seen to be believed!