Sunday, 13. July 2008, 04:55:42
Hi there
This is where I'm posting my NZ Song Of The Week (in .m3u link to MP3). They're not necessarily here because the songs are current - they're here simply because I really like them. I suggest going to amazon.com for fuller and more varied reviews - don't forget that usually you can sample a minute or so of each album track there too. Anyway - I hope you enjoy. I'm happy to answer any questions (if I can), or discuss any of the bands\songs featured here...
As a preface to a lot of the following, this is a very interesting and well written article :
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1567And - if you're interested in delving a little deeper and following musical trails, you might find this site interesting :
http://www.failsaferecords.com/history/intro.htmIf you're looking for a CD by a NZ band & can't find it - try my favourite NZ record store :
http://www.realgroovy.co.nz/Music.htm (they do international mail-order as well )
If you're looking to buy NZ MP3s on-line, this is the place :
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/OK : Just click on the
'Song Name' by Artist tag and shortly it'll start to play.
(If you have any problems playing this link, read
THIS...& maybe get in touch, I can probably help.)
As always - if you like the music - please buy it, don't steal it. Thank you very much

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'Anchor Me' by The Rainbow Warrior Commemoration - GreenpeaceGidday

In response to a request from a friend, here's a song which should have got in here anyway this month, marking as it does a 23 year aniversary
'Anchor Me' - a rather special
Mutton Birds song, even before this treatment. Oh well, I might as well cut right to the chase : Anybody out there (other than New Zealanders) remember the
Rainbow Warrior? Yes, no, maybe?? It was the flagship of the
Greenpeace fleet, which was sunk in Auckland harbour in July 1985, a blatant act of terrorism by agents of the
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure - aka French Secret Service, in an attempt to silence protests about what some might refer to as the cynical French rape of the South Seas by means of underground nuclear devices. Anyway, the french agents attached limpet mines to the Rainbow Warrior, which was at the time open to public viewing on the occasion of it's first visit to Auckland. The mines went off, sank the ship and killed photographer
Fernando Pereira. Un.Believable. As you can imagine, New Zealand citizens were upset and offended in a fairly major way.
Intense anger at, and strong dislike of The French Nation understandably continues even today (the fact that no apology for the action has ever been issued by France to New Zealand probably has something to do with that). Not everybody feels the same of course, but I know a number of Kiwis (and in fact some Australians) who strongly dislike The French per se and will never forgive or forget. I doubt that The French actually care about that. I quite like France as a country, and have found the French people to be generally and individually not unpleasant, especially Northern France - an area and people that I am very fond of. OK, well - read about it
here and here -
NZ Police report - and Greenpeace's write-up
here. This song can be paid for and downloaded
here. Let us not forget...'
Green'...'
Peace'....that's what it's all about, people. Throw in '
Love', '
Respect' and '
Understanding' and we're on the way there

Big Hugs

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All previously posted NZ Songs Of The Week & accompanying
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