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Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - chainoffools - 15th January 2010
Well, when I was working for a certain unit in South Wales that shall remain nameless, it was generally agreed that 'Land of Confusion' by Disturbed pretty much summed up the entire enterprise...
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - BAJR - 15th January 2010
BBC Scotland Radio have just emailed
Excellent news. Looking forward to hearing your tunes.
Next Friday... 6pm
whoo hoo... can't wait... these are yours!
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - stinker pinker - 17th January 2010
Eric the Gardener by the Divine Comedy, opening lines: Julius Caesar came / saw, conquered went away / 'cos it rained here all the time / too many sniffs and colds / got up his roman nose / so he left it all behind / for eric the gardener to find.
it finishes with the profound statement that all eric the gardener will ever find is ... eric the gardener, showing that divine comedy also have a handle on postprocessual theory and are willing to use it.
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - BuntyFlint - 17th January 2010
When I'm digging holes in forests "Roots" by Sepultura always comes to mind, especially the opening lines.....
for those of you who don't know the words, see here:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/sepultura/roots+bloody+roots_20123379.html
and often, anything with rain in the title.....
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - BAJR Host - 17th January 2010
Aw the joy of Roots! --
I won't let on what the lyrics are... but made me fall off my chair laughing, thinking of you singing this while working! :p
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - BAJR Host - 17th January 2010
Nice avatar by the way lara!
I would love to do that to my cat!
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - BAJR Host - 17th January 2010
Right here is the Full List GASP!!!
with my preferred in BOLD.
He only plays a snatch of the first 4, then the TOP one get a full play...
Panthers - Thank me with your hands
Nick Cave and BAD seeds Dig Lazarus Dig
Christy Moore - Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
Neanderthal Man by 10cc
The Mesopotamians - They Might Be Giants
Status Quo - Down down
Bauhaus - Hollow Hills (Ancient Earthwork, Fort and Barrow discreetly hide their secret abode.. the most fearfull hide deep inside, and venture not there on yule tide, for invasion of their hollow hills that music holds and Oberon Fill is shurely recommended not for fear of death, in fear of rot. Hollow hills... etc)
Ipi Ntombi - Shosholoza
Jethro Tull - Broadsword
Eric the Gardener by the Divine Comedy
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
the Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow taxi
the Pretenders - Back on the chain gang
Sam Cooke Working on a Chain Gang
I Got Spades - Backyard Babies
Deep in the Hole - AC/DC
Dont Ever Cross A Trowel - Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Monolith - Stone Sour
History - Tenacious D
No Diggity - Blackstreet (a recession anthem)
Car Wash - Rose Royce (its better than digging a ditch)
The hole in the ground - Bernard Cribbins
Chicks dig jerks - Bill Hicks (on-site romance)
Troglodyte (Cave Man) - The Jimmy Castor Bunch (going way back, back into time)
It's only Natural - Crowded House (you have to be an archaeologist to understand why)
Hurt - NIN ("You can have it all. My empire of dirt"... Indeed)
Vanilla Ice - Anthropology 101 (Just for a laugh... I mean, Vanilla Ice... Seriously!)
Digging in the Dirt - Peter Gabriel (Yeah, 'tis good)
Archaeologist - Wintersleep (The only song I know that actually has "Archaeologist" in the title... not too bad, quite rocky from some Canadian Indie-lads)
Gravel Pit - Wu Tang Clan
First cut is the deepest- cat Stevens : ok not always the case stratigraphically but you get the idea
Can you dig it- Mock Turtles
digging holes in the water -ugly casanova!
Dont know much about history...sam cooke
theres a hole in my bucket.... harry bell and odetta
No Gold Digger - Will Oldham
Walk Like an Egyptian – The Bangles
Alice in Chains, Down in a Hole
Navigator, The Pogues
Roots - Sepultra
Mespotamia - B52s (neat excavation!)
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - troll - 17th January 2010
Dig! by Mudvayne.....
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - BAJR Host - 18th January 2010
The Final 5....
Sadly some crackers have had to be missed out... due to the nature of teh radio show... with only clips of 5-2 so... some would need the whole song (like Shosholoza) anyway
At number 5
Christy Moore - Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
Number 4
Status Quo - Down down
Number 3
Panthers - Thank me with your hands
Number 2
Don't know much about history...Sam Cooke
Number 1
Nick Cave and BAD seeds Dig Lazarus Dig
Top 5 archaeology songs for archaeologists - for BBC Radio Scotland special! - BuntyFlint - 18th January 2010
Just takes a bit of training...and a handful of cat food under your hat
Excellent final choice of songs too...