Self sufficientish theme tune

[Andy Hamilton]

Any ideas on what could be a good theme tune for selfsufficientish?

Not for any particular reason just wondered what music (if any) could be associated with this site.

[Wombat]

Hmmmmm, need to think about this................

Personal taste plays a big part in music likes and dislikes, how about something classical and relaxing - Patchelbels (not sure of the spelling) Canon?

Or maybe more upbeat, with real cannons - the 1812 overture...........

Nev

[Shelle]

When i am out in my garden i love listening to all the birds ... they all sing in harmony ... and to our surprise when my OH is in music production mode the birds seem to get louder and sing along ... so much so we stuck a microphone out there and recorded them singing ... they now feature in a few tracks :)

Something natural and relaxing i think would be a good theme.

[Muddypause]

John Cage's '4 Minutes 33 Seconds'
John Lennon's 'Nutopian International Anthem'
Mike Batt's 'A Minute's Silence'
Morgan Fisher's 'One Minute's Silence'

Or if you want something a little more lively, how about this:

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[hedgewitch]

How about the theme tune from Bod.

[Andy Hamilton]

blimey stew I think that you would need a phd in music just to read those last two.

Something relaxing would be good, that was the sort of lines I was thinking of, or perhaps something by the wurzels

By Bod do you mean the 70's/80's cartoon?

[hedgewizard]

Mother Nature's Son - the cover by Gryphon for preference rather than the Beatles version.

Born a poor young country boy
Mother nature's son
All day long I'm sitting
Singing songs for every one

Sit beside a mountain stream
See her waters rise
Listen to the pretty
Sound of music as she flies
Tu tu tu, tu, du tu

Find me in my field of grass
Mother nature's son
Swaying daisies sing
A lazy song beneath the sun
Tu tu, yeah yeah yeah

Ooo
Ooo
Ah, mother nature's son

[Millymollymandy]

I just looked at the link called Page 1. Bit more complicated that the music I used to play on my recorder.

[hedgewitch]

By Bod do you mean the 70's/80's cartoon?

I sure do

[ina]

Or if you want something a little more lively, how about this:

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I like how it says "with pesto" on the top of page 2! Homemade pesto, goes without saying...

And - not the UK theme song?

Hedgewizard - I see that mother nature's son is a pretty lazy bugger. Is it mother nature's daughter then who does all the hard work that's involved in being SSish???

[Goodlife1970]

What about "The Green Green Grass of Home"?? "Why does it always rain on me?" "Love Grows where my Rosemary goes" "Thyme after Thyme" "If it wasnt for your Wellies" or in the case of my mower "This Corrosion" or anything by MUD........................

[hedgewizard]

Hedgewizard - I see that mother nature's son is a pretty lazy bugger. Is it mother nature's daughter then who does all the hard work that's involved in being SSish???

LMAO!

How's about anything by Coldframeplay?

[Muddypause]

Or if you want something a little more lively, how about this:

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I like how it says "with pesto" on the top of page 2! Homemade pesto, goes without saying...

There's more like that in there, too. I gave a paper copy of that music to an elderly lady a while back. She likes to play the piano, and sat down with the music and started to attempt it. Then she noticed "Light explosives now...and...now" and then "release the penguins" and roared with laughter.

And - not the UK theme song?

Ooooowwwww! Ooowwwoooowwwoooowwww!

[Shirley]

How about... The Who... Now I'm a Farmer...


I've got a spade and a pick-axe
And a hundred miles square of land to churn about
My old horse is weary but sincerely
I believe that he can pull a plough
Well I've moved into the jungle of the agriculture rumble,
To grow my own food
And I'll dig and plough and scrape the weeds
Till I succeed in seeing cabbage growing through

Now I'm a farmer, and I'm digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
Now I'm a farmer, and I'm digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
It's alarming how charming it is to be a-farming
How calming and balming the effect of the air

Well, I farmed for a year and grew a crop of corn
That stretched as far as the eye can see
That's a whole lot of cornflakes,
Near enough to feed New York till 1973
Cultivation is my station and the nation
Buys my corn from me immediately
And holding sixty thousand bucks, I watch as dumper trucks
Tip New York's corn flakes in the sea

Now I'm a farmer, and I'm digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
Now I'm a farmer, and I'm digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
It's alarming how charming it is to be a-farming
How calming and balming the effect of the air

Now look here son
The right thing to say
Isn't necessarily what you want to say
The right thing to do
Isn't necessarily what you want to do
The right things to grow
Ain't necessarily what you want to grow
Your own happiness
Doesn't necessarily teach you what you want to know

Well I'm suntanned and deep, so's the horse
And my hands are deeply grained
Old horse is a-grazing, it's amazing
Just how lazily he took the strain
Well my pick and spade are rusty,
Because I'm paid on trust to leave my square of cornfield bare

It's alarming how charming it is to be a-farming
How calming and balming the effect of the air

When you grow what I grow
Tomatoes, potatoes, stew, eggplants ...
Potatoes, tomatoes ... gourds
Lyrics > The Who Lyrics

[Martin]

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