… though the dead, invaders and demonrats would dispute that.
17. Poland
16. DAD at 1532
Belgian Government faces collapse as budget talks break down. A five-party coalition has failed to agree how to find the savings needed to meet EU deficit rules, sending the Prime Minister to the King to offer his resignation.
The idea came out of a musical post I’d intended for elevenses on All Souls Day and not only I was thinking that The Animals in the early to mid 60s had this uncanny ability to sound “ancient” in some ways throughout their catalogue but many reactors to their music touched on that point … one even called Burdon an Old Soul.
Thought I … hmmmm, maybe that might fit into Tuesday’s posts. Looking back now at the first two Bach musical pieces today … I’m no way comparing in quality … and yet … and yet … within the genre itself of folk, blues, soul, rock, rhythm they carved out for themselves in their short career as a unit … their songs really do stand up as something different … quite expertly, if simply, constructed.
Eric Burdon himself, the Newcastle lad who was the band’s vocalist, said they’d been billed as the second band with Chuck Berry and, realising they could never “out-rock” the man, they decided to go more serious, even a bit otherworldly, certainly harking back to much earlier times, even back a century and longer.
The first song below here was a monster hit across the world, deserved in the eyes of many … but in the opinion of one youtube uploader … in Burdon’s very talent lay the seeds of the band’s doom … we saw similar with CCR and to a lesser extent, Steve Winwood. Creative differences, plus money, tore them apart less publicly than with some other bands of the time.
Pity, because many say they “own” the song with this version, just as CCR “owned” Put a Spell on You. Yes … so many versions of HotRS … and now I get onto another prob besetting me last evening in trying to get this post ready.
That’s the problem of the reactors. Why even bother? Well, I want to see how the songs of that era stand up … do they grab younger listeners/watchers? Do they wow certain demographics today? In the case of The Animals, the answer is a resounding yes! This will continue after HotRS:
There’s something I must say at this point … I’ve gathered many “regular” young reactors, not so much Boomer/Gen X and they’re the first go-tos every song I’m looking at. The demographics are mainly black women and men, plus white women.
For some reason, I find white men too emotionless and analytical or if Woke left … weirdos.
White, antiWoke men tend to be systems oriented … building things, seeing if they work … and that’s exactly the criticism of Burdon, Parsons and band. They “construct” a song, they create a feeling, an ambience, they can move like robots … so can I at home. Look at this blog … it’s a construction … yet there’s still an ambience.
Eric Burdon’s a Geordie, an Englishman, yet he can certainly feel soul, the blues … in his life, especially the blues … has a keen sense of musical history, while Parsons is consummate at the ethereal, other worldly, even manic, swirling high in the ether … a unique combination, plus the rest of the band were superb.
Then they had lineup changes and immediately lost that “whole band” effect, never got it back. Three years of The Animals we got … that was it.
Which brings me to the second reactor … Stacey is a stalwart … I’ve not seen her do a bad reaction, plus she’s all woman with those gestures. It was amusing, her reaction to the girls screaming, ha ha … she could not stand it. I love her relaxed reactions.
And now we get to the reactor maybe I should avoid … my bread and butter for decades, the eternally sassy, bubbly girl who could either go bad, as they do today … or wunnerful, as I find her reactions. On many of them (not this one), she runs text above, giving much info about band, song, context. She’s a good reactor, though I’m not taken by her playing at the start … not my music.
Still, we’re generations apart … she’s crazy, daughter-type kid … let’s get to the song:
… say on X, are a double edged sword. I feel obligated to at least read them and if necessary, correct my errors, also occasionally to run them here if they might be of interest or necessity.
12. Yes, I’m aware of “entertaining angels unawares”
… but we’re all also aware of entertaining baddies through “homicidal empathy”
Consider this too:
11. A draft sit-rep and policies page
… designed to be worked here, reworked, then put on a page to link under the Policies “parent” heading.
In the sidebar, you’ll see For newer readers of this site … intended to be less formal than the required statement of policy as required by law, it’s just the mindset of the main admin about why there even is an Unherdables in the first place.
The text below is an addendum to that “newer readers” page … this below concerns everyday matters, which in themselves, in the way we treat those matters, amounts to the raison d’etre of Unherdables, in text form. Let’s start here with the core, the prime directive I feel that I for one should work by:
By no means do I feel that my ferreting and writing is absolutely central to the western and British “discussion” … I’m a “walking on part”, one of thousands of ideas laid on the table before the west … and Britain within the west.
Together with that are the contentions and reports of our contributors, of varying consequence, each as good as that day’s posts are that day., just as my own are. I’m trying to play down the notion of us Unherdables being Oracles, final Arbiters of Wisdom … our entire aim is:
To post and if necessary, subsequently add to, to correct, to make more accurate anything we actually post here across the complex of sites and pages. Yes, we can easily initially err, as discovered in subsequent revisions … the enemy designs for us to initially err … and so we adjust our views accordingly … in short, it’s an empirical approach, not a dogmatic.
To slowly agree among ourselves and across the west on some core tenets which really do seem universal, e.g. that Wokery is political suicide, leading to the overrunning of our various socities, their underpinnings, their cultures, their core codes and values … and our aim is to expose nefarious groups and individuals engaged in destruction of the west … and also specifically Britain.
To provide a go-to place, one of quite a few on the net, where you can cut through the BS and say so too, civilly, providing you can back that up, rather than just assert. Readers want to know why you wrote that particular idea.
To provide here an ongoing haven for like minds, somewhere you can wake up in the morning and check in at and expect that the main admin has the thing up and running in the same old way. In short, to provide an “old reliable”, not changing everyday or constantly “improving” … to come here feeling your opinion is valued.
To instantly expunge clear trolling or assertions with no backup, no basis to them in our mindsets. This does come down to the main admin in the final analysis, but always having heeded what other regulars have said, what we’re basically “about here”. It’s not an exact science, there’s much juggling going on.
So, taking everything on all three pages together … that’s our policy platform at nourishing unherdables.
(0732) Morning all. Some sunshine out there on a dark day. (0756)
5. Haley’s comet flies from the demonrats
4. Steve at 1532
Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens Officially Endorses Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate Race – “I Don’t Belong in Abdul’s Campaign”
Democrats, China, Iran, Mexican Cartels, and Globalists Want Republicans to Lose the Midterms
Isa Casahuga, the UTSA Student Who Went Viral with Poem Mocking Charlie Kirk’s Assassination, Releases Apology Video
Frontline Baggage for the Cartels: How Training Militants in [The] Ukraine Threatens the United States
Large Study Associates Regular Tea Drinking With Lower Vascular Disease Risk
The EU Met Its Waterloo In Warsaw
Poll: Majority of Americans Say AI Is Bad for Society
Rommy Tobinson: Guilty – the Case Explained
Much, much more.
3. We dindu nuffink
2. DAD at 1532
a) French authorities have announced plans to revoke the residence permits of foreign nationals involved in the violent riots that erupted in Nice on October 17. One-third of those arrested were foreign nationals, while 12 police officers were injured as rioters looted shops and caused widespread damage.
b) French police have released the suspect in the Trappes attack, allegedly a racially motivated terror attack, to psychiatric evaluation on suspicions he may be unfit for interrogation and trial.
c) Ukraine air raid app apparently hacked as users receive false radiation threat, Air Force says.
d) Builders face mandatory training for wolf-whistling in Britain. British construction workers who wolf-whistle will face mandatory “respectful behaviour” training under new workplace regulations that allow unlimited compensation claims against employers.
e) London Underground staff handing out pro-Palestine stickers on duty. The same network that has been targeted by terrorists multiple times is now distributing political material for a cause linked to a group the government just prescribed.
f) There is nothing “French” about these riots. diversity is destroying Europe. will Britain wake up?
Barrister and constitutional expert Steven Barrett explains in the video below. In the Maastricht Treaty of 1992-3 the European Union defined the selected areas in which its rule was supreme. Even in this limited form the late Tony Benn lamented it in what he said was “my last speech in a free Parliament.” But the Lisbon Treaty enacted in 2009 enabled the EU to claim power in whatever matter it chose. Barrett describes how Prime Minister Donald Tusk used this leeway and the temporary absence of the President to launch an assault on Poland’s Constitution. When the President, alerted (by the CIA it is alleged) to the coup attempt, turned his plane round to come back Tusk attempted to bar him first from Warsaw’s airport and then – physically, with armed police.
This is the scenario Burnham’s handlers are engineering the UK officially rejoin, nominally under von Leyen.
(1600) Approaching evening, laze & gem. (1757) Resuming again … been trying to gather certain reaction songs but ran into trouble on one track … you’ll see mid morn, with a baroque piece earlier … all souls, right?
21. Prayers for those needing them at All Saints
20. DAD at 1532
They don’t make them like this any more…. World’s Oldest Motoring Event Passes Big Ben | London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2026. (Picture)
19. Moo corner
18. Tusk again
17. Heed
16. The whole gender relations issue again
15. Saw it in passing
14. Where will the monsters answer? On Judgement Day?
