top jersey bard(s)

ben vaughn, william carlos williams

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/736381305785581568

can't blame either of those two on jersey

Honestly, I'll take the Grip Weeds over anyone on that list.

but would you take them over the smithereens?

Augustus Asplet Le Gros
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Augustus Asplet Le Gros
Augustus Asplet Le Gros or Augustus Aspley Le Gros (14 April 1840, Saint Helier – 3 December 1877) was a Norman language poet from Jersey and a Jurat of the Royal Court of Jersey.
Biography[edit]
A.A. Le Gros was raised in the parish of Saint Peter, Jersey. One of the first pupils at Victoria College founded in 1851, he entered a solicitor's office, but abandoned his study of the law to work on the farm of his grandfather in Saint Peter. In 1865, he was elected secretary of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society. In 1873, the parishioners of Saint Peter elected him constable, the head of the municipality.
In the same year he was one of the founders of the Société Jersiaise, of which he became the first secretary. He began work on a dictionary, which remained unfinished, of Jèrriais, which served as the basis for the Glossaire du Patois Jersiais edited by the Société Jersiaise in 1924.
His poems, in a rather lyrical style, signed A.A.L.G., in Jèrriais, in French and in English, appeared in the papers and almanacs of Jersey and Guernsey.

La Nouvelle Année, a review edited by A.A. Le Gros
For eight years Le Gros published a small annual review of poetry in Jèrriais and Guernésiais. He also published two small volumes of poetry in English, Poems for Home and Fireside (London, 1863) and Poems (London, 1868), besides a history of Mont Orgueil in Jersey : Mont Orgueil Castle: Its History and Ruins.
In 1875, the electors of the island made him a Jurat. He died at the age of 37 in 1877.
Some of his texts have been set to music in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Bibliography[edit]
La Grève de Lecq, Roger Jean Lebarbenchon, 1988 ISBN 2-905385-13-8 (French)
Bulletîn d’Quart d’An, L'Assembliée d'Jèrriais, Jersey (in Jèrriais)
Original Songs in the Jersey Language, Jersey, 1988

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sornette_de_Bett%C3%A9_Rou%C3%A9_Augustus_Asplet_Le_Gros.ogg

Might write in Hank Mobley...

gotta go w my wrens cuz i'm sentimental

couple of artists I'd be tempted to write in:

East River Pipe
Frank Sinatra

(waves from Jersey)

East River Pipe for sure.

Where is George Clinton?

Voted for Red but I think Patti Smith is Jersey enough to be on the list. Also I would write in Jim Albertson

but probably not vote for him either

c'mon how is this not springsteen

r stevie moore

guru josh
gilbert o'sullivan

As a lifelong NJ resident I am obviously casting my vote for Springsteen. For those looking for more write-in possibilities how about:

Whitney Houston
Karen O
Gaslight Anthem
The Smithereens
Shaquille O'Neal
My Chemical Romance
Winter Hours

You guys all still live in NJ?

misfits are the obvious correct choice

Voted for David S. Ware because nobody else was going to, and because he lived two towns over from me. Super nice guy.

i voted for ware too! though after seeing heron oblivion on saturday night i might shoulda gone w/ meg baird

david s. ware as well, because he was great. Almost tempted to vote Redman for his first two albums, but too much he did afterwards was so so.

Seriously, George Clinton. I grew up in the town where he had his barber shop. I love the feelies and all, but come on.

(Actually O.T. Zappo is the correct choice, but nobody is going to know who he is and google isn't going to help you much on this one.)

tossed Sarah Vaughan a vote (my dad always talked about the time she sang in the church choir with him)

tbh, I never really felt like Bruce was that big a deal south of Cherry Hill. Heard more stories about George Thorogood.

mike trout

oh duh, and Floyd Vivino of course

We have a winner. I'll even concede O.T. Zappo to him.

Well if we're choosing people because we lived near them, I'm going to have to vote for Enzo Stuarti.

BREAKING: @CoryBooker "I hate to contradict @BonJovi but man @HillaryClinton you give love a good name!"

no Tom Scharpling. sad.

tbh, I never really felt like Bruce was that big a deal south of Cherry Hill. Heard more stories about George Thorogood.

― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Wednesday, June 1, 2016 7:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

insane

ducktails and real estate shouldn't have different listings. you're going to split the matt mondanile vote... not that he would win anyway.

memory tapes is the best new jersey chillwave act anyway

I never thought of Ducktails as chillwave. First record (which I love) is "lo-fi bedroom pop" or whatever and the more recent records (not a fan) are more straight up cleanly produced indie rock iirc

Lifetime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Hn7lcdLAE

they've moved away from the chillwave sound, but i think their early stuff was definitely a chillwave side project to "real estate," which had a kind of chillwavey dreamlike quality to it too, even though they were releasing more or less straight ahead surf rock songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqVebhKkjY

in any case this is some of the best music ever made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs5eZR34Ps

to round out this morning's chillwave listening. the part that starts at 16:30 is just incredible.

tbh, I never really felt like Bruce was that big a deal south of Cherry Hill. Heard more stories about George Thorogood.

― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Wednesday, June 1, 2016 7:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

insane

― Treeship, Thursday, June 2, 2016 1:29 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"in my world of swamp people"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i like my posts on hypna(garden state) pop

even though this poll is really a who's who of the best music ever made, i'm going to have to go with misfits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJxS_1LzUKw

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Glad to see David S Ware got some votes, was listening to Godspelized earlier and not caring if he fits the criteria for jersey bard.

His Parker/Shipp/Ibarra quintet does bring out his lyrical qualities beautifully though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiP3RRkQolY

the wrens over so many better artists smdh

Literally never heard of a single artist' on this list'

You lookin' at me?

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