What Are You Listening To Right Now
03USMC
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhrcmDFt02c&list=PL7B5057AD4CA801D3&index=25&feature=plpp_video"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhrcmDFt02c&list=PL7B5057AD4CA801D3&index=25&feature=plpp_video[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMbiEzqv-I&feature=BFa&list=PL7B5057AD4CA801D3&lf=plpp_video"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMbiEzqv-I&feature=BFa&list=PL7B5057AD4CA801D3&lf=plpp_video[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMbiEzqv-I&feature=BFa&list=PL7B5057AD4CA801D3&lf=plpp_video"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMbiEzqv-I&feature=BFa&list=PL7B5057AD4CA801D3&lf=plpp_video[/ame]
bigcanada813
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This weeks Reloaded episode of the Big O & Dukes podcast.
rattler
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I am a bit ranty today: Despite having been living in this country (Spain) for almost three decades as an European citizen (I am German: European treaties give - in theory - equal rights for all Europeans in any EU member state) I cannot vote tomorrow for our (Spanish) government.
I have had to pay my taxes here for the last 28 years, I *have* to obligatory be censored here in order to live here (which means I cannot vote in Germany either: No vote for foreign registered citizens), I need to pay social security, I can be called for a jury in court, or for an election table as aide, but I cannot vote (nationally that is, regionally or municipally I can).
When I comment this to Spaniards (today we have "reflection day" where no political activity is allowed but discussions between citizens are appreciated) all I hear is, stereotype: "But you are German, what do you expect ?" (JFTR, Spaniards *can* vote in Germany if they have been living there longer than 5 years).
OK, my dear friends, sometimes it seems we have to fall back on our roots, so take this (for the not initiated, what we call football you in the US call soccer, and, yes, our "beere" are the best!):
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2VlSULW2iw"]Mundstuhl We're Germans - YouTube[/ame]
Apart from being what I needed to listen to right now this song (more: the protagonists) have a special meaning to me, I grew up with them near Frankfurt and shared class with one of the two for a year, as well as the bars nights and the political environment we (and I) came from (I went into much more detail in this other thread long time ago, for those interested in my personal youth history: http://www.warandtactics.com/smf/the-lounge-get-a-beer-go-off-topic/the-omnipresent-currently-playing-%28music%29-thread/msg14866/#msg14866 continued here: http://www.warandtactics.com/smf/th...tly-playing-(music)-thread/msg14869/#msg14869).
So here to them, qoting myself, with another classic (in Germany of course, in their "Badesalz" incarnation: Mittermaier - the famous singer - is the guy in the middle):
: "The joint of no return, fly up for your right!"
Enjoy!
Rattler
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak58SWaUa2I"]Ragga Moon Walk (Badesalz vs. Mittermeier) - YouTube[/ame]
I have had to pay my taxes here for the last 28 years, I *have* to obligatory be censored here in order to live here (which means I cannot vote in Germany either: No vote for foreign registered citizens), I need to pay social security, I can be called for a jury in court, or for an election table as aide, but I cannot vote (nationally that is, regionally or municipally I can).
When I comment this to Spaniards (today we have "reflection day" where no political activity is allowed but discussions between citizens are appreciated) all I hear is, stereotype: "But you are German, what do you expect ?" (JFTR, Spaniards *can* vote in Germany if they have been living there longer than 5 years).
OK, my dear friends, sometimes it seems we have to fall back on our roots, so take this (for the not initiated, what we call football you in the US call soccer, and, yes, our "beere" are the best!):
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2VlSULW2iw"]Mundstuhl We're Germans - YouTube[/ame]
Apart from being what I needed to listen to right now this song (more: the protagonists) have a special meaning to me, I grew up with them near Frankfurt and shared class with one of the two for a year, as well as the bars nights and the political environment we (and I) came from (I went into much more detail in this other thread long time ago, for those interested in my personal youth history: http://www.warandtactics.com/smf/the-lounge-get-a-beer-go-off-topic/the-omnipresent-currently-playing-%28music%29-thread/msg14866/#msg14866 continued here: http://www.warandtactics.com/smf/th...tly-playing-(music)-thread/msg14869/#msg14869).
So here to them, qoting myself, with another classic (in Germany of course, in their "Badesalz" incarnation: Mittermaier - the famous singer - is the guy in the middle):
The "really true" story of Jamaican Space Travel...
: "The joint of no return, fly up for your right!"Enjoy!
Rattler
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak58SWaUa2I"]Ragga Moon Walk (Badesalz vs. Mittermeier) - YouTube[/ame]
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rattler
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RedCarousel
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Listening to Adele's album right now... That's a lot of videos to post! Lol...
rattler
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George Michael.
He is in hospital right now, critically ill with a live threatening pneumonial condition.
Never liked his stuff much (too "smoochie" for my liking, he lives off the band and the BG singers most of the time), but there are a few songs, evergreens in their own right, that are unfogettably imprinted in my musical memory for having accomapanied me through many (mainly night time) adventures.
Careless Whispers is one of them. I cant see myself ever attending one of his concerts, but if I were, I am sure I would sing along as well as I have done so often on a dance floor... : "..so I am never gonna dance again... the way I danced with you-hou...!"
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9KuQQDEow"]George Michael - Careless Whisper live in China 1984 (HQ) - YouTube[/ame]
And another one, ahh so sexy, soundtrack to one of my favorite movies:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25GxeiyVps"]george michael : calling you... - YouTube[/ame]
For all the ladies you dont have an eye for, get better, mister, we have already lost so many this year!
Rattler
He is in hospital right now, critically ill with a live threatening pneumonial condition.
Never liked his stuff much (too "smoochie" for my liking, he lives off the band and the BG singers most of the time), but there are a few songs, evergreens in their own right, that are unfogettably imprinted in my musical memory for having accomapanied me through many (mainly night time) adventures.
Careless Whispers is one of them. I cant see myself ever attending one of his concerts, but if I were, I am sure I would sing along as well as I have done so often on a dance floor... : "..so I am never gonna dance again... the way I danced with you-hou...!"
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9KuQQDEow"]George Michael - Careless Whisper live in China 1984 (HQ) - YouTube[/ame]
And another one, ahh so sexy, soundtrack to one of my favorite movies:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25GxeiyVps"]george michael : calling you... - YouTube[/ame]
For all the ladies you dont have an eye for, get better, mister, we have already lost so many this year!
Rattler
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senojekips
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A Blast from the past, for those of you old enough to remember it.:lol: It was #1 on US Billboard chart, the week JFK was assassinated.
In 1963, Dale Houston was working in a bar in Ferriday, a small town in Concordia Parish, Louisiana along the Mississippi River. Montel approached Houston about teaming up with a female singer, Grace Broussard (born 1939) of Prairieville in Ascension Parish near Baton Rouge. Both had been singing in area bistros for several years - Grace with her brother, Van Broussard (who later released an album on the Bayou Boogie label).[5][6]
The two met and practiced on Montel's home piano for 4 hours.[4] When Houston began to play a song written and recorded in 1957 by African-American performers Don and Dewey--"I'm Leaving it Up to You"--Montel, asleep in the next room, woke up screaming: “Play it again! That’s a hit!” [3] The song was soon recorded and released locally on Montel's Michelle label.
Montel's prophesy was vindicated when "I'm Leaving It Up To You" reached #1 on the U.S. chart, where it remained for two weeks.[8]
| Leaving It Up To You - Dale and Grace | |
In 1963, Dale Houston was working in a bar in Ferriday, a small town in Concordia Parish, Louisiana along the Mississippi River. Montel approached Houston about teaming up with a female singer, Grace Broussard (born 1939) of Prairieville in Ascension Parish near Baton Rouge. Both had been singing in area bistros for several years - Grace with her brother, Van Broussard (who later released an album on the Bayou Boogie label).[5][6]
The two met and practiced on Montel's home piano for 4 hours.[4] When Houston began to play a song written and recorded in 1957 by African-American performers Don and Dewey--"I'm Leaving it Up to You"--Montel, asleep in the next room, woke up screaming: “Play it again! That’s a hit!” [3] The song was soon recorded and released locally on Montel's Michelle label.
Montel's prophesy was vindicated when "I'm Leaving It Up To You" reached #1 on the U.S. chart, where it remained for two weeks.[8]
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rattler
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The performers are with high probability the "Russian Red Army Choir", they did various pieces in the movie, all composed by Basil Poledouris. Which one of those you mean I can only guess, but maybe the "Hymn for Red October", as it is the theme song and the widest known?
The lyrics, here below (leaving out various repetitions of the latter part), should be a dead giveaway (translation to English appended):
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPsL2WVhFCc"]Basil Poledouris - Hymn To Red October - YouTube[/ame]
To us in Europe the Russian Red Army Choir of course became cult by its 1989-1993 Europe tour with the Leningrad Cowboys (my favorite - cult! - show band of the late 80s/early 90s: Some crazy Finnish guys with funny hairdos and strange shoes pretending to be Russians that pretended to be Americans, greatest concerts I have ever lived party-wise, we would travel thousands of kilometers literally to see them) and their absolutely stunning performances in the so called "Total Balalaika Show".
When we heard them - The Russkies! - perform Sweet Home Alabama or the 1812 Battle Hymn of the Republic (easily found on youtube) we really knew the Cold War was finally over...
Enjoy!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHcpdrx7r38"]#9 - Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_kfVhun-o"]#2 - Leningrad Cowboys & Russian Red Army Choir - "Volga Boatmen" / "Happy Together" - YouTube[/ame]
Rattler
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84RFK
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Absolutely right on the spot Rattler, it was the hymn to red october!
Well done!
Oh and the Leningrad Cowboys, they are just hillarious!
I nearly toppeled of the chair laughing when I heard they had talked the Sinebrychoff Brewery in Finland into making the Leningrad Cowboys Beer!
I've tasted both the bottled and the canned version, and they tasted fine plus they offered and additional amusement just by looking at the label.
http://www.sinebrychoff.fi/tiedostot/Leningrad_Cowboy600.gif
Well done!
Oh and the Leningrad Cowboys, they are just hillarious!
I nearly toppeled of the chair laughing when I heard they had talked the Sinebrychoff Brewery in Finland into making the Leningrad Cowboys Beer!
I've tasted both the bottled and the canned version, and they tasted fine plus they offered and additional amusement just by looking at the label.
http://www.sinebrychoff.fi/tiedostot/Leningrad_Cowboy600.gif
rattler
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Chris de Burgh, my favorite musical story teller.
Had almost forgotten about him and not listened to his stuff for a long time, many years.
In a conversation about great love songs tonight someone mentioned "Lady in Red", and indeed it is on my top list of love songs as well. But, once my brain re-registered Chris de Burgh I remembered a concert I once went to (in the 80s, "Dont pay the Ferryman"), and how he came on stage with just a guitar because the instruments and equipment had been lost in the yourney.
We were offered to get our money back, but I think al#most nobody took on the offer after the concert, CdB performed amazingly, and the effect of having him there just with a guitar (and a piano) made it a very special one that I enjoyed immensely (until this moment I had never realized what a good musician he was on top of writing those epic stories that are his trade marks).
Enjoy the pictures his songs create before your inner eye, the closest I have found on the tube representing this unforgettable (!) concert is probably the 2nd song I feature below.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDrIQnUpx0"]Borderline by Chris de Burgh - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXkhiIFCgAo"]Chris de Burg - Spanish Train - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQb8zWOn34g"]Chris de Burgh - The Traveller(lyrics on screen) - YouTube[/ame]
Rattler
Had almost forgotten about him and not listened to his stuff for a long time, many years.
In a conversation about great love songs tonight someone mentioned "Lady in Red", and indeed it is on my top list of love songs as well. But, once my brain re-registered Chris de Burgh I remembered a concert I once went to (in the 80s, "Dont pay the Ferryman"), and how he came on stage with just a guitar because the instruments and equipment had been lost in the yourney.
We were offered to get our money back, but I think al#most nobody took on the offer after the concert, CdB performed amazingly, and the effect of having him there just with a guitar (and a piano) made it a very special one that I enjoyed immensely (until this moment I had never realized what a good musician he was on top of writing those epic stories that are his trade marks).
Enjoy the pictures his songs create before your inner eye, the closest I have found on the tube representing this unforgettable (!) concert is probably the 2nd song I feature below.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDrIQnUpx0"]Borderline by Chris de Burgh - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXkhiIFCgAo"]Chris de Burg - Spanish Train - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQb8zWOn34g"]Chris de Burgh - The Traveller(lyrics on screen) - YouTube[/ame]
Rattler
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