Stans Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 It's Friday!!!!!! Uh-oh... Well, doesn't matter because... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDI67K-0kgw And that's what it's like to live... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Soren Fick Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Ah! Ein nozher musik zhread und I am here early! Zo I zee ein zheme here. Dvrinkink! It iz ein gute zheme ja! Enjoy mein entry into zhe zhread. Zhis zong alzo feetchures imadjes of gute beer und zuperior Tjerman frauleins. Musik, beer und frauleins, it iz ein gute kombinazion ja? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 I saw The Eagles on one of their many comeback tours round about 1996. Musically, I might as well have stayed at home and listened to their records as the only difference I noticed was that they changed one of the lines of 'Life's been good' to something like 'They say I'm overweight'. Some great images in Fick's clip, but here's a video of some germans not having such a good time... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189w5xpkt0Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donster Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hey Fick. I thought Zombies drank urine? Who would give you beer? You can't buy it with no money. I bet everybody at the bar enjoys filling your stein, so they don't have to get up. Cheers you dumb bastard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Yes, let us not forget just how the Nazis and many, not all, but many, Germans fought for their fuhrer. Here is Billy Joel singing about the contrast between his life and the life of a Russian who was born in Leningrad during 1944. I've seen some Eagles live performances broadcast on tv and on YouTube. Although it's nice to see them play, I think they sound better in a recording studio. I will say that Fack did post a video filled with hot babes, but that's the only compliment I can muster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Great Billy Joel track! Hadn't heard that before. I wasn't really making a comment with that Stalingrad video, I just thought it was a thought provoking mix of movie footage with an unrelated song. A bit like this mix of some atomic explosions set to a Pink Floyd tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBkTUzKAiXQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 The opening of the video with the line "Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?" is appropriate. As for the rest of the song, the video clips selected make no sense at all. "Mother" was a song about "Pink" and how his mother, whose husband was killed in war, raised him in an overly protective manner, as single mothers sometimes do in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Here is a great example of a song being misinterpreted. The majority of people think Mick Jagger wrote a commentary on the war in Vietnam. The reality was this was a song about a purely fictitious death of a girlfriend. Pure fiction, but people have latched onto it and applied an incorrect meaning. Oh, well, I really like the song and there have been plenty of days in my life that I wanted everything painted black and I'm sure there will be plenty more. But as long as these days... Or at least days that are not downright crappy outnumber the truly bad days, it's all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donster Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Something new. From Boston's new studio album, "Life, Love & Hope". The first album following the death of lead vocalist Brad Delp. There are however, four songs on the new album with vocals by Brad Delp. http://youtu.be/lhdq0HXGITk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Boston still sounds like Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 Ok, I tried out for the tv game show "Jeopardy". It didn't go so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 Gotta love Weird Al. I don't recognize the original song though. Something for the youngsters here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45crp3Uhv8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donster Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 "Jeopardy" is a hit song released in 1983 by The Greg Kihn Band on their album Kihnspiracy. It is the band's first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #2 in May 1983 (behind Michael Jackson's "Beat It") and also hitting #1 on the dance charts for two weeks a month earlier. http://youtu.be/SkS4s_8YjqU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 Gotta love Weird Al. I don't recognize the original song though. Something for the youngsters here: Is you sayin' we is old, sonny? Something for the oldsters here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donster Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 Glenn Miller was the best of the Big Band Swing era. He was born in Clarinda, Iowa. A prison camp was built there in 1943 designed for 3,000 prisoners of war with sixty barracks and a 150-bed hospital. German prisoners were the first to arrive at Camp Clarinda, followed in 1945 by Italian and Japanese POWs. Glenn Miller lost his life way to early. From Wikipedia... Miller spent his last night alive at the Hall in Milton Ernest, near Bedford. On December 15, 1944, Miller was to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris, France, to play for the soldiers there. His plane (a single-engined UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285) departed from RAF Twinwood Farm in Clapham, on the outskirts of Bedford and disappeared while flying over the English Channel. No trace of the aircrew, passengers or plane has ever been found. Miller's status is missing in action. There are three main theories about what happened to Miller's plane, including the suggestion that he might have been hit by Royal Air Force bombs after an abortive raid on Siegen, Germany. One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, jettisoned approximately 100,000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing. The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw recorded that he saw a small, single-engined monoplane spiraling out of control and crashing into the water. However, a second source, while acknowledging the possibility, cites other RAF crew members flying the same mission who stated that the drop area was in the North Sea. Further research by British scholars also seems to indicate that this is the most likely probability, making Miller's death a "friendly fire" incident. In his 2006 self-published book I Kept My Word: The Personal Promise Between a World War II Army Private and His Captain About What Really Happened to Glenn Miller, Clarence B. Wolfe — a gunner with Battery D, 134th AAA Battalion, in Folkestone, England — claims that his battery shot down Miller's plane. Another book by Lt. Col. Huton Downs, In 1997, German journalist Udo Ulfkotte came up with another explanation, this one more salacious. According to the German tabloid Bild, Ulfkotte had been researching American and German intelligence efforts during the war for a book on German intelligence agencies. Ulfkotte claimed that while going over documents he had obtained from the American government under the Freedom of Information Act, he found evidence that Miller had actually arrived safely in Paris on the 14th, but had a heart attack on the 15th while consorting with a French prostitute, and that the American military had covered up the episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 Maybe he was abducted by music starved space aliens? He might still be alive, playing in some cantina on some distant, desert planet that orbits twin suns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Closing out another weekend, one final song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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