meganiwish Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 Well, we've got an eclipse in six hours, so I have to offer this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fnxruBcKdc
Amanda Posted March 21, 2015 Author Posted March 21, 2015 Megan that is simply the best!! Wrong thread Well, we've got an eclipse in six hours, so I have to offer this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fnxruBcKdc
meganiwish Posted March 22, 2015 Posted March 22, 2015 Well, yes, I did wonder. I grew up listening to it on Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart's Junior Choice, so I have a soft spot. But I needed something topical and I thought that if casual use of the N-word could get that nice Mr Clarkson into so much trouble, maybe it would justify me slipping the song in here. Perhaps I should have chosen the one that buskers assault our streets with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5E_zXbmrlM or a bit of Rolf Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwtnBm8glPE Anyway, how nice to have you back. Have you been somewhere nice?
Amanda Posted March 22, 2015 Author Posted March 22, 2015 It's very nice to see you too Megan :-) I was in Vancouver, Helsinki, Stockholm and London.
meganiwish Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Eeww, nasty. Somehow it puts me in mind of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxa8vUsuDPM One can only be impressed by the vision of whoever saw that you could make a successful disco record about an unsavoury charlatan with such powers of survival that poison didn't kill him, nor a severe beating with clubs, so they had to shoot him and dump him in a frozen river. Given that success, I might write to Lloyd-Webber (the cello variety) and suggest a collaboration on the musical, Clarkson. With a bit of plagiarism (subtly hidden) I feel sure I could manage the lyrics. Lots of the songs from Evita would bear reworking. Actually, I've come up with a better name for the musical. Jeremito. He holds the same place in the nation's affections as Eva Peron did in Argentina. And he's been to Argentina. Oh, I can see this as a goer, but I'd need a musician on board. Who better than Julian Lloyd-Webber? He must be itching to steal his brother's thunder. Talking of plagiarism, listing cities you're in danger of writing your own dreadful song, but it's been done. I recently met the chap responsible in part for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avvh5H-EPWU I gave him a finger-wagging he won't forget in a hurry
Amanda Posted March 23, 2015 Author Posted March 23, 2015 Oh Megan My plugin has crashed so I'm unable to watch the vids you posted. :-( .What that means exactly I have no idea aside from the fact that I've probably been delivered from something potentially very gaudy and crass. You know very well that pop isn't really my cup of tea so here's a brief sort of classically oriented interlude for you while my plugin scrapes itself up and dusts itself down:
meganiwish Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 Hmm, yes. In the same spirit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVf5Cr4M-F8 I suppose wanting to make a point is of its nature self-indulgent. Mum has trouble with her hearing aids too, though they've never entirely crashed. Yes, I do know your feelings about pop music, but most classical music doesn't suffer from the same lack of quality control. Is there a classical equivalent of Agadoo? Well, Pachelbel's Canon in D Major comes close https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80 I think it's loathsome, but that's personal choice. Every next note is grimly inevitable.
Amanda Posted April 12, 2015 Author Posted April 12, 2015 Loathsome is the right word Meg. Thank you for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZZEfrRbdw#t=35
meganiwish Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 There's a brass band who hold the record for how fast they could play The William Tell Overture, I suppose because, music being the food of love, speed is everything. I do like brass band music, though. There's a bandstand just over from Mum's and on a Sunday afternoon in August you can sit under the trees and hear them play Sussex By the Sea http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sussex+by+the+sea&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=D50387EBE75AC21D0F38D50387EBE75AC21D0F38 It's a glorious way to spend a summer afternoon. There's a cafe too, so you can buy a cup of tea. It's not a bad world, is it, where people will play for free to make my Sunday good. There's a Joni Mitchell song http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=joni+mitchell+for+free&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=E03D8BEEF548B9736BA4E03D8BEEF548B9736BA4 There's a bit in a Pogues' song where the brass band gets the hairs on the back of my neck up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY
josephinep Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 Well, I personally like the Beatles, I think there's muuuuch worse out there.....
meganiwish Posted August 26, 2015 Posted August 26, 2015 Oh, indeed there is. I had the misfortune to hear this today and thought I'd share it with you all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3g_P3clEf8 in the spirit of 'Misery loves Company'. (I daresay there's a country song in there if anyone would care to write it. Actually, I was talking to my daughter a last month about The Smiths and she said, 'Morrissey's got cancer.' She's just come up with The Smiths' next single! You'd have to get the right level of triteness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZYCKNYxmrY , but that's another begging to be written.) It was a dark cloud on an otherwise rainy day.
meganiwish Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 Well, similar to yesterday's offering is this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsCiaxPhtVY The purple letters on Google imply that I've used it before. I don't think so, but ,if I have, call me out, and believe me that I have a defence that will leave you wishing you were listing to 'Deck of Cards'.
meganiwish Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 Watching Vanity Fair tonight. I'd forgotten that we had William Makepeace-Thackery to thank for this sentiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cdFuMgMkBM Again the purple words on Google. Am I repeating myself? Maybe I've got my second degree - a degree of Alzheimers. In the 1980s there was a 'cop show' on the television called Dempsey and Makepeace, http://www.bing.com/search?q=dempsey+and+makepeace&qs=AS&pq=dempsey+and+&sc=8-12&sp=1&cvid=f81b73eb3e664aebb595d66de6ead823&FORM=QBLH&ghc=1 which Mum always called Makepeace and Thackery. It made me laugh.
Amanda Posted February 14, 2016 Author Posted February 14, 2016 Another from Russia for your delectation :-)
aristoc Posted February 14, 2016 Posted February 14, 2016 Nice videos though Amanda. Especially Pussy Riot! 1
meganiwish Posted February 17, 2016 Posted February 17, 2016 Yes, political points are rarely well served by pop music, and European languages tend to make it even more excruciating. Still, this one, in English, takes some beating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tONEk9YMoIw When you need to bail out just say, 'Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take any more.' 1
hoborob Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 The picture attached to that video is scary enough for me to run for the hills..........
Amanda Posted November 20, 2016 Author Posted November 20, 2016 2 minutes ago, hoborob said: The picture attached to that video is scary enough for me to run for the hills.......... Rob you need to watch the full video.
hoborob Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 Uh oh the message is "the uploader does not work in your country"
JeffB Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 On 2/14/2016 at 2:13 AM, Amanda said: Well, at least the ladies wore nice shoes. 1 I don't want to LOOK like a woman, I just want to DRESS like a woman!
Amanda Posted November 20, 2016 Author Posted November 20, 2016 1 minute ago, JeffB said: Well, at least the ladies wore nice shoes. Hello Jeff :-) long time no see x
Shyheels Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 Putin is a big fan, isn't he? I think he was hoping they'd cover Jailhouse Rock 1
Shyheels Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 My God, Amanda, where on Earth do you find this stuff?
Amanda Posted November 20, 2016 Author Posted November 20, 2016 2 minutes ago, Shyheels said: My God, Amanda, where on Earth do you find this stuff? “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” ― Mae West 2
Shyheels Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 1 minute ago, Amanda said: “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” ― Mae West Love it! (I needed to give that one ten likes, alas could only give it the one)
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