Comments on: TGIF… http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:15:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: EriktheRed http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-437016 EriktheRed Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:22:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-437016 <p>Can’t really explain the video, but here’s a little trivia tidbit about it: the keyboardist, drummer and bass player are brothers.</p> Can’t really explain the video, but here’s a little trivia tidbit about it: the keyboardist, drummer and bass player are brothers.

]]> By: bernarda http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436538 bernarda Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:20:07 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436538 <p>From a group that can maybe rightly be described as probably the most influential group you have never heard of “The Watts Prophets”.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISUoTJaXVBQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISUoTJaXVBQ</a></p> <p>Though this group, “The Last Poets” might be able to dispute that title.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovGmbR80qg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovGmbR80qg</a></p> From a group that can maybe rightly be described as probably the most influential group you have never heard of “The Watts Prophets”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISUoTJaXVBQ

Though this group, “The Last Poets” might be able to dispute that title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovGmbR80qg

]]> By: RT http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436529 RT Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:09:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436529 <p>Bet everyone’s forgotten this song entirely, but it’s always been a minor favorite of mine, just for the sheer fun of it:</p> <p>Tommy Shaw, “Girls With Guns” (1984)</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25dSxa8-LdQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25dSxa8-LdQ</a></p> Bet everyone’s forgotten this song entirely, but it’s always been a minor favorite of mine, just for the sheer fun of it:

Tommy Shaw, “Girls With Guns” (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25dSxa8-LdQ

]]> By: bernarda http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436502 bernarda Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:42:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436502 <p>Maybe this video from I-don’t-know-when will explain it all to you.</p> <p><a href="http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=7219698706729504500&q=henry">http://video.google.nl/videopl.....mp;q=henry</a> rollins</p> <p>It does leave room for interpretation.</p> Maybe this video from I-don’t-know-when will explain it all to you.

http://video.google.nl/videopl…..mp;q=henry rollins

It does leave room for interpretation.

]]> By: Paul Bell http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436120 Paul Bell Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:04:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-436120 <p>Check out this explanation:</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_</a>(song)</p> Check out this explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(song)

]]> By: mandrake http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435803 mandrake Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:52:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435803 <p>Edie Sedgwick, Part II:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RfdIMxgQ8&mode=related&search=">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=</a></p> Edie Sedgwick, Part II:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

]]> By: brownandserve http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435768 brownandserve Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:37:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435768 <p>As a songwriter wannabe, I always felt this song was underrated because of it’s got such a strong hook but the video adds nothing IMHO.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEcTNvfKgw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEcTNvfKgw</a> </p> <p>Backstreet Boys- I want it that way</p> As a songwriter wannabe, I always felt this song was underrated because of it’s got such a strong hook but the video adds nothing IMHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEcTNvfKgw

Backstreet Boys- I want it that way

]]> By: mandrake http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435740 mandrake Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:22:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435740 <p>Miss Edith Sedgwick VU:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZdx5TkiFeA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZdx5TkiFeA</a></p> Miss Edith Sedgwick VU:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZdx5TkiFeA

]]> By: brownandserve http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435734 brownandserve Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:16:46 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435734 <p><a href="#comment-435709"><em>Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 245</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-435697"><em>brownandserve @ 233</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9W7nxOeqTI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9W7nxOeqTI</a> </p> <p>Some day you’ll return to<br /> Your valleys and your farms<br /> And you’ll no longer burn<br /> To be brothers in arms</p></blockquote> <p>Wonderful Dire Straits tune. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlAPDQdHqCY">This one’s</a> my fav though.</p></blockquote> <p>Ha! It taught me the name for my future condition (brewer’s droop) LOL.</p> Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 245

brownandserve @ 233

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9W7nxOeqTI

Some day you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Wonderful Dire Straits tune. This one’s my fav though.

Ha! It taught me the name for my future condition (brewer’s droop) LOL.

]]> By: Fini FiniTOOBZ! http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435732 Fini FiniTOOBZ! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:16:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/tgif/#comment-435732 <p>This is continued in the <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/29/more-tgif">new thread</a> upstairs.</p> This is continued in the new thread upstairs.

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