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Dschinghis Khan "Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan" Hu-Ha: Dschinghis Khan Greatest Hits |
When a lyricist decides to tackle an historical event or figure it's not an easy task. Sometimes it turns out to be a moving (or at least informational) experience and other times it's a wha? huh?
Now some people like to hear these stories told in somber Folk, others like them told in feisty Country songs. My personal preference is learning History from German Disco bands, preferably with costumes and historical inaccuracies: I had no idea that Genghis Khan had a rocking son. Boney M's Ma Baker (no that's not a typo) was from Chicago???
(Bush Administration take note: put your bull-jive to a beat! Sorry MC Rove, you need one hell of a gay choreographer and a very talented producer on coke to make that jive fly in my book.)
Look, I know that there is a lot of serious stuff going on in the world, but "Daddy let me have some fun"! If you don't like this over the top, out of control video, I really don't want to hear about it….well, unless you use a German accent and put it to a disco beat.
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Morning, Donita! Thanks for making learning fun! Zed!
hell yes
In 1814 we took a little trip!
one of my favorite political songs(aside from “pretend we’re dead”, of course) is “ich bin ein auslander” from a band called pop will eat itself, about ethnic cleansing but set to a funky, hypnotic beat. captivating and thought provoking.
Hey, Donita!
Wow, that song is really bad. Unbelievably bad.
Happy April Fools Day early!
I know this is off-topic, but I just wanted to share some happy news with my liberal FDL friends:
I occasionally whined on here about being stuck in grey, federal office building on Fridays. (I was a contractor for the federal government, managing some grant-related stuff.)
Now… I just got a new job this month working in marketing for Greenpeace USA! My office is right in Chinatown, and no, it’s not grey in here. I even have a window. Literally and figuratively.
I hope I can do some really good work here for an organization I’ve always been proud of.
Wish me luck!
Best,
Jenn
D.C.
“Look at me, Daddy!”
Great news Jenn from DC! Very happy for you and congrats on the new job w/ Greenpeace.
We fired our puns and
The Bushies started runnin
There wasn’t nigh as many
As there was a while ago…
best of luck to you, jenn! i’m sort of friends with ali and she told me all sorts of great thing about you when your name came up. cheers!
Eric the Great-
Oh, Ali is so great. I miss her. She used to call me at 3 a.m. (my time) and sing my least favorite Indigo Girls song to my answering machine until the tape ran out. And I didn’t even want to kill her!
How do you know her?
-J
eric the great @
8
I get so sick and tired of the male ego-driven politics we have to examine here day in and day out. Petulant Toddlers thinking that the word “NO” only works one way – THEIR way…
I love the Ass-kickin’ FEMALE energy that radiates from this blog. We will save the EARTH!!
I have been tripping out all week on the “Moskau” video by Dschinghis Khan. When I sent that to Donita she found that “Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan” video which is just as bizaar as the “Moskau” video. Bonus video: “How to Dance the Moskau“
All of this was an accidental discovery via YouTube on my way to finding this other “Moskau” video – by Rammstein.
Political songs, none better:
thank you, donita! having grown up in europe on this stuff, it brings back memories… really, really warped memories, like those hazy, misfires your brain throws you the day after getting badly stoned.
Dschinghis Khan rules, and if Karl Rove would only wear a pair of shiny gold flare trousers like that, he’d be the prize trophy among the boys in cellblock D.
OT: Chairman Henry Waxman
Another letter goes out!
Committee Requests Deposition of Former White House Aide Susan Ralston
oversight.house.gov
This will be worth watching. Ralston is the woman who worked for Abramoff and then moved to work for Rove.
We can be together
Ah you and me
We should be together
We are all outlaws in the eyes of america
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
But we should be together
Come on all you people standing around
Our lifes too fine to let it die and
We can be together
All your private property is
Target for your enemy
And your enemy is
We
We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves
Up against the wall
Up against the wall fred (motherfucker)
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Come on now together
Get it on together
Everybody together
We should be together
We should be together my friends
We can be together
We will be
We must begin here and now
A new continent of earth and fire
Come on now gettin higher and higher
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Wont you try
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 11
Please to not forget our big, beautiful neighbor directly south! MEXICO!
thingwarbler @ 13
I gotta ask, how big of a deal was D. Khan back then? I am only just now finding out about these folks. I am completely entranced by their videos on YouTube. I feel like I found undelivered Christmas and birthday presents in my parents’ attic when I found this band. How big did they get in the Euro music scene?
Jenn formerly known as HELL7 @
4
Hi Jenn. Congrats on the cool new job. Now get to work and save our planet. I am totally hooked on ‘The Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan”
I’ve been singing it for three days now. Daddy let me have some fun!
I think I lasted 10 seconds.
Donita Sparks @ 18
Hu-ha hu-ha!
Tim @ 19
3/5 of a Mile in 10 seconds!
well, that’s a long story. let’s just say that her former friend steph brought us together. we’ve never met. just yakked online and on the phone. when she got her new job i lost touch with her.
btw, i remember your old hell7 site and i miss it.
Thanks guys and gal!
I’ll continue to proof copy, and you rock out with your D.K.!
:)
http://play.napster.com/track/10017118 – British version of Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton. He cut this version for the UK market telling the story of the Battle of New Orleans from the British perspective.
The spin I’m in this week includes, coincidentally, three disco movers, none of which are German… although there is a german record in my spin:
- “Want to be where you are” – Zulema (RCA)… this is as lovely as disco gets… that dreamy, stringy goodness.
- “Off the Wall” – Michael Jackson (Epic)… the pre-”Thriller” moody intro KILLS.
- “Got to give it up” – Marvin Gaye (Motown)… party on wax.
- “Rehab” – Amy Winehouse… this new joint cracks me up. “no no no.”
- “Future Days” – Can … I suppose this isn’t learning history, but prophecy, from Germans. Can are sick.
keep spinning, firepups!
E-
Where does Ali work now?
Thanks for saying you miss HELL7. Aw, it died when the host reset my password and I couldn’t get back in to save my soul! Oh, well, I was trying to pull my focus away and turn it on promoting my band at the time anyway….
Donita was really patient with HELL7–and supportive.
See ya,
-J
eric the great @ 22
And now we must consult the classics:
Punk ain’t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain’t hardcore cos you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your head
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks? FUCK OFF!
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks? FUCK OFF!
If you’ve come to fight, get outta here
You ain’t no better than the bouncers
We ain’t trying to be police
When you ape the cops it ain’t anarchy
Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you’ve got real balls
You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your school
They’re coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you’ll be the first to go
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks? FUCK OFF!
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks? FUCK OFF!
You’ll be the first to go
You’ll be the first to go
You’ll be the first to go
Unless you think?
Phoenix Woman @ 27
Classics. From 1982?
as usual, amazing ms. donita!
how about: dead kennedys’
“holiday in cambodia”
that’s a good, rockin’ history lesson!!
“der kommisar” by falco? i know….not really a history lesson, but fun to sing along to just the same.
nora
OT
Chairman Henry Waxman has also sent a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice reminding her that she has ignored his previous letters and requesting that she appear before his Committee on
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 10.00 am.
i don’t know where she’s working. the last thing i heard was that she had a day job, no details.
MArk Fiore animated comic – G Bush goes fishing:FISH
Mad props out to Christy for posting Paul Anka doing Smells Like Teen Spirit yesterday. That was awesome.
For me, you bet! ;-)
Though really, my own person fave from that era begins:
I am Emperor Ronald Reagan
Born again with fascist cravings
Still, you made me president…
Try Frank in 66:
Well I’m about to get sick
From watchin’ my TV
Been checkin’ out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it’s gonna change, my friends
Is anybody’s guess
So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
Wednesday I watched the riot…
I seen the cops out on the street
Watched ‘em throwin’ rocks and stuff
And chokin’ in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin’ ’round
Seen the smoke & fire
And the market burnin’ down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn
And I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
Well you can cool it,
You can heat it…
‘Cause, baby, I don’t need it…
Take your TV tube and eat it
‘N all that phony stuff on sports
‘N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head began to hurt
From checkin’ out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they’ll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They’ll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin’ hard and doin’ swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can’t be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They’ll send some joker with a brownie
And you’ll see it all complete
So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
Hey you know something people
I’m not black
But there’s a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I’m not white
Well, I seen the fires burnin’
And the local people turnin’
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite ‘em
And they say it served ‘em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it’s the same across the nation
Black & white discrimination
They’re yellin’ “You can’t understand me!”
And all the other crap they hand me
In the papers and TV
‘N all that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don’t appeal to him
(No matter if it’s black or white)
Because he’s out for blood tonight
You know we gotta sit around at home
And watch this thing begin
But I bet there won’t be many left
To see it really end
‘Cause the fire in the street
Ain’t like the fire in my heart
And in the eyes of all these people
Don’t you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now’s the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree
There ain’t no great society
As it applies to you and me
Our country isn’t free
And the law refuses to see
If all that you can ever be
Is just a lousy janitor
Unless your uncle owns a store
You know that five in every four
Just one amount and nothin’ more
Don’t watch the rats go across the floor
And make up songs about being poor
Blow you harmonica son!
In Honor of it’s GLORIOUS return to the New York Broadway Stage:
Xanadu!
We can only hope that it brings with it a resurgence of ROLLER DISCO!
At the Helen Hayes Theater, no less!
Get the taser. I just went a little crazy at Banana Republic dot com.
These are the hazards of locking me up in my office all day on payday.
nora @ 29
Thanks Nora
Hi Donita!
just sending a “hello” from brazil…have fun!
B
Surrender by Cheap Trick
I love this on Friday! Thanks Donita!
Has anyone mentioned “The Night Chicago Died”?
There’s no time like the present to learn from History.
An oldie but a goodie.
Gonzalas is calling little Kyle a liar.
Cool thing to do:
1) Get the original DKs’ In God We Trust, Inc. EP.
2) Put it on the turntable.
3) Leave the speed setting at 33 1/3.
Suddenly, Jello Biafra has a growly, manly voice instead of a whiny, sickly voice. Then play for your metalhead friends.
Jacqrat @ 36
2005’s Roll Bounce with Lil Bow Wow had great music and roller disco.
The disco skaters on Venice Beach still kick ass.
Just Like Romeo and Juliet
Our Love is Gonna Be Written Down in History
Woodhall Hollow @ 44
He has no other choice. Because if Evil Radar told the truth, that means that Gonzo repeatedly lied to Congress — and that, under oath or not, is a crime, kiddies.
TRex @ 42
I thought about it, then thought better.
Donita Sparks @ 46
Thru the music of Roll Bounce I was able to not only turn my 15-year old son onto “my music” but it also garnered a spectacular moment of mother/son bonding. I cried that day! And danced a lot. He was embarrassed for me…HA!
Phoenix Woman @ 48
OMG! Evil Radar! He IS!!! I never put that together until now, he looks like Radar from MASH!
Wow, I had NO IDEA the Reflections were grey dudes, the stuff you learn becuase of FDL!
TRex @ 42
My parents hated that song on family vacations. They kept pointing out the historical inaccuracies. I acutally think that they were insulted that any pop song was saying that Chicago “died” (being from Chicago themselves)
Phoenix Woman @ 48
Wow. It’s going to be a Godzilla vs Mothra Battle of the Incompetents.
Personally I enjoy the Bono/U2 version more, but this one has got some gnarley edit skiz, yo.
Vid is…
part 10cc
part Queen
part Beatles
part Sweet
and Germany’s version of “The Robert Palmer (RIP) girls!
Sink The Bismark is a refreshing change from The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Fun & funny, Donita.
Oh well – you DID say GERMAN, dah?
just getting into the lake… *wave to Fini*
Donita Sparks @ 53
Yea, like when I was a kid in the early 60’s and they found a stiff a week in a trunk of a car at O’Hare!
Jacqrat @ 55
OMG!!!! I was just transported back to the glory days. I LOVE U2!!!!
Jacqrat @ 36
Honestly I have very mixed feelings about this. A) These mixed feelings are because I had an enormous crush in those days on Olivia Newton John and, B) because the aforementioned crush was the result of massive media marketing of Grease and Xanadu.
Also, I consider Xanadu a mistake of epic proportions made by ELO in a mistaken attempt to create a then-popular idea of a “rock opera”. To literally stage it as such is simply repeating the initial error on a grander scale. I predict doom, dismay and career ending miscalculation for someone, I’m not sure who yet.
Donita,
Did you ever see the docu-drama Touching the Void about the mountain climber that was trapped and dying and he had a song stuck in his head. I think that was Boney M.
thanks for the youtube. you have quite a collection happening here!
Woodhall Hollow @ 44
Vaguely on topic
I Don’t Remember
Phoenix Woman @ 48
I am going to bet that he doesn’t last much more than a couple of weeks. Because, if he were not lying (hypothetically) then he looks like a complete and utter fool for handing over the decision making process to the likes of Kyle Sampson.
Eureka Springs @ 58
{{{{{{ESAR}}}}}}
Best Ever:
“Roads to Moscow” – Al Stewart
subject: WWII on the eastern front
PS: Play it LOUD ……
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z_CgLT19hmM
nicelyput @ 62
A fate worse than death!
Jacqrat @ 36
Never seen the movie, always loved the song
Mack @ 63
LOL!
(I love Peter Gabriel.)
nicelyput @ 62
That was Boney M’s Brown Girl In The Ring. Another good song. Catchy as hell, great production.
Question for all you legal types out there.
If Fitz is just now learning that Rove etc, were using non-WH e-mails can he now ask for copies?
At what point would RICO apply to these WH thugs?
Woodhall Hollow @ 69
This song ran through my head repeatedly yesterday
(funny that)
Being that it was Thursday I held off for SPIN Friday
kdh @ 50
2005’s Roll Bounce with Lil Bow Wow had great music and roller disco.
The disco skaters on Venice Beach still kick ass.
Thru the music of Roll Bounce I was able to not only turn my 15-year old son onto “my music” but it also garnered a spectacular moment of mother/son bonding. I cried that day! And danced a lot. He was embarrassed for me…HA!
Very cool. Right on!
Thats right thats right ……….Brown Girl in the Ring tra la la la.
how bizarre. lol
Mack @ 72
Ha! That’s the spirit.
The tune that keeps going through my head this week is the Castaways ‘Liar Liar’.
I have no idea why.
what? no abraham, martin and john?
Shirley Bassey
That Rasputin video is like an acid trip with a heroin drip and a fever dream all rolled into one.
and, you can’t include falco’s “amadeus” unless you add chuck berry’s “roll over beethoven,” a much better song!
Munson Thurd @ 76
Or Two Faces Have I, Lou Christie!
Ghenghis Khan can dance!
Whatever happened to this band? You would think they would have had a long successful career, maybe do an album with Weird Al Jankovich or something.
The musical world is poorer without them.
Lou Costello @ 78
That reminded me of her performance on the Propellerheads’ version of History Repeating
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 83
That reminded me of her performance on the Propellerheads’ version of History Repeating
What a set of. . .ah pipes!
skippy @ 80
Actually I thought about it, but the song doesn’t say anything about who Beethoven was or what he did, Sorry doesn’t count as history lesson.
This video got my to turn it all the way up and do the ROBOT in my room.
So gay it scared me straight. Great one, Donita.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
61
My work satellite has been playing the theme from Xanadu a lot lately. Which causes me amusement because i’ve seen exactly how bad the music vid was. The song is fairly standard fare, but memorable to me when i was little at the time. *laughs* But work’s overplaying of it has been making me raise an eyebrow.
portia.vz @ 82
I’ve been obsessing on this band this week. They had a series of lesser hits up until about 1983 when they disbanded. They reformed in late 2005 without the original Ghenghis Khan character who died of AIDS in 1993. They also did not have the bald guy who left the band under doctors orders due to his bad back in 1981. He ended up dying in May of last year as well.
The remaining members still tour, with new members added under the name Legacy of Dschinghis Khan. They are available for dates in Europe now, and are attempting to stage in Moscow on New Year’s Eve this year a performance of “Dschinghis Khan On Ice”.
Wikipedia link
Official Site link
From Johnny Horton to Falco via ABBA. Well…. As a survivor, let’s not bring back roller disco.
Hey, and while we’re on historical figures, how about “Cortez the Killer?”
raven @ 84
What a set of. . .ah pipes!
Oooo the Dame herself. *sighs happily* I still have that full album. Decksanddrumsandrockandroll is a full tip of the hat to the james bond franchise, with a dash of tongue in cheek to top it off. XD Oh and i do believe Shirley Bassey cut a remix album with a dash of ambient with her songs. I never did hear all of it. Her pipes are exquisite. XD
I know it’s supposed to be disco and history. But I’m way into Boogie Oogie Oogie by Taste of Honey. And frankly, I’m glad be out of the closet on liking disco.
Jackdarabbit @ 87
You simply MUST see the Moskau video. Its so gay it will scare you Evangelical.
Morris Sheppard @ 90
Plenty bad man.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 83
That’s why I dug up that version. If you notice, and it drives me nuts, someone has over dubbed the CD version of the music over the video…out of sync!
I like live versions anyway. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzyzkMXuyHo
scory @ 91
Thanks for that! To be able to sing, dance, play the bass and look like that…what talent! What can I say I grew up in the late ’70s and ’80s. It’s who I am and I make no apologies for it!
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 61
I remember the Taste of Honey album cover. My mother was appalled. My brothers on the other hand…not so much!
Granted this has nothing to do with the thread, but it sure makes me want to dance! I tell you Waxman is just having himself a field day:
Paging Dr. Rice, paging Dr. Rice, please report to the Oversight Committee regarding Niger-Iraq claim.
kdh @ 97
How bout the Blind faith cover?
Susan Ralston gets to sing to Henry Waxman next week:
Waxman – Ralston Letter
SharonW @ 98
This is waaaaaay better than Fitzmas! Now I want to dance the Moskau!
And then there’s John Wesley Harding, the Dylan song not the singer. Actually, I think Bob was writing about John Wesley Hardin, the Texas killer and fugitive of the late 1800’s.
Morris Sheppard @ 90
Roller disco is an art form that I love. I don’t get it, what is NOT to dig about it?
Did someone say GAY ?
Oh I remembered a more recent tune about a historical event – Filter’s “Hey Man Nice Shot” was about that PA guy that shot himself in the head on live local TV.
Morris Sheppard @ 102
I love that Dylan phase, along with soundtrack to billy the kid.
raven @ 93
When you say “plenty bad man” do you refer to Cortez, or do you mean “plenty bad, man” as a reference to roller disco?
Waxman wants to see how well the EPA can sing too:
Waxman’s Honky-Tonk!
Sorry to be OT, but if you click my name, I’ve got a transcript of Christy on Thom Hartmann’s show.
When you say “plenty bad man” do you refer to Cortez, or do you mean “plenty bad, man” as a reference to roller disco?
It’s a line in the live version on “Rust Never Sleepz” of the the song not listed in the lyrics.
KDH –
I owned that Taste of Honey album (and the famous Herb Albert album with the whipped cream, too). I think both were lost in a late 70’s/early 80’s punk rock purge. Oh, the tragedy!
Those were some very funky, very talented, very hot women!
raven @ 100
Refresh my memory? Remember I REALLY REALLY LIVED the 80s!!!
In honor of cherry blossoms and sunshine in DC.
The Bush administration took the lid off. The neo-cons celebrate their “noble lies” and ‘crative destruction” Americans sing and burn fuel….Iraqi’s die!
SONGS:
– This Is Baghdad –
Montreal, April 19/04
Everything’s broken in the birthplace of law
As Generation Two tries on his tragic flaw
America’s might under desert sun
I saw her frightened eyes behind the muzzle of her gun
Uranium dust and the smell of decay
Sewage in the street where the kids run and play
Not enough morphine and not enough gauze
Firefight in darkness like snapping of jaws
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
You couldn’t see the blast-the morning was bright-
But some radiant energy flared up into the light
Like the sky throwing its hands up in a horrified dismay
Or the souls of the dead as they sped on their way
Carbombed and carjacked and kidnapped and shot
How do you like it, this freedom we brought
We packed all the ordnance but the thing we forgot
Was a plan in case it didn’t turn out quite like we thought
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
Waxman’s proving he can multitask like crazy, i see. He’s juggling so much, and keeping an eye on EVERY detail. This is downright amazing and awe inspiring to watch!
Neil Young’s Use of American History
One possible explanation of this song is that Young is writing about a woman that he met during his travels and misses her. However, a more plausible explanation of this verse is that Young was writing from the perspective of Cortes himself. The woman in question is Maria de Cuellar; an Aztec woman that Cortes fell in love with and eventually married. This verse suggests that Cortes was not just a ruthless savage, but a normal human that was capable of love. As well, Young suggests in the last two lines of that verse, “I still can’t remember when/Or how I lost my way” that Cortes was not responsible for the actions of himself and the Spaniards. However, in the final lines of Cortez The Killer, Young does an about-face and states, “He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer”
The effect of this is that the listener is not caught up in the legend of Cortes as the great explorer, but the reality that he was a ruthless leader who destroyed a once great civilization. In live performances of Cortez The Killer, such as the one that appears on Live Rust, Young sums up his feelings towards Cortes in one line. In Young’s eyes, Hernan Cortes was a “plenty bad man”.
scory @ 112
How I longed to be one of those amazing women! Now I am, at least in my mind and in the opinion of a select few men. Not to brag or anything…HAHA!
Would anyone remember the song that most fits these times – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Arnie @ 119
That is appropriate for these times.
Arnie @ 118
Vic Damone! My dad played this in the house a lot when I was growing up. Great song!
Woodhall Hollow @
114
Yummy! that sukiyaki was good! Thanks.
kdh @ 113
Blind Faith, Clapton, Windwood, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech had one album. Great song “In the Presence of the Lord”. The cover was a naked girl with a hood ornament in her hands. People went ape-shit and it was replced. Original Cover
Renee in Ohio – That was very nice..will check it out later. thank you
AZ Matt @ 109
Here’s a song appropriate for Henry Waxman today.
Ha!
waxman should just shut down the Bush gov’t and rent a stadium.Do all of this at once.
Being a neo-con, Blair or Bush means never having to say you are sorry or wrong.
Iran: Britain must admit navy trespassed
raven @ 123
kdh @ 113
raven @ 100
kdh @ 97
I remember the Taste of Honey album cover. My mother was appalled. My brothers on the other hand…not so much!
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How bout the Blind faith cover?
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Refresh my memory? Remember I REALLY REALLY LIVED the 80s!!!
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Blind Faith, Clapton, Windwood, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech had one album. Great song “In the Presence of the Lord”. The cover was a naked girl with a hood ornament in her hands. People went ape-shit and it was replced. Original Cover
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WOW! Thanks for the link. That is so awesome. I think I had seen that in my youth. Love the art, but not blessed with an artist’s talent.
Donita Sparks @ 103
Donita, note I mentioned that “as a survivor.” In all honesty I (only somewhat secretly at the time) liked it myself although I am confident that there are no photographs to prove conclusively that I was ever at World on Wheels back in the 80’s.
BTW did you ever contact Elliot Roberts? The more I think about it the more I think he’d dig your stuff.
OK, my music and history contribution. Gilberto Gil’s soundtrack to the movie “Quilombo”, a film about the colony of escaped Africans in the northeast of Brasil. Good movie, great soundtrack, and “Quilombo, um eldorado negro” is one of my favorite songs from a great songwriter.
WOW! Thanks for the link. That is so awesome. I think I had seen that in my youth. Love the art, but not blessed with an artist’s talent.
The wiki entry shows both covers with more info, I suppose more people know “I Can’t Find My Way Home”.
BF
Arnie @ 119
Or “why did you build me up buttercup, just to take me out”
“Hey, There, Georgie Girl”
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 126
PERFECT! LOVED IT!
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 126
LOL! I can’t wait to see how they handle the pressure. :D
SharonW @ 135
Thats fantastic! I’m sure thats on the preznit’s iPod as we speak.
TRex @ 37
did you get the blue linen pants? just curious.
Bushies war bonds… shop at banana republic
I luv BR btw
raven @
117
I can say with some authority that Neil has always had a strong affinity for native American culture and peoples going back to his youth on the Canadian prairie. He has a respectful but romanticized view of them and has surrounded himself with many Native American artifacts and imagery, especially in the 70’s and 80’s. In fact, his ranch is called “Broken Arrow” and his house has several beautfiul Amerind objects and paintings of Native Americans. Obviously, he reviled the conquistadores with their diregard of and subsequent destruction of the cultures they invaded. On the other hand, he is a subtle and complex man able to see several sides to any situation.
for the ages:
X – I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts:
(poor quality video here)
“the world’s a mess, it’s in my kiss”
Wolfie on CNN leads with Booosh at Walter Reed. Predictable MSM.
New thread upstairs.
Black Day in July, G. Lightfoot
Just got back chez moi & late to the party-
Sex Pistols, anyone? Damn near every song on Never Mind the Bollocks always struck me as a history lesson, but track 1’s lyrics a good start:
“Holidays In The Sun”
A Cheap holiday in other peoples misery!
I don’t wanna holiday in the sun
I wanna go to the new Belsen
I wanna see some history
‘Cause now I got a reasonable economy
Now I got a reason, now I got a reason
Now I got a reason and I’m still waiting
Now I got a reason
Now I got reason to be waiting
The Berlin Wall
Sensurround sound in a two inch wall
Well I was waiting for the Communist call
I didn’t ask for sunshine and I got World War three
I’m looking over the wall and they’re looking at me
Now I got a reason, Now I got a reason
Now I got a reason and I’m still waiting
Now I got a reason,
Now I got a reason to be waiting
The Berlin Wall
Well they’re staring all night and
They’re staring all day
I had no reason to be here at all
But now I gotta reason it’s no real reason
And I’m waiting at the Berlin Wall
Gotta go over the Berlin Wall
I don’t understand it….
I gotta go over the wall
I don’t understand this bit at all….
Claustrophobia there’s too much paranoia
There’s too many closets so when will we fall
And now I gotta reason,
It’s no real reason to be waiting
The Berlin Wall
Gotta go over the Berlin Wall
I don’t understand it….
I gotta go over the wall
I don’t understand this bit at all…
Please don’t be waiting for me.
Mack @
63
Vaguely on topic
I Don’t Remember
Ah, yes. Brings back memories…
Strange is your language and I have no decoder
Why don’t you make your intentions clear?
With your eyes to the sun and your mouth to the soda
Saying “Tell me the truth, you’ve got nothing to fear.”
Stop staring at me like a bird of prey!
I’m all mixed up, I’ve got nothing to say
I don’t remember
Oh, no, I don’t remember…
Hey Donita and Fini!
I don’t know why that comment came out in italics….
Trying: italics off
scory @
92
I love this. Great skate music.
Donita, I love your taste.
Donita
I stayed up all last night..Got the beginning of very amateur sound studio and made sample rhythm tracks..
I have od’d on all the horror and the Rx for that is music, thanks for another great post
Fuck Emos!!! I love that song.
See you at Leather Fest!!! Eddie Izzard in the house.
SId
Ach Du lieber Gott and
Man o Manischewitz.
Donita! Where’s Heino?
In my strrrrongest gerrman akzent I haff to say: Siss is awfulll!
A German
Wow, a Boney M reference. I backpacked across Europe in the Fall of ‘76 and their hit song “Daddy Cool” was the soundtrack for the entire trip, played everywhere, on radio, in bars, no. 1 in dance clubs and discos. Followed links to You Tube and watched the video. So many memories it brought back.Think I’ll have to dig into the box of old stuff for the 45 record I brought back with me. Thanks…
I was about to get all mad before I made the jump to the actual list because I immediately thought of Waterloo by Abba, and assumed that yet another American-made song list would diss Abba. Kudos to you Donita for including Fernando, too!!!
I’m not a roller disco hater either.
But can I offer up an amendment to your list — Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday?