Re: The YouTube thread

[Ringdrotten]

Humhum, partly because I've had some buckie and partly because I'm interested in hearing how this song sounds to English-speaking folk, I'll post this classic Norwegian buckie song!



The lyrics are great If ytou can understand them, that is!

[Pettytyrant101]

"The lyrics are great If you can understand them, that is! -Ringdrotten

Not a bloody word! Didn't stop me singing along though. Lucky I'm a Scotshobbit and all my neighbours are also drunk on buckie and singing, so no one minds, though I think I'm the only one deliberately trying to sing in another language.

Try this for size, a Scots Nordic collaboration!!

[Ringdrotten]

Maybe tomorrow I will understand what they are singing about, but it still sounds like music to my ears

[Pettytyrant101]

This one comes with lyrics


In my defence it was a cold night, someone spiked my buckie and those girls are notorious!!

[Ringdrotten]

"And there, behold, for them to view
Beneath his Scottish skirt
Was nothing more than God
had graced him with upon his birth"

Great stuff

[Ringdrotten]

What the..

I think everyone will find something to their liking in this vid

[Pettytyrant101]

Says it all about most pop really! (And quite chuffed I dislike every single one of those songs!!)

[Ringdrotten]

Thought you were a Beatles fan? I agree, though (with a few exceptions - No Woman No Cry being one. Used to be a favourite of mine, and I still love it )

[Pettytyrant101]

Thought you were a Beatles fan?- Ringdrotten

Fair point! But the Beatles get away with it by doing Sergeant Pepper etc and proving not just that they had more than 4 cords but they could reinvent the entire production process of a song! But in general most modern pop hasn't come very far since then.

[Ringdrotten]

But in general most modern pop hasn't come very far since then.

True, this song proves that

[Saradoc]

What the..

I think everyone will find something to their liking in this vid

Great song!

But I think modern pop music has moved on, in terms of the artists and style, but is still good. For me, and the average listener we don't like the song solely because of it's production values we enjoy it because it entertains us. Whoever it is, whether it be Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Paul Mccartney (who I love btw.)

I can play the guitar and piano at a reasonable level, but I can't write a four-chord song that would effect people on a personal level, and there aren't many people in the world who can. Artists like Lady Gaga & Katy Perry can write pop songs that are liked by people, and while the basic principle of pop music hasn't changed- to entertain- artists like these know what we as society like to hear, whatever the minority say!


For the sake of the youtube thread:

[Pettytyrant101]

I'm old and crabbit- I'm allowed to hate all modern music on the basis the female pop stars dress and move like well trained prostitutes and all the men are annoying idiots! (and they all get paid massively more than me for being so!)

[Pettytyrant101]

The greatest Scottish rock band of the 1980's
Go wild folks! Its Lovefist with Fist Fury, introduced by the one and only Laslow.

[Eldorion]

Not to interrupt all the music, but a friend of mine just posted this on Facebook, and I had to share it. Watch this clip from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi for context if you haven't seen that film.

[Ally]

What the..

I think everyone will find something to their liking in this vid

Great song!

But I think modern pop music has moved on, in terms of the artists and style, but is still good. For me, and the average listener we don't like the song solely because of it's production values we enjoy it because it entertains us. Whoever it is, whether it be Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Paul Mccartney (who I love btw.)

I can play the guitar and piano at a reasonable level, but I can't write a four-chord song that would effect people on a personal level, and there aren't many people in the world who can. Artists like Lady Gaga & Katy Perry can write pop songs that are liked by people, and while the basic principle of pop music hasn't changed- to entertain- artists like these know what we as society like to hear, whatever the minority say!


For the sake of the youtube thread:

As good as the studio version in my mind, just the passion of the live performance you know?

And by the way, The Pope is no match for Emperor Palatine!

[Pettytyrant101]

Frankie Boyle jokes that didn't make it to air. From Mock the Week. Adult themes and language.

[Pettytyrant101]

A neat little fan animation of a small bit of Hitchhikers by Douglas Adams- a missile has improbably been turned into a sperm whale, here's what its thinking;

[Tinuviel]

This is a FANTASTIC video about Frodo to the song "I gave you all" by Mumford and Sons.

[Ally]

This is a FANTASTIC video about Frodo to the song "I gave you all" by Mumford and Sons.

Love Mumford and Songs- great video!!

Been ill past few days, so spend quite a lot of time on the internet!


Always makes me smile!

[Ally]

*spent

(page wouldn't load when I clicked edit!)

[Pettytyrant101]

The lyrics might be drug-addled nonsense but I love the music in this.

[Pettytyrant101]

And almost the complete opposite- the sort of pop tune the pros can knock out on their lunch break but decent lyrics with a point (should warn this is the uncensored version)



Mmm Amy v Lily. Wonder who wins? I know which one I'd rather take home to meet my mother (illuvatar bless her but my dear old mum does love her smack )

[Pettytyrant101]

Suprised you've never mentioned this Ringdrotten- just watched it- Troll Hunter- Norwegian film about , well hunting trolls- nice to see proper trolls in it too! Apart froom scale i could easily see these trolls sitting round a fire trying to decide how to cook 13 dwarves and a burrohobbit.

[Ringdrotten]

I was aware that it had gotten some attention abroad, but never really thought about mentioning it here for some reason The trolls in that film look almost exactly like the trolls that are depicted in Norwegian folk lore/tales. The trolls in those tales can talk too, so I when I read the Hobbit for the first time I pictured the trolls Bilbo and the dwarves meet like the trolls you see in that film. I pictured them much smaller than the traditional trolls of the old folktales (or that film), though - I reckon Bilbo'd have a hard time climbing into the pocket of one of those! Like you said, scale them down a little and I'd love to see them in the Hobbit

[Pettytyrant101]

Just rewatched Cronenbergs take on Burroughs Naked Lunch. A book thats impossible to film turned into a film thats not like the book but somehow stills feel like it. Weird!
Warning-like all Cronenberg its disturbing on all sorts of levels.