Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is another man’s Poison
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echoes of a Nuremberg rally
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nzlemming, in reply to
Video is from Metropolis, 1927, by Fritz Lang so around the same time. What Lang was describing in fiction, Hitler was trying to make happen.
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Tim Michie, in reply to
I appreciate that but the crowds in unison bits with the band took it into martial rally to my eyes...
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nzlemming, in reply to
Perhaps Lang, as an artist, was commenting on the scene around him? It's not as if Metropolis is a nice place, after all.
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Biobbs, in reply to
I worked in printing / litho shops for many years. The ever-blaring commercial radio was as much of a health hazard as the chemicals, solvents and badly-ventilated darkrooms. I have retained a loathing for classic rock that rocks, no repeat workdays, and the hits of the 70s 80s and 90s. It's enough to send you postal.
Oh yeah, snap. In my case it was a research lab in a country town in Oz in the late 80s, which meant incessant high rotation repeats of this:
Apologies if someone's already posted it earlier - haven't kept up with the whole thread. But God I hate that song. Hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Hate every bar of its simpering, reactionary, fake superficial kumbya-tolerance. Hearing it four times a day for weeks on end...aargh...
Still don't know how I managed three years in that lab with that radio station blasting away in my ears, without doing something desperate with all the syringes, compressed gas cylinders, conc acids, phenols and scalpels readily at hand, to put all of us out of our misery.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
You can lead a horse to culture...
The mullety guy in Slade always looked to me
like he'd strayed from the Sweet.or Follyfoot
aaah, Ron and Slugger and Dora......and I dunno why that Oz "Intelligentsia" twerp went
straight for a Nuremberg reference, looked more
like old time evangelical religion to me...
Goddy Holder, maybe? -
Joe Wylie, in reply to
. . . that Oz "Intelligentsia" twerp . . .
That's Monday Conference host & "moderator" Bob Moore. No doubt aware that treating Zappa as a visiting intellectual à la Germaine Greer might offend Norman Normal of Neutral Bay, Moore strove to add his brand of old school intellectual ballast to a panel that at least had some grasp of Zappa's significance.
Anyway they're all gone now, Zappa, Norman, and Moore, who popped his clogs in 1979 aged 46.
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JacksonP, in reply to
or Follyfoot
Woah! That's a ghost and a half.
Not wanting to take the gloss off the morning, on the theme theme.
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Lilith __, in reply to
What Lang was describing in fiction, Hitler was trying to make happen
The story goes that when Hitler saw Metropolis he said, "This is the man to make films for the Reich!" and Lang fled Germany that same night; thus began his career in America.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Not wanting to take the gloss off the morning, on the theme theme.
Audio only, unfortunately.
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'Yeah, whose baby are you, Batgirl!'
We could go on...
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Oh, we're going there are we? From the writers of God Save the Queen comes this Old Blighty dirge:
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Accessing this thread via iPad, something is certainly is lost in translation. Sort of "Insert song here"--which could be anything--in many offerings.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Having complained about it, I'm now guilty of it.
The first you might guess was Batgirl. 2nd and 3rd, theme to Miami Vice and Chips, in no particular order.
In that I can't tell now I'm on my iPhone.
Burn.
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I thought Youtube's player worked without Flash now?
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
You need to opt in:
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Oh goodie. We're going there. In that case, my very favourite TV programmes were Poldark........
The Pallisers
and The Onedin Line
As you can tell, I was a sophisticated young woman with a yearning for servants.
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Lilith __, in reply to
You need to opt in:
Does that work on mobile devices, though? If it did, that would be awesome!
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
No idea. I've got a Droid machine so no issues with the Great Wall of Jobs
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Some of the episodes were truly dire television, but you gotta love the theme....
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Lilith __, in reply to
Yes :)
Superb! Thank you.
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
My internet connection is on a go-slow for Good Friday, so can't download any of the clips today, but can supply a piece of trivia re Gloss. The main character (played by Miranda Harcourt) was called Gemma Stace. The scriptwriter had been a friend of my older sister (not called Gemma) and there was a rumour at the time that she was inspiration for the character. Not that much similarity really, although my sister still works 'in television'.
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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
Speaking of speaking. This must count as speaking:
This is the original
And he even made a record version
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Double yikes! 20,000 views has just whipped by, in the space of a week.
A lovely autumnal day, raking leaves, stacking firewood and visiting folk with new babies (not necessarily in that order).
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