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Poll Question: Which three?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2020 at 02:26
That Nanowar thing is hilarious!
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Hmmm. I can't comment on what works in the US, but as a passionate lover of that song I think the extended version is really quite a bit worse. There was no reason making it longer by adding some pretty generic studio trickery. There must be a video of the original version that plays in the US!? It was a megahit.

I just now listen to the extended one. I will replace. This should do it. Will edit my post too.

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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I think at the end I'll go for Clouds Across the Moon by the Rah Band. Thanks raff and snicolette for feedback on "Das Messer"; I think now that this is still about the music and that I shouldn't try to get people to read translated lyrics for understanding what the issue is with that song. Who hasn't heard it yet, still do anyway. Musically it's great.

Clouds Across the Moon has all the elements of a terrible 80s disco song and yet is so charming (and it played a fun role in a relationship with a lady who is still very dear to me).   

I agree about Clouds Across the Moon. It is terrible, that is excellent, in this context!

If you have time, what do you think about my two candidates?

1) CCCP & Amanda Lear: Tomorrow
2) Goran Bregovich

2) Goran Bregovich: Bella ciao

I can't see any reason for feeling guilty about Bregovich, this is just fun, no? Well, maybe as an Italian you feel different about treating this sacred song like that, but still, I like it and feel totally innocent about it. Bregovich is well respected, it seems to me. I know a number of things that he has done, and in both Germany and the UK he has big audiences (wasn't aware of Italy up to now). The CCCP & Amada Lear one is truly terrible. Probably it's meant to be like that but still. Trying to hurt the ears on purpose is no excuse for doing it. I'm all for cabaret but it shouldn't sound like this really. Now I already said I'll vote for what I like better, so if you prefer feeling guilty, use CCCP, if you want a chance to snatch my vote (but I can't promise anything, haven't heard most things yet), use Bregovich.

Thanks to you Christian!

Bregovic is a great musician, and he collaborated with various Italian groups that I love, including the CCCPs of the Tomorrow video! But his version of Bella Ciao is questionable, in my opinion not all the songs can be transformed into a Balkan circus shack, because they lose their mood, their atmosphere, become something else, the words no longer correspond to the music , and moreover his arrangement is often very overproduced, pumped, and even though I am a lover of his soundtracks for Kusturica's films, beyond a certain level those arrangements become exaggerated, tacky, to my ears, as seems to me the case of Bella Ciao. 

But your opinion has helped me a lot because now I have finally decided and 

my decision is irrevocable: CCCP & AMANDA LEAR - TOMORROW but with this video:




where the performance is much better than that of the first video, which was deliberately too trashy. So the song to rate is this one of this video, a song that I like a lot more than the one I posted previously and the video also makes me enjoy.


Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Donna Lewis – I Love You Always Forever

Mathman, this is my fave of yours.



Edited by jamesbaldwin - July 03 2020 at 05:39
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Raff Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2020 at 05:40
Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

That Nanowar thing is hilarious!


Indeed! I did some research, and found out these guys are from Rome, just like meWink. That song is pure genius!
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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

Ok.  There's a theme here.  I hope I can be forgiven. From 1967, 1970 and 1967, respectively.  And the first is my (ab)nomination, the other two are alternatives for the theme.
The Monkees ~ "Shades of Gray"  


My dear, for me Monkees all the life.


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Please, enough with Nick Kershaw's videos, I could have a hysterical crisis! Wink
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Please, enough with Nick Kershaw's videos, I could have a hysterical crisis! Wink

Wouldn't it be good... if there were no more Nik Kershaw videos. Tongue
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Raff Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2020 at 06:23
BTW, that pic of the Statue of Liberty as a stripper is fantasticLOL! I could see it as the cover of some hair metal album.
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The following song is my obvious guilty pleasure. I just hope no one else has chosen the same song. Smile
 
BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB - Guilty
 
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Welcome Paul! Babs has been mentioned as possibility but not that song. It's your nomination.
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I have started to put in the final song selections into a sharable YouTube playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-zzvl_w6Fx4lXiWIkGvPwQCourjfAKIq

Bandcamp link to The Ander’s choice: http://potband.bandcamp.com/track/s-de-l-gne

I think these are the confirmed final selections so far. I’ll update when I can.

Raff: David Lee Roth – Yankee Rose

Shadowyzard: Eyüp Hamiş Gel Gör Beni

Easy Money: a-ha – Take on Me

Lewian: RAH Band – Clouds Across the Moon

jamesbaldwin: CCCP & Amanda Lear – TOMORROW

Logan: The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World

The Anders: Potband - Søde løgne

cristi: Lana Del Rey – Video Games

Psychedelic Paul: Barbara Streisand & Andy Gibb – Guilty

In case you want to look for your favorite non-nominated video, here’s a playlist to most of the videos that have appeared in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-zzvl_w6Fx7bp-OmxczZChS0cJ6z7_Nl




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Easy Money Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2020 at 06:55
If we are supposed to pick just one song, I will go with "Take On Me".
Help the victims of the russian invasion:
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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

If we are supposed to pick just one song, I will go with "Take On Me".
One for the voting round. a-ha has been added.
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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Welcome Paul! Babs has been mentioned as possibility but not that song. It's your nomination.
Thanks! My choice of song was inspired by the thread title. Smile
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lots... I mean LOTS to catch up with here man

Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:


In case you want to look for your favorite non-nominated video, here’s a playlist to most of the videos that have appeared in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-zzvl_w6Fx7bp-OmxczZChS0cJ6z7_Nl



god help the youtube surfer that comes across that playlist...Shocked

haven't decided upon mine yet.. was probably going to go with Babs until Paul stuck his nose in here. LOL  So keeping with my long held forum mexim that a) 'other' votes are for whimps.  b) agonizing over poll decisions is for pussies and c)  it is PA's man.. just have fun..

I'll go with the Wiggles for mine...  everyone needs some Wiggles in their life...  even Geo Beer


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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

If we are supposed to pick just one song, I will go with "Take On Me".

surprised you didn't go with Skynerd LOL  If one really thinks of it.. they sort of are the very definition of a guilty pleasure.. a band you are ashamed to like.. but are too damn good NOT to like.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

RushFan4 ~ I remember Samantha Fox, but not this song.  And also the Paula Abdul and Twisted Sister selections.   All three are kind of cartoon-y, teen-boy-centric to me (which is how hair bands appear to me), and very MTV-friendly, of course.  Maybe it was because I was living near the Hollywood area at that time.  Which is not to denigrate your taste, they actually fit into the idea, for me, of guilty pleasures. 


Well, I am pretty certain I was a teen boy when most of these songs came out and hair bands were all the rage and thus this is where I cut my musical ears and hence my nostalgia for hair metal.  I don't listen to it nearly as much as I did but now being a 50-year old man child, the air guitar and drums come out when these songs come on.  Honestly, I have very little guilt with the Twisted Sister song, I just wanted to match micky with his Ratt video.  The other two songs are purely awful top 40 dance songs that managed to sink their teeth into me and I am quite sure that the pretty women in the videos may have had something to do with that.  So in keeping with what I think is the theme of this thread, those two are definitely guilty pleasures.  



yeah..  who doesn't remember her...Britain's two greatest treasures she was called wasn't she Beer... I just forgot she ever side stepped off of page 3 and into music LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2020 at 07:39
Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

@Nickie, what a great collection of thoughts and observations. I am enjoying your comments here and throughout as well. Clap



Clap amen to that...  impressive.

hey.. don't you all think it is about time someone step up and give out some forum love to Nickie and make her one of those forum VIP's ...  she's more than earned it by gracing us with her presence on the forum! Beer

admins??  make it so..Thumbs Up
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2020 at 08:11
whoo hooo...  talk about funny...

Raff is doing some listening .. youtube type.. and a song came on.. and in the first 10 seconds of it. .we both..

at the same time though with different levels of class and vulgarity said..

that is what we should have chosen.. and also one of the best music videos ever done..






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