Just because Shel brought it up in comments and it’s always been a great song.
Source for those who can’t see the embed.
Yeah, the video’s a little “1980s” now. But still …
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ADDED: I suppose it’s a plus (although a pretty weird one) that this song has been banned on the BBC for many years “…due to its address of war, nationalism and religion, as well as a direct reference to weaponry in the line, ‘There’s a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway.'”
Geez, I knew the Brits had gotten lily-livered in the last few decades (no offense, reader Roger), but that’s nuts! What are they allowed to listen to on the BBC? Songs about unicorns, lollypops, and how wonderful the government is?
I have that one on my ipod playlist. Dated, but a great song anyway!
England is a profoundly sad case study in cultural decline and dissipation.
Claire, great song but rubbish video. It let the song down badly. The Biased Broadcasting Corporation is a law upon themselves and one if the reasons I refuse to pay for a TV license! If the song was about Gay, lesbian, disabled communists fighting evil US oppression in their middle east homeland they would give it unlimited airtime. But Silent Running is perceived as Brits or Americans fighting oppressive invaders and that would never do would it! In certain groups over here the song is held in the same esteem as Jericho( the tv series). KenK never believe all you read and I don’t live in England BTW they are the messy bit of the British Isles that appendage god’s own country!
The BBC by the way never had a problem with The Manic Street Preachers track ‘This is my truth tell me yours’ because it mentions shooting fascists, however they are pretty clueless to their politics otherwise they would never have played it!
Yep, that’s Roger from WALES, right? — Next to Ireland, Wales is the best bit of the isles those annoying Saxons ever messed with.
Sure is Claire. Scotland’s nice too but all the midges in the summer make them hotheaded, lol! You’re also right that Ireland is next to us, but their not the best, we are! Two things we Welsh are reknowned for. Telling the truth and our modesty lol ;-))
Here’s another video. This time of a dog pushing his owner through a flood.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/06/13/Russian-Dog-Pushes-Owner-in-Wheelchair-Through-Flooded-Street
Oh, I thought you might also appreciate this little quote that is a favorite one for those who like boats and/or live on one.
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“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not.”
– Spoken by Ratty to Mole in “Wind in the Willows”, a children’s book by Kenneth Grahame
Oh, is this going to be like one of those music video threads at TMM? 🙂
This one is fun. Down in the Cellar.
As the home of Scots Whisky, Scotland will always be my favorite part of Great Britain.
For some reason, Silent Running is a associated, in my head, with Lunatic Fringe, and Fantasy, by Aldo Nova.
Sorry Claire I just realised I had put the album name not the track. The song “if you tolerate this” by the Manic Street Preachers. Most of their work is interpreted as leftist but they are actually anarchists.
They banned Mike and the Mechanics?!?
Can you say? “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
From the Monty Python take on British rule:
http://youtu.be/5Xd_zkMEgkI
“King? I didn’t vote for you.”
Seeing what Formerly Great Britain has devolved into I can’t help but wonder if we should have let Schicklgruber and Co. have them. Soon they will be Dhimmis in their own land, having earned the title and the condition.
revjen45 Says:
June 16th, 2013
Seeing what Formerly Great Britain has devolved into I can’t help but wonder if we should have let Schicklgruber and Co. have them. Soon they will be Dhimmis in their own land, having earned the title and the condition.———– you’ve evidently not been far in the USA. The day we get as bad as Dearborn……….
A great song from the 80s. But the way Britain is run today, i see why the government over there banned it. Freedom is what statists don’t want you to know, because you might THINK, not follow the Great Leader or Leaders and their Grand Plan. The Brits will have to watch this video on YouTube.
TN James Says:
June 17th, 2013
A great song from the 80s. But the way Britain is run today, i see why the government over there banned it. Freedom is what statists don’t want you to know, because you might THINK, not follow the Great Leader or Leaders and their Grand Plan. The Brits will have to watch this video on YouTube.——— Banned it?? Local radio plays it several times a week. The BBC pulled it from their playlist is all. Whoever told it was banned is rather muddled! The BBC also put Cliff Richard on the no play list too (can’t say I blame them :-)) but local and national radio independents play what they want! Incidentally I had BBC radio on today and silent running was played so evidently it is off the no play list now as well!
Another song. I believe the last on that album. “A Call to Arms”
Here are Lyrics
Pass the word, it’s a call to arms
Midnight man at your door
Blackened faces run in the night
Daybreak under the floor
Bring my bow
Fill my head with flame, and we must
Let them know that the torch is lit again
Crystalize the pain behind your eyes
Are you ready to fight?
(you hear the drum and) run for your life
(sweet avalon the heat is on)
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide wash the hate away
A simple man with simple thoughts
Who turned to force as a last resort
All around us, chaos rings
Buildings crumbling down
Silhouettes in the fiery rain
Timbers crash to the ground
Bring my spear, invested with my youth
Bring the children near, they must now be told the truth
Old and young and those of foreign tongue
Are you ready to fight?
(you hear the drum and) run for your life
(sweet avalon the heat is on)
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide wash the hate away
A simple man with simple thoughts
Who turned to force as a last resort
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide keep the day away
When simple men with simple thoughts
Will turn to force as a last recourse
Fight the good fight.
Houston