Youtube favourites. (NON-Romanov & Royality videos)

[TimM]

Heaven In Our Headlights by Hedley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6qHUiqhql0

[TimM]

Ho Hey by The Lumineers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmuYiYleTG4


Is it just me, or does it seem I'm carrying this thread these days?

[TimM]

OneRepublic - Future Looks Good (Audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkGhYIPcAHg

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Adorably cute and impressively fit Soviet soldiers (Alexandrov ensemble) dancing cossack dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fTVnhg7S0
Some comments dub it "Soviet breakdance"! :-)

Modern hipster folk version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A

[TimM]

We Didn't Start The Fire parody, about the fall of Channel Awesome


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reAFBpjD4hM

[1130 WNEW]

Irish Telecom advert "Little blonde girl calls Santa on her toy phone"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl2u24_d2w0

Australian Woolworths advert "Little girl counts out carrots for Santa's reindeer" (because of the limited time, they leave out Cupid and Donner)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5gRG4od5NY

[TimM]

Money On My Mind from the TV movie My Father Must Die

This song has never been released, so this version is fan made.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9NBOjWyis

[TimM]

Good Time Chipmunk Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK7pEj0E4Mg

[TimM]

Passchendaele (After the War by Sarah Slean).  Fitting, since this is the 100th Anniversary of  the  Armistice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi4EygbqW3o&fbclid=IwAR25O85ijQBTz1Dj7xLLMB0ggi8aldb7iEDNro0sy6zfOVJmHM693S2l35w

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Catchy anthem of the emerging right-wing populist movement in Europe?

Marching song of the Greek Chrysi Avgi - Golden Dawn party: Οι τελευταίοι πιστοί - The Last Faithful Ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOMNF0dV5UY

(The song as meme culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvpPQaVJlmw)

I became very enamoured with this song and wondered where it came from? Turns out it's an adaption of an Italian hommage to the heroes of the anti-Communist uprising in Hungary in 1956: (Avanti) ragazzi di Buda - (Forward) Boys of Buda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx7iEoYJ6_U

Apparently it was written by the broadcaster Pier Francesco Pingitore in 1966 and has been in use by various neo-fascist football hooligan groups, most notably supporters of Lazio. Rocked-up version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgwrx-xl9KY

Fascinating how a hommage to the anti-Communist resistance in Eastern Europe now becomes a rallying song for those who align themselves with the stance on mass immigration of these countries of the Visegrád Group.

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Enticing campfire rendition from some right-wing summer camp in the 1970s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZmRdgD9vYw

BTW while researching this I happened upon this recent German TV report about a so-called 'Anastasia cult' from Russia that had adherents in Germany: Basically eco-fascism worshipping a blond goddess called Anastasia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp0sx6eZiTk

[TimM]

Cliff Richard - Millennium Prayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsgUUSBwOw0


The Lord's Prayer, sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.   Kind of fitting to post this today.

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Soviet nostalgia with wonderful 1980s symphonic movie music ("Concerto de Berlin") by Romanian-French composer Vladimir Cosma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpUBy-UxgI

Fantastic Italian version of the infamous Cabaret song "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" with better lyrics and images from the Lord of the Rings movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQIWfomDUtw The song is an unofficial anthem of the Italian neo-fascist alt-right.

[TimM]

Thanks for the new videos.

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A song from another huge empire:

Fantastic Chinese pop song from a roadmovie about crossing China by car. I stumbled upon it as the soundtrack of a YouTube video about long-distance cycling in China: 平凡之路 = Píngfán zhīlù = The Ordinary Road) by Pu Shu (朴树).

Lyrics with translation