RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (Full Version)

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid



Message

NorthernGent -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/22/2006 1:03:07 PM)

I'm sensing there was a punk in you late 70s. I always liked Northern Industrial Town:

And the street lights look pretty and bright
From the tops of the hills they rise dark in the night
If it weren't for the rain you might never come down
To your northern industrial town

And on payday they tear the place down
With a pint in your hand and a bash'em out band
Sure they'd dance to the rhythm of the rain falling down
In a northern industrial town

And there's plenty of artists around
Painters steal cars, poets nick guitars
Cos we're out of the black and into the red
So give us this day our daily bread
In a northern industrial town

But it's not Leeds or Manchester
Liverpool, Sheffield, nor Glasgow
It's not Newcastle-on-Tyne. It's Belfast
It's just a northern industrial town

Merry Christmas, war is over
In a northern industrial town



NorthernGent -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/22/2006 2:18:04 PM)

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

Doves 1995ish



sissifytoserve -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/23/2006 2:59:54 PM)

John the revelator.

Depeche Mode

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



meatcleaver -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/24/2006 2:33:09 PM)

The amazing Jacques Brel singing Amsterdam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1oX3bdIMqk



meatcleaver -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/24/2006 2:44:02 PM)

So uncool but oh so good. The only time you saw this bloke without a beer and a cigarette in his hand was when he was singing. Hence, he sings no more.

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



meatcleaver -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/24/2006 3:31:05 PM)

Nina Hagen is so so gooood!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osq0rJdt0Yc



NorthernGent -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/25/2006 6:13:48 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

The amazing Jacques Brel singing Amsterdam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1oX3bdIMqk


Any chance of posting the lyrics in English?



meatcleaver -> RE: Foreign Music Video Favorites (11/25/2006 6:30:03 AM)

If I remember rightly, David Bowie did a version of Amsterdam which was pretty good. I don't like the bloke but he has talent.

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sings
Of the dreams that he brings
From the wide open sea
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sleeps
While the river bank weeps
To the old willow tree

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who dies
Full of beer, full of cries
In a drunken town fight
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who's born
On a hot muggy morn
By the dawn's early light

In the port of Amsterdam
Where the sailors all meet
There's a sailor who eats
Only fish heads and tails
And he'll show you his teeth
That have rotted too soon
That can haul up the sails
That can swallow the moon

And he yells to the cook
With his arms open wide
"Hey, bring me more fish
Throw it down by my side"
And he wants so to belch
But he's too full to try
So he stands up and laughs
And he zips up his fly

In the port of Amsterdam
You can see sailors dance
Paunches bursting their pants
Grinding women to porch
They've forgotten the tune
That their whiskey voice croaked
Splitting the night
With the roar of their jokes
And they turn and they dance
And they laugh and they lust
Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts
And then out of the night
With their pride in their pants
And the sluts that they tow
Underneath the street lamps

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who drinks
And he drinks and he drinks
And he drinks once again
He'll drink to the health
Of the whores of Amsterdam
Who've given their bodies
To a thousand other men
Yeah, they've bargained their virtue
Their goodness all gone
For a few dirty coins
Well he just can't go on
Throws his nose to the sky
And he aims it up above
And he pisses like I cry
On the unfaithful love

In the port of Amsterdam
In the port of Amsterdam



Page: <<   < prev  1 2 [3]

Valid CSS!




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy
0.125