A really nice tune by DuranDuran...
This song is unlike all the other songs by DD, made when they were sober & clean....& yet they managed to make a long lasting hit out of it!
Very sober, effective & real!
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Zoja-real Latvia 1299 days with MM 6500 posts in Forum
Now before i post this next video, i feel the need to warn our dear American friends about this next song...
It is from a Brittish band that existed in the 80s, and they were only known in Europe....their name: Red Box
As far as i know, they were a very left-wing band, and they didnt even deny it...infact they were very open about their own Socialistic p.o.v.'s!
This song is called "For America", and although it looks seemingly happy & innocent, it actually had quite a sarchastic msg. in the song, which basically mocked the American system.
I'm NOT posting this to disappoint our American friends here....
However i just want to share a song here that i find quite intelligent in its way of conveying its msg.!
It is therefore NOT from its political p.o.v. but rather from its artistic p.o.v. that i happen to appreciate this song....in the way a song can be so seemingly happy & innocent, yet so powerfully sarchastic, & full of ironies.
The song could have been about Sri Lanka or Canada for all i care...i just enjoy the satire & irony used in the song...not to mention that i loved the melody right from the start!
So plz try to distract ur mind from the fact that it's America they're singing about, & just look at it with objective eyes(if at all possible)!!?
Thanks in advance for ur understanding!
For America(1986)
deviate to contemplate
this audio visual opiate
one hundred years from now
title fights and human rights
we're satellites - you're parasites
hey yah ya!
now I've got to tell you
that I've been down
down so low that I bit the ground
let's hear it from the heart of America
ya da dee yeh - yeh ee oh
in America
urelei USA
for America
where's the peace and understanding?
go drum go dance sound on sound
all this peace and understanding
go drum go dance round and round
in America yeeooo ay da yeeooo ah
a pocket full of posies
and cheap scented roses
every house should have it's hat on
so in and out and round and round,
up and down and lost and found
hey ah ha!
magazines and gasoline
and made-in-Taiwan western scenes
will you hear us in the heart of America?
ya da dee yeh - yeh ee oh
in America
urelei USA
for America
where's the peace and understanding?
go drum go dance sound on sound
all this peace and understanding
go drum go dance round and round
in America yeeooo ay da yeeooo ah
na na ne na ne na na
all this peace and understanding
where's the peace and understanding?
go drum go dance sound on sound
all this peace and understanding
go drum go dance round and round
in America yeeooo ay da yeeooo ah
all this peace and understanding!
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u_never_know USA-Texas 1780 days with MM 2846 posts in Forum
Now before i post this next video, i feel the need to warn our dear American friends about this next song...
It is from a Brittish band that existed in the 80s, and they were only known in Europe....their name: Red Box
As far as i know, they were a very left-wing band, and they didnt even deny it...infact they were very open about their own Socialistic p.o.v.'s!
This song is called "For America", and although it looks seemingly happy & innocent, it actually had quite a sarchastic msg. in the song, which basically mocked the American system.
I'm NOT posting this to disappoint our American friends here....
However i just want to share a song here that i find quite intelligent in its way of conveying its msg.!
It is therefore NOT from its political p.o.v. but rather from its artistic p.o.v. that i happen to appreciate this song....in the way a song can be so seemingly happy & innocent, yet so powerfully sarchastic, & full of ironies.
The song could have been about Sri Lanka or Canada for all i care...i just enjoy the satire & irony used in the song...not to mention that i loved the melody right from the start!
So plz try to distract ur mind from the fact that it's America they're singing about, & just look at it with objective eyes(if at all possible)!!?
Thanks in advance for ur understanding!
Some of us here don't have such thin skin that we take offense at everything that expresses an adverse opinion to ours. Hey, if an American can't appreciate the right of free speech, then nothing else that we hold dear means very much. I don't have to agree with the sentiment of the song to admit it's kind of snappy.
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u_never_know USA-Texas 1780 days with MM 2846 posts in Forum
sphs2a
As you mentioned about the song by Red Box, the first impression of a song can sometimes be misleading. This song by Elvis Costello, I think is about his elderly grandmother who lived in a senior citizen home. For some reason it hits a sad note with me. Perhaps it causes me to think of my own dear grandmother. Still, I love this song.
Veronica
Is it all in that pretty little head of yours?
What goes on in that place in the dark?
Well I used to know a girl and I could have sworn
that her name was Veronica
Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own
and a delicate look in her eye
These days I’m afraid she’s not even sure if her name is Veronica
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes
Veronica
Veronica
Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane?
Did he roam down the town all the while?
Did you wake from your dream, with a wolf at
The door, reaching out for Veronica
Well it was all of sixty-five years ago
When the world was the street where she lived
And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea
With a picture of Veronica
On the Empress of India
And as she closed her eyes upon the world
and picked upon the bones of last week’s news
She spoke his name outloud again
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes
Veronica
Veronica
Veronica sits in her favourite chair and she sits
Very quiet and still
And they call her a name that they never get right
and if they don’t then nobody else will
But she used to have a carefree mind of her own,
With devilish look in her eye
Saying you can call me anything you like, but
My name is Veronica
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes
Veronica
Veronica
The video is from an appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1989.
u_never_know: sphs2a
As you mentioned about the song by Red Box, the first impression of a song can sometimes be misleading. This song by Elvis Costello, I think is about his elderly grandmother who lived in a senior citizen home. For some reason it hits a sad note with me. Perhaps it causes me to think of my own dear grandmother. Still, I love this song.
Veronica
Is it all in that pretty little head of yours?
What goes on in that place in the dark?
Well I used to know a girl and I could have sworn
that her name was Veronica
Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own
and a delicate look in her eye
These days I’m afraid she’s not even sure if her name is Veronica
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes
Veronica
Veronica
Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane?
Did he roam down the town all the while?
Did you wake from your dream, with a wolf at
The door, reaching out for Veronica
Well it was all of sixty-five years ago
When the world was the street where she lived
And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea
With a picture of Veronica
On the Empress of India
And as she closed her eyes upon the world
and picked upon the bones of last week’s news
She spoke his name outloud again
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes
Veronica
Veronica
Veronica sits in her favourite chair and she sits
Very quiet and still
And they call her a name that they never get right
and if they don’t then nobody else will
But she used to have a carefree mind of her own,
With devilish look in her eye
Saying you can call me anything you like, but
My name is Veronica
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes
Veronica
Veronica
The video is from an appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1989.
Hey the song is brilliant, & the lyrics ingenius!
i once saw Elvis Costello many many many yrs ago, walking really fast with his gf on the street in Copenhagen back in the early 90s. I was amazed at how i was able to spot him in the crowd, because he doesnt/didnt have such a distinguished face, so he can easily blend in with the crowd....but somehow that day, it was as if i would have found him & recognized him even if he had worn clown costume on & walked with a herd of 100 other clowns!!
Maybe it was because i'd read in the papers that he was going to play in the famous Danish Roskilde Festivalen, and had subconsciencely expected to see "somebody" on the Pedistrian Street that very day!
and the drumming of Manu Katché. 
sphs2a - thanks for fine music topic! 
Perhaps it causes me to think of my own dear grandmother. Still, I love this song.
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