Flash! AAA-AH!

It’s amazing how one thing can lead to another (hey that’s a song too!). Do a little Flash Fiction writing, and “aaa-ah” I picked this song!

I really like Queen, but this song isn’t in the top 10 for me (heck maybe not the top 30). You need to remember that it was for the movie soundtrack of (wait for it) “Flash Gordon” (there it is!) so it was never going to be of the same quality as, say Bohemian Rhapsody. Still this song does offer the amateur song lyric spoofer with plenty of opportunity to try for cheap laughs. One of my personal favorites is “doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom FLASH! aaa-ah, even a cat can play this song! Flash aaa-ah, the dog will sing along!”

You will note I’m trying very hard to avoid saying anything about the actual movie. Lets just say this, I would rather beam down on a Star Trek away team wearing a red ensign’s shirt then ever watch it ever again!

Living in a household that loves Queen, I have done the unthinkable and mocked them. So could I ask that one of you to “dispatch war rocket Ajax” to get my body please 😉 . Enjoy.

Oh, and This morning’s unprecedented solar eclipse is no cause for alarm, OK

Thin Red Line

If you read my post on “The Forgotten”, you’ll know why I picked this song.

I’m a War of 1812 reenactor (Scout Brigade of Fort George – CSM of the Light Company, 49th Foot) and every camp, when I stand in the musket line I think of this song. The song references the 93rd Highlanders and their stand-off against an attack by Russian cavalry during the Battle of Balaclava, October 25th 1854.

The song uses the lyric “thin red streak tipped with a line of steel” which is direct quote from The Times correspondent, William H. Russell’s report of the Russian charge.

“The Thin Red Line” painted by Robert Gibb 1881

Glass Tiger will always be a great band to me; I bought this album (Titled Thin Red Line) when it came out, and it was full of great songs. Even now, after 25 years the band still does a limited number of shows. I hope you enjoy this weeks Musical Thoughts

New Grass on the Field

If you hadn’t noticed, I’m on a bit of theme this week. It’s not like I’m a huge ball fan (or any sport for that matter), I just really like the first week of baseball season.

The new season starts off with such high hopes. Gone with the snow are all failures of last year. For this week, all the teams are contenders, racing from the starting gates towards the finish line 162 games away. There is no losing streaks to deal with, or batting slumps. Just the hope that this year will be the one when it all falls into place. So out come the hats and jerseys, and for a few days we strut about showing our colors.

“Centerfield seats” by slack13 (Flickr)

While I no longer hang on sports score updates, I do remember a time when my team did the unthinkable. The Toronto Blue Jays won 2 World Series titles back to back. For the first time that I could remember, the city of Toronto was actually paying attention and showing some home team pride. Boy, that was a feeling that will always be with me.

Hearing “Centerfield” by John Fogerty, always reminds me of that time of my life. I especially like the line ” We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field” This is the official video for the 1985 song, and I enjoy the old footage of the golden days of the American pastime. So here’s hoping your team does well this season, and lets play some ball!

We Didn’t Start the Fire

Being interested in history, I’ve always liked this song. I once heard that Billy Joel wrote this song because a much younger fan (most likely a teen) suggested that Joel’s generation was responsible for all the problems in world at the time. This was Joel’s answer to that claim; which was that the each “next” generation will always have to deal with the by-products of the previous one, and so on, and so on, … So hey, don’t blame me because I didn’t start the fire!

While I can’t vouch for the truth of this idea, song wise I love all the historical references. With the lyrics quickly covering the period of world history from the 50’s to the late 80’s in just shy of 5 minutes, he covers a lot of ground. Sometimes it’s hard to tell just what he’s singing about because of the speed he going at, so there are lots of opportunities for some disc-lexia (misheard song lyrics; example being Jimmy Hendrix – “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”)  The mental image of a “Space Monkey Mafia” still makes me smile and is a personal favorite.

I picked a home-made video because it shows images (thought some are wrong. U2 was a spy plane and not the rock band) to match the song lyrics as opposed to the Official Billy Joel version. There is so much in the song that I feel just didn’t get visualized in that video, but he did look cool sitting at the table in front of the flames. But hey, that’s just my opinion.

Enjoy!

“Fowl” Play

Who of you out there hasn’t done the “Chicken” dance at least once? Unless of course you were too chicken to try! I think we definitely use more musical poultry in the world. Here’s the smile for this week, and if you can’t smile at these …….

I could go on with a whole bunch of chicken puns now, but I think I’ll just let you watch these instead.

So please enjoy these little “nuggets”, they’re sure to get your “fingers” snapping and your feet doing the Funky Chicken.