Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Monday, 6 November 2023

Cold War Era - CNN was prepared for "The End of The World"

Leaked from the archives of CNN and preserved for all to see on You Tube (see link below): 



Thank you and "Good Night".
Thanks to The Atomic Hobo for the "spot".
Gawd bless the internet!

Saturday, 20 February 2021

VCOW2021: Errata to the Early Edition - Roche's Pandemic Blues

Mea culpa: In my haste to list the VCOW2021 games I participated in, I made the dreadful oversight of not mentioning Jim Roche's fantastic sing-a-long session where he presented a historical look back at pandemic's through the ages .. accompanied to appropriate music of the ages. I had not previously been to one of Jim's session's at CoW but will be front row for all future sessions!



Music can capture the meaning of an event as equally as wargame can simulate the gunfire, here is a couple of versions of Bruce Springstein (studio and live) singing Mrs McGrady to see what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWjzCFAAaw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMLcENV5n-g

Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Monday, 22 January 2018

Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow (WWII Themed Song for the upcoming Chain of Command Stalingrad Campaign)

From "The Year of the Cat" to "Roads to Moscow" (sung from a Russian soldier's perspective) Al Stewart plays them all:

https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tho6f6g4o2qliloydh6gcacpysa?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics

You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKE4Y1Us46o

I particularly like this verse from the middle of the song ..
... Two broken Tigers on fire in the night. Flicker their souls to the wind. We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin. It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun. At home it will almost be spring. The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin. Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground. The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down. And all that I ever. Was able to see. The eyes of the city are opening. Now it's the end of the dream ...
While I am talking about WWII Eastern Front you have got to check out Service Rations Distribution posts on his Kursk and Stalingrad games:

Kursk
Stalingrad
Bagration

General WW2 Stuff from SRB

Re: Song - I am just showing my age! It also demonstrates the power of the Internet and Google's search engine as I could not remember the title of the song. So I type in "Al Stewart General Guderian". Al Stewart is fair enough but the reference to General Guderian comes from a line in another verse, but it came back with a decent match.