The Cuckoos Nest Musical Appreciation Thread

I'm not sure which I prefer...

or

http://voltic.com/P/recordings/TheQuest2.wav

Remember this classic from almost 4 years ago!



There was a truly epic cover of a Muse song which I can't find...
In the mean time you can have this:

& a serious recommendation:

http://voltic.com/P/recordings/Come_Again.wav

http://voltic.com/P/recordings/DiamondsAQndGold.wav

Tom Waits - Diamonds & Gold

Sarky wrote: »

If you want something done right...

Sorry son:

there's no emilie thread on the gaga forum


I wrote about about the shift of Rome from Republic to a dictatorship.
to the tune of Bad Romance

The Opening sets the stage with Julius Ceaser's assassination
The Senate's struggle to remain of the people of the earth
contrasted against the military soldier.

Bad Romans

Et tu - , Brute
Carpe Diem
Adscriptus Glebae
O BAD ROMANS

Fluked Plumed Helmet!
hing banded armor!
Gla-adius !
the roman soldier

The first 5 verses describe a senator more interested in placating his supporters with bread, circuses and Gladiator fights. It speaks of the slave culture and how less than 100 years before 6000 slaves were crucified.

I want your vote in exchange for this bread
I'll join the Senate and soon will be head
I want your lot
lot lot lot
cast me your lot

judge our slave warriors with the thumb of your hand
watch fools get eaten by vicious lions
divert your thoughts
oh oh oh
forget your lot

you know that they had slaves
one third of the people
you know that they had ways
to keep them in shackles


vent your frustration in the coliseum
leave the power to the other men
I give you panem et circenses.
you and me could write on Bad Romans

grizzled scarecrows all along road (Wo-0h---oh oh oh)
from Roma down to Capua
so the slave were shown the terrible toll (Wo ho ho ho ho- oh oh oh)
if they disobeyed the ruler

The next verse talks about soldiers returning from conquest and pushing the senate around

returning warriors
saw the senate decline
people were cynical
on who held the reigns
Senators were shoved
shoved-shoved-shoved
Senators were shoved

This is were Octavius comes on as an heir to Julius He offers the Senate protection and support with his legions
but enviably talks behind the scene control of the Senate
and has dissenters killed while away from Rome.

offered protection
by Octavius.
who killed dissenters
while out in the sticks.
he wrote their laws
laws - laws-laws
their power lost

Once Octavious is the sole general in Rome, Marc Anthony is his only Rival, So Octavius rallies Rome against Marc because Marc had willed his inheritance to non-Romans, his Egypt born children. And that is how Octavius became sole Emperor of Rome.

you know Antony lost it
while loving in Egypt
('Cause Rome was fascist baby!)
the cost for su-icide romance

He read Mark's will to the public forum
Antony's heirs were born foreign
Octavius used this as a means to an end
to preside over all Rome province

so control of Rome would now be honed
by one Emperor's hands
Octavius alone would own the shores
on the Mediterranean

The song then backs Up and tells of the Roman Military system

Wield, right, cohorts flank
reserves move up, fill the ranks
Walk, attack in formation
feeding off the conquered nations
Vercingetorix wrought starvation (pronounced [werkiŋˈɡetoriks]
Cross la Loire, refresh the Legion (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ])
(That took Gaul! baby)

The song recalls the Punic Wars and how when they ended
they left Rome as the Ruler of the Mediterranean and a large slave population.

We attacked Carthage
We broke their shields
We enslaved their men
and we salted their fields

ave atque vale - (Hail and farewell!)
ad bellum Punicus - (to the Punic Wars)
Carthago delenda est - (Carthage must be destroyed)
so we salted their fields


Over a hundred ago,
Rome warded her shores
from the Carthaginians
Rome had room to grow
once they were gone
with colonial expansion

After Octavius become sole Emperor,
the question of Succession of Roman Emperors afterword
lead to corrupt politics

Empire Rulers (yelling)

the questions of
su-uccessions
made Emperors paranoid men

issued death orders
on mothers and friends
You and me could write a bad romans

http://voltic.com/P/recordings/Bad_Romans2.wav