My Theme Song for Civ 4: "We Built This City" Yours?

[GeoModder]

Yanks with their purely materialistic viewpoint.

[James]

Theme Song

Soul Stripper by AC/DC

[Blake]

Star Wars deathmarch for me too! I see it's a popular one .

Humming it helps to get into the dictator groove .

[Sirotnikov]

apocalyptica - path.

thanks to ecthelion for sending that to me

[rumpo kid]

"Teenage Kicks" by the Undertones (actually it's my theme tune to everything fun)

Steve

[Adrian Hon]

"How Bizarre" by OMC and "Walking on the Milky Way" by (confusingly) OMD will forever be my Civ songs. I started playing with Civ 1 when I was a wee lad, but when I spent a large part of a summer religiously playing Civ 2, those songs were *always* on the radio.

[sabrewolf]

that flop 10 list is sad. i mean some may be really bad, but what is with all those embarassing girl- and boybands not be in with their cheesy songs? and how come birtchney spears and similar are not present?


btw, yin, afaik it is forbidden to post lyrics of songs for they also fall under copyright protection laws. just recently there was a court case against a lyrics-site holder...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Slax
MB - Wow. That would make a nice mix to play to.

They were just the ones off the top of my head.


It's what you get from growing up in a decaying industrial town in the years before and after the Thatcher era- you'll do anything to escape the bleakness of the times and place you're living in- and music and books were two of my routes.


Which prompts me to recall a band from the place I grew up in, a song specially written for our hometown:

The Specials: Ghost Town

The Specials A.K.A. : War Crimes

and who could forget the wonderfully entertaining:

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Egyptian Reggae

The Clash: London Calling

Les Negresses Vertes: I Love Paris

Pere Ubu: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (your bombing run commences...)

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama (American Civil War scenarios...)

Robert Wyatt: The Red Flag (WWII Eastern Front scenario...)

David Bowie: The Port Of Amsterdam

John Cale: Helen of Troy (ancient world scenarios...)

There's also a rather wonderful and idiosyncratic reggaefied version of 'La Marseillaise' by Serge Gainsbourg, which he insisted on performing live on stage despite having received death threats from French ultra-right nationalists:

He also employs Marley's Wailers. In 1979, a feisty Gainsbourg produces "Aux Armes Etcetera," which parodies the militaristic overtones of the "sacred" "La Marseillaise," to a reggae beat, much the way Hendrix reconfigured the "Star Spangled Banner" as antiwar song. Denunciations by generals, priests, and politicians follow. Former paratroopers and crusty war vets protest at his concerts, threaten fans. In Marseilles the protests led to cancellations. In Strasbourg, a bomb threat and 400 paratroopers vowing vengence spooked the Wailers so much that they refuse to play. So Gainsbourg took the stage alone, singing "La Marseillaise" without musical accompaniment. The goons join in to sing along and afterward file meekly from the hall. Gainsbourg has charmingly blindsided them. His album sells over 500,000 copies, goes gold -- his first. He wins "best male performer" and "best album" awards at that year's music awards in Cannes.

http://www.wfmu.org/~bart/sg.html

Then there's the haunting 'Ballad of the Soldier's Wife' by Brecht and Weill- performed in modern times rather ably by Marianne Faithfull and also by P. J. Harvey, on two separate compilations of Kurt Weill's songs, 'Lost In The Stars' and 'September Songs'.

The lyrics are the most poignant reminder that war is hell, not glory:

What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the ancient city of Prague ?
From Prague came a pair of high heeled shoes,
With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
From the ancient city of Prague.

What was sent to the soldier's wife
From Oslo over the sound ?
From Oslo he sent her a collar of fur,
How it pleases her, the little collar of fur
From Oslo over the sound.

What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the wealth of Amsterdam ?
From Amsterdam, he got her a hat,
She looked sweet in that,
In her little Dutch hat
From the wealth of Amsterdam.

What was sent to the soldier's wife
From Brussels in Belgian land ?
From Brussels he sent her the laces so rare
To have and to wear,
All those laces so rare
From Brussels in Belgian land.

What was sent to the soldier's wife
From Paris, city of light ?
From Paris he sent her a silken gown,
It was ended in town, that silken gown,
From Paris, city of light.

What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the south, from Bucharest ?
From Bucharest he got her this shirt
Embroidered and pert, that Rumanian shirt
From the south, from Bucharest.

What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the far-off Russian land ?
From Russia there came just a widow's veil
For her dead to bewail in her widow's veil
From the far-off Russian land,
From the far-off Russian land.

[alva]

David Bowie: The Port Of Amsterdam

Molly..Molly..Molly..

--
My contribution:
The Eurythmics : Sweet Dreams

[jkp1187]

Also Sprach Zarathustra.

[alva]

Anne Clark - Poem for a nuclear Romance
Anne Clark - Sleeper in Metropolis
Anne Clark - Our Darkness
Iggy Pop - The Passenger

[Zhahz]

Anticipation...it's making me wait.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by alva

David Bowie: The Port Of Amsterdam

Molly..Molly..Molly..

Your point ?


I was thinking of songs named after or for cities- so naturally the b-side to 'Sorrow' came to mind.

I could also have mentioned:

Lotte Lenya: Bilbao Song

Silicon Teens: Memphis Tennessee

Telex: Moskow Diskow

Billie Holiday: A Foggy Day (In London Town)

David Bowie: Warszawa


Then of course there's historical personages-

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Der Mussolini

echoed neatly by

Cabaret Voltaire: Do The Mussolini (Headkick)

and for a terrorist mod

Cabaret Voltaire: Baader Meinhof

Brian Eno & Snatch: Rote Armee Fraktion


For WWII scenarios you could also have:

Robert Wyatt: Stalin Wasn't Stallin'

Brian Eno: Dover Beach (Operation Sea Lion...)

David Bowie: Battle Of Britain

Rock Follies: Glenn Miller Is Missing


Building your empire:

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: From The Colonies

and (How contemporary! How topical !)

Suicide: Rocket U.S.A.

[Blake]

Originally posted by sabrewolf
that flop 10 list is sad. i mean some may be really bad, but what is with all those embarassing girl- and boybands not be in with their cheesy songs? and how come birtchney spears and similar are not present?


btw, yin, afaik it is forbidden to post lyrics of songs for they also fall under copyright protection laws. just recently there was a court case against a lyrics-site holder...

Soon people will have to erase their brains if they inadvertantly hear a song that they havn't paid for .

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Blake


Soon people will have to erase their brains if they inadvertantly hear a song that they havn't paid for .

If that would get rid of any memory of the awful Akon or 50 Cent's ramblings, it might be worthwhile.