BS: Angie

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: alanabit
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 11:15 AM

I won't even have a vote Wolfgang. All the same, I will still have to pay her extortionate indirect taxes, which will be necessary for her to do her job of redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich.

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: Wolfgang
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 10:36 AM

They don't listen/know beyond the title word.

Wolfgang (whose vote against 'Angie' will not prevent her becoming chancelorette or whatever the feminine form is)

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: alanabit
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 02:57 AM

It would take a scandal involving sex, drugs and rock and roll to make Angela Merkel interesting!
Probably the most interesting Conservative politician over here in the past thirty years, was the Bavarian thug Franz Josef Strauß. His offspring are currently having their troubles for continuing the family traditions of corruption and gun running. After his death, Franz Josef Strauß's crimes (including running guns to the DDR) came out. You can't tell Conservative Bavarians that he was anything other than a saint though. There is actually a Franz Josef Strauß airport! Perhaps we should build a Jonathon Aitken Museum (stocked with weapons and papers showing how to smuggle them with lists of prostitutes addresses). How about a Robert Maxwell Museum, which would exhibit forged certificates and faked evidence... No.. here's a better idea. Maybe the Bavarians should erect a Franz Josef Strauß Public Toilet. Then we could all leave our tribute!

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 07:10 PM

They did a bit on the BBC about various politicians using folk, rock and other music. In the programme they pointed out that 'Angie' was written about a marriage breakup following heavy sessions on drink and drugs.

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 01:07 PM

It's a crap song. She deserves it!

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: number 6
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 11:25 AM

Can't use Davey Graham's version as he officially re-titled it 'Anji'.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 10:53 AM

Do they bother listening beyond the whispered Angie's?

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: *daylia*
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 10:26 AM

Angie ... when will those clouds all disappear?
Angie ... where will it lead us from here?
With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied ...
Angie, you're beautiful, but ain't it time we said good-bye?

Sheesh. If that's what she uses for 'pep talk', how long does she expect to stay in office??

Subject: RE: BS: Angie
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 10:00 AM

Whats wrong with Davy Graham 's superb instrumental as an intro piece ? Or would it only strike a chord with 'Old Folkies'??

Subject: BS: Angie
From: Wolfgang
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 09:43 AM

Well, this is a thread about a song but it is a bit more about politics that's why I use the BS-tag.

In a few weeks, for the first(?) time in history Germany will be governed by a woman, Angela Merkel. Her supporters call her 'Angie' and the Rolling Stones' song of that title is usually played before her campaign speeches. The Rolling Stones don't like that and have tried to prevent this song being played at any moment during the Christian Democrats' election campaign. Property rights and all that. They do not have a good legal case, BTW, for while waiting for the candidate speaking any music can be played legally, so why not a Rolling Stones song (would they have objected to 'Sympathy for the devil' BTW?).

Lots of interesting changes since I was young:
The two conservative parties in Germany are led by a divorced and remarried woman and an openly gay politician respectively and the Rolling Stones sue for violation of property rights. 40 years ago, the Christian Democrats would have thrown anyone out of the party who would have dared to play a Rolling Stones song at an official meeting.

Wolfgang