Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

Double Dutch music video: Malcolm Mclaren
I love this music video released in 1983 by Malcolm Mclaren for just so many reasons. It demonstrated to a global audience the sheer magic of the local South African sound at that time.

The Wolf of Wall Street Movie
Who would have thought?
Old School Music has this uncanny ability to find itself in blockbuster movies. I recently went to the cinema to see ‘The Wolf of Wall Street.’
I most certainly didn’t expect Malcolm Mclaren’s 1983 song Double Dutch to be part of the soundtrack but it was!
A wow moment for me! I love this song.


Malcolm Mclaren: Double Dutch: 1983: Lyrics and Video




“All over the world high school girls
Take to the ropes and turn them slow
Starts a beat and the loop
They skip and jump through the hoop

They might break and they might fall
But the gals in New York City don't
They just start again, start again
Hey, ebo, ebonettes

Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo ebonettes

The golden angels, the Fort Greene angels
The five town diamond skippers, the pleasure of rope rippers
Those dark and lovely skippers, those five town diamond skippers
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing

Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing

Hey, swing those ropes 'round and 'round
All the teams change your partners now
Somersault through the hoop, leap to beat
The clicks that keep on coming

Hey, watch your feet
To win the double dutch
Stay jumping
Hey, ebo, ebonettes

Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes

The mighty motion skippers
The pleasure of rope rippers
The dark and lovely skippers
The mighty motion skippers

Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing

Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing
Skip they do's the double dutch, that's them dancing

Hey girls, how many skips can you do?

All over the world high school girls
Take to the ropes and turn them slow
Starts a beat and the loop
They skip and jump through the hoop

They might break and they might fall
But you know the gals in New York City don't
hey just start again, start again
Hey, ebo, ebonettes

Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo ebonettes
Hey, ebo, ebo ebonettes.”



Album cover[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Rock

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Rock. Accessed 29 January 2014

[Hermes14]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_5_KKvewSw#t=31
No this one isn't a golden oldie but it should definitely be top of the charts.

They tried to make me buy an etag but I said No! No! No!

[wynn]

Got this in the mail this morning it may or may not be serious but If you are looking for a conspiracy theory this is definitely a real one.


Dear friends,

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SOURCES:

On dangers of non-Network Neutrality (ABC news):
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/major...ry?id=21541399

Save the Internet
http://savetheinternet.eu/en/

EU telecoms market reforms threaten net neutrality and privacy (Wired)
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...eform-concerns

Federal court strikes down FCC net neutrality rules (The Verge)
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/53...utrality-rules

Summary of BEREC positions on net neutrality (BEREC)
http://berec.europa.eu/files/documen...eutrality2.pdf


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[Trickzta]

An old favourite band and song from 1970, enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ovl...e_gdata_player

Peter Green's song was written for Carlos Santana, not really but Carlos didn't need any lessons to play this song, no change in style either. A classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDz02...e_gdata_player

She's tryna make a devil outa me, (should be easy )

[Trickzta]

Yeah Wynne that's about the long and short of it. Social Media like FaceLook and much more is a CIA asset. The CIA used the internet for intelligence gathering before it was used by civilians. They still use the net for the same reason. Not even a theory.

In the 60s and 70s the Hippies (also a CIA inspired group) used to say if did away with paper, you'd do away with the Establishment.

I used to shake my head and say 'light up and leave me alone'.

Thinking back, they may have had a point. Practically an impossible task. Ask the Vatican about that one.

Today, if you switched the Internet off, it would cause unbelievable chaos. And I believe it's possible.

It was difficult to imagine destroying all the paper in the world. To destroy the internet is imaginable.

The City of London, the Jesuits of Rome, the Zionists of Asia and all their friends including the CIA, badly misjudged the phenomena known as the 'Internet'.

It's main aim was to be a method of spreading propaganda and spying or as they put it, intelligence gathering. Ultimately for control.

A backfire of enormous proportions was not expected at all. The internet snowballed much quicker than anticipated, in unforseen ways as well, and many of their other schemes under performed.

What they're trying to do now, is what they call damage control.

This is the biggest setback they never imagined, and they'll have to break cover or take time to recover, and time is running out.

Control the internet and you control the biggest propaganda machine in the world. (if this is not the biggest media today, it will be tomorrow)

Modern war strategy, suggests that one big bomb detonated a km above the ground, can knock out the power grid used by many cities.

This is more efficient than targetting the cities themselves.
No power is chaos. Back to the dark age, lol, iron age more likely.

I know that there are those that think that I'm a fool. Well this fool says that as things stand, the Internet is priority one for these guys (globalists), and that is one reason for the Chinese laying an internet optic fibre cable from China to South America via India and South Africa (BRICS) and bypassing North America.

Everything else is made in China so why not the internet? But in the meantime let's poke a finger in their eye. Keep the net bankerfree.

Thanks for sharing.

[Trickzta]

The Loving Spoonful with daydream.

[Trickzta]

One of the few disco songs I like. Knock on Wood has been covered by many. Amii Stewart don't do too bad though.

[Trickzta]

Daydream Loving Spoonful. Lol.

WoW. Steve Morse is great, the other guys are pretty good too!

[Trickzta]

Jeff Healey, a blind guitarist with a style of his own. j

[Trickzta]

Tony Joe White. Nice voice. Fair guitar. [VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z68KiyCMWdk&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/VI hDEO]