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I tweeted about this last week and meant to elaborate here, but I forgot.
Scene: last Wednesday, I'd come home from tai chi class, changed, and flopped on the couch with my phone to catch up on the twitter I'd missed. Ben's at the other end, and he starts talking about this trailer he downloaded on his PS3 for Call of Duty: Black Ops. (He wont get the game; he just likes trailers.)
Ben: Is there some famous music video from the 80s where two guys are standing on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall, then start rocking out on guitars?
Me: Huh?
Ben: I downloaded this trailer for Call of Duty, and it HAS to be a reference to something, because it looks that way.
Me: Maybe I'd recognize it if I saw it?
Ben: [fires up the PS3 and the TV, starts playing this video]
Me (before the rating box has even left the screen): That's the Scorpions' "Wind of Change," dumbass. (laughing)
I would like to point out that at NO point did he mention that this trailer had an actual pop song in the background, as opposed to commissioned video game music. There may have also been a digression at one point about how it wouldn't have been logistically possible for people to stand on opposite sides of the wall at that time, given the death strip on the eastern side. (Though when the song was released in 1990, it would have been, in some areas.)
ETA: This is the video I'm a lot more familiar with. And now I know why the one I had bookmarked vanished. Guess what you'll be seeing again on 9 November.
Scene: last Wednesday, I'd come home from tai chi class, changed, and flopped on the couch with my phone to catch up on the twitter I'd missed. Ben's at the other end, and he starts talking about this trailer he downloaded on his PS3 for Call of Duty: Black Ops. (He wont get the game; he just likes trailers.)
Ben: Is there some famous music video from the 80s where two guys are standing on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall, then start rocking out on guitars?
Me: Huh?
Ben: I downloaded this trailer for Call of Duty, and it HAS to be a reference to something, because it looks that way.
Me: Maybe I'd recognize it if I saw it?
Ben: [fires up the PS3 and the TV, starts playing this video]
Me (before the rating box has even left the screen): That's the Scorpions' "Wind of Change," dumbass. (laughing)
I would like to point out that at NO point did he mention that this trailer had an actual pop song in the background, as opposed to commissioned video game music. There may have also been a digression at one point about how it wouldn't have been logistically possible for people to stand on opposite sides of the wall at that time, given the death strip on the eastern side. (Though when the song was released in 1990, it would have been, in some areas.)
ETA: This is the video I'm a lot more familiar with. And now I know why the one I had bookmarked vanished. Guess what you'll be seeing again on 9 November.
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Date: 2011-04-06 05:37 pm (UTC)From:Let's not talk about what I was listening to in 1992.
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Date: 2011-04-06 08:25 pm (UTC)From:Tell me more about these Wende-era GDR bands and where I can find them on the internet, please. Are there any punk bands among them?