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The music of "Love Vigilantes" forgoes most of the electronics that otherwise define New Order's typical sound. [4] After an opening of four hits on a snare drum, the music is built around multiple hooks, starting with the intro theme, which Spin magazine called "Beatlesque", [7] played by Sumner on a melodica followed by his acoustic guitar riff which repeats throughout the song. [3]
A person singing karaoke in Hong Kong ("Run Away from Home" by Janice Vidal). Karaoke (/ ˌ k ær i ˈ oʊ k i /; [1] Japanese: ⓘ; カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
"The Unknown Soldier" is the first single from the Doors' 1968 album Waiting for the Sun, released in March of that year by Elektra Records. An accompanying 16mm publicity film for the song featuring the band was directed and produced by Edward Dephoure and Mark Abramson .
The song makes use of a number of metaphors, most prominently the song's title "Down Among the Dead Men". "Dead men" or "dead soldiers" is a term for empty bottles and the expression "to lie down among the dead men" means to get so drunk as to slip from one's chair and land under the table where the empty bottles have been discarded. [4]
"Soldier of Love" is a 1988 song by American singer Donny Osmond, which became his comeback hit. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It first was a Top 30 hit in the UK in 1988 and "Soldier of Love" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989 , [ 6 ] behind Michael Damian 's " Rock On ", becoming his sixth and last top-10 hit.
The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a woman. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line "There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons".
"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues.
(Roud 489), also known as "Soldier John" and "Soldier, Soldier," is an American traditional folk song. [1] Fresno State University gives the earliest collected date as 1903 in America, and it was collected many times in Tennessee and North Carolina in the early 1900s. [2] It was printed in "Games and Songs of American Children" by William Wells ...