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dragster58 · 10-12-2006, 04:42 PM

...and by that I mean songs that seemingly are written to describe events or things that AREN'T the way it intends!
One that tops them all is "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions....I wonder who paid them to sing that CRAP...they fooled thousands with those lying lyrics, but NOT ME..........hmmmmmmm!!!

Steve M. · 10-22-2006, 08:26 PM

Wha?

Courtnee · 10-22-2006, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve M.

Wha?

*equally confused*

dragster58 · 11-06-2006, 06:32 PM

Well, I guess I'll have to post the lyrics of that song by the Scorpions to bring the message thru. and before anyone starts lashing out at me, I'm talking about "politically and socially-INcorrect" lyrics. The Scorpions sure are no Bob Dylan in that song.....they just got everything so wrong judging from what the world has come to. This is only one example of thousands of misleading songs out there:

WIND OF CHANGE
I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night
Soldiers passing by
Listening to the wind of change

The world closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close,like brothers
The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change

Chorus:
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change

Walking down the street
Distant memories
Are buried in the past forever

I fallow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change

The wind of change blows straight
Into the face of time
Like a stormwind that will ring
The freedom bell for peace of mind
Let your balalaika sing
What my guitar wants to say

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change

ABlairican Pie · 11-06-2006, 11:38 PM

Uhhh, "Winds of Change" by The Scorpions was written to commemorate the end of the Cold War and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, and to celebrate the new freedom in Eastern Europe in 1989. I don't know how that is a "rip-off" song, it actually was an internationally acclaimed song that became a rock anthem over there.

The Scorpions ARE German, btw.

dragster58 · 11-07-2006, 06:59 AM

A world-wide acclaimed song doesn't necessarily make it a GOOD song! I've been listening to music for eons and I've never heard such CRAPPY lyrics in a song before. I know what the song talks about, but it doesn't fool me with its low-down, misleading, brainwashing-advertisement-oriented lying words....and I know many Scorpions fans out there who didn't buy a single CD by the band after that s**t. I know they're German and I know Bob Dylan is American, what's the point? Sorry Scorpions, go back into your lousy politically INCORRECT hole, go back to school and study what's REALLY happening out there after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the "Cold War" and GROW UP!!!

Robert.

ABlairican Pie · 11-07-2006, 09:18 AM

Right Here, Right Now
by Jesus Jones

A woman on the radio talked about revolution
When it's already passed her by
Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about you
You know it feels good to be alive

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

I saw the decade in, when it seemed
The world could change at the blink of an eye
And if anything
Then there's your sign... of the times

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up...

Junichiro · 11-07-2006, 04:32 PM

Any song by Steve Miller was ripped from another popular song by someone else...

dragster58 · 11-07-2006, 06:30 PM

Hey, that looks like a case of the artist ripping off the fans!!!

ABlairican Pie · 11-08-2006, 12:55 AM

I was thinking about this today about the "Winds of Change" song, and I think
I can agree that, in spite of its good intentions, things have not really turned out so peachy keen in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since then.
Just a few years after the former Soviet bloc countries celebrated the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the disintegrating country of Yugoslavia was awash
in bloodshed in Bosnia and Serbia. The newly independent state of Russia was facing economic collapse, Chechnya is undergoing strife and Putin is not acting in a very democratic fashion especially after the massacre at Beslan. Not to mention people protesting voter fraud in the Ukraine, and the president
of Uzbekistan boils political political prisoners alive (plus he's America's ally in the war on terror).

So for every wonderful song like 1990's "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions, you have something else a couple years later, like "N.W.O." (New World Order) by Ministry, which totally contradicts that happy positive message by the Scorpions.

In the late 60's, happy hippie songs like "In San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" were totally contradicted a few years later by events like the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam war escalating, police brutality at the Chicago DNC, the Charles Manson murders, and finally, Altamont, where a Stones concert ended in death and violence. So a month and a half later on the eve of Valentine's Day 1970, Black Sabbath came out with their debut album with lyrics such as "The world today is such a wicked place", and on the day of Jimi Hendrix's death, gave the world the album that sang of war pigs and electric funerals.
It's interesting how songs like that have a sort of resonance that the hippie tunes in all their naive optimism didn't have. All Black Sabbath were saying was, the 60's were over.

dragster58 · 11-08-2006, 07:35 AM

Yes, I think you've got the point about rip off songs! The lyrics in Wind Of Change had good intentions, but they lacked social, historical and political reality. Who wouldn't want to believe in those words? Only a madman wouldn't, but there is a universe between simple lyrics and reality and I'm sure The Scorpions (but it could have been any other artist at that!) just jumped onto a bandwagon of fake celebration of something that turned out rotten. Perhaps the Scorpions should have stuck to singing hard rock songs and let the social issues be treated by real down-to-Earth singer-songwriters like Harry Nilsson, Don McLean, etc.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie

I was thinking about this today about the "Winds of Change" song, and I think
I can agree that, in spite of its good intentions, things have not really turned out so peachy keen in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since then.
Just a few years after the former Soviet bloc countries celebrated the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the disintegrating country of Yugoslavia was awash
in bloodshed in Bosnia and Serbia. The newly independent state of Russia was facing economic collapse, Chechnya is undergoing strife and Putin is not acting in a very democratic fashion especially after the massacre at Beslan. Not to mention people protesting voter fraud in the Ukraine, and the president
of Uzbekistan boils political political prisoners alive (plus he's America's ally in the war on terror).

So for every wonderful song like 1990's "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions, you have something else a couple years later, like "N.W.O." (New World Order) by Ministry, which totally contradicts that happy positive message by the Scorpions.

In the late 60's, happy hippie songs like "In San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" were totally contradicted a few years later by events like the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam war escalating, police brutality at the Chicago DNC, the Charles Manson murders, and finally, Altamont, where a Stones concert ended in death and violence. So a month and a half later on the eve of Valentine's Day 1970, Black Sabbath came out with their debut album with lyrics such as "The world today is such a wicked place", and on the day of Jimi Hendrix's death, gave the world the album that sang of war pigs and electric funerals.
It's interesting how songs like that have a sort of resonance that the hippie tunes in all their naive optimism didn't have. All Black Sabbath were saying was, the 60's were over.

dragster58 · 11-08-2006, 07:40 AM

Good choice by JJ!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie

Right Here, Right Now
by Jesus Jones

A woman on the radio talked about revolution
When it's already passed her by
Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about you
You know it feels good to be alive

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

I saw the decade in, when it seemed
The world could change at the blink of an eye
And if anything
Then there's your sign... of the times

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up...

Steve M. · 11-08-2006, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragster58

...and by that I mean songs that seemingly are written to describe events or things that AREN'T the way it intends!
One that tops them all is "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions....I wonder who paid them to sing that CRAP...they fooled thousands with those lying lyrics, but NOT ME..........hmmmmmmm!!!

Okay, I get it, songs that describe events unfolding and predicting they will turn out one way and end up the other.

Well, the Fifth DImension's "Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In" from Hair got it wrong. No dawning of an Aquarian age. If it did dawn, it set pretty quickly.

dragster58 · 11-08-2006, 11:16 AM

Right you got it, but that was quite "astrological". I really mean the songs that describe things as they are NOT.....on "our skin"....under our very eyes....as to say!

Steve M. · 11-08-2006, 11:22 AM

"Talikn' 'Bout A Revolution" from Tracy Chapman was another. She declared that the poor people would rise up and take their fair share. . . didn't happen! In fact the singer-songwriter "revolution" she and Suzanne Vega were supposedly leading in 1987 and 1988 against synthesized dance pop and rap was another mirage - it was all over by 1989!

10-12-2006, 04:42 PM	#1
dragster58 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 12, 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 613	Rip off songs ...and by that I mean songs that seemingly are written to describe events or things that AREN'T the way it intends! One that tops them all is "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions....I wonder who paid them to sing that CRAP...they fooled thousands with those lying lyrics, but NOT ME..........hmmmmmmm!!!
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10-22-2006, 08:26 PM	#2
Steve M. Back on the road to reality Forum Superstar Join Date: Nov 07, 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 33,307	Wha?
	__________________ I don't really get out a lot. When I do go out, I couldn't be happier. I love being in a nice milieu. I'm as happy as a clam. Just as long as I'm not in some club playing hip-hop. You hear that sort of thing in a lot of places. That's not my milieu. Rock and roll is good-time music. I love rock. So did my parents.

11-06-2006, 11:38 PM	#5
ABlairican Pie Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 12, 2001 Location: Living where cats reign more Supreme than a pizza. Posts: 31,619	"Winds Of Change" Uhhh, "Winds of Change" by The Scorpions was written to commemorate the end of the Cold War and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, and to celebrate the new freedom in Eastern Europe in 1989. I don't know how that is a "rip-off" song, it actually was an internationally acclaimed song that became a rock anthem over there. The Scorpions ARE German, btw.
	__________________ Release the kitties. --Nathan Explosion

11-07-2006, 09:18 AM	#7
ABlairican Pie Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 12, 2001 Location: Living where cats reign more Supreme than a pizza. Posts: 31,619	Another "rip-off" song Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones A woman on the radio talked about revolution When it's already passed her by Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about you You know it feels good to be alive I was alive and i waited, waited I was alive and i waited for this Right here, right now There is no other place i want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up from history I saw the decade in, when it seemed The world could change at the blink of an eye And if anything Then there's your sign... of the times I was alive and i waited, waited I was alive and i waited for this Right here, right now I was alive and i waited, waited I was alive and i waited for this Right here, right now There is no other place i want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up from history Right here, right now There is no other place i want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up from history Right here, right now There is no other place i want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up...

11-06-2006, 06:32 PM	#4
dragster58 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 12, 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 613	Well, I guess I'll have to post the lyrics of that song by the Scorpions to bring the message thru. and before anyone starts lashing out at me, I'm talking about "politically and socially-INcorrect" lyrics. The Scorpions sure are no Bob Dylan in that song.....they just got everything so wrong judging from what the world has come to. This is only one example of thousands of misleading songs out there: WIND OF CHANGE I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change An August summer night Soldiers passing by Listening to the wind of change The world closing in Did you ever think That we could be so close,like brothers The future's in the air I can feel it everywhere Blowing with the wind of change Chorus: Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away In the wind of change Walking down the street Distant memories Are buried in the past forever I fallow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams With you and me Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away In the wind of change The wind of change blows straight Into the face of time Like a stormwind that will ring The freedom bell for peace of mind Let your balalaika sing What my guitar wants to say Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams With you and me Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away In the wind of change

11-07-2006, 06:59 AM	#6
dragster58 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 12, 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 613	A world-wide acclaimed song doesn't necessarily make it a GOOD song! I've been listening to music for eons and I've never heard such CRAPPY lyrics in a song before. I know what the song talks about, but it doesn't fool me with its low-down, misleading, brainwashing-advertisement-oriented lying words....and I know many Scorpions fans out there who didn't buy a single CD by the band after that s**t. I know they're German and I know Bob Dylan is American, what's the point? Sorry Scorpions, go back into your lousy politically INCORRECT hole, go back to school and study what's REALLY happening out there after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the "Cold War" and GROW UP!!! Robert.

11-07-2006, 04:32 PM	#8
Junichiro "I tell you what." Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 01, 2006 Location: St. Petersburg Posts: 109	Any song by Steve Miller was ripped from another popular song by someone else...

11-07-2006, 06:30 PM	#9
dragster58 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 12, 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 613	Hey, that looks like a case of the artist ripping off the fans!!!

11-08-2006, 12:55 AM	#10
ABlairican Pie Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 12, 2001 Location: Living where cats reign more Supreme than a pizza. Posts: 31,619	I was thinking about this today about the "Winds of Change" song, and I think I can agree that, in spite of its good intentions, things have not really turned out so peachy keen in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since then. Just a few years after the former Soviet bloc countries celebrated the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the disintegrating country of Yugoslavia was awash in bloodshed in Bosnia and Serbia. The newly independent state of Russia was facing economic collapse, Chechnya is undergoing strife and Putin is not acting in a very democratic fashion especially after the massacre at Beslan. Not to mention people protesting voter fraud in the Ukraine, and the president of Uzbekistan boils political political prisoners alive (plus he's America's ally in the war on terror). So for every wonderful song like 1990's "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions, you have something else a couple years later, like "N.W.O." (New World Order) by Ministry, which totally contradicts that happy positive message by the Scorpions. In the late 60's, happy hippie songs like "In San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" were totally contradicted a few years later by events like the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam war escalating, police brutality at the Chicago DNC, the Charles Manson murders, and finally, Altamont, where a Stones concert ended in death and violence. So a month and a half later on the eve of Valentine's Day 1970, Black Sabbath came out with their debut album with lyrics such as "The world today is such a wicked place", and on the day of Jimi Hendrix's death, gave the world the album that sang of war pigs and electric funerals. It's interesting how songs like that have a sort of resonance that the hippie tunes in all their naive optimism didn't have. All Black Sabbath were saying was, the 60's were over.

11-08-2006, 11:16 AM	#14
dragster58 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 12, 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 613	Right you got it, but that was quite "astrological". I really mean the songs that describe things as they are NOT.....on "our skin"....under our very eyes....as to say!

11-08-2006, 11:22 AM	#15
Steve M. Back on the road to reality Forum Superstar Join Date: Nov 07, 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 33,307	"Talikn' 'Bout A Revolution" from Tracy Chapman was another. She declared that the poor people would rise up and take their fair share. . . didn't happen! In fact the singer-songwriter "revolution" she and Suzanne Vega were supposedly leading in 1987 and 1988 against synthesized dance pop and rap was another mirage - it was all over by 1989!