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Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!!
Reply #25 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 10:08am

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 3:02am:

Gazza...I worked all evening...didn't get to watch it, as it was playing in the great hall and I was in the brew pub pouring the pints...

What exactly was this "sound track"and this incredible play list you listed???

It was the music played in the stadium during the Opening Ceremony (great bit of inventiveness and direction by Danny Boyle). Some of it performed live, some of it a mish-mash of British music down the years to accompany various choreographed routines which included nods to the Industrial Revolution, The NHS, the Suffragette movement, tributes to the British Film Industry etc - and then finally a musical soundtrack to the Parade of Nations as the teams entered the stadium.

Loved the use of David Bowie's "Heroes" when the GB team came in at the end. A genuinely spine-tingling moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19025006

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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!! Reply #27 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:56am sirmoonie wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:34am: Long live London and its pubs. I've been bushwhacked from Pissington to East End to Hampstead Heath (Jack Straw) to bloody Neasden, haven't I? You have indeed. I even lifted you out of a pool of your own vomit somewhere off Oxford Street in August 2003.
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Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!!
Reply #28 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 12:49pm

Gazza wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:56am:

sirmoonie wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:34am:

Long live London and its pubs. I've been bushwhacked from Pissington to East End to Hampstead Heath (Jack Straw) to bloody Neasden, haven't I?

You have indeed. I even lifted you out of a pool of your own vomit somewhere off Oxford Street in August 2003.

some things can go unsaid!.........

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Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!!
Reply #30 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 1:59pm

Gazza wrote on Jul 27^th, 2012 at 8:09pm:

I thought the whole thing was absolutely mad and brilliant.

Good musical soundtrack too. Our team coming into the stadium to the strains of Bowie's 'Heroes' was a great moment.

PART ONE
Captain Algernon Drummond, William Johnson Cory - Eton Boating Song
Elgar, AC Benson - Land of Hope and Glory
The Jam - Going Underground
Muse - Map of the Problematique
Big Ben Chimes
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
The Clash - London Calling
Simon May - EastEnders Theme
The Shipping Forecast
Sir Hubert Parry, William Blake - Jerusalem
Elgar - Nimrod
Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Eric Coates - Dambusters March
Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks
Monty Norman - James Bond Theme
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield - In Dulci Jubilo
Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
BBC News 1954
Arthur Wood - The Archers Theme
Winifred Atwell - Black and White Rag

PART TWO
Sugababes - Push the Button
OMD - Enola Gay
David Rose - The Stripper
Lionel Bart - Food Glorious Food
Irwin Kostal, Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Rizzle Kicks - When I Was a Youngster
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Colin Tully - Gregorys Girl Theme
William Pitt - City Lights
The Who - My Generation
The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
The Beatles - She Loves You
Mud - Tiger Feet
Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot
The Specials - A Message to You Rudy
David Bowie - Starman
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
Duran Duran - The Reflex
New Order - Blue Monday

PART THREE
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Soul II Soul - Back To Life
Happy Mondays - Step On
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Prodigy - Firestarter
Underworld - Born Slippy
Jaan Kenbrovin, John William Kellette - Im Forever Blowing Bubbles
Blur - Song 2
Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
Tigerstyle - Nacnha Onda Nei (contains Michael Jackson - Billie Jean, Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure and Ilaiyaraaja - Naanthaan Ungappanda)
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Radiohead - Creep
Muse - Uprising
Kano & Mikey J - Random Antics
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
MIA - Paper Planes
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize

PART FOUR
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot
Roll Deep - Shake a Leg
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Oasis - The Hindu Times
Oasis - Wonderwall
Emeli Sande - Heaven
William Monk/Henry Francis - Abide With Me
Pink Floyd - Eclipse
The Beatles - The End
The Beatles - Hey Jude
David Bowie - Heroes
Eric Spear - Coronation Street Theme
Ron Grainer - Doctor Who Theme
John Philip Sousa - Monty Python Theme/The Liberty Bell
David Bowie - Absolute Beginners

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Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!!
Reply #31 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 2:30pm

Gazza wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:56am:

sirmoonie wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:34am:

Long live London and its pubs. I've been bushwhacked from Pissington to East End to Hampstead Heath (Jack Straw) to bloody Neasden, haven't I?

You have indeed. I even lifted you out of a pool of your own vomit somewhere off Oxford Street in August 2003.

Wait, that was me?

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Reply #32 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 3:24pm

sirmoonie wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 2:30pm:

Gazza wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:56am:

sirmoonie wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 11:34am:

Long live London and its pubs. I've been bushwhacked from Pissington to East End to Hampstead Heath (Jack Straw) to bloody Neasden, haven't I?

You have indeed. I even lifted you out of a pool of your own vomit somewhere off Oxford Street in August 2003.

Wait, that was me?

if you remembered it, I'd be concerned!

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sirmoonie Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 3,479 Gender:	Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!! Reply #33 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 3:55pm I was boozing under the Hammersmith Flyover on the night in question. And I never puke. Can hold mud. Proven talent over various narcotics, drugs, and alcohol, via all known routes of administration.
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!! Reply #34 - Jul 29^th, 2012 at 10:55am Just in..........The head of the Somali Olympic squad has apologised to officials on behalf of their team, after realising shooting and sailing were two separate events ..
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Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!!
Reply #37 - Jul 29^th, 2012 at 2:56pm

In my area, we have 6-7 TV channels covering the events. I have access to 5 of them....and I'm practically going crazy, flipping from station to station, trying to watch it all! Shocked

I won't see as much during the work week---mostly the nightly broadcasts. I've seen a bit of just about everything, I think.

I still think it's strange that beach volleyball, water polo, badminton, etc. are Olympic sports......and baseball and softball no longer fit that bill... Undecided

I wonder who determines what sport qualifies? And which sports are added or dumped?? The Olympic Committee? I should know the answer to this.... Embarrassed

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Reply #38 - Jul 29^th, 2012 at 5:31pm

Sioux wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 2:56pm:

In my area, we have 6-7 TV channels covering the events. I have access to 5 of them....and I'm practically going crazy, flipping from station to station, trying to watch it all! Shocked

I won't see as much during the work week---mostly the nightly broadcasts. I've seen a bit of just about everything, I think.

I still think it's strange that beach volleyball, water polo, badminton, etc. are Olympic sports......and baseball and softball no longer fit that bill... Undecided

I wonder who determines what sport qualifies? And which sports are added or dumped?? The Olympic Committee? I should know the answer to this.... Embarrassed

Yeah Sioux. There is a whole criteria of things that a sports organizing body has to present to the Olympic Committiee to get them to consider a sport for inclusion. It usually comes down to politics like most everything else. But I'm with you. I'm trying to watch a little of everything. Never watched so much Team Handball in my life. Are you fucking serious?

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Sioux Rocks Off Regular Offline Brian Jones---Foundation Stone--Golden Stone Posts: 4,176 Virginia, U.S.A. Gender:	Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!! Reply #40 - Jul 29^th, 2012 at 10:47pm And the gymnastics scoring is brutal!! I think that the balance beam is the most difficult thing in all of sports! Flips....blind landings........and all on 4 inches of wood waaaaay off the ground. Insane!
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Reply #41 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 2:37am

The gymnastics scoring to qualify for the individual all around are ridiculous! The top 24 atheletes are supposed to go on, but only two are allowed from each county. So if a gymnast scores third in the overall competitioin but is also third on their team they can not go on to the individual round. That is just stupid. No other sports at the Olympics have a stupid rule. Can you imagine the uproar if a swimmer had the third fastest time but was also third on their team and couldn't swim in the finals?

And yes, the the real football is great! Enjoying that and the swimming very much so far.

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Re: OLYMPICS LONDON 2012!!!
Reply #42 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 7:59am

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 5:31pm:

Sioux wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 2:56pm:

In my area, we have 6-7 TV channels covering the events. I have access to 5 of them....and I'm practically going crazy, flipping from station to station, trying to watch it all! Shocked

I won't see as much during the work week---mostly the nightly broadcasts. I've seen a bit of just about everything, I think.

I still think it's strange that beach volleyball, water polo, badminton, etc. are Olympic sports......and baseball and softball no longer fit that bill... Undecided

I wonder who determines what sport qualifies? And which sports are added or dumped?? The Olympic Committee? I should know the answer to this.... Embarrassed

Yeah Sioux. There is a whole criteria of things that a sports organizing body has to present to the Olympic Committiee to get them to consider a sport for inclusion. It usually comes down to politics like most everything else. But I'm with you. I'm trying to watch a little of everything. Never watched so much Team Handball in my life. Are you fucking serious?

Some background here to the exclusion of baseball and softball

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

There are also other major sports which arent in it - golf (included from 2016), cricket (despite being maybe second only to football as the world's most watched sport - it's easily the biggest sport on the Indian subcontinent) and rugby (hasnt been in the Olympics since 1924 - the USA are reigning champions! Rugby sevens will be included in 2016, though). Tennis only came back to the Olympics in 1988, I think.

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Reply #43 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 8:13am

Talk about an uninvited guest at the Olympics.

Friday night's spectacular pyrotechnics display of the most watched opening ceremony in summer Olympics history attracted more than the eyes of over 40 million people. A clearly seen unidentified flying object was videotaped making its way over London's Olympic stadium, reports Examiner.com.
The disc-shaped object is first seen entering the upper left portion of the video as the fireworks erupt over the stadium. The UFO -- which appears to have a dome or bulge rising from its center -- moves slowly across the sky as if deliberately observing the light-show spectacle below it.

While NBC Olympics -- a division of NBC Sports -- has chosen Goodyear blimps for all of its 2012 Olympics aerial coverage, the strange-looking object that appeared over the opening ceremonies doesn't appear to be a blimp.
On an evening that included an apparent Queen Elizabeth and 007 agent James Bond parachuting out of a helicopter into the Olympics stadium, most people probably wouldn't have been surprised if a staged UFO was also on the entertainment menu, just two weeks after the U.K. released its most recent batch of UFO documents.

Last month, former Ministry of Defense UFO desk officer Nick Pope suggested that a huge event like the London Olympic Games, could present itself as a prime target for otherworldly craft to show themselves to a gigantic viewing audience.

"With the summer of mass events, we are all on high alert for terrorism. But we must also cast our eyes further afield and be prepared for even the most seemingly unfathomable," Pope said, according to PressTV.
Pope wrote earlier this year of a conspiracy theory rumor that suggested a fake alien attack would be staged at the London Olympics.

"A combination of special effects and holographic technology will be used to create the illusion of an alien invasion, the rumor claims," Pope wrote on TruTV.com.

"If aliens have studied our psychology, they may choose to appear in our skies on a significant date -- the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games is one date being widely circulated by conspiracy groups," PressTV quoted Pope.

Maybe Friday night's UFO appearance was a dress rehearsal.

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Reply #46 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 4:03pm

AngieBlue wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 2:37am:

The gymnastics scoring to qualify for the individual all around are ridiculous! The top 24 atheletes are supposed to go on, but only two are allowed from each county. So if a gymnast scores third in the overall competitioin but is also third on their team they can not go on to the individual round. That is just stupid. No other sports at the Olympics have a stupid rule. Can you imagine the uproar if a swimmer had the third fastest time but was also third on their team and couldn't swim in the finals?

And yes, the the real football is great! Enjoying that and the swimming very much so far.

Yes, the scoring in gymnastics is kind of ridiculous.
The opening ceremony was great and the games have been a joy to watch.

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Reply #47 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 6:45pm

uncleson wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 4:03pm:

AngieBlue wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 2:37am:

The gymnastics scoring to qualify for the individual all around are ridiculous! The top 24 atheletes are supposed to go on, but only two are allowed from each county. So if a gymnast scores third in the overall competitioin but is also third on their team they can not go on to the individual round. That is just stupid. No other sports at the Olympics have a stupid rule. Can you imagine the uproar if a swimmer had the third fastest time but was also third on their team and couldn't swim in the finals?

And yes, the the real football is great! Enjoying that and the swimming very much so far.

Yes, the scoring in gymnastics is kind of ridiculous.
The opening ceremony was great and the games have been a joy to watch.

especially the part where the japanese get it changed!!!

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