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As an American, I'm not involved. Was just idly curiously why the Wolfe Tones of all people would be singing a Protestant anthem. Generally what you hear from them is "The Man Behind the Wire" or some other ancient pub standard.

I see it differently from Rohan. The American armed forces were not permitted to go full out for a conventional campaign. You cannot convince me the full weight of America cannot defeat a Third world insurgency...they tie their hands via "rules of engagement." The British took a full ten years t...

maybe the most depressing country song ever written, and that is rich field.

remember these were National Guard vets who re-upped from Viet Nam and had conditioned reflexes. there were maybe fifty of them facing a mob, and they panicked for fear of being overwhelmed by a human wave. A few did not fire into the air and fired right at the crowd.

It was an operation that s...

CWK Air Force is right. M- 16 is garbage also in its new M-4 form, and I carry it each day, the orignal jammer gun, in contrast to the AK. Even cleaned daily the m-4t lets you down. Politicians lost the war for America after Tet '68 when we could have won it, groveled to the student mobs. I was t...

@ Chex. Respectfully disagree Chex, and no need to call me son. Hitler was so overextended on all fronts east and west, unable to resupply, vulnerable to flanking, facing behind the lines resistance, he could not have held Russia and Europe, let alone occupy the determined English. Sooner or la...

@kittyhello It's a brilliant portrayal of alcoholism, and Cage and Shue are fantastic, but I don't want ot see it again. Figgis always does these bleak films.

lol. Moron. Got overexcited.

Cobain was a junky. His shotgun death was a self inflicted wound when high. Who cares. Reap what you sow, if an addict. Fine artist, perhaps chose poorly in his wife with the very used Courtney Love, but if you get into this lifestyle and don't have balls to rehab out, you are a goner.

If you say so Tony. You are probably a native, I am not, although I spent some time there. I detected an anti British Army tone, so assumed Republican anthem.

Nice melody and lyrics, like all Irish songs. I love listening to it. But it is the endless bar room guitar chant, we poor Irish and what brutal England did to us, same old story repeated. Do you think the south wants the north and its problems? Not in a thousand years. Think politically.

It is sad to see singers trying to milk it when they are past it She has to talk the lyrics and cannot hit high notes. Compare this with her sensational version from the 70s

@ xX Parker It's about girl payback. She was murdered by this point in the movie old guys who were not bad people when and did not mean it to happen. Then she comes back sixty years later as a hottie and goes after their sons one by one, then goes for the fathers. It's a great movie.

Beautifully rendered, with a professional operatic voice that hits the high notes flawlessly. This is one of those ballads that want to make you put your head in a gas oven. Depressing as all hell. lol.

**red coats

@ Rossonero072213 I admire these two artists tremendously because they had intelligence, rarer in popular music today. Baez covered Dylan songs better than he could sing them himself, but seldom wrote. Dylan wrote poetry I think in the early years is up there with T.S. Eliot. Baez took him awa...

no worries about shooting up anything. just had a technical interest in the picture.

this particular 'I hate the British Army' song sung in a growling Celtic intonation I find is a 'let's have a fight' anthem."Where only the rivers run free" is one of the the most beautiful and lyrical melodies written. The Irish have a genius for this. My late father said once, "they drink, cry...

i think it must be a very cool thing to be Axel's entertainment contract lawyer and take 5 percent up front. Even I could do this song with the background so loud you can't hear him. And I can't sing. He just yells with heavy guitar reverb.

Baez looked a little bit chewy then, unless you are into Hispanics, but now with the short cropped gray hair, it's nasty. She could hit the high notes in this song. Not now. Like the late Frank Sinatra, she talks them in her reprises of her early hits.

an artist like she is can give a middle finger to anyone. that is why she is there on You Tube and we are writing comments as spectators.

but you guys are not really stable. First, a "united Ireland" will be an economic drain the real Ireland in the south does not want.Second, some nut "real IRA" faction will torpedo any reasonable settlement before or after signing, via an atrocity bombing. Then the British Army has to come back l...

she made an unfortunate sally into disco three beats a second dance rhythm here. her ballads like "It's a Heartache" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" are better.

She is the dream cougar for anyone who was ever young in the 80s. Utterly sexy voice that has been there and back. Probably now in 2011 a grandmom watching soaps.

isn't the issue really whether Northern Ireland is part of the UK or not? If it has been English in some sense since the seventeenth century, with Irish Catholics who came there for the jobs in the factories, why not let those few counties stay English? It is hard to see how Ireland would be bett...

Susan Day got even better later. Sigh. Unrequited love is a tragedy for a lifetime.

from his table on the Left Bank at Les deus Magots cafe, Jean Paul Sartre meditates with a cigararette au sujet du cougarisme. C'est bien. Even old ladies need dong.