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Last night British TV showed the Manchester Passion - a retelling of the events of the first Easter with Mancunian songs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions ... r_passion/

To quote: "The Manchester Passion will retell the last days of Jesus' life using popular music from the cream of Manchester bands, including M People, New Order, The Smiths, Oasis and James. The songs will be given a vibrant new twist and be performed by the characters in the story accompanied by a 16-piece orchestra."


Question - if such a thing was done with Alexander's last days, what songs would you choose?

Interesting ...

"Poison Arrow" by ABC?
"Poison Ivy" by Human Nature (and there's one by the Stones, too)?
"By the Waters of Babylon" by Boney M (et al) - although the words would have to change somewhat, seeing as the song's actually about the Jews in exile ...

Wasn't it Iron Maiden who did a song about Alexander, too? Surely that would have to appear.

ATB

Hail Ultimately.

Its gotta be Sinatras My Way

Or even Presleys Version of. The Impossible Dream.

Kenny

Something more imaginative ! Yesterday, Judas Iscariot sang "Heaven knows I'm miserable now" as he betrayed Jesus; and Jesus & Pontius Pilate sang Oasis' Wonderwall. Now that's imagination.

Well, I suppose I could imagine the line of soldiers filing past Alexander's sick bed, and Alexander singing Don't you (forget about me), by Simple Minds.

Perdiccas, Antigonus, Meleager each singing their own rendition of Queen's I want it all (and I want it now).

Ptolemy high-tailing it to Memphis with Walk like an Egyptian (or, once he gets there, of course, Walking in Memphis).

Depending on whether one follows a Tarn-ian view of Alexander, shouldn't we also hear anything by 'The Brotherhood of Man'?

ATB

marcus wrote:Well, I suppose I could imagine the line of soldiers filing past

Depending on whether one follows a Tarn-ian view of Alexander, shouldn't we also hear anything by 'The Brotherhood of Man'?

ATB

Oh dear! I sincerely hope not. Then again, a possible soundtrack to the Tarn-ian view might be supplied by a certain group of ophidia:

Sit on my face and tell me that you love me...

More suited - one might think - to the mass weddings?

Then again, our forum might be a little too dry and dusty for such raunch?

I doubt if Pothos has ever experienced the like before!

What a shame your link didn't play the whole song, though. Still, there might be some Pothosians who cannot take such raunch.

Perhaps that other Python classic, the Philosophers' Song, could also be appropriate - including the immortal line "Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle ..." (plus references to Socrates and Plato as well, of course).

ATB

"Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!"

Of course one could posit a soundtrack to the entire "adventure". To borrow both from Jeff Wayne and HG Wells.....

"No one would have believed, in the last years of the fourth century BC, that Persian affairs were being watched by the ambitious lord of Macedon.

"No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope
studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few Achaeemenids even considered
the possibility of conquerors from Macedon and yet, across the gulf of the Aegean, a military mind immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Empire with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, he drew his plans against us...."

"The chances of anyone invading from Macedon are a million to one," he said.
The chances of anyone invading from Macedon are a million to one - but still he
comes!"

Your War of tye World Kinda Groovy. I listend to the Burton sound track kind of scary.

In the end germs took out the Aliens. Was it germs that took the Macedonian Invader. On the War Of the Worlds maybe im morbid but its really refreshing when mankind are in a corner. With all the Tanks Nukes and warplanes. Just maybe theres something that these things just bounce off. Humanitry has had it far to easy too long wacking the enviroment and each other. Maybe it take a meanace like this to stop the petty quarels.

Kenny

Ah, how nice to hear "War of the Worlds" again - it's been so long.

Makes you wonder what Vangelis was thinking of - he wasn't taking the right inspiration! (Although I do happen to like the soundtrack to Alexander, for the most part, anyway).

ATB

Just kidding, this thread had me laughing so hard it scared my cats.

Just to complete the hellenic philosophic dipsomaniac triad:

"Plato, they say, could stick it away,
Half a crate of whisky every day!"

I think the gay/not-gay warrior debate could be informed by certain Pythonesque military maneuvers, could it not?

Still chuckling,
Karen

I think the gay/not-gay warrior debate could be informed by certain Pythonesque military maneuvers, could it not?

Lets better not get into this

"Hang on. What did he say? The 'Greek' will inherit the earth?! Which Greek?"