Ship of Fools: Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1499!

Thread: Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1499! Board: Oblivion / Ship of Fools.

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

Ah yes, you can't beat a bit of medieval music, can you?

Tunes like...

Stephanian Anarchy in the UK

What did your distant ancestors boogie to, in between avoiding marrying Henry VIII and not getting the Black Death? Extra kudos for appropriate bands to go with the songs...

AG

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

hmm... Spain's Armada Da Vida, Baby!

doncha know that they'll always get through.....

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

Henry VIII: Boleynian Rhapsody, appropriately enough by Queen.

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

A chart topper from Blondie...

Bubonic

AG

Posted by East Price Road (# 13846) on :

Take a rest from the dance floor and feel nauseous to:

There's No One Quite Like Cranmer

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

Sorry, couldn't resist...

All the way from Stratford-upon-Avon, it's...

Shakespeare's Sister and she'll be singing You're History

AG

Posted by East Price Road (# 13846) on :

The ever-popular:

Earls Just Wanna Have Fun

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by East Price Road:

There's No One Quite Like Cranmer

Sticking with the Reformation:

Calvin, baby, light my fire

Sorry - that was in really bad taste ... [Devil]

Posted by Fidei Defensor (# 17105) on :

Columbus' Big Band playing The Zwingli's the Thingli.

Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :

To the tune of Rebel Yell...

When the hatchet fell,
There was no more More.

[ 09. May 2012, 23:34: Message edited by: Stetson ]

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Fidei Defensor:
... The Zwingli's the Thingli.

Or a spot of Bach from the Zwingli Singers.

PS Welcome aboard, FD! [Smile]

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

Let' not forget the Long Parliament's backing band, the Crumhorny Crumhorns.

Stetson - respect for that one!

AG

Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :

Following on from the above, and presuming therefore that the 17th century isn't too recent for this thread, we have Oliver's Army, performed as a duet by New Model Army and The Levellers

Posted by Fidei Defensor (# 17105) on :

Lady Gagaragon singing Bad Romance

Posted by East Price Road (# 13846) on :

I'm Henery the Eighth I Am and D.I.V.O.R.C.E by Eddie (Tenpole) Tudor.

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

(Catherine) Howard Things in Glocca Morra

Posted by Fidei Defensor (# 17105) on :

Robert the Bruce Springsteen singing Love of the Common People

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

quote:
Originally posted by East Price Road:
I'm Henery the Eighth I Am and D.I.V.O.R.C.E by Eddie (Tenpole) Tudor.

Or perhaps Actually, I AM Henry the Eighth, I am"?

AG

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

Fans of 1390s T-shirt bands will no doubt remember Kingmaker

AG
(massacring the chronology, but hey!)

Posted by kankucho (# 14318) on :

Machiavelli Much – by The Scaffold

Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :

While the saga of Elizabeth and Mary (and indeed the other Mary) gives us both Killer Queen and Killed Queen

Posted by kankucho (# 14318) on :

Hands Up (Give Me Your Heartland) - by Ottoman

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
... Kingmaker ...

Presumably sung by Dionne Warwick ...

I'll get my coat.

[ 12. May 2012, 00:57: Message edited by: piglet ]

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:

quote:
Originally posted by East Price Road:
I'm Henery the Eighth I Am and D.I.V.O.R.C.E by Eddie (Tenpole) Tudor.
Or perhaps Actually, I AM Henry the Eighth, I am"?

AG

Or the Number 1 hit of 1485, "I'm Henery the Seventh, I Am."

Posted by Steve H (# 17102) on :

What about the album 'Never mind the buboes' by the Sex Halberds?

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

Who could forget the Australian hit Walsingham Matilda?

Posted by Fidei Defensor (# 17105) on :

Who indeed. Or the slightly later Tyburn Kangaroo down, Sport.

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

The Empress Maud won't come into the garden

AG

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

From the depths of my memory I've dredged the fact that Kingmaker really did release a song called Queen Jane. How apt that it was a 9-day wonder...

AG

[ 16. May 2012, 12:36: Message edited by: Sandemaniac ]

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