Comments on: Pop History http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1541/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:54:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1541/comment-page-1/#comment-40627 Brett Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:20:08 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/?p=1541#comment-40627 Claudius: Thanks for those, I have added them to the list. Stacey: The event in Rasputina's song wasn't fictional. See the link posted after the song link above which sends you <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_without_a_summer" rel="nofollow">here</a>, see also <a href="http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/1816.htm" rel="nofollow">here for a US view on the year</a>. Thanks for the others. Claudius: Thanks for those, I have added them to the list.

Stacey: The event in Rasputina’s song wasn’t fictional. See the link posted after the song link above which sends you here, see also here for a US view on the year. Thanks for the others.

]]> By: stacey http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1541/comment-page-1/#comment-40626 stacey Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:13:43 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/?p=1541#comment-40626 Rasputina's song is about a fictional weather event in 1816, so I'm guessing fictional history's okay as well? U2's Bloody Sunday and Pogue's song about the St. Stephen's massacre are both pop and historical. Rasputina’s song is about a fictional weather event in 1816, so I’m guessing fictional history’s okay as well?

U2’s Bloody Sunday and Pogue’s song about the St. Stephen’s massacre are both pop and historical.

]]> By: iClaudius http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1541/comment-page-1/#comment-40480 iClaudius Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:43:56 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/?p=1541#comment-40480 "Constantinople" - They Might be Giants: Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks and subsequent renaming to "Instanbul" “Constantinople” – They Might be Giants: Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks and subsequent renaming to “Instanbul”

]]> By: iClaudius http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1541/comment-page-1/#comment-40479 iClaudius Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:39:34 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/?p=1541#comment-40479 "Ohio" - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: Kent State shootings of anit-war protesters by the Ohio National Guard "Woodstock" - Joni Mitchell: Hippies wallowing in mud "Waterloo" - ABBA: Napolean's defeat at Waterloo "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple: Fire at the Montreaux Casino during a Frank Zappa and the Mothers concert “Ohio” – Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: Kent State shootings of anit-war protesters by the Ohio National Guard

“Woodstock” – Joni Mitchell: Hippies wallowing in mud

“Waterloo” – ABBA: Napolean’s defeat at Waterloo

“Smoke on the Water” – Deep Purple: Fire at the Montreaux Casino during a Frank Zappa and the Mothers concert

]]> By: Brett http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1541/comment-page-1/#comment-40328 Brett Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:41:09 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/?p=1541#comment-40328 Yep, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Gordon+Lightfoot/_/The+Wreck+of+the+Edmund+Fitzgerald" rel="nofollow">Gordon Lightfoot</a> about the sinking of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald" rel="nofollow">Edmund Fitzgerald</a> with all hands lost in 1975. Keep them coming, <b>fabulous prizes</b> for the best entries. *Note: <em>Fabulous Prizes may or may not exist in forms other than eternal gratitude. This contest void in Ohio and South Dakota.</em> Yep, Gordon Lightfoot about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with all hands lost in 1975. Keep them coming, fabulous prizes for the best entries.

*Note: Fabulous Prizes may or may not exist in forms other than eternal gratitude. This contest void in Ohio and South Dakota.

]]> By: Leta http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1541/comment-page-1/#comment-40296 Leta Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:40:59 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/?p=1541#comment-40296 "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"? “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”?

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