Peak Oil Music!

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 11 Jan 2008, 12:30

RenewableCandy wrote:
Andy Hunt wrote:
Blimey is it only 12:15 . . . I feel a sudden urge to put my feet up with a cuppa in front of the log fire!
Mind if I join you? It's lunch break here at work and it's a bit quiet today...

I think 'flexible working from home' is definitely the future . . . especially for a Friday!

syberberg · Post by **syberberg** » 11 Jan 2008, 12:35

RenewableCandy wrote:
Andy Hunt wrote:
Blimey is it only 12:15 . . . I feel a sudden urge to put my feet up with a cuppa in front of the log fire!
Mind if I join you? It's lunch break here at work and it's a bit quiet today...

I'll get the kettle on then, eh, seeing as how Andy's got the fire gannan like?

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 11 Jan 2008, 12:41

syberberg wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote:
Andy Hunt wrote:
Blimey is it only 12:15 . . . I feel a sudden urge to put my feet up with a cuppa in front of the log fire!
Mind if I join you? It's lunch break here at work and it's a bit quiet today...
I'll get the kettle on then, eh, seeing as how Andy's got the fire gannan like?

Kettle's already on . . .

If you've got any herbal infusions though . . .

syberberg · Post by **syberberg** » 11 Jan 2008, 12:44

Andy Hunt wrote:
syberberg wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote: Mind if I join you? It's lunch break here at work and it's a bit quiet today...
I'll get the kettle on then, eh, seeing as how Andy's got the fire gannan like?
Kettle's already on . . .

If you've got any herbal infusions though . . .

Bozzio · Post by **Bozzio** » 12 Jan 2008, 23:05

Found this short arty film on YouTube.

As the author says it was made to use up spare film but the music to accompany it is one of my favourite tracks (used on Tarrant on TV). Strange then to see it used on a short montage about driving, fields, oil, light and water but somehow it works so thought I'd share it with you. I like the way the music, which was from an era where the future looked so bright is used on a film where the outlook for the subjects in question (except for fields of course) is bleak.

Oh oh, doomer moment.....!

Driving, Fields, Oil, Light and Water

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 13 Jan 2008, 15:46

Nifty editing in time to the beat, too

Hey why does the title make me think of the 5 Chinese Elements (Metal, wood, earth, fire and water)?...

syberberg · Post by **syberberg** » 13 Jan 2008, 15:55

RenewableCandy wrote:Nifty editing in time to the beat, too

Hey why does the title make me think of the 5 Chinese Elements (Metal, wood, earth, fire and water)?...

Driving (cars) = Metal.

Fields (of green) = Wood.

Oil (comes from underground) = Earth.

Light (can be produced by) Fire.

Water...erm...can't think of why for that. You've got me on that one.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 13 Jan 2008, 16:06

syberberg wrote:
Water...erm...can't think of why for that. You've got me on that one.

It's 'cause he's taking the ....

syberberg · Post by **syberberg** » 13 Jan 2008, 18:42

RenewableCandy wrote:
syberberg wrote:
Water...erm...can't think of why for that. You've got me on that one.
It's 'cause he's taking the ....

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 17 Jan 2008, 21:52

Ah now this is the sort of music that'll give me some energy when all else fails...heck even the words (well, some of them: "the times are tough, and they're getting tougher...") are appropriate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4Hul4HW9E

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 18 Jan 2008, 08:23

There's a nice little sing-a-long from Eli Rabett:

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2008/01/delt ... e-has.html

And tremendous doom and gloom singing from a similar source:

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2008/01/and- ... apest.html

nepenthean · Post by **nepenthean** » 18 Jan 2008, 10:14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0sry6TyEUU

Remember these guys?

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 19 Jan 2008, 11:06

Gary Moore - Victims of the Future

Searching each day for the answers,
Watching our hopes disappear.
Set on a course for disaster,
Living our lives in fear.
Our leaders leave us in confusion.
For them there's only one solution.

Caught in the fight for survival,
Trapped with our backs to the wall.
Are we just lambs to the slaughter,
Who wait for the axe to fall?
Our world is headed for destruction.
Our fate is in the hands of fools.

Shadows of the past,
Victims of the future.
How long will it last?
Victims of the future?

Into the verbal arena,
Armed with the lies that they tell.
They're fighting for world domination,
Backed by the weapons of hell.
Is there no end to all this madness?
Is there no hope for us at all?

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » 27 Jan 2008, 11:56

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhDDx49TTw
YouTube - Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite

I blame you for the moonlit sky
and the dream that died
with the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
when I wonder why
are the seas still dry?
don't blame this sleeping satellite

did we fly to the moon too soon?
did we squander the chance?
in the rush of the race
the reason we chase is lost in romance
and still we try
to justify the waste
for a taste of man's greatest adventure

I blame you for the moonlit sky
and the dream that died
with the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
when I wonder why
are the seas still dry?
don't blame this sleeping satellite

have we got what it takes to advance?
have we peaked too soon?
if the world is so great
then why does it scream under a blue moon?
we wonder why
if the earth's sacrificed
for the price of its greatest treasure

I blame you for the moonlit sky
and the dream that died
with the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
when I wonder why
are the seas still dry?
don't blame this sleeping satellite

and when we shoot for the stars
what a giant step
have we got what it takes
to carry the weight of this concept?
or pass it by
like a shot in the dark
miss the mark with a sense of adventure

I blame you for the moonlit sky
and the dream that died
with the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
when I wonder why
are the seas still dry?

Woke up to this on the radio this morning (first time I've heard it since discovering PO), was almost in tears. We probably are confined to this speck of cosmic dust forever.

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » 31 Jan 2008, 06:49

Gasoline by Sheryl Crow

Way back in the year of 2017
The sun was growing hotter
And oil was way beyond its peak
When crazy Hector Johnson broke into a refinery
And the black gold started flowing
Just like Boston tea

It was the summer of the riots
And London sat in sweltering heat
And the gangs of Mini Coopers
Took the battle to the streets
But when the creed was handed down
For no more trucks and no more cars
They threw cans of petrol through the windows at Scotland Yard

Gasoline
Will be free, will be free
Gasoline
Will be free, will be free

When the Mounties stormed the palace of the Saudi family
They held them up for ransom
Without disturbing their high tea
But their getaway was shaky
They stalled in the Riyadh streets
Cause you can't make it very far
When your tank is on empty

The final can of gasoline was loaded on a truck
And driven through the streets of Agra to the palace aquaduct
You see, all the majesty of worship that once adorned these fatal halls
Was just a target to the angry
As they blew up the Taj Mahal

Gasoline
Will be free, will be free
Gasoline
will be free, will be free

Gary ran a market way down in Tennessee
Where all the farmers got together and talked about this great country
But when the government turned its back on farming
Man, what I hear
They dragged the pumps out of the ground
With a big vintage John Deere

I've got soldiers on my payroll
Standing guard on my front drive
Snipers on the roof poised at those
Who don't want me alive
Cause they audited my taxes
My family under threat
Cause I've got a message and a megaphone
And I'll scream it to the death

Gasoline
Will be free, will be free
Gasoline
Will be free, will be free

You got the farms in Argentina
Making fuel from sugar cane
You got the bastards in Washington
Afraid of popping the greed vain
Cause the money's in the pipeline
And pipeline's running dry
And we'll be the last to recognize
Where there's shit there's always flies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr8k66I34VA