New Spooks/MI-5 Vid

[przed]

Song: Real Great Britain
Artist: Asian Dub Foundation
Format: RealMedia
Size: 13.7 MB

Major spoilers for season 2.

Profuse thanks to gwyn_r, morgandawn and st_crispins for thoughtful beta duties. (And permetaform, I'm sorry I never got you a non-RM file. All my other encoders produce way dodgy results.)

Vid on my website

Because the lyrics are virtually incomprehensible, you can find them on the site or behind the cut:

Real Great Britain

Union jack and union jill
Back up and down the same old hill
Sell the flag to the youths but who swallows the bill
Murdoch she wrote him have his hand in the till

Fire

Blairful of thatcher stuck on the 45
The suits have changed but the old ties survive
New britannia cool who are you trying to fool?
Behind your fashion-tashion I see nothing at all
Care for the commodity cuts the nation into three
Rich pickings for the first bottom third you never see
While middle england keeps swinging its loyalty
No concern for the future just with royalty

So will the real, the real great Britain step forward
This is the national identity parade
Shoe gazer nation forever looking Backwards
Time to reject the sixties charade

Not enough schools, not enough homes
Just phony care in his millennium dome
More prime cuts than beef on the bone
And there's too many questions you're not answering tone
Union jack and union jill
Back up and down the same old hill
Sell the flag to the youths but who swallows the bill
Murdoch she wrote him have his hand in the till

So will the real, the real great britain step forward
This is the national identity parade
Shoe gazer nation forever looking backwards
Time to reject the sixties charade

Fire

Will the real, the real great britain step forward
Shoegazer nation forever looking backward
So will the real, the real great britain step forward
Back up against the wall
Shoegazer nation forever looking backward

Comments

[zasjah.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever watched one whole episode of neither Spooks nor MI5, but even so this is one particularly intriguing vid. The lyrics and the hypnotizing rhythm of the song fit the images so well.
I like the way it begins and ends, coming full circle.
Excellent job.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks. If you like espionage stuff, I can heartily recommend Spooks. (MI-5 is the North American title.)

Now, more importantly, are you working on a new vid?

[zasjah.livejournal.com]

Thanks. If you like espionage stuff, I can heartily recommend Spooks. (MI-5 is the North American title.)

I'll keep an eye open for it, it looks like a series I might very much enjoy!

Now, more importantly, are you working on a new vid?

The first ideas for another one are currently forming in my mind, yes. :-)