So awesome I can barely stand it: Busby Berkley

[the_town_cryer]

Sometimes we come across something so amazing, so brilliant on so many levels that we feel we must share it. That is what 'So awesome I can barely stand it' is for.

(apologies to any film buff friends who may find this reccomendation fairly redundant)

The preview for 2012, Roland Emmerich's most recent love song to the death of everyone in the world

Comments

[anonymous]

Someone's made a clip for "Busby berkeley dreams" by the Magnetic Fields.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q59ZncmAtQ

actually it kinda pwns yr clip charlie. im sorry. I hope one day you can put this blow behind you.

[anonymous]

you know what else is fucking rad? songs with whistling. Seriously, have you ever heard a song with whistling that wasnt the greatest song ever recorded? i rest my case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKuB85EgnI
(Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krz9PRm9L2g
(Peter, Bjorn & John "Young Folks")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ
(Scorpions - Wind Of Change)

[anonymous]

Roxette - Joyride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCorJG9mubk

I'll leave that to the viewers as to whether it's one of the greatest songs ever recorded, or if I'm being ironic.

Like Pr0n? Hyperbole, much.

[mrtrivia]

If Busby Berkley were like porn then we would have to endure listening to some f***tard behind the camera asking the leading lady questions about how much sex she has, what positions she likes best and if she's ever done it with a Lhasa Apso.

I love musicals, Charles, and I am straighter than Buzz Aldrin and the entire Apollo Space Program put together (for non-sexual purposes - that guy at the back who said circle-jerk - please leave). Sure, I like a lot of things that gay men of the 70s enjoyed, like Bette Midler, Joan Crawford and the films of Douglas Sirk, and yet I remain straight. Your generalisations about sexuality are so typical of Generation Y.

Busby Berkeley's chorus lines were a kind of geometrical genius and bless you for spreading the word and picture. Most excellent!

I am now going to rewatch ALL THAT JAZZ (1979), Bob Fossey's semi-autobigraphical movie starring the perplexingly non-dancing Roy Scheider and the magnificent Anne Reinking.

The beauty of anonymous posting is

[the_town_cryer]

I can pretend that I have 3 seperate fans who all happen to talk exactly like Cass, and love whistly pop songs.

And I agree with the statement, and put forward
Jealous Guy, John Lennon,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lLs2dC9NaE

New Girl, The Accents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeBmOhKnHCw

L'Arena, Ennio Morricone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwlMU5PYcs0&feature=related

As further evidence, if any were needed.

And I did see the aforementioned Busby/Magnetic Fields mash up, I just felt that it would be needlessly confusing for my legions of fans...