Rip-off? I believe tongue in cheek musical parody is the term you're looking for. Although the song borrows heavily from Muirsheen Durkin, the musical hook during the breaks and at the end is the Obama reel - just to clarify things a bit.
I thought it was pretty clever, and look like a helluva lot of fun to make.
Its the song Muirsheen Durkin with different word's. and if you wait or fast forward it to the end you'll here the same song Muirsheen Durkin, Jazzed up to sound like a reel .. jim,,,
They certainly do need to, Alastair. Actually, I quite like the song Muisheen Durkin. I think it is a good classic Irish song. All the more reason to send it up
Pretty sure that's nursery-school economics there, NEW. It's what they teach you before you can say words like 'Federal Reserve' or 'Alan Greenspan' or 'fractional reserve lending' or 'total capitalist system failure'.
but wasn't the song written as an American stage Irish thing in the early 1900's or 1920's? I'm not saying it was but if you listen to the earliest recordings of it it would make sense....
It's an interesting period in American(or Irish-American depending on your point of view) music. I don't quite know if good or bad...just interesting. Mick Maloney has done a lot to make people aware of that era.
Yes your right it was a very interesting Era in Irish-American Music. One I have not looked into much Maybe another thread ?
On the good side, I think it was a good thing...
And on the bad side, There is no bad side if your only making music and having fun !
jim,,,
It’s just that some mean, unenlightened people relayed me this nugget: “unemployment, which averaged 5.2 percent during the Bush administration, has averaged 9.4 percent under Obama,” and this tidbit, too: “black unemployment, at 12.6% in January 2009 is at 16.3%, or up 30% under Obama,” leading me to believe those numbers meant something!
Of course there are more forces at play than just the President in determining employment levels. If you were cynical you might point out that it is the job of the Legislature to sort these things rather than the Executive.
On the other hand I am not American and so it is not my concern. This is also a music site and so commentary on the effectiveness of a national government is slightly outwith it's purvue.
Something to reflect on though. Whatever you think about Obama the alternative does not inspire any confidence whatsoever:
Well what do you expect? It's only just another Arab country that they intend to bring democracy to....or something...who cares? s long as this present carry-on doesn't affect the price of petrol/gas....oooh-errr...
OK, then something I hope makes some of the po-faces on here finally break into a smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cPHiA9rUPc&feature=player_embedded
It's all bad NEW, elephants, donkeys, they both let rich gamblers torch the world economy. They're all guilty. We all should have pulled an Iceland and let those central bank gamblers eat their own losses. "Waah! We're too big to fail!" "Well you shouldn't have been gambling then."
I mean, what were they going to do if we didn't bail them out? Mess up the economy?
Rudall the time - Liked that..
We should do that Game on here call it say, '' Face the Music '' -lol...
What about the Salamanca Reel to Start with, Hee Hee.
jim,,,
The economy collapsed under Mr Bush due to lax
regulation combined with PhD mathematicians on Wall Street
and their bosses who did not understand what they were doing.
Mr Obama is stuck with the job of patching things up, but it
will take years. In Mr Bush's defence, he was unlucky to have
9/11 dumped on him, just as Mr Obama is unlucky too. Pretend
he's not a Democrat and his father is a white man from Utah,
"NEW". Does that change anything for you?
Thanks for this. Like you said, it sure looks likethey had a lot of fun making this. Irrespective of what song or reel, surely this shows that having fun is a big part of music.
SWFL—
You’re right, the critters we elevate in the U.S. are almost always snakes shaped like the donkeys and the elephants they’ve swallowed. But New Yo-wahk bankers weren't the only ones doing the insane driving that slammed us into the ditch in 2008. (See below, please . . .)
Hup—
Lady Gaga gets major, desperate media play, as does the particular instant-revisionist litany you cite. (One gets major media play to prop up the remnants of the recording industry, the other gets major media play to prop up the remnants of, er . . .)
The 1999 (the Clinton era!) New York Times article linked below foresaw it all, the crappy subprime mortgage sand foundation that ultimately gave way in 2008. Yikes, I wish I’d read and grasped this back then and had gotten in on that whole Big Short thing:
Funny how the Times doesn't now resurrect or otherwise cite this, their own cautionary story from 1999, when yanking readers' nose rings toward an understanding of the big crash. That's just so puzzling! Not.
I don't understand the song. Good musicians though. As far as government goes, I am a student of Native American history. Guess how I feel about it? The government took care of the Indians, now they want to take care of us. I think I'll worry about my fiddle now.
And I hear you (and back in the days of the S&L fiasco, a certain Senator McCain was absolutely one of the infamous Keating Five).
But as a senator, Obama did worse: he and Chris Dodd, in the years leading up to 2008, were handed more campaign $$$ by Fannie Mae than any other politicians in America. Why ? Obama and Dodd blocked the 2005 bill that would have forbidden Fannie Mae from holding mortgage-backed securities. We all know what happened as a result, three years later. Sorry, world. (Side note: Obama’s VP search committee was led by . . . wait for it . . . Fannie Mae’s C.E.O., Jim Johnson. Chummy.)
So FDR, he ain’t. Senator Obama played a huge part in causing the economic mess President Obama “inherited.”
Hmmm. I wrote “Obama’s VP search committee was led by . . . wait for it . . . Fannie Mae’s C.E.O., Jim Johnson.”
And now my comeuppance—in link form—is this?: yes, Fannie Mae C.E.O. Jim Johnson did indeed lead Obama’s VP search committee—but only until he was forced to resign because he’d received $2 million in illegal loans from major Democrat fundraiser Angelo Mozilo. (He's the guy who—to avoid prison—just paid the largest financial penalty against a public company's senior executive in U.S. history). "Countrywide is on your siiiiide . . . " Remember? Mortgage fraud? Crash of 2008? No?
I think I know why the biggest mid-term electoral rebuke of a sitting president since 1938 . . . just . . . doesn’t . . . register with the faithful. (And I'm also beginning to think I know how Lenny Bruce felt, doing those last, newsrag-waving routines.)
Don't avoid the question New pure Drops - do you have the dots for this reel or no?
And as a side note, no politician forced banks to sell and bundle knowingly bad loans, chop them up and sell them willy-nilly to buyers around the globe. De-regulation anyone?
See "M. Durkin" for the dots! Great melody, who doesn't like that one?
On the bankers thing: Touché. My longwinded point was that the continuing “evil, greedy, hyper-capitalist New York banker” media explanation for the 2008 plunge tells a bare half of the story.
The, er, important other half is the reason WHY the banks' mortgage-based derivatives were, at their root, worthless: agenda-driven politics had forced retail banks to give out bad loans, so-called “liar loans,” by the millions. (And the 2005 GOP Senate bill aimed at reining in Fannie and Freddie was voted down by every single Dem in the Senate.)
Kumbayah is terribly cliche' - let's sing Muirsheen Durkin over a few pints instead - and then we can further discuss the many fingers in the honeypot that caused the crash. And really, who could ever trust two characters named Freddie & Fannie anyway - sounds like a 50's sitcom
I guarantee you that anyone from the other side of the Atlantic who's been crazy enough to read these U.S. econ/political posts has been getting big laughs out of the term "Fannie," which sho don't mean there what it do here.
The Barack Obama Reel
The Barack Obama Reel
I got this through Facebook. Flippin brilliant I thought
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbkTDeGkqFU&feature=player_embedded#
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
it's not a reel
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by I ♥ Dow
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Who cares?
Tell Kane and Peter.
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
i care
especially as it's some rip off of a decent song and not a tune that you would try and learn
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by I ♥ Dow
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Rip-off? I believe tongue in cheek musical parody is the term you're looking for. Although the song borrows heavily from Muirsheen Durkin, the musical hook during the breaks and at the end is the Obama reel - just to clarify things a bit.
I thought it was pretty clever, and look like a helluva lot of fun to make.
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Good for you djf, care away. It's your right to care.
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Actually, there is a reel in between the singing.
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Its the song Muirsheen Durkin with different word's. and if you wait or fast forward it to the end you'll here the same song Muirsheen Durkin, Jazzed up to sound like a reel .. jim,,,
This is a Reel -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7NxJDp4zQ
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
A ripoff of a a decent song? Muirsheen Durkin? Since when?
I think there are a few folk who just need to lighten up a little.
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
They certainly do need to, Alastair. Actually, I quite like the song Muisheen Durkin. I think it is a good classic Irish song. All the more reason to send it up
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
So goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, we’re sick and tired of working,
And since Barack’s been president, he’s made sure that we won’t . . .
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
I'll not touch the above with a 10 foot stick.
Peadar Ó Riada actually composed a reel called the Obama, it's on this album here:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3680
The music for the tune is here:
http://www.peadaroriada.ie/images/stories/fruit/barrack%20obama%20reel.pdf
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by Resodan
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Pretty sure that's nursery-school economics there, NEW. It's what they teach you before you can say words like 'Federal Reserve' or 'Alan Greenspan' or 'fractional reserve lending' or 'total capitalist system failure'.
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
The song is based on this reel, according to wikki
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1954
but wasn't the song written as an American stage Irish thing in the early 1900's or 1920's? I'm not saying it was but if you listen to the earliest recordings of it it would make sense....
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by shanty
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
You could well be right about Muirsheen Durkin an American stage Irish thing.
Like this one --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHuhCRWdTt0
jim,,,
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
It's an interesting period in American(or Irish-American depending on your point of view) music. I don't quite know if good or bad...just interesting. Mick Maloney has done a lot to make people aware of that era.
http://www.amazon.com/Wasnt-Irish-Jews-Mick-Moloney/dp/B002HQWQFC
# Posted on January 31st 2011 by shanty
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Yes your right it was a very interesting Era in Irish-American Music. One I have not looked into much Maybe another thread ?
On the good side, I think it was a good thing...
And on the bad side, There is no bad side if your only making music and having fun !
jim,,,
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Well, I've heard of Farrel O'Bama.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
...and Barack Hill ... then again, that's a slide, not a reel.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
SWFL—
My bad.
It’s just that some mean, unenlightened people relayed me this nugget: “unemployment, which averaged 5.2 percent during the Bush administration, has averaged 9.4 percent under Obama,” and this tidbit, too: “black unemployment, at 12.6% in January 2009 is at 16.3%, or up 30% under Obama,” leading me to believe those numbers meant something!
I reckon I have lived and learned!
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Of course there are more forces at play than just the President in determining employment levels. If you were cynical you might point out that it is the job of the Legislature to sort these things rather than the Executive.
On the other hand I am not American and so it is not my concern. This is also a music site and so commentary on the effectiveness of a national government is slightly outwith it's purvue.
Something to reflect on though. Whatever you think about Obama the alternative does not inspire any confidence whatsoever:
http://www.someecards.com/2011/01/31/fox-news-doesnt-know-where-egypt-is
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Oh and for the sake of your sanity, I wouldn't spend too much time reading the comments.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Well what do you expect? It's only just another Arab country that they intend to bring democracy to....or something...who cares? s long as this present carry-on doesn't affect the price of petrol/gas....oooh-errr...
OK, then something I hope makes some of the po-faces on here finally break into a smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cPHiA9rUPc&feature=player_embedded
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
It's all bad NEW, elephants, donkeys, they both let rich gamblers torch the world economy. They're all guilty. We all should have pulled an Iceland and let those central bank gamblers eat their own losses. "Waah! We're too big to fail!" "Well you shouldn't have been gambling then."
I mean, what were they going to do if we didn't bail them out? Mess up the economy?
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Rudall the time - Liked that..
We should do that Game on here call it say, '' Face the Music '' -lol...
What about the Salamanca Reel to Start with, Hee Hee.
jim,,,
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
I was thinking something like that Jim. Try doing that with the Contradiction Reel
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
The economy collapsed under Mr Bush due to lax
regulation combined with PhD mathematicians on Wall Street
and their bosses who did not understand what they were doing.
Mr Obama is stuck with the job of patching things up, but it
will take years. In Mr Bush's defence, he was unlucky to have
9/11 dumped on him, just as Mr Obama is unlucky too. Pretend
he's not a Democrat and his father is a white man from Utah,
"NEW". Does that change anything for you?
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by Hup
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Hi Danny!
Thanks for this. Like you said, it sure looks likethey had a lot of fun making this. Irrespective of what song or reel, surely this shows that having fun is a big part of music.
I loved the space shuttle; that is so clever!
All the best
Brian x
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by briantheflute
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
SWFL—
You’re right, the critters we elevate in the U.S. are almost always snakes shaped like the donkeys and the elephants they’ve swallowed. But New Yo-wahk bankers weren't the only ones doing the insane driving that slammed us into the ditch in 2008. (See below, please . . .)
Hup—
Lady Gaga gets major, desperate media play, as does the particular instant-revisionist litany you cite. (One gets major media play to prop up the remnants of the recording industry, the other gets major media play to prop up the remnants of, er . . .)
The 1999 (the Clinton era!) New York Times article linked below foresaw it all, the crappy subprime mortgage sand foundation that ultimately gave way in 2008. Yikes, I wish I’d read and grasped this back then and had gotten in on that whole Big Short thing:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c0de7db153ef933a0575ac0a96f958260
Funny how the Times doesn't now resurrect or otherwise cite this, their own cautionary story from 1999, when yanking readers' nose rings toward an understanding of the big crash. That's just so puzzling! Not.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
i was winding you up rudall
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by I ♥ Dow
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
There is something hopeful about it, yet nothing really happens.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by pipersgrip
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
I don't understand the song. Good musicians though. As far as government goes, I am a student of Native American history. Guess how I feel about it? The government took care of the Indians, now they want to take care of us. I think I'll worry about my fiddle now.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by horatio spens the blademan
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Should it be called the O'Bama reel...
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by cag
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Wind away djf. My spring got broke years ago.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
I use my spring now for a Plectrum. Oh! thats another thread -
lol.. jim,,,
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Pfizer has a little blue pill for that, Danny.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by Ben Steen
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
I might need one of those little blue pills. Are they giving away free samples?
Laurence
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by fauxcelt
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Laurence - If you go to your doctor and say you are having problems rolling out of bed at night then (s)he may be able to help you out.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
I hear ya NEW, but don't forget the late 80s/early 90s blueprint to the latest follies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
So good luck Barrack Durkin. Could FDR even clean up that 30+ year mess? Sheesh.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Ben, the news here is that Pfizer are closing down their site in Kent. Bad news.
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
SWFL—
And I hear you (and back in the days of the S&L fiasco, a certain Senator McCain was absolutely one of the infamous Keating Five).
But as a senator, Obama did worse: he and Chris Dodd, in the years leading up to 2008, were handed more campaign $$$ by Fannie Mae than any other politicians in America. Why ? Obama and Dodd blocked the 2005 bill that would have forbidden Fannie Mae from holding mortgage-backed securities. We all know what happened as a result, three years later. Sorry, world. (Side note: Obama’s VP search committee was led by . . . wait for it . . . Fannie Mae’s C.E.O., Jim Johnson. Chummy.)
So FDR, he ain’t. Senator Obama played a huge part in causing the economic mess President Obama “inherited.”
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
OMG. You've been watching too much Fox news!
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by leoj
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Oh dear New Pure Drops - I'm afraid you've been had by your "sources..."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/fanniemae.asp
Now if you want a real controversy on this discussion, allow me:
"Does anyone have the dots for the Obama Reel?"
# Posted on February 1st 2011 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
LOL! What about the other 98 members of the Senate? Were
they on holiday?
# Posted on February 2nd 2011 by Hup
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Jusa—
Hmmm. I wrote “Obama’s VP search committee was led by . . . wait for it . . . Fannie Mae’s C.E.O., Jim Johnson.”
And now my comeuppance—in link form—is this?: yes, Fannie Mae C.E.O. Jim Johnson did indeed lead Obama’s VP search committee—but only until he was forced to resign because he’d received $2 million in illegal loans from major Democrat fundraiser Angelo Mozilo. (He's the guy who—to avoid prison—just paid the largest financial penalty against a public company's senior executive in U.S. history). "Countrywide is on your siiiiide . . . " Remember? Mortgage fraud? Crash of 2008? No?
I think I know why the biggest mid-term electoral rebuke of a sitting president since 1938 . . . just . . . doesn’t . . . register with the faithful. (And I'm also beginning to think I know how Lenny Bruce felt, doing those last, newsrag-waving routines.)
# Posted on February 2nd 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Don't avoid the question New pure Drops - do you have the dots for this reel or no?
And as a side note, no politician forced banks to sell and bundle knowingly bad loans, chop them up and sell them willy-nilly to buyers around the globe. De-regulation anyone?
# Posted on February 2nd 2011 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Not this one is it?
http://peadaroriada.ie/images/stories/fruit/barrack%20obama%20reel.pdf
# Posted on February 2nd 2011 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Jusa—
See "M. Durkin" for the dots! Great melody, who doesn't like that one?
On the bankers thing: Touché. My longwinded point was that the continuing “evil, greedy, hyper-capitalist New York banker” media explanation for the 2008 plunge tells a bare half of the story.
The, er, important other half is the reason WHY the banks' mortgage-based derivatives were, at their root, worthless: agenda-driven politics had forced retail banks to give out bad loans, so-called “liar loans,” by the millions. (And the 2005 GOP Senate bill aimed at reining in Fannie and Freddie was voted down by every single Dem in the Senate.)
Now can we all sing Kumbayah?
# Posted on February 2nd 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Kumbayah is terribly cliche' - let's sing Muirsheen Durkin over a few pints instead - and then we can further discuss the many fingers in the honeypot that caused the crash. And really, who could ever trust two characters named Freddie & Fannie anyway - sounds like a 50's sitcom
# Posted on February 2nd 2011 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: The Barack Obama Reel
Sure, sláinte!
I guarantee you that anyone from the other side of the Atlantic who's been crazy enough to read these U.S. econ/political posts has been getting big laughs out of the term "Fannie," which sho don't mean there what it do here.
# Posted on February 2nd 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Amuhrica
This went political real quick. Let's do President Garfield's Hornpipe next:
- Charles Guiteau was a dick. Discuss .
# Posted on March 21st 2011 by Sean Micheal O Riain