Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers
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Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers
1980) The song's title comes from a European game show, Jeux Sans Frontières, that featured teams competing for prizes while dressed in bizarre costumes. The British version of the show was called It's a Knockout, a phrase that also appears in the song. The teams represented towns and cities from each country, so the games had an inevitable element of nationalism. While some games were simple races, others allowed one team to obstruct another. The lyrics are seen as a critique of nationalism and war, which the song portrays as essentially childish. The tag line of the song, "Games without frontiers, war without tears" is a comment on the sublimation of the rivalries within Europe, caused by centuries of war, in a meaningless game. The name Lin Tai Yu, which appears in the song, belongs to a character from the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Chiang Ching, another name mentioned, refers either to the wife of Chairman Mao and a leader of the Cultural Revolution or to Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek, who was president of Taiwan at the time the song was written. Additionally, the end of the first verse refers to Hitler and Enrico Fermi: "Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Brit; Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it." The album version of the song includes the line "Whistling tunes we piss on the coons in the jungle" before the second chorus. This was replaced for the single release with a more radio-friendly repeat of the line "Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle" from the first chorus. This song features the PAiA Electronics Programmable Drum Set, widely considered the first programmable drum machine (it is not the Roland CR-78, used by many of Gabriel's former Genesis bandmates on both Genesis and solo albums). It also features the Moog Model 15 small analog modular system for many of the synthesizer sounds. One thing to take note of: the synthetic drums at the end (close) of the song (particularly the notable "filter sweep noise blip" accompanying the snare) are not part of the PAiA drum machine.
Author: Ichnos71x2
Length: 03:45
Uploaded: 10.1.2009
Viewed: 20390×
Rating (85×):
Video Category: Music
Tags: Peter, Gabriel, Games, Without, Frontiers, classic, video, videoclips, videomusic, clip, music, musica, song, retro, 80, 80s
1980) The song's title comes from a European game show, Jeux Sans Frontières, that featured teams competing for prizes while dressed in bizarre costumes. The British version of the show was called It's a Knockout, a phrase that also appears in the song. The teams represented towns and cities from each country, so the games had an inevitable element of nationalism. While some games were simple races, others allowed one team to obstruct another. The lyrics are seen as a critique of nationalism and war, which the song portrays as essentially childish. The tag line of the song, "Games without frontiers, war without tears" is a comment on the sublimation of the rivalries within Europe, caused by centuries of war, in a meaningless game. The name Lin Tai Yu, which appears in the song, belongs to a character from the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Chiang Ching, another name mentioned, refers either to the wife of Chairman Mao and a leader of the Cultural Revolution or to Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek, who was president of Taiwan at the time the song was written. Additionally, the end of the first verse refers to Hitler and Enrico Fermi: "Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Brit; Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it." The album version of the song includes the line "Whistling tunes we piss on the coons in the jungle" before the second chorus. This was replaced for the single release with a more radio-friendly repeat of the line "Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle" from the first chorus. This song features the PAiA Electronics Programmable Drum Set, widely considered the first programmable drum machine (it is not the Roland CR-78, used by many of Gabriel's former Genesis bandmates on both Genesis and solo albums). It also features the Moog Model 15 small analog modular system for many of the synthesizer sounds. One thing to take note of: the synthetic drums at the end (close) of the song (particularly the notable "filter sweep noise blip" accompanying the snare) are not part of the PAiA drum machine.
Author: Ichnos71x2
Length: 03:45
Uploaded: 10.1.2009
Viewed: 20390×
Rating (85×):
Video Category: Music
Tags: Peter, Gabriel, Games, Without, Frontiers, classic, video, videoclips, videomusic, clip, music, musica, song, retro, 80, 80s
| LOL! I thought that ... (OnePeoplesProjecttv) | 21.11.2009 |
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| LOL! I thought that too until I came here today and saw what where the song title is from. He's saying "Jeux Sans Frontières" | |
| Such a brilliant ... (imnotigerswoods) | 21.11.2009 |
| Such a brilliant artist! Way ahead of his time! | |
| if looks could kill ... (Eggs4Eva) | 20.11.2009 |
| if looks could kill they probably will :P | |
| looks almost modern ... (Gameczar) | 16.11.2009 |
| looks almost modern really | |
| jeux sans ... (cosmicrider287) | 15.11.2009 |
| jeux sans frontieres is sung by a certain kate bush. | |
| Well, I'd never ... (arosegrowingold) | 13.11.2009 |
| Well, I'd never seen it before and I think it's one of the all time greatest music videos ever made. The Riefenstahl footage, the 'Duck and Cover' material and whatever the hell that model work at the end was from - all absolutely staggering, and the footage of the marching figures is extraordinary for 1980. | |
| LOVE THIS SONG* (CBragLove531) | 8.11.2009 |
| LOVE THIS SONG* | |
| He says Juex Sans ... (lostnhere) | 8.11.2009 |
| He says Juex Sans Frontieres which is french for "Games Without Frontiers"; an old game show where people would dress up in strange costumes and compete with each other. | |
| im gonna go with ... (Gameczar) | 7.11.2009 |
| im gonna go with she's so popular but then again i've never heard some say juex sans frontieres before | |
| this song is ... (steelundergrounder) | 6.11.2009 |
| this song is brilliant. someone has to do write a song like this that that just says straight fucking out to those in power that act like children and treat soldiers like toys | |
| she's so popular is ... (jeremyowens81) | 5.11.2009 |
| she's so popular is what he says | |
| lol lmao (jeremyowens81) | 5.11.2009 |
| lol lmao | |
| okay, at the start ... (lakeyboy78) | 3.11.2009 |
| okay, at the start does it say "jeux sans frontieres" or "she's so popular"? arrrggghhh!!! | |
| lol (cannonwe2) | 25.10.2009 |
| lol | |
| Runescape - smoking ... (b0grillaz) | 24.10.2009 |
| Runescape - smoking Music tbh. | |
| *^_^* (sceincemagicsoul) | 23.10.2009 |
| *^_^* | |
| Thanks for posting, ... (teevert) | 23.10.2009 |
| Thanks for posting, I love this song | |
| This is the ... (binescuae) | 15.10.2009 |
| This is the political version of the video. This song meant so much for the communist Eastern European fans. I found it on an old tape cassette that my father had recorded while listening an Western "capitalist" radio station. Andre has a red flag, chiang chings is blue They all have hills to fly them on except for lin tai yu... | |
| this must be an ... (mano8er) | 13.10.2009 |
| this must be an another version of the video. I remember the old footage showing and the three baby head, and teh part where the have the kid's at the dinner party. Do not recall the "marching men" | |
| good song (sim1234567d) | 12.10.2009 |
| good song | |
| A great song of my ... (zedstersaid) | 10.10.2009 |
| A great song of my youth. 30 or o years the ending of the video is still awesome. You also gotta love the whistling.... | |
| Jeux Sans Frontières (C6RLemans) | 8.10.2009 |
| Jeux Sans Frontières | |
| I always liked Kate ... (tomlugnut) | 8.10.2009 |
| I always liked Kate Bush singing in the intro. | |
| Very strange ... (srtyxczewlsrolkid) | 7.10.2009 |
| Very strange version of this videoclip. | |
| Peter Gabriel is a ... (Squab1972) | 4.10.2009 |
| Peter Gabriel is a genius, shame they aren't many musicians today that follow his example of brilliance. Awesome song and video thank you for posting | |
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