Olympics - the Closing Ceremony

daryl1968


Eric Idle - brill

mgh


the first half was a bit rubbish, tbh, every song was downbeat and sorrowful, but the second bit worked better - agreed the Kaiser Chiefs were good, as were Muse, The Who, Take That and the ****e Girls (yeah i was shocked too). WHoever thought Brian May doing guitar solo was a good idea needs shooting, Jessie J has a great voice, Freddie Mercury reminded us what we missed. the Floyd without Waters or Gilmour is not Floyd. Not a patch on the opening ceremony, all i would say is a) where was the celebration of our amazing classical music history (other than Salut D'Amour by Elgar there was nada) and b) why wasn't there one of Maiden, Priest, Purple, Sabbath or Zep represented? overall a triumph of a games though, we CAN do these things, y'see!

Kalle Rantaaho


Brilliant games, awsome opening/closing shows.
Several OG veterans, journalists and such, in Finland have already commented that these games went right to the top their
Best OG ever-list. Relaxed, joyful athmosphere and absolutely unbelievable audience. I couldn't help remembering the Moscow games when, for example, during pole vault final the audience started booing to a french (??) competitor who was concentrating for his performance.

The lighting of the Olympic Flame in Moscow is still my favourite among all  the OGs I've seen, though. It was really brilliantly done.

When I saw The Who start I was a bit worried. Roger Daltreys voice has been in miserable condition for so long, but to my great relief and joy the performance was good.

****e Girls was actually a good choice. Most of the athletes were in their early teens when ****e Girls was HOT, so I can imagine that was a YIPPEE-experience to many, many of them. The same goes with Take That. 
 
(Funny. What kind of a dirty word is S - P - I - C as it gets censored?) 

 

dmbaer

daryl1968


just found out that they cut Ray Davies doing Waterloo Sunset from the US airing - bastards

Hearing that, I'm glad I turned it off in disgust at the excessive blandness, musically at least, although I'm very sorry I missed Muse ... had no idea they'd be part of the program.
 
Now, I know Oasis has a lot of fans, but can I be the only one who cannot stomach that singer?  I find his voice is irritating and his posturing infantile.  I heard that he says his singing with his head pointing up is for vocal reasons.  Well here's a clue, dude: the microphone stand is adjustable.  You can put the mic higher with little effort.
 
Damn NBC for cutting Mr. Davies, especially when the Oasis singer was deemed more worthy of the air time. 
 
And damn them even more for showing only a small bit of the gold metal women's volleyball competition.  Yeah, the US lost ... the US viewers will get over it, you know.  NBC showed the entirety of the bronz match, and that aired at a far better time to boot.  Damn NBC!