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Alternative cover. Australasia cover. " Killing in the Name " is a song by the American band Rage Against the Machine, and appears on their 1992 self-titled debut album. It features heavy drop-D guitar riffs. The lyrics protest police brutality, inspired by the beating of Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device ...
Bilingual performance of the first verse by the United States Army Band Chorus. file. help. " O Tannenbaum " (German: [oː ˈtanənbaʊm]; "O fir tree"), known in English as " O Christmas Tree ", is a German Christmas song. Based on a traditional folk song that was unrelated to the holiday, it became associated with the traditional Christmas tree.
According to the theory, this is what each lyric represents: The partridge in a pear tree = Jesus Christ. 2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments. 3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the ...
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. [1] Cacti are well-adapted to aridity; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. [2]
Anonymous broadside, Angus, Newcastle, 1774–1825. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas. There are many variations in the lyrics.
Irishman Jim Connell wrote the song's lyrics in 1889 in Nicholas Donovan's house. [7] There are six stanzas, each followed by the chorus. It is normally sung to the tune of "Lauriger Horatius", better known as the German carol "O Tannenbaum" ("O Christmas Tree"), though Connell had wanted it sung to the tune of a pro-Jacobite Robert Burns anthem, "The White Cockade". [8]
Pitchfork. 6.7/10 [6] Rolling Stone. [7] Song to a Seagull (also known as Joni Mitchell) is the debut studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Produced by David Crosby, the album was recorded in early 1968 at Sunset Sound and released in March 1968 by Reprise Records.