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Yet More Poetry Minute and a Half

Posted on March 2, 2014 | Leave a comment

I’ve added six – six! – more Poetry Minute and a Half videos:

Hotel California

Hungry Like the Wolf

Let’s Dance

Born to Be Wild

Let It Go (from Frozen)

Let It Go (by Luba)

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Tagged Born to Be Wild, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Frozen, Godfrey St. John-Burns, Hotel California, Hungry Like the Wolf, Let It Go, Let’s Dance, Luba, Poetry Minute and a Half, Steppenwolf, The Eagles

More Poetry Minute and a Half

Posted on December 21, 2013 | 1 comment

I’ve created four more episodes of Poetry Minute and a Half: “Out of the Business” by The Tubes (by request), “Taking Care of Business” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, “Enter Sandman” by Metallica, and one I’m particularly proud of, Rammstein’s “Mein Teil” in English translation.

Do send in requests. I’m thinking of branching out to other genres of music.

Posted in fun, Poetry Minute and a Half

Tagged Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Enter Sandman, Godfrey St. John-Burns, heavy metal, Mein Teil, Metallica, Out of the Business, poetry, Poetry Minute and a Half, Rammstein, Taking Care of Business, The Tubes

Poetry Minute and a Half

Posted on December 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

Just because the idea amused me, I’ve started a series called “Poetry Minute and a Half” in which I read (erm, excuse me, the somewhat posh Godfrey St. John-Burns reads) heavy metal lyrics as poetry. In the interests of focusing on the sound quality, I’ve made them just the sound rather than a video of the reading, but since YouTube is the best place for sharing such things around, I’ve made the sound files into videos with just the title as the image.

These will likely be more amusing if you know the songs, but I’m sure they will have some entertainment value either way.

Requests for further poem readings are welcome.

Here are the first four:

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Tagged Crazy Train, Godfrey St. John-Burns, heavy metal, Highway Star, poetry, Poetry Minute and a Half, Stairway to Heaven, You've Got Another Thing Coming

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