Manchester Passion - what music for Alexander's last days?

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G'day Karen.

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Re: Pothos goes Python ...

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marcus wrote:I doubt if Pothos has ever experienced the like before! :lol:

What a shame your link didn't play the whole song, though. Still, there might be some Pothosians who cannot take such raunch.
Rectified Marcus! Have a re-visit back up this way...
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I think the gay/not-gay warrior debate could be informed by certain Pythonesque military maneuvers, could it not?
Indeed - :lol: :lol:

I'm now trying to picture that scene with a Macedonian phalanx ... :shock:

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Paralus:
Rectified Marcus! Have a re-visit back up this way...
On second thoughts, perhaps we should allow that one to confine itself to history ... (at least as far as Pothos is concerned). :shock:

Ahem ... back to Alexander ... :roll:

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Well, I'd like to add my 2 cents worth:
1. We are the Champions/We Will Rock You - Queen (the Companions theme song)
2. War Pigs - Black Sabbath
3. The Dogs of War - Pink Floyd (the phalanx theme song)
4. In the Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry (album title) (needs no explanation)
5. Us and Them - Pink FLoyd (the song of the Diadochi)
6. Alexander the Great - Iron Maiden
7. Stupid Girl - Garbage (Roxanne's song)
8. Soundtrack of Brokeback Mountain (Hephaestion's song)
9. The Empire March - Soundtrack of "The Empire Strikes Back"
10. Carl Orft
11. The 1812 Overture - Tschaikovsky
12. Burning up Inside - Ministry (Alexander after meeting the dismembered Greeks on the Persis trail)
13. Kashmir - Led Zepplin
14. Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zepplin (Alexander's ode to Hephaestion)
15. How Can We Sleep While the Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil (The Illyrians after the Pelium ruse)
16. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads (needs no explanation)
17. Bitch - Meredith Brooks (Oh Sweet Olympias)
18. Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth (Hydaspes)
19. Too Much Time on My Hands - Styxx (Alexander back in Babylon)
20. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash (Guagamela)
What good times! :lol:
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Alexander began, his grand plan, invoked...

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Paralas, I thank you. My cats, maybe not so much.

Marcus, a properly-trained phalanx can do anything. But we must stop now, as Efstathios wanted not to get into it :lol:
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