Postmodern to the Point of Pain

The Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Chorus (and musicians, obviously) doing "Sweet Home Alabama."  Not sure they completely understand such lyrics as "I hope Neil Young will remember/Southern Man doesn't need him around, anyhow" and "Now Watergate does not bother me/Does your conscience bother you?".

In all its glory.

Seems appropriate today, somehow.

Comments

[Mark]

That was well worth 2:14! What about the line "Muscle Shoals has got the swampers"? But really, there are probably several who have thought about the lyrics, of those red army guys and rockabilly clowns. What about the people in the audience, they don't seem to be thinking about the lyrics, just rocking out.

[Wes F in Cincinnati]

I remember seeing that on the 1994 MTV awards. I had spent that summer playing trombone/euphonium in a circus band for a theme park in Lake George, NY, and they had us up in hotels for the last week of the gig. Since there's not a whole lot to do in Glens Falls/Lake George on a Sunday night in early September, I was in the room and had the TV on.

It was surreal then, and it hasn't gotten any less so over the years.

WF

[Peter Alexander]

Wow! If this doesn't sprain something in your brain . . . I gotta tell everybody I know about this. Thanks.Jonathan! --p.a.

[Michael]

You know, I'm not sure I "completely understand" a tune like "Moscow Nights", either. But I try, and it doesn't hurt. Why should this clip be painful? Maybe it's the hair.