MASSIVE IGUANA! MASSIVE IGUANA!

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MASSIVE IGUANAAAAA!

I cannot help but imagine this as the soundtrack to a Godzilla movie.

(English version that you might recognise better)

[ Monday, September 19, 2005 05:05: Message edited by: Ash Lael ]

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I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting when I saw this topic, but this wasn't it.

You know, the song actually sounds better in the original Russian. At least, it would if I could listen to it without giggling.

[ Monday, September 19, 2005 06:03: Message edited by: Puerperal Fever ]

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quote:
Originally written by Puerperal Fever:

You know, the song actually sounds better in the original Russian. At least, it would if I could listen to it without giggling.
The original does sound much, much, better actually. I didn't actually "giggle" though. I'm not a giggly person.

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Well, that's interesting... it really does sounds like they're trying to run away from a massive iguana... though I doubt that singing to a massive iguana would be of any help.

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They should play them concurrently, so that the massive iguana is not going to get them.

And I giggled at the Russian version as well.

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Until I listened to the English version, I thought they actually were singing "Massive Igauna"...

I'm not a fan of that style of music, but she has a greeat (if oddly used) voice.

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Not she. They.

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Oh yes they, fo sho. Tatu was actually alright in my opinion. Overproduced maybe.

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IMAGE(http://www.anapsid.org/images/blue-iguana-jbinns.jpg)

Beautiful, no?

[ Monday, September 19, 2005 23:58: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Oui.

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quote:
Originally written by Drakefyre:

They should play them concurrently, so that the massive iguana is not going to get them.
I'm quite tempted to splice the files so exactly this happens.

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I look forward to hearing that... we need Alex to draw a picture for this.

Is anyone good enough at flash animation to do something with that?

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Here is the literal translation of the Russian version. [The words in braces were added by me to account for grammatical differencies between languages: In Russian, subject or verb can be dropped if they are obvious.]

[They] won’t catch us. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch, won’t catch, won’t catch... Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us.

Just say and then [there will be] only the two of us. [There will be] only the lights of airport. We will run away. [They] won’t catch us. Farther from them, farther from ???.

Our guide, hide our shadows. Beyond the clouds. Behind the clouds. [They] won’t find us, won’t change us. They can’t reach the stars with their hands.

The sky will drop the night on the palm. [They] won’t catch us. Won’t catch us. Sky will drop night on the palm. [They] won’t catch us. Wont’ catch us. Sky will drop night on the palm. [They] won’t catch us. Wont’ catch us. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us, won’t catch. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us, won’t catch, won’t catch, won’t catch...

[They] won’t catch us. Won’t catch us, won’t catch, won’t catch, won’t catch. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us, won’t catch. Won’t catch us.

We’ll run away. Everything will be simple. Night will fall. Sky will drop. And emptiness. And emptiness on intersections. And emptiness won’t catch us. Don’t speak, they won’t understand. Only without them. Just not to miss. Nothingness is better than [going] back. Just [to be] without them. Just without them. Just without them, them...

[They] won’t catch us, won’t catch, won’t catch. Won’t catch us, won’t catch. Won’t catch us, won’t catch. Won’t catch us. Won’t catch us.

The sky will drop night on the palm. [They] won’t catch us.

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There might be 1 more verse, but by now I have a headache from listening too long to this monstrocity. (Maybe if I liked this kind of music I wouldn't care how stupid the words are, but since I don't like the music either, the only thing I get from listening to this song carefully enough to understand and translate the words is a headache.)

From what I heard of the English version, they've tried to make the text less random and more meaningfull, however the original Russian is as random as what you see in my translation.

[ Thursday, September 22, 2005 19:39: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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Who won't catch them - the massive iguanas? :D

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It sounds more like they are saying 'Massnee Iguana' than 'Massive Iguana' to me. But it is still a bit random.

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quote:
Originally written by Arancaytar:

Who won't catch them - the massive iguanas? :D
EXACTLY. I've sent the sound file off to Kel - hopefully he'll come to the party and kindly host it for us.

It's a bit of a spit and sticky-tape job, but you have to listen pretty carefully to notice the seams, and I do enough of this for work, so I'm not going to spend ages getting it perfect.

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I've heard lot's of different music, but this is just... horrible. Flying turtles were bad enough, we don't need wannabe godzillas wandering around.

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Hey, I like Tatu.

Good thing, too, or I'd have gotten really sick of it while putting that spliced track together.

Edit: Oh damn, I just finished, and now I want to throw the "Clowns all around you" bit in from one of their other songs.

[ Saturday, September 24, 2005 06:22: Message edited by: Ash Lael ]

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After I heard this, I laughed so hard I almost wet myself. After regaining my composure, I listened to it for a second time. The second time it sounded kind of good. Not bad. The Russian sounds better than the English. Thank you for pointing this out to the public, Ash Lael. They need to be warned of Massive Iguanas.

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Originally written by Ash Lael:

Hey, I like Tatu.
I liked their cover of "How Soon is Now" (originally done by The Smiths). Mozza didn't really. He did find the fact that they were Russian Lesbians interesting though...

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Who wouldn't?

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They aren't. It's all a front for the publicity. One of them is married (to a man) with a kid.

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quote:
Originally written by SupaNik:

quote:
Originally written by Puerperal Fever:

You know, the song actually sounds better in the original Russian. At least, it would if I could listen to it without giggling.
The original does sound much, much, better actually. I didn't actually "giggle" though. I'm not a giggly person.

Thuryl giggles five times a day. At least twice when some of his robot strumpets tickle him with feathers. (That program is entitled MACK--DADDY--7, if you're interested.)
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