Courtesy of Evil Pundit, I was recently vectored onto some uber-cool music videos made by troops on the front lines and had to share:
- The British Royal Dragoon Guards spoofed Tony Christie and Peter Kay with "Is This the Way to Armadillo". The resulting traffic brings down several Ministry of Defense servers... and the UK MoD congratulates the soldiers on their "brilliant" video! Those Brits have class. We have a BBC report, and links to the full 52MB video.
- The Norwegian Army's Telemark battalion keeps their ancestors' ancient skald traditions alive with the exceptionally well done and funny "Kosovo" (to the tune of The Beach Boy's "Kokomo"). We have video links and lyrics!
On to the links and lyrics...
I'll start with the British lads of the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq, whose 52MB spoof video of the Tony Christie song "Is This The Way To Amarillo" [original lyrics] was so popular it crashed Ministry of Defence computers. Showing intelligence and pure class, the British Ministry of Defense said "Is This The Way To Armadillo" was "brilliant," praised the troops who made it, and has the servers up and running again. The BBC has an article, and some excerpts from the video.
Thanks to our readers, full videos can be found over here (thanks, A. Verbree) and over here (thanks, Yeff).
Then we have Norwegian soldiers in Kosovo (or see alternate site, or get the MP3 version) doing a fantastic take-off on "Kokomo" [original lyrics], the Beach Boys' Cocktail movie soundtrack hit. After all these centuries, their warrior-skalds are still some of the best anywhere. As a special bonus, we've transcribed the lyrics below.
Kosovo
to the tune of The Beach Boys' "Kokomo"
by the Norwegian Army Telemark battalionCroatia, Albania, somewhere near Romania
It's Euro, and NATO, why the hell do we go
Pristinia, blew up, huh? Head for MacedoniaI'll race ya...
Somewhere far overseas
There's a place called Kosovo
That's where you don't want to go
If you're Albanian at allProtecting human rights
Air strikes and firefights
And we'll be dropping our bombs
Wherever Serbian bad guys hideJust up from Kosovo
Somalia, Grenada,
Or rescuing Kuwait-a
We screwed ya Rwanda
Wish we coulda helped ya
Iraqi embargo
That's where we got hustledOoo so now we're helping out in Kosovo
We'll kick (kiss?) some ass and then we'll see how it goes
And then we really don't know
Good luck to KosovoMi-lo-se-vic
You sorry son of a bitch[musical interlude]
Every time we go
To little places like Kosovo
We never really know
What happens after we goTough luck for Kosovo
Croatia, Albania, somewhere near Romania
It's Euro, and NATO, why the hell do we go
Pristinia, blew up, huh? Head for MacedoniaOooo from Macedonia down to Kosovo
We'll kick their ass and then we'll see how it goes
And then we really don't know
That sucks for KosovoSomalia, Grenada,
Or rescuing Kuwait-a
We screwed ya Rwanda
Wish we coulda helped ya
Iraqi embargo
How it ends we don't know...[hit by army truck]