02-28-2010, 10:47 PM
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Neil Young was AWESOME. Loved his performance. How can you not love Neil Young?? 35 here.
Anyone else get choked up when the put the flame out? That part always makes me sad. All of the performances were quite good, and that French girl was hooootttt. Alanis was awesome as well. Man do I love to listen to her sing.
Well done Vancouver and WAY TO GO CANADA!!!
Last edited by woob; 02-28-2010 at 10:50 PM.
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02-28-2010, 10:47 PM
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#862
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
well Rogge didn't do the declaration of best ever games, but I would assume that was because of the problems at the start.
They were a great Olympics and Vancouver can be proud.
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The IOC stopped doing that years ago.
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02-28-2010, 10:50 PM
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#863
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I was completely blown away by Neil Young performing Rocking in the Free World with Pearl Jam when I was a young kid. Age has nothing to do with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTsyk-pyd8
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02-28-2010, 10:50 PM
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#864
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Originally Posted by Brendone
Seriously? How does an 18 year old get into Neil Young? I'd rather listen to nails on a chalk board, and I'm 37
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1) Yes
2) I had always had a liking of older artists. Most of my music is pre-1990.
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02-28-2010, 10:50 PM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Bunk
The IOC stopped doing that years ago.
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True because Lillehammer really set a standard in terms of quality and organization that's yet to be surpassed.
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02-28-2010, 10:52 PM
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#866
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Things that were awesome:
Neil Young
Michael Buble singing "The Maple Leaf Forever". I had forgotten about that song being rewritten. It needs to be pushed onto the public consciousness more imo. Canada needs more national songs.
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02-28-2010, 10:52 PM
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#867
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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
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yeah another two thumbs up for Neil here in this house tonight.
still remember his performance of Rockin in the Free World from SNL ...incredible...even if he did have Leaf patches on his jeans for that one
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02-28-2010, 11:02 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Oh, and the Russian national anthem was awesome, they have the best national anthem!
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02-28-2010, 11:05 PM
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#869
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Originally Posted by photon
Oh, and the Russian national anthem was awesome, they have the best national anthem!
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yep. I love that they've gone back to the Soviet era anthem. Very powerful.
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02-28-2010, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by photon
Oh, and the Russian national anthem was awesome, they have the best national anthem!
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Yup. Especially if you have a nuclear submarine to sneak to the US.
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02-28-2010, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by photon
Oh, and the Russian national anthem was awesome, they have the best national anthem!
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Is that bad that during that whole thing, all I could think about was Rocky IV? The Drago/Balboa "Moscow" fight was actually filmed in Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum, so I guess it works..
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02-28-2010, 11:11 PM
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I think the Russian national anthem is "cool" because of the history behind it. So many bad guy moments and sports moments where that Anthem was prevalent. When you here it, you just can't help but remember that stuff.
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02-28-2010, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Sainters7
Is that bad that during that whole thing, all I could think about was Rocky IV? The Drago/Balboa "Moscow" fight was actually filmed in Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum, so I guess it works..
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Rocky: [Addressing the Soviet crowd, translated into Russian line by line by announcer]
Rocky: During this fight, I've seen a lot of changing, in the way youse feel about me, and in the way I feel about youse. In here, there were two guys killing each other, but I guess that's better than twenty million. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if I can change, and youse can change, everybody can change!
Rocky: [ loud applause, even by the politburo]
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02-28-2010, 11:25 PM
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I believe . . . . I will never hear that song again.
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02-28-2010, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
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That's a good one.
Something about this performance just makes me want to rock out. He just puts so much heart into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5E2...eature=related
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02-28-2010, 11:36 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Originally Posted by kirant
Yup. Especially if you have a nuclear submarine to sneak to the US.
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Especially then! 
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02-28-2010, 11:46 PM
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Yeah the Russian anthem was pretty good. Powerful and haunting as if it was the 70's all over again and the threat of being thrown into a gulag.
Hunt for Red October sure, but also recall it on Saturday WWF wrestling with Nikolai Volkov would sing it and get booed before his match.
Didn't see the medal ceremony for the 50km CC race...CTV must have been on break.
Young was great, as were Shatner and Fox.
"Maple Leaf Forever" was used in CBC Olympic broadcasts when looking back at Canadian performances from years past...and that's the only way I knew it exsisted before.
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02-28-2010, 11:48 PM
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You know, the best thing about Neil Young is that his catalogue is over 500 songs of pure, unadulterated awesomeness.
Not only was "Long May You Run" entirely appropriate, but "Heart of Gold" or "After the Gold Rush" would have kicked ass as well.
A day of great Canadians . . . Crosby, Stall, Nash & Young.
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02-28-2010, 11:52 PM
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#879
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Great closing Ceremonies, Highlights for me:
-Neil Young
-Catriona lighting the "malfunctioning" Flame
-Neil Young
-Michael J. Fox
-William Shatner
-Catherine O'Hara
-The over the top comedic stereotype routine, had me chuckling
Everything was going great before NickelCRAP hit the stage, from there I thought it fell apart. Very anti climactic.
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02-28-2010, 11:53 PM
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#880
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Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan
I'm saying the Guess Who with American Woman next (except they're gonna change american to canadian)
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That song is an anti-American anthem. Then it would be dissing Canada.
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