In which pajh is the man who arranges the blocks

[gominokouhai]

Best music video ever, or BEST THING EVER? Steel your mind, prepare your soul, and gird your underpants for: A Complete History of the Soviet Union, Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker (Arranged to the Melody of Tetris).

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The theme from Tetris, as we all know, is a pre-Revolutionary Russian folk song more properly referred to as Korobeiniki; or, more frequently, Korobeiniki–say wha?–you know, the Tetris theme–oh. No doubt you'll recall the one-hit wonder Eurodance sensation Dr. Spin, who charted at number #6 in 1992 with a hip, fresh techno remix of Korobeiniki full of phat beats and suchlike. They called it Tetris. Just in case you don't recall, it's provided below.

I know you're going to dig this:

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...I know I sometimes ask a great deal of my readers, but I'm really not expecting you to have watched that all the way through. If you did, have a gold star and please don't take it personally when I back away slowly.

Apparently, as I've just learned, Dr. Spin was a pseudonym for Andrew Lloyd Webber. Yes, that Andrew Lloyd Webber. Wikipedia wouldn't lie to me... right?

I thought that Andrew Lloyd Webber (Baron Lloyd-Webber since 1997; so, as we should properly refer to him, The Rt. Hon. the Lord Spin) had perpetrated quite enough evil upon the world already. Having said that, I really should expect no less from the man who married the woman who did I Lost My Heart To a Starship Trooper.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, I had seen the former, but not the latter! I ... actually, I have to listen to the entire "Complete History [...]" every time it is presented to me, though I've only watched it all the way through a small fraction of these times.

Sometimes I need to listen to it multiple times, and then again multiple times to get it back out of my head.

[andrewducker]

It's a fantastic video. I can't believe it was made for pretty much no budget.

And I had no idea that Dr Spin was ALW! That's awesome and terrifying.

[leynos]

It's true. You really do learn something new every day.

I was worried for a minute that I still had that song as a CD single, but no, it's been consigned to a box in my parent's garage along side my 2Unlimited singles.

[kayloulee]

I realise I'm fantastically, amazingly, incredibly late to the party, but if you haven't seen it already, you should read this fanfic from 2010's Yuletide exchange: An Incomplete History Of History, As Written For Yuletide, In Five Acts And An Epilogue. Main character? The Man Who Arranges The Blocks, of course!

[gominokouhai]

That's rather good. I suppose I should stop being surprised that there's such a thing as The Man Who Arranges The Blocks fanfic.

[kayloulee]

Well, it was on Yuletide, and Yuletide specialises in rare-fandom fic, so there might not be anything else. On the other hand, it might have gotten some people inspired.