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Originally Posted by dex71

Ken Burn's Vietnam doc has been FANTASTIC. He threw down some some cash making it.....The soundtrack alone had to be in the millions.

Are we talking as good as the sound track for Glory?

Originally Posted by DJ Ms. White

Are we talking as good as the sound track for Glory?

10 hours of Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, CCR, Animals, CSN and Y. Kenny opened his wallet for some serious licensing fees.

Originally Posted by dex71

10 hours of Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, CCR, Animals, CSN and Y. Kenny opened his wallet for some serious licensing fees.

Available in Polycarbonate:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B074TY4LKN/

Also in Streaming Bits:

https://open.spotify.com/album/11jfbJzLcCXOv1R70CosnO

... and it's obviously available in stored/saved 'permanent' (ha!) bits from your favourite à la carte store.

The production uses more than just period music. There's an original score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

Polycarbonate:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...ef=nosim/0sil8

Streaming:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3XMCBd9ztkUpW9FBVHw5YG

... and à la carte.

I haven't watched any of the series yet, though it's on my list and I'll likely get to it before long.

The songs on the soundtrack look very familiar, and whenever I see a list of 'Vietnam' music I can't help but wonder the extent to which those songs represent:

a) what people in the war listened to.
b) what people at home, in America, while the war was going on, listened to.
c) what people who make movies about the war think that we think is what anyone back then listened to.

I wonder if what I think of as "Vietnam era music" is a completely artificial, and mostly wrong, thing.

I mean (and correct me if I'm wrong), there's US 'advisors' in Vietnam starting in 1950. The war starts in 1955, though it's mostly a French war at that point.

By 1962 the French are long-gone and there's a lot of US Special Forces over there - and those guys certainly don't remember Hendrix, Dylan, Buffalo Springfield, or The Beatles on the radio. Hendrix is still in the army in 1962, and The Beatles don't break into the US until 1964.

1964 is also when the US seriously expands its commitment of troops. But for those guys, The Beatles is what their 15 year old kid sister won't shut up about. For those guys, it seems like "Rock and Roll" would be Chuck Berry, not Steppenwolf or The Spencer Davis Group.

Anyway, it's on my list. I'm as infected as anyone else with what pop culture has told me the Vietnam War was about. Maybe Ken Burns can expand my sense of it.


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Someone on r/AskHistorians may have the answers you're looking for.

LOL......I think it would be the latter. It's the music that Ken Burns has decided that the guys in Vietnam listened to. Either way, the soundtrack was great, as was the doc.

He went chronologically and showed how everything just kept building and expanding with each new POTUS, and the differences between what was happening, and how it was being sold to the American people. From Kennedy sending the first "advisers", to Jane Fonda giving Herpes to a North Vietnamese AA gun.

I love vikings, has the new season started yet?

Originally Posted by salty99

I love vikings, has the new season started yet?

November 29th

2 f-words on tonight's Star Trek? And a CBS show to boot? Whoa nelly, they're heckin' hardcore now. Who needs the joy of space exploration when we got some spicy language to look forward to.

Season 3 of Mr Robot is off to an awesome start. I've really enjoyed the first 2 episodes so far.

The Orville continues to impress me - I'm awe-stricken with the charm this show has. It's got McFarlane humor on the surface but it's got the heart of Star Trek. He gets it, and the show reflects that.