All About Bridges
A well-designed bridge is a thing of great beauty, a soaring testament to the possibilities of engineering, but even if they don't particularly excite you of themselves, perhaps you'd like to contribute to this thread with songs that mention bridges, famous bridge scenes in movies, a funny thing happened to me on a bridge once etc.
^ This bridge is very attractive, and is a huge improvement on the previous design on the same site. Watch the short construction-nerd video and perhaps you'll be inspired to post a bridge you like too. |
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/call-of-the-void - this is about all bridges are good for in my reality.
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great! i really like thinking about music through various concepts.
this particular is a good one cuz a bridge can be both a great structure but it aslo bears a strong symbolic meaning... all that said heres a 90's classic. to be honest this was soooooo overplayed that i dont even have the courage of listening to it one more time. its a great song tho. its also the first song that came to my mind so i m going to put it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlogyj7nFE |
Probably my all-time favorite film footage of a bridge...
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse - Gallopin' Gertie (1940) |
^ Thanks for the input guys! Yes, that Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse is spectacular! I've watched it a few times - more times, in fact, than I've heard ziggywas's Chili Pepper recomendation. I don't know where it was an over-played classic, but it wasn't in my neighbourhood!
And for being on topic, what can trump the album entitled "Bridges" from rostasi? Well, how about a song in which a bridge is the lead instrument? |
The second tune on that "Bridges" album is "Song of the Wind" with the first verse being:
"Blow, wind, blow Further than a thousand wires Blow, wind, blow Transporter of the clouds Blow, wind, blow Fanner of a thousand fires, yeah Can't you see? That every place you go Well, the people got a need to understand Yes, some people want to know Won't you blow, wind, blow?" |
Live webcams of a couple of favorite, iconic bridges that I've walked and driven across multiple times in my travels over the years...
Live - Brooklyn Bridge & Manhattan NYC Cam - St. George Tower https://i.ibb.co/tQxr5xx/TB.jpg Tower Bridge Cam - London |
that was a cool video about the LA bridge :cool:
ive been paying attention to this one they are building back in my home town or at least in the quad cities. just one of the few bridges thats in the quad cities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17yDNoS2PcU its going to look like this when finished: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...279a.image.jpg :beer: |
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My personal favourite:
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The best bridges:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Skidmore_3.jpg And the random 'has anyone seen the bridge?' part of this song: |
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this is unbeatable :) just for the sport i ll continue: pj harvey has 2 records in collaboration with john parish. the first is a great record and in there you can find this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enmmGPQiKCU |
@ziggywas :beer:
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:laughing: sorry! DBMFF's posts have made me develop a habit of skipping spoilers
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Understandable.
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was the only track I really liked. Perhaps I should replay Bridges and admit that GHS is entitled to his mellow and contented moments too. The above is partly why this is easily my favourite "bridge" song so far. Thanks for a great rec, ziggywas - I'll be checking out that album. :thumb: Quote:
http://www.engineeringdaily.net/wp-c...ron-bridge.jpghttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/SsUglw23i0g/maxresdefault.jpg __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ___________________________ Finally, I feel like this is the elephant in the room that no-one is mentioning: prob the best-selling song ever with "bridge" in the title. Art Garfunkel is often overlooked because of Paul Simon's writing talents, but in this performance we can see that AG was a great singer. Despite your modest stage presence, Art Garfunkel, your time has come to shine:- |
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Also, "anguish" and "outrage" don't have to necessarily be expressed in angry terms all the time. That album is still filled with messaging and hope amidst his fervent dislike for many social inequalities. |
Another live cam view of a couple more bridges I've ridden across multiple times over the years...
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And here's a bridge that I've walked over and under multiple times. The Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, TX. Home to an estimated 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats...
https://i.ibb.co/N2y3TCD/CAB.jpg https://i.ibb.co/yg1spGR/CABU.jpg You can hear the bats squeaking/chattering unseen, overhead, as you walk underneath the bridge. |
https://www.downtowndavenport.com/st...sky-bridge.jpg
https://render.fineartamerica.com/im...nvas-print.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...kybridge1s.jpg this is the bridge to nowhere across a few blocks in downtown davenport,iowa. |
The Deutzer Brücke in Köln is a rather mundane bridge, but my interest
(and the interest of other experimental composers) is in the sound-imaging that you get from the three large empty rooms located in the concrete hollow body of the bridge. I've been encouraged by a rep for the City of Köln to consider doing a work for this space and so it's been one of a number of projects I've been working on. http://stasick.org/030501.jpg Here's a video (in German) about this ongoing series of installations. This was made for the 20th anniversary: |
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@ Psy-Fi :That Boston bridge live stream has more action in evidence that the previous, and I stayed to watch a train go by. Cool.
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__________________________________________________ ___________________ London has lots of bridges, including these two which I used to cross on a v regular basis for many years. I was lucky enough to live one block beyond the right-hand side of the picture and caught my train to work, to the city centre, from the left-hand side of the river. Good times:- http://jeffreyjayepictures.co.uk/ima...ybridgeed2.jpg Unfortunately, this song by Fergie is not the celebration of London's engineering heritage that I'd hoped for:- |
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http://blog.betsygrauerrealty.com/wp...6301620532.jpg
New Haven, Connecticut |
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i dont really like this track and this whole album is kinda weak but i have great respect for sage francis (especially since i saw him live once upon a time) and this is about london bridge so:
https://sagefrancis.bandcamp.com/track/london-bridge |
^ That's actually a picture of Tower Bridge, not London Bridge, though. :laughing:
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heres another one from 1/2 mazzy star's great albums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwVXkM_YxMg |
^ Good choice!
I saw a double-bill, back in the day, featuring Mazzy Star and Cocteau Twins. Mazzy Star were the opening act. One of the few times when an opener was not only worth seeing but was every bit as good as the headlining act. |
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this sounds like a great gig! here's another bridge-track. i think its the last one i got :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BX84VcKpcQ |
I really liked the bridge with bats, the bridge to Nowhere, Iowa and the bridge with acoustic secrets. :thumb:
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Here are two Moore songs. Geddit? From On The Bridge: "When trouble gets too close to home, my anger turns to fear." |
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@Lisnaholic, that bridge in Davenport, Iowa is one of the main attractions to Davenport lol it used to lead to a casino on the mississippi. that was on a boat because at that time it was illegal to have a casino on land, hince the boat that just stayed there :)
that now have a law that casinos in iowa can be on land and that bridge goes to no where now. it has a fancy light show though... :cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE70GsQ5a0M |
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