Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War

About this Game

Helm legendary ships in the company of Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Captain Barbossa, and other famous characters. In this realm of deadly dangers and daring adventures, untold treasures lie alongside unpredictable challenges. So raise the Jolly Roger and set sail towards an ocean of endless opportunities to test your fate!

Variety of Captains and Crew

Gather a crew of unique captains versed in different tactical skills. Complete quests and participate in events to find and recruit just the sort of pirates that suit your playstyle, then join them in search of riches and glory!

Fleet Raids

Join forces with other players to attack even larger fleets that sail the Caribbean Sea. Capture sea monsters and set them upon enemy ships — do whatever it takes to plunder and make their treasures yours!

My Home is My Fortress

Build an impenetrable pirate hideout where you can assemble a fleet of ships belonging to 14 different classes. Use your loot wisely: trade, make equipment, improve your base, and upgrade your ships. But do not forget about your haven's defenses — at any moment, you can be attacked by other rogues looking for easy prey!

Legendary Ships

Take the helm of legendary ships straight from the movies! HMS Endeavour or the Black Pearl — only you can decide which ship will become your home and a faithful companion on the journey through hostile waters.

Friendship Never Sinks

Join an existing Pirate Alliance or create your own to cooperate with players from all over the world. Together, you can storm Port Cities or fight incredible sea monsters and other formidable opponents!

Exciting Maritime Adventures

Dive into an exciting narrative on the capture of the pirate city Port Royal and meet such famous individuals as Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Captain Barbossa, and others. Raise the anchor and hoist the sails on the Black Pearl... It is time to find out whether you can become the most notorious and fearsome pirate in all the Caribbean!

Untold treasures, exciting battles, and the boundless Caribbean, full of mysteries and dangers — all of this awaits you in Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War. Become a true legend of the seas!

Ship on Stormy Seas

" Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky,  July 17, 1817 – April 19th, 1900, Russian Armenian painter is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Once you get a good look at his paintings, it won't take much to agree with this. I love the mood he can create. Not to mention, the Sky, moon, and water are pure genius. He married twice and had a 60-year career with much accolades. A white marble sarcophagus was made by Italian sculptor L. Biogiolli with a quote: 'He was born a mortal, left an immortal legacy' " - Osvaldo C Amador

The Beach Boys | Official Trailer

I had time the other day to finally watch this. It was very well done and gives great information for those that weren't there during the Beach Boys' prime and may not know all the relevant history.

The history of the song "Louie Louie"

(marketplace.org 3-23-18)

Back in the 1960s, the FBI starts hearing about a song with filthy lyrics. Lyrics so dirty that they launch an 18-month investigation to prove how obscene that song really is.

Three nights and days I sailed the sea

Me think of girl constantly 

On the ship, I dream she there

I smell the rose in her hair 

Louie Louie, oh no, me gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby 

Yes, that song is the Kingsmen’s cover of “Louie Louie,” and the reason people initially thought the song was obscene was because the lyrics were so incoherent that they didn’t actually know what the singers were saying.

“[J. Edgar Hoover] has got all these FBI agents listening to ‘Louie Louie’ at different speeds trying to hear these supposed dirty lyrics,” said David Weinberg, a producer with KCRW. “They send a couple of agents to follow the Kingsmen on their tour and watch them play the song. The crazy thing is that ultimately, the FBI conclusion is that they don’t even know what they’re saying. They’re like, ‘we just can’t figure it out.’”

The new KCRW anthology “Lost Notes” chronicles music stories throughout history and features an episode on “Louie Louie’s” strange journey. Weinberg, who helped produce the episode, joined us to teach us about the song’s trajectory.

-The origins of Louie Louie-

That version from the Kingsmen — a ’60s beat/garage-rock band from Portland, Oregon — sold millions and millions of copies. But it’s actually a cover of a song written by an African-American singer and songwriter named Richard Berry.

Berry in turn based “Louie Louie” on a Latin song called “El Loco Cha Cha” that he heard while he was backstage at a show.

His version was a regional hit, performing well on the West Coast before eventually dying out. Later, he sold the rights to a handful of his songs —  including “Louie Louie” — to Flip Records Label for $750 so that he could afford an engagement ring for his future wife, and fellow singer, Dorothy Adams.

Today, that’s equivalent to about $6,280.

-The cover is, objectively, terribly produced-

 The strange thing about the Kingsmen’s version is that it’s a bad recording.

“Like, famously bad,” Weinberg said.  “They’re teenagers. They didn’t know what they were doing. The lead singer was singing into the wrong part of the microphone. He had braces. He comes in too early on a verse.”

At one point, the drummer drops his drumsticks and yells an F-bomb in the middle of the song. 

While you’d expect them to start over, the record producer running the session was a “cheapskate,” Weinberg said, and decided that they should just move on to the next song.

Yep, the Kingsmen’s version of “Louie Louie” was recorded in one take.

“It may be one of the only hit songs to get played continuously with an F-bomb in it that I’m aware of,” Weinberg added.

There are multiple covers of the song, and based on the quality of those recordings, Weinberg said he would place the Kingsmen’s version at the very bottom of that list.

But it turns out that terribleness was a feature, not a bug.

-How the FBI gets involved-

A radio DJ in Boston named Arnie Ginsburg hosted a segment called “Worst Record of the Week.” He picked the Kingsmen’s version of “Louie Louie” for the segment, but people ended up loving it and the song became a nationwide hit.  

“Because the lyrics are so unintelligible and you can’t understand what they’re saying — all these kids get it in their head that the lyrics are dirty, that they’re about sex, and so they write down what they think of the dirty lyrics,” Weinberg said.

Their parents find out about these lyrics and complain to elected officials. The complaints eventually make their way to the  governor of Indiana.

He plays it at low speeds and claims that “his ears tingled because the lyrics were so filthy, and he bans it,” Weinberg said. “And you know when you ban something, it’s like the best advertising you can get.”

That’s when J. Edgar Hoover gets wind of it and tries to crack down with his FBI investigation. 

-Continued success-

Since the Kingsmen’s cover, there have been several resurgences of the song in TV ads and movies.  

“A lot of people, when you say ‘Louie Louie,’ they think of ‘Animal House,’ (1978) which came out years and years after it was a hit. And that sort of brought it back to life,” Weinberg said.

It’s become an easily recognizable song that got a lot of licensing deals and made a lot of money for a lot of people, according to Weinberg. “The Kingsmen made some money off it too, but they also were not getting rich off of ‘Louie Louie,'” he said. 

“[Richard Berry] fought to get that [$750] and thought he had done really well. He just didn’t know what was about to happen to that song,” Weinberg added. “There’s no way he could have known that it would have gone on to become this massive hit and generate millions and millions of dollars.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/04/23/history-song-louie-louie/

'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands

(npr.org 10-31-23)

"Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to. And even fewer people know the story of the song's evolution – how it went from West Coast dance hit, to party anthem, with an FBI investigation and Supreme Court case along the way.

The first recording of the song dates back to 1957. Richard Berry, an L.A. musician, recorded a song about a sailor who has to ship out, and leave his girl behind. While the words – written in a fake-Jamaican patois – were an attempt to tap into the calypso music popular at the time (Harry Belafonte was topping the charts), the melodic riff came from a song called El Loco Cha Cha, recorded by Cuban-American band leader René Touzet.

According to music writer Peter Blecha, author of Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll, the song found popularity in the L.A. area first. But then Berry took it on tour up and down the West Coast, and its popularity spread.

The song's rhythm made it a favorite on jukeboxes and at teenage dances. Rather than featuring free-form dancing, says Blecha, dances at that time would often require specific steps to specific songs or beats – the mashed potato, the stroll, the watusi. The cha-cha was on the list as well, and "Louie Louie" had a great cha-cha beat.

"It became the required song that every Northwest teenage band had to play at every dance every week," says Blecha.

One of those teenage bands was the Kingsmen. Now there have been other versions recorded by other bands. But this was the one that took the song from regional dance standard to a national phenomenon – even though it's not the best recording.

"The studio that these bands were going in to record had very little experience recording bands – rock bands were sort of new in the area," says Blecha. "It was a jingle studio. They made radio ads for, you know, car lots and for bakeries and for radio stations. So I don't think that they were used to setting up the microphones properly for a loud, pounding rock band." Band members have said the engineer hung a microphone high above them, causing Jack Ely, the singer, to have to shout to be heard. And his enunciation wasn't helped by the fact that he wore braces.

It turned out having words nobody could understand would prove surprisingly important. Dick Peterson joined the band in 1963, stepping in after the original drummer was drafted. And he says when kids couldn't understand the song, they came up with their own lyrics. Dirty lyrics.

"We were on the front page of every newspaper saying that we were corrupting the moral fiber of the youth of America," remembers Peterson. "And J. Edgar Hoover launched an investigation – they woke us up in the middle of the night pounding on the door: 'FBI, FBI!'"

In addition to the obscenity investigation, the song was banned by the Governor of Indiana, and investigated by the FCC, who the Kingsmen eventually testified in front of.

"The magistrate, I guess he's called, or judge, he said, 'let me hear it,'" says Peterson. "And he thought, 'Why are you fighting over this? It's a piece of junk.' And so he said, 'Listen, nobody can tell what it says. I'm going to deem it unintelligible at any speed, and lift the ban.'"

Peterson says the controversy is part of what kept it on the charts. "The kids thought we got away with murder. And from then on we were able to go on television shows – we went on Shindig! five times, Hullabaloo, American Bandstand," says Peterson. "We just went around the country playing concerts and playing to huge crowds."

"Louie Louie" has now been covered a ridiculous number of times.It's a marching band standard, and has been featured in countless advertisements and movies.

It's also been part of a royalty lawsuit Dick Peterson took all the way up to the Supreme Court.

That's a pretty big story for a pretty simple song. But music writer Peter Blecha says that simplicity – in addition to all the drama – is part of why it's been so enduring. He quotes the musician Paul Revere, who recorded another popular early version with his band Paul Revere and The Raiders.

"He said the reason for the popularity is because of its simpleness, its stupidness," quotes Blecha. "He goes, 'three chords and the most mundane beat possible.' He goes, 'any idiot could learn it, and they all did.'"

60 years later, they're still playing it. Because music isn't always about complexity, or even skill. Sometimes it's just about a song that makes you feel good. Even if you can't understand the words.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/31/1209181745/louie-louie-the-story-behind-the-song-everyone-knows-but-no-one-understands