#russian folk song

[weaversweek]

"Those were the days", Mary Hopkin

1968 Written by Boris Fomin and Gene Raskin

One of fifty posts in Let's Do It, my personal favourite singles from 1954-76.

Take the tune from a Russian romance song, and discard the words. Add a fresh lyric written by an architecture lecturer. Have it sung by a gamine nymphet from OpKnox, and get top pop star HRH Sir Paul McCartney in to produce it. Release it through Paul's label, and watch the royalties roll in.

OK, we're being a bit snarky. "Those were the days" works because it's a bit exotic, the trills and arrangement in the introduction tell us how the song isn't foursquare rock 'n' roll. It works because Mary Hopkin is a tremendous singer, uses her voice to conjure up a spell, a vision of the scene. And it works because the lyric fits, tells a story and meshes perfectly with the tune.

Perhaps the only dissonant note: Mary is young, and she's singing an old woman's song. She later reflected, "Maybe that's what worked with the song, the fact that I was almost a child, singing an older woman's song. That's what people liked about it. But I felt privileged to have been given that song by Paul." She revisited "Those were the days" in 2018, worth a listen.

[fortjester]

musings on the body

dilaudid by the mountain goats / don't know how to keep loving you by julia jacklin / body by julia jacklin / pressure to party by julia jacklin / head alone by julia jacklin / russian doll s1 e7 "the way out" / spencer (2021, dir. pablo larraín)

[funnuraba]

Everyone else's storylines in the Sopranos:

Janice's storylines:

[teaboot]

From now on instead of dating I think we should construct complex mating displays like birds do where we show off as many of our talents as we can in one chaotic go. Like the poledancing clarinet guy

[vintage-russia]

Mitrofan Pyatnitskiy records folk songs of peasants of Voronezh governorate,Russia (1911)

[cosmogyros]

If you want to have an Experience, full-screen this video and make sure the subtitles are on, and imagine the rain falling on your head the same way it is falling on these Russian men as they sing, and let it wash over you and don’t stop listening until the song is done

[chaos-has-theories]

TOP 5 DROP

(for @scar-can-relate thanks for the excuse)

[nick--knack]

What's your favorite music album(s)?

oh my god. alright. i have so many in mind that i really like. so.

Well my all-time favourite has gotta be none other than Viribus Unitus by Dragony. I fucking love this album so much, the premise is so ridiculous but also fun and goofy and it feels like it was written specifically for me. The album tells a story about WW1 and Austria-Hungary's participation in it while putting a massive spin on history that includes dark magic, a zombie apocalypse, and more. I'm not good at explaining things but if you want, you can read the entire synopsis here and I guess there are a couple songs that I tend to skip while listening to it but nontheless it is a very good album. cough cough Love You To Death is the best song cough cough. Oh, and since we're talking about Dragony, Masters of the Multiverse is also worth checking out. That album is also full of bangers.

There is also Into The Enchanted Chamber by Timeless Miracle. Its the only album that the band released before disappearing, and every power metal fan eventually discovers it either as a blessing or a curse i'm sure, but goddamn its so good. I really love the sorta dark and gothic theme that the entire album has with its songs - again it's another album thats right up my alley. Good shit.

The last power metal albums I really like is The Monumental Mass: a Cinematic Metal Event by Powerwolf. If you listen to it in order, the songs are set up so the ending of one song blends into the other and I just really love it when albums do that. Also the slightly more intense and... well... cinematic sounding covers of their songs sound nice - Dancing With The dead in particular sticks out to me especially with the loud drums in the latter half. I often listen to this while i'm playing minecraft alone.

If you like folk rock, Herzblut by dArtagnan is absolutely full of bangers. Ruf der Freiheit, Mosqueteros, and The Riddle are my personal favourites, I couldn't stop listening to them on repeat the moment it came out. I also still find it a little crazy that they did some collabs with Visions of Atlantis, like I did not expect them to do a song together, this is like the music equivalent of some crazy cartoon crossover for me. Speaking of, Pirates II - Armada by Visions of Atlantis has SOOO many good songs aswell, this band in particular just keeps getting better with every release. Hellfire is peak.

For more history stuff, Foreign Skies by the Dreadnoughts is an album about WW1. Black Letters and Back Home in Bristol always get me a little emotional, and there's an EP that goes with this album called Foreign Sides (B-Sides) that you don't want to miss. Additionally, I've already mentioned it before but Pack Up Your Troubles - Wartime Favourites by The Billy Watson Band & Singers has a bunch of good history songs and its one of few albums where theres not one song that I skip.

As for classical music, my go-to for when I want some nice calming background music is this nifty little album simply called Viennese Violin by Michael Snyman and the Brooklyn Theatre Salon Ensemble. Alot of the songs in it are pretty short compared to the regular pieces that I listen to, and they all sound very nice so I guess thats another no-skip album on my list. This one is a bit of a random one but Komzák, Kmoch, Fučík: Old Czech Marches and Dances by Czech Philiharmonic also has a nice collection of songs, all of them sound very regal and/or energetic. We got some songs by our boy Fučíc in here. You know, the guy who wrote the circus theme. If regular old classical is too boring then you can listen to the album Wiener Blut by Céline Roscheck which are essentially violin dubstep remixes of a bunch of Strauss songs. I fucking love Strauss, he's probably my favourite classical music composer, so I really lost my shit when I first listened to her remix of Tritsch Trastch Polka and Radetzky March.

If you want something darker and cabaret-ish, Red Hot & Holy by Sarah and the Safe word and Counterfeit Arcade by Shayfer James are good to check out. I don't really know what else to say, just go listen go them.

As for lately, i've been listening to did an oopsie by Uamee alot. It's his latest release and I dunno man, he kinda cooked with this one - ESPECIALLY Dirst Ej Cake. I've also been listening to Rokotsu by syundou lately, it wasn't recently released or anything but that one is also great.

ANYWAYS im cutting the rant short here otherwise i'll be up all night talking about music. As much as I would love to, I have to work tomorrow so I can't.

[haveyouheardthisfolksong]

the last is supposed to be “I have never heard of this song” but I can’t edit the damn poll >:(

[touchlikethesun]

i owe victuuri fic author reiya so much, but i especially owe them for introducing me to dark eyes, i’ve basically listened to one version or another everyday since i read the chapter they mentioned it in

[ghostcat-deadbastard]

mfs say i have no taste

[nikolay7605]

✔️We present to your attention the beautiful ditty "Balalaika blue", performed by the talented singer Irina Kholmanskikh to the balalaika. This ditty perfectly combines the melody of the balalaika and the gentle voice of the performer, the performance allows you to enjoy the music and the song of real Russian folklore (folk song ditty). Watch, listen, enjoy this amazing ditty of the Podosinovsky district of the Kirov region performed by the talented Irina Kholmansky. Russian songs to balalaika.

[these-are-not-my-titties]

I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO ACCURATELY DESCRIBE MY FAVORITE MUSICIAN:

Vodyanoy in a swamp sprinkled with wet confetti, cranes soar through the sky

The swamp man's name is Leonid Fedorov btw

one of his songs is just him going "kids ... kiddies.. kidy kid kids... kids..." for two minutes and then melancholic music kicks in while he's still going in the background

[artemisbarnowl]

So today we went to the museum that used to be the migrant/refugee camp my mothers family stayed in when they arrived in Aus. And like the sheer breadth of human emotion carried in this place was shocking. Australian govt pledges to accept 20 million people (lol) but being british at heart, and knowing "australians are unaccostomed to people who live differently to them" the immigration minister says we will take able bodied light skinned people. Especially single men.

These people, latvian engineers, yugoslavian doctors, ukrainian shop keepers, italian accountants, have lost their homes, and want to be any place that is away from the war, arrive in rural Australia. Where they are kept in uninsulated tin sheds on army barracks, with armed soldiers. Where orders are given in German!! Because that is what they were 'used to' :) where families are seperated and where they have no money and they are promised jobs but that engineer is now a sugar cane farmer, or a sheep sheerer, or a railway worker, and only if she can learn to speak english well.

The camp we went to today saw about 65000 refugees pass through, but right near the end there were more british settlers, who paid 10 pounds for the privilege to sail across to aus and have not a tin shed with 10 to a room, but insulated single family cabins, with flooring and curtains, where they would stay for 1 month tops.

Anway its most infamous for its food

Stefano, so true bestie!