#war music

[historyandarthijinks]

Art of War (10)

A Martial Song by Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vladimir Agatov, and Mark Bernes

Тёмная ночь (Dark Is the Night)

Lyrics

Russian

Тёмная ночь, только пули свистят по степи Только ветер гудит в проводах, тускло звёзды мерцают В тёмную ночь ты, любимая, знаю, не спишь И у детской кроватки тайком ты слезу утираешь

Как я люблю глубину твоих ласковых глаз Как я хочу к ним прижаться теперь губами Тёмная ночь разделяет, любимая, нас И тревожная чёрная степь пролегла между нами

Верю в тебя, в дорогую подругу мою Эта вера от пули меня тёмной ночью хранила Радостно мне, я спокоен в смертельном бою Знаю, встретишь с любовью меня, что б со мной ни случилось

Смерть не страшна, с ней встречались не раз мы в степи Вот и теперь надо мною она кружится Ты меня ждёшь и у детской кроватки не спишь И поэтому, знаю, со мной ничего не случится

И поэтому, знаю, со мной ничего не случится

English

Dark night, only bullets are whistling in the steppe,

Only the wind is wailing through the telephone wires, stars are faintly flickering ...

In the dark night, my love, I know you are not sleeping,

And, near a child's crib, you secretly wipe away a tear.

How I love the depths of your gentle eyes,

How I long to press my lips to them!

This dark night separates us, my love,

And the dark, troubled steppe has come to lie between us.

I have faith in you, in you, my sweetheart.

That faith has shielded me from bullets in this dark night ...

I am glad, I am calm in deadly battle:

I know you will meet me with love, no matter what happens.

Death is not terrible, we've met with it more than once in the steppe ...

And here it looms over me once again,

You await my return, sitting sleepless near a cradle,

And so I know that nothing will happen to me!

Context

Тёмная ночь (Performed 1943) - Mark Bernes (1911-1969), Nikita Bogoslovsky (1913-2004), and Vladimir Agatov (1919-1949) [Russia]

Originally the solemn song was written by Nikita Bogoslovsky, a composer, and Vladimir Agatov , a poet. Although Mark Bernes was not the first to record and perform the song, he is widely credited with popularizing it and giving the martial song a voice. He performed the song in the movie Two Soldiers, where he played a soldier missing his wife and child.

The song became heavily associated with Eastern front of WWII between the Soviet people and Nazis. Authorities attempted to shun and ostracize the song for it's negative themes, claiming it was Philistine and would dishearten the Soviet people. Philistine was the idea of a person or thing hostile to art and culture from a philosophical stand point, however people who went around claiming others were philistine were more hostile than any money hungry artist.

[goatfactsofficial]

Ok here's some positivity for the TL.

We kicked their asses in '48. We kicked their asses in '67. And we kicked their asses in '73. We'll kick their asses this time too!

[romdocitizen]

- christopher logue, war music

free, original, and wrong

[nando161mando]

[perplexi-glass]

I have delivered🫡

Based on my HC from… literally half a day ago blasting 600 strikes on repeat can do wonders apparently

[tenoart]

If ur in the epic discord you've seen this dumb thing already but here it is again

[undefined-behavior]

"it's spring all over the earth again"

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

so I know Six Hundred Strike has us all in a chokehold, but can we talk about how Dangerous had "six hundred deaths under my command, cause I had only one goal in mind" and then dead silence for three seconds

[grungeincluded]

‘‘The Sky Is a Landfill’’ is one of Jeff Buckley`s most political songs. It talks about how ‘‘our nation bends to kiss the hag’’ and how the system is designed to silence the minds of those who think critically and move with grace. Plus it calls out Bill Clinton.

Buckley empowers the listener and urges to reject the status quo, as he ends the song declaring that he has ‘‘no fear of this machine!’’ Buckley got inspiration from American journalist Al Giordano`s essay ‘‘The Medium Is the Middleman’’. Giordano explains that:

‘‘Jeff had read “The Medium Is the Middleman,” and we discussed it at length. He applied my critique of the media industry to the music industry, and we had the exact same conclusions. Sony, in the spring of 1997, was giving him real problems over whether he could choose his own producer. He wanted Tom Verlaine, the virtuoso guitarist, to produce his album, and Sony wanted to impose another editor — um, I mean producer. So we had a common story. And we also had big plans for how to explode this idea upon the public psyche. Jeff turned my book into a song, titled “The Sky Is a Landfill.” The concept of the song was that the media turned the airwaves into a garbage dump. Arcade called it his “magnum opus’’(Kennedy,1997)

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[kattortillas]

its okay to become the monster but its not okay to disrespect your wife btw

[blueliliesblueroses]

Storm // EPIC: The Ocean Saga

[chilltidetrance]

Beautiful Epic Powerfull Orchestral Music | Become A Warrior #EpicBattle...

[backpackingspace]

okay so post epic odyssey where odysseus and Penelope have surfaced from their room finally and he and diomedes are catching up I'm imagining the conversation going something like this

Odysseus: so then I gave up being merciful and became the monster.

Diomedes:....you tried being merciful?

Odysseus: Yes?

Diomedes: you did? You tried being a good merciful person? You?

Odysseus: Yah okay fuck off it was polties dying wish. I had to try.

Diomedes:.....90% of the war crimes in the Trojan war were suggested, planned out, and carried out by you. We literally stoned to death the guy you had a personal grudge against. We framed him for treason and stoned him to death. 70% of why Athena liked you was because she thought she knew all the ways to kill someone and then you'd suggest something insane and I'd see her taking notes. You literally gave Ajex a psyoctic break just being yourself.

Odysseus: shut up

Diomedes: I'm not wrong. Did you tell Penelope about your attempt to be a good person?

Odysseus: What? Of course I did. I told her everything.

Diomedes: did she laugh?

Odysseus:...shut up that's not the point

Diomedes: she did didn't she!!!

Odysseus: ANYWAY eurylochus wasn't appreciative of my return to monsterhood and he started causing problems so I

Diomedes: killed him? Yah saw that coming. No shit. I'm so shocked.

[rustic-space-fiddle]

Forgive me.