#yma o hyd is such a good song

[blaidd-gwyn]

Omg I've just realised song of the seven has kinda similar vibes to Yma o Hyd (still here) by Dafydd Iwan.

Obviously yma o hyd has actual cultural significance whereas song of the seven is just a fun bop from a TV show, but like, they're both about the history of an oppressed people with a chorus that's a rallying cry to fight back.

Song of the seven focuses less on specific events and more on stories in general (summarising the themes of the show overall) but imo its not too much of a stretch to imagine a version more like yma o hyd that does mention specific events.

Anyway, that's just my excited Welsh ass rambling and making random connections

[cosmicdorito]

i have this chalkboard thing hanging in my kitchen I made it so long ago as like a tribute to being a child of an immigrant family but I had a dream last night that I convinced Lalo and Nacho to add me to the polycule cos I sang them the song on this chalkboard (calon lân) and it was just so good and moving that they agreed

[eemoo1o-animoo]

It’s a way of living.

By the way, Fun Police in Welsh is “Heddlu Hwyl” [Heth•lee Hoo•eel/ell] which is always fun to say, ironically.

Bro I would be calling everyone "Fun Police" if I was Welsh. Not as an insult, I'd just have the time of my life saying the word over and over again

[max1461]

MAX'S PLAYLISTS #1: BEATS TO TRIUMPH IN BATTLE TO

[CW: there are some very bad dudes in here, and mostly they're singing about killing people. So if that bothers you maybe you should not listen to this playlist. I hope it goes without saying but the associated politics are very much not endorsed... damn they got the jams tho...]

Part One: Getting Warmed Up

You can't just run headlong into armed conflict! First you must fill your heart with anger or lust for glory or vague dislike of the Other or some similar emotion. These beats will short-circuit your rational mind and instill in you the will to march, burn, conquer, and raid!

Chinggis Khaanii Magtaal — Something nice and chill to get you in the conquering mood. Meditate on the glorious conquests of the Mongol horde. Khöööööööö

Attargah — Upping the ante with this Turkic war song. Beats to gallop across the steppe and raze cities to. Khööööööööööööööööööööööö

Now it's time to decide what you're fighting for:

Gambarou! — The liberation of the workers?

Workers of the World Awaken — ...everywhere in the world?

Yma o hyd — To regain your lost homeland?

I Vow to Thee, My Country — Maybe to steal other people's homelands?

Ode of Showa Restoration — And conquer all of Asia?

Ok good, now you're feeling it!

Lenin is Young Again — And guess what, ya boy Ленин is young once again and the battle is ongoing! So let's fuck up some Nazis!

Part Two: Keeping Up Moral

You thought all you wanted was to fight and burn and kill, but now the reality of what it truly means to risk your own life for the sole purpose of taking someone else's is starting to weigh on you. You miss home. You miss the safety of your soft warm bed. And you figure the men in the enemy encampment are probably feeling about the same way. Maybe they aren't so different from you after all...

Best to push all those uncomfortable thoughts back with a song!

March of the Soviet Tankists — Whether you're on land,

Gunkan Māchi — at sea,

or in the air. — خلبانان، ملوانان

Bài Ca Hồ Chí Minh — In the jungle,

in the desert, — طلت الراية الحمرا

Rolandskvadet — fighting with swords and shields,

Tachanka (and a version with worse audio but better visuals) — or machine guns,

El Pueblo Unido — or pitchforks,

Go on Home British Soldiers — ...or maybe the occasional car bomb.

조선은 결심하면 한다 — March!

아리랑 겨레 — March!

Qadam Qadam Badhaaye Ja — March!

When Johnny Comes Marching Home — March!

Part Three: Victory!

You won! You did! You fought hard, routed the enemy, and probably did a few war crimes along the way! Now you get to write the history books! So have a party, throw a parade or two, and listened to some bombastic victory music!

Victory Song — I mean this one's a little generically named.

Battle Hymn of the Republic — Ya know, bout 'Merica!

Marching Through Georgia — lmao sherman'd

Waltzing Matilda — Not actually a victory song but it's got the right vibe.

[galway-girl-6496]

Because life is crazy and busy, I’m probably just gonna do music Monday as a list of good songs. Mood boards took way too long, and for countries where I know less about the music, I just want to find some cool artists and songs. This week is Wales!

Artist recs:

Kizzy Crawford. She was born in Barbados, but moved to Wales when she was a baby, so she speaks Welsh fluently and uses her heritage in her music.

(I don’t actually know a lot about the rest, they’re just recommendations my Welsh teacher gave my class)

Gwilym

Yws Gwynedd

Calan

No Good Boyo

Song recs:

Yma O Hyd (Still Here)- this song is amazing! The chorus means “after everyone and everything, we’re still here.” A few weeks ago, it was at the top of the UK iTunes chart as a massive movement to promote Welsh independence! It’s incredible.

Sosban Vach (little saucepan)- its a silly song that somehow got connected to rugby, so they sing it at every rugby game 😂

Cwm Rontha- this song is beautiful and every Welsh person knows it. I’ve tried to find this video my Welsh teacher showed us of a comedian in Wales who started singing it and everyone in the audience sang along. If I find it, I’ll post it!

[ioangwil]

One Day Welshmen

The issues Wales has with self-identity

It’s St David’s Day, the day of the patron Saint of Wales, therefore Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and all the others will be bombarded with pretty pictures of blooming daffodils, of people smiling proudly with their homemade Welsh cakes and children happily dressed in their Welsh outfits on their way to school.

Image credit - Wales Online

And why not? This is our day. We’re a small and humble nation, we don’t go around boasting about our heritage internationally as much as our Celtic cousins do, we keep ourselves to ourselves, quiet, proud individuals. So when March 1st comes along, it is our time to make a bit of a song and dance about our Welshness, it’s just our one day to remind the globe that we are still here.

The trouble is, and it is especially poignant this year; do we actually know who we are in 2017? Is there such a complex country as ours regarding our self-identity? I am seriously struggling to think of one so fucked up as ours.

The problem with Brexit

Brexit opened a can of worms in Wales, polls before hand showed Wales voting to remain by a slight margin. Results gave us this …

Image credit - BBC

What the hell happened? Now I’m not here to argue if Brexit was right or wrong, it has been done a million times since last June. We are here to discuss the issue of identity. Although proud of our heritage, and portray hatred at times (especially during sporting events) against our English oppressors, there is no doubt that the majority of Wales feels an underlying overwhelming allegiance towards London and especially Westminster.

Who are the people that actually voted for it? It may be that the author lives in Gwynedd, one of the four Welsh counties that voted to remain, that he didn’t heard a lot from the Leavers at the time, but still over 25,000 (41%) voted out so these aren’t classed as the odd individual.

Were they too embarrassed to admit? Or were they the old Welsh nationalist view that it was incomers to the area, the loner English retired couple that voted out? It can’t be.

At the same time, opinion polls suggest that the majority of the population supports more devolved powers for the National Assembly whilst arguing that our elected members don’t do enough for our country!

AND STILL VOTED 7 UKIP MEMBERS IN!! UKIP!?!

It doesn’t seem that voting is our forte.

Stuck in the past

One problem in Wales is our obsession with history. We are a nation who lives in this strange state of mind that history has been cruel to us, from the Treachery of the Blue Books to Tryweryn, all we seem to do is cry about how we have been treated like the little kid in school whose had his sweets nicked off the bigger bully. It is time to grow up and do something about it.

Other people and nations have adapted with time, the Irish went alone, they made it in America, the Celtic Tiger roared over Europe (yes I know they’re fucked now after the banking crisis, but at least they tried!) whilst we wept a nostalgic tear singing ‘Yma o Hyd’ on a busted jukebox drinking 10 pints of over-priced lager in half empty pubs.

The video above produced by Visit Wales as part of the 2017 Year of Legends campaign, although as good as it is, shows what Wales has to offer, nothing apart from a trip back in time. The Welsh Government went for the easy option of yet again trying to force down tales of the Mabinogion for potential international visitors, instead of offering any vibrant new ideas and re-model the image our stale and uninspiring country.

2018 may as well be called the ‘Year of Sheep Shagging’.

The forgotten class

What I find bemusing is the growing class of people that don’t feel a sense of belonging to Wales in hardly any way.

I’m talking about people mainly under 30 who have mid to low education levels and who are actually spread over the country. They have grown up in one of the most confusing times in Welsh history, and have difficulty relating to being Welsh. They would not remember devolution, they have grown up in a paradox world where you should show your undying love whenever Wales play rugby or football internationally, but there are constant reminders that you should remain proud of being British ‘just to stay safe‘.

The future

Today is the day that we can retweet our celebrities in glory because let’s face it, it’s not always ‘cool’ to be Welsh. But it is now time to re-think where do we want to be as a nation and who do we want to be, because at the minute we have no clue who we are. Wales is fucked.

So don’t stop posting pictures of being Welsh after today, be proud of being Welsh, whatever that may be to you and whatever the future may hold for all of us. Don’t be ‘One Day Welshmen’.

[crazyw3irdo]

here's an update for the current lineup of songs on there if you're curious but don't wanna click the link to an external site

Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead - The Wizard of Oz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Crab Rave - Noisestorm

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

99 - MOB CHOIR

MEGALOVANIA - Toby Fox

Dead! - My Chemical Romance

God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

The Queen is Dead - Hayden McNulty

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day

When Will You Die? - They Might Be Giants

Ha Ha You're Dead - Green Day

Anarchy in the U.K. - Sex Pistols

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

Repeat (UK) - Manic Street Preachers

Storm the Palace - Catatonia

Reigns - IDLES

Cheer Up London - Slaves

New England - Kid Kapichi

Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq. G.F.D. - Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Gives You Hell - The All-American Rejects

Carry on Wayward Son - Kansas

I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Toxic - Britney Spears

Fuck You - Lily Allen

Out of Touch - Hall & Oates

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

The Headless Waltz - Aurelio Voltaire

Common People - Pulp

Charles Windsor - McCarthy

Elizabeth My Dear - The Stone Roses

Which Side Are You On - Billy Bragg

Yma O Hyd - Dafydd Iwan

Come Out Ye Black & Tans - The Wolfe Tones

Amhrainn Na Bhfiann - The Wolfe Tones

im making a playlist any suggestions

[moonlarking]

Aaaaa thank you for tagging me!!!

Last song:

Yma O Hyd by Dafydd Iwan - makes me cry every time; something about the lyrics “ry’n yma o hyd, ry’n yma o hyd, er gwaetha pawb a phopeth” (despite everything and everyone, we’re still here) being sung in a language that’s been oppressed for centuries…

Last show: Defenders

Currently watching: introduced Daredevil to my older sister, and my little sister’s been binging Superstore, so I’ve seen both within the last hour

Currently reading: The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (a classic, amazing, no notes), Sister by Rosamund Lupton (really good so far!), and rereading House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (one of my favorite books ever, totally my favorite on the rise genre - dark supernatural faerie-esque mystery)

No pressure I bet some of you guys have done it already @shipsgaysfordays @will-o-the-witch @freshabogados @skvatnavle @bau-jj @pedrito-friskito

Thank you @etherealwiitch for the tag! :)

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Last show: New Girl.

Currently watching: New Girl.

Currently reading: Book of Night by Holly Black.

No pressure tags: @phantomkindalikejaiden @murdocksluvrr