Music Thread - part 2

Enough of this gay BS, most of us intelligent people are well aware that the Gay community has had many great artists......it's in their nature.....

Time for some Polish music on this thread, kicking off with my favourite.... Kortez.....



One more from Kortez....this is mind blowing.....

More good Polish Music......



I'll end my posts with this one from Bajm;

Not heard of these before but I like that track.

@ Milo

Loved the Polish music tracks but hated the Aerosmith one. I loathe that band!!

Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart



Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

Just beautiful to my ears.

@Feniks

Sorry, but I have always hated Peter Garrett's voice.......just sounds awful to me.


It must be my Catholic upbringing but I get this music....... very nice.....

@Novichok

Rich, you never cease to surprise me...... what a superb post!

@Feniks

She posted an Aussie band that I am not very keen on, here is one that I love!



Here is a Welsh band that I loved and have seen live.



I think this is a great tune to end my Sunday Night posts on.

Now here is one that goes way back to our childhood.

I find it very hard to listen to. Too depressing. I associate it with the film Gallipoli which had me in tears when I watched it. It was used for the opening and closing scenes.

It wasn't actually composed by Albinoni either. It was composed by Remo Giazotto.


He's an acquired taste I'll give you that but I like the music.

This is a song so fitting for Milo.
It is his alma mater.

Not mine, but you are very obviously still in your childhood.....


And that post just proves what a great big kid you really are.

Stop trashing this thread with your childish posts.... you and we all know that you are far too childish to make sensible contributions to this thread, all you have posted have been children's songs or sickly sweet christian ones.

Just one post from me, this may be too heavy for some of you but it's especially to annoy the ass off Jimmy...... Polish in your face mate!

Not my thing but actually quite good.

This song (by my favourite composer) is good and the artist doing this version is amazing. He's originally from Abkhazia and went to Germany as a child refugee when the orcs invaded. Usually plays Chechen gangsters in police shows on TV.

@jon357

Nice post.Interesting that he sings in French.My second favourite language for popular music.

He mostly sings in German (he specialises in Kurt Weill) and in his native r*SSian. That song, a 30s one written when Weill was in Paris is always done in French though.

His version of the Zuhalterballade (another favourite song that I sing in the shower) from the Threepenny Opera is the best (maybe the only decent) version since the October/November 1930 original cast recording.

He's already becoming quite a big name in Germany through his TV work and I think the rest of Europe will be hearing more of his singing over the next few years.

This is his Zuhalterballade.

All or almost all versions done since the original are useless, with Neil Hannan and Ute Lemper especially deserving a good kicking however to be fair it's difficult to do well. It's meant to be a sort of duet between a pimp and a prostitute and he does the first part as a r*SSian gangster, the second part as a camp rent boy and the third (duet) part as both of them which really takes a lot of skill.

Here it is:

Here's one that they sing at Polish weddings to Milo in regard to his wife,

@jon357

I can hear that he is a talent, but not really to my taste.

@johnny reb

That is not a Polish wedding..... they are singing in English..... you wouldn't have understood it if they had been singing in Polish....
That is a Polish American song and is just Polish American trash.
Once again,JR Jim strikes a low point. Attacking my wife......disgraceful.... you have no idea what she looks like.... you are just a complete and utter liar.....

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Some Lennon music, given that in Brussels they put a statue of Marx.
That music is fitting for the EU.

@Ironside

An absolutely superb post! As a teenager, I loved the John Lennon original.... and then I grew up.......

He isnt Polish and has never been to a Polish wedding.


Its Comrade Kamala`s theme song.

My gosh Mr. Angry, her arms are bigger than yours !
Of course, that pictures is 40 years old.
She has a very pretty smile though, just like Cargo said.
Cargo said that you sang this song to her quite often after he left her.

intriguing idea but not sure that works, especially with the reference to pregnancy and forced(?) abortion(?)

I still have a lot of fondness for the Merril/Lenya version in English from the 1954 Broadway production... Everybody dumps on Blitzstein's translation but it's the most/only really singable version in English (even if it's a bit too cleaned up).

Interestingly I think that show has among the best versions of the Ballad of Sexual Dependency and Barbara Song.. by actresses later much better known for sitcoms (Charlotte Rae and Bea Arthur).

One of the few gender changes that really, really works is this:

original:


reversal:

A somewhat transgressive metaphor for fvcked up lives.


That's the one I encountered first all those years ago which grabbed me by the throat. Personally, I like some of the recordings Lenya did for American TV in the 60s. the ones that were transposed down, slowed and 'jazzed' a little. Otherwise, the (October? November?) 1930 recording can't be beaten.

Die Dreigroschenoper doesn't always work well when it's messed about with. I once saw a version by English National Opera North with a full orchestra and huge staging and it ruined it. Not to mention all the God awful versions of Mack the Knife. The Theresa Stratos Siebentodsunden that she filmed in the 80s has beautiful imagery but is just too, well, 'big' and too opera.

I'll look for your Charlotte Rae and Bea Arthur recordings. One 'messed about with' song that does strangely work is when Marianne Faithfull did the Salomon Song a few years later. Due to vocal limitations she does the slow bits fast and the fast bits slowly however that doesn't wreck the piece.


That works well. Korneev also does a good Nannas Lied.

I'm used to gender change from baroque music where countertenor roles are nowadays sung by women.

If you aren't familiar with Justin Vivian Bond (trans) and Anthony Roth Constanzo (a countertenor) I recommend them both. They did an album together called "Only an octave apart" (it's on Spotify and is really rather clever).

@Maf
Phew. I thought I'd lost all the above text. When I got to the full stop my boss walked into my office unanounced together with the Minister of Industrial Development, his huge entourage of worthies and a full TV news crew with cameras rolling so I slammed the off button in panic due to writing about operatic trannies. He's gone now thank ****. Most of my bods plus my local counterpart were in the smoking room too.

I forgot the (1934?) French language dance suite based on Die Dreigroschenoper, speeded up a bit. It's a gem. It was recorded as "Lotte Lenya and the Three Admirals"

Stupid boy,,,,, you can't see my biceps under that shirt.


True, I have cut my hair since then and have put on a little bit of "Middle age Weight" but my wife, despite a few wrinkles, looks much the same......Jealous?


Just more complete nonsense from JR Jim.......

@mafketis

The first video you posted was OK, but the second one was a bit....... sick...... goes all against the idea of the song!

How so?
It's about those who sell companionship (and sex) and how dehumanizing and superficial it is.

What's brilliant about the second is how little has to be changed.... the addressee (the buyer) is still a man (women don't really buy anonymous sex) and the sellers (women or men) have the same vibe.... mercenary and victimized (predator and prey) at the same time.

humani nihil a me alienum puto as the Romans said....

Because it's a Gay video..... I just don't feel that it fits in with the song, despite your protestations.

Anyway, back to proper music and if any of you saw my post on random of a photo and me and my wife 40 years ago, you will guess that I was into Deep Purple.....
So, here are a few songs from their first Hard Rock album, "Deep Purple in Rock".



"Got an English brain that's gonna make me wise"....... great lyrics!



Last one from me tonight, I think this is superb!

Here ya go:)