Do Laury
Yet another Polish art rock song with texts by some dead white guy named CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz. Despite being dead, white and a guy, MiÅ‚osz was a great poet. I like the poem and the song. I love the video. http://youtu.be/g…
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wigs and accordians and
an interesting live version. http://youtu.be/k0eAy7Iweac
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Krucha Blondynka (Tender Blonde)
Another one from Czelaw Mozil. "You and I, we'll be a pair" http://youtube.com/watch?v=fA2FwdNzokA
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Aces High
Gaba Kulka http://www.gabakulka.com/ is also a member of an Iron Maiden cover band called Baaba Kulka (she is the Kulka and guitarist Bartek Weber is the Baaba). They just released a new album a week or so ago. This is …
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London Calling
I first came across Gaba http://www.gabakulka.com/ (Gabriela) Kulka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Kulka because she has performed with Czeslaw Mozil (CzesÅ‚aw Åšpiewa). As you might expect of someone who has per…
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"Ouaf, Ouaf" ("Woof, Woof")
Poland is a weird place. Artists think that they can sing in French and still be loved in Poland. Even more curiousier Mademoiselle Karen http://mademoisellekaren.com/ is actually Danish with a French boyfriend. Her Pol…
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W Sam Raz (The Right One)
CzesÅ‚aw Åšpiewa (CzesÅ‚aw Sings) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_%C5%9Apiewa is one of my favie newish Polish artists. Like many Polish artists, his output is not easily defined in Western musical terms - the…
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Piwko (A Beer)
It's Friday night and what could be more appropriate than a video celebrating man's eternal search for beer. Although come to think of it, this video is more about the morning after than it is about Friday night. This o…
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Wiersze wojenne (War poems)
Both my mother and my grandmother cried every time they heard this song by Ewa Demarcyck The words to this song are a compilation of poems by Krzysztof Kamil BaczyÅ„ski who participated in Warsaw Uprising, and died 4th …
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Twoja Lawa (Your Lava)
Today's Polish Song is a wonderful bit of pop fluff from the late 1990s by the band Sixteen with the lead singer Renata Dabkowska http://www.renatadabkowska.com.pl/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DufXT1VNVrU
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No Pasaran (They Shall Not Pass)
Since e:tinypliny likes Spanish language songs, here's a Polish song by the vaguely ska band Blade Loki http://www.bladeloki.com/ with a Spanish language chorus. No Pasaran refers to the famous battle cry of the Spanish…
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(Not A) Communist
Today's Polish song is by Kryzys (Crisis) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brygada_Kryzys I love this song. This is really weird for me because this is an edit of a longer video that someone else posted on Youtube that incl…
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Miasteczko N. (Town N.)
Recently, e:enknot was quoted as saying that e:strip is boring. Here is a Polish song to honor that observation. It's by Shakin Dudi. The song begins with the chant "Boredom, Boredom" in Polish. Nuff Said. http://www.yo…
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Dwojka Rzymska (Roman II)
Krzysztof Komeda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Komeda is arguably Poland's best jazz pianist of the 1960s. In the Western world, he is perhaps best known as the composer of the lullaby from the film Rosemary's …
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Kalifornia ponad wszystko (California Uber Alles)
As I wrote earlier e:uncutsaniflush,53202 I am a huge fan of Kazik Staszewski. I mentioned that stylistically he is all over the map. Today's Polish Song is an example of that. It is a cover of the Dead Kennedys' Califo…
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Prohibition
Kazik Staszewski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazik_Staszewski (the English wikipedia page isn't that good since I stopped maintaining it, sorry) is my favorite Polish musical artist and he may be my favorite musical ar…
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Karuzela cz 2
I really like Karuzela Z Madonnami (Carousel With Madonnas) e:uncutsaniflush,53190 Over the years, many Polish singers have covered the song. Today's Polish song is a cover of song by one of my favie Polish new wave ban…
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Karuzela z Madonnami (Carousel With Madonnas)
Ewa Demarczyk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Demarczyk is my favorite female vocalist. She sings poetry. I love her intensity. I think I first heard this song when I was 10 or 11 and I fell in love with it. The song w…
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Karolinka
State-sponsored stylized Communist-era folk music. Yes, they are in a mine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LILY7GyPAl8
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Rock & Rolling Love
Today's Polish Song of the Day is from the Viva Polish content charts http://www.viva-tv.pl/shows/pl-top-10/#showSummary as well. I don't know much about this group except that I think they have a sense of humor and I'm…
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Body And Soul
I decided to look at the Polish content charts at Viva http://www.viva-tv.pl/shows/pl-top-10/#showSummary for today's Polish Song of the Day. C-Bool http://www.myspace.com/cboolis an old school Polish DJ (If my memory s…
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Love Shack
And now something accessible and current. A cover of the B-52s "Love Shack" by the Polish thrash metal band Acid Drinkers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Drinkers. They have been around since the late 1980s. This year…
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Zurawie (Cranes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqGN23fn6j0 Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa (Warsaw Village Band) http://www.warsawvillageband.net/ - exponents of alternative Polish Folk Music
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Generacja nic (Generation Nothing)
Cool Kids of Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_kids_of_death - Generacja nic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84dTfoydDo English Translation (quick and dirty): The light is not in you Went off like bad dreams Mode…
