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Your Country: Apologies and Gifts
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---And why are you apologising for slayer again? Seriously, they've gone to the dogs, but it'll be a long time before they completely fuck over their 80's legacy.
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Because they're so appallingly unoriginal. Seriously, all the songs on Reign In Blood are nearly identical. And Kerry King is terrible.
Not An Addict:
I apologize for the Barenaked Ladies, now and forever the worst band in the history of music.
"But what about--" No. The Barenaked Ladies are worse.
sjbrot:
--- Quote from: Nosve ---I'm originally from Minnesota.
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Then I would like to personally thank you for the scene that allowed Prince to go and check out Husker Du.
And why are the Barenaked Ladies the worst band ever? They aren't my favorites, but...
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---And, forgive me if I'm totally on the wrong-end of the stick, but isn't a considerable amount of turbofolk nationalist to some extent? I thought it was almost Milosovic's own version of Yugorock.
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I wouldn't know, I would only recognise maybe two or three songs and I don't know Serbian, and I've always just assumed it was the same nonsense, discgustingly kitsch lyrics, about love or whatever, but always annoying as hell, they have in pop-"folk" and that thing we here just call "Greek music", but they call laïka in Greece. Anyway, back to the Serbs, come to think of it, a popular performer, Tsetsa Velichkovich was married (or so they said on the news when he got wasted, apparently it was an important enough event) to this paramilitary war criminal/mafia boss/whatever, I'm sure the Serbs must have a word for it :D
zmeiat_joro:
By country, as far as I know, and I could very easily be wrong, as I mostly don't really like these, except maybe some chalga:
Romania has only manele, which is semi-traditional* and similar to chalga in Bulgaria, where it is less "traditional" that in it is in Romania. Bulgaria also has pop-"folk"*, which in the early 90's was influeced by the Serbian sound (as far as I know Serbia doesn't have styles similar to chalga or manele), as was laïka in Greece.
As for the sociological significance of these styles and their substyles, one could probably write a book about it... One thing I can say is that the fact that Romania has only one such style could be attributed to the unparaleled polarisation of society there, and anyone who doesn't want to be associated with manele there attempts to emulate a "western"-like sound, thus O-zone and such abominations. The case with Serbia is different as there turbofolk is not associated with the lower class, actually I don't know if you can talk about classes in Serbia at all, it's pretty much a kleptocracy.
The situations in Bulagria and Greece are different and well, more fuzzy.
*And of course, the various genres of actual Bulgarian folk music are completely unrelated to any of the genres we discuss here. Actually there's a lot more variation between Bulgarian folk genres that it is between these here; all these are practically the same genre in comparison. I even feel a bit dirty mentioning them in the same post, but I needed to make clear that the use of folk in their names is criminal.
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