In my attempt to give this joint a bit of culture – and also link dump posts are easier to write – I had a post earlier about the peak of modern musical achievements, known as manele in Romanian. I am sure that post elicited the curiosity of the glibertariat. But Pie, everyone wondered, that seems like lower class music. What do the young, hip urban people listen to?
Well, I am not one to leave such pressing questions unanswered. So I have prepared this post. Alas, I am no longer young and, as such, I have no idea what those damn kids listen to these days. So this post will not be about that after all and my insight may be less than valuable. But has that ever stopped me? So what will I post about? Well, whatever I can think of, which is not much as I am well into a bottle of nice wine.
So I was thinking with what to start… And I will start with something that does not really fit with title of the post. Why? Well… because it is the band of a buddy of mine and why not plug those you know… The guy is not famous enough to be considered an actual rock star or anything – although he has had his fair share of hot 20-something female fans, but not that obscure either, and he is very passionate about the guitar and has practiced it intensely for many years, with results I will leave you to judge. Besides that, he is not in the drugs section of rock musicians, but in the martial arts, meditation and passion for Japanese culture section – he learned the language and spends a few months a year at some temple there. The name of the band is Days of Confusion and the style of music was initially based on something called djent. I will post 3 songs off 3 different albums for your viewing pleasure (as usual I do not expect many of you to click the links but whatever.)
Now, getting on to something more topical, indie and/or hipster-ish bands in Romania use a mix of own songs with various covers and mashups. I will post some, in no particular order for bands and no particular selection for the songs. These songs have a chance of being more familiar to you as a style compared to manele, and I think a few are even in English, as are many of the band names. I will post the original band names, not translations of them. The genre of the music I did not dwell on, basically local interpretations of indie pop/rock or even mainstream pop as a style, but not hugely popular. I am not attempting to do an in-depth analysis, as I am not a music writer and Glibertarians is not really a music blog. I will just give some links and maybe write more for a future post. Or maybe not.
One of the most successful bands, especially with the female demographic, is Robin and the Backstabbers, although the style is called melodramatic pop and the songs can get a bit whiny for my taste. Here is a more recent one:
And as a bonus one of their more popular ones, which was overplayed on the radio station I listen to in my car to the point on annoyance.
Moving on with various bands in no apparent order and with a song from each. The songs can be as old as 5-6 years or 1-2 years, I did not choose them for a particular reason…
Toulouse-Lautrec (no relation, and no, they do not sing in French) are a indie rock band of some popularity.
We then have Moonlight Breakfast
Followed by The Mono jacks
The Amsterdams – I went to university with one of these guys although we were not exactly friends. They are an indie band, but sing in a very mainstream fashion.
Jurjak started as on of the few local indie bands doing a sort of electro-blues sound:
Les Elephants Bizzar, despite the name, also sing in a fairly mainstream pop inspired way. So nothing too surreal here
The Kryptonite Sparks – just like hipster beer, hipster bands have silly names, are a fairly young indie rock band
YellLow is a sort of electro-pop
And finishing of with something more electronic than pop / rock we have Karpov Not Kasparov
Anyway if you want further such posts do comment, we can cover 90s pop, classic rock, heavier rock, maybe folk, old time drinking/pub songs, traditional music and more. Sky’s the limit, as the saying goes. Or is Pie the limit? Either way…
I have Les Elephant Bizarre & The Amsterdams tracks on a sd card in my car.
Get some days on confusion as well
I picked up Faceless & Walking in the dark. Not a lot of selection on Amazon music.
Oh, I also have some Velosonics.
i hereby name you a scholar of Romanian music
STEVE SMITH SCHOLAR OF….FOREST LAW.
YT;DW
Les Elephant Bizarre video has lots of scantly clad females, although of the skinny type, not a thicc one among them. HM would kick the poor things out of bed and into the cold night
I am at work. I don’t follow youtube links or play youtube videos from Glibs while at work. Especially since I could be accused of generating a hostile environment if someone looked over the cube wall and saw that.
HM hardly ever sends those links during the day.
Hardly ever.
*Watches Les Elephant Bizarre video*
Um..wow. Yeah…I’ll be in my bunk.
Your music sucks. *Turns up S Club 7 song*
Hey at least it is not O-zone
Pie, doing the post Americans won’t do. You should get some free swag for the volume of articles you do. Thanks for the interesting post.
The hat and the hair don’t ship to Romania though
This outrage will not stand! Somebody could order some swag and then reship from home, no?
something from my store or the glib store?
your cafepress thingy don’t ship to Romania. not that I was gonna buy something to be honest I don’t do shirts with prints and such
You could always keep your holy water in the flask necklace to keep you safe at night.
International shipments
We currently ship to the following countries:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Israel
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Monaco
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Republic of Ireland
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States of America
Your fellow Romanian nationals are too steeped in fraud.
Blame them.
I was going along with Florida Man’s suggestion, that if you want something we could work it out, then I made a vampire joke. No need to try and prove a point, I wasn’t disagreeing with you.
what about Poland or Czech republic?
Now you’re just making up countries.
I listened to a couple of them, not bad. Unfortunately I lost interest in most music a few years ago. The only thing I am interested in these days is folk music, the old timey stuff.
I’m a buffet of music kind of guy. I listen to everything, but would be hard pressed to name many artists.
Oh oh… I might be a Floridaman in training it looks like…
I listen to what I like, and I like practically all genres, and will listen to whatever I am in the mood for, but can’t be bothered with figuring out who produces what noise other than I need the info to download the music.
*hands beginner meth pipe*
Welcome to the club, brother.
Hold my beer and watch this!
^gets it^
Buffet of music
Was at a wedding with the family and that one comes on. We exit stage left…
“Why don’t we get drunk at school?” was what the kids heard.
Yeah, we’ll stick with that…
I don’t like all of them myself but I tried to give an overview, although to many links. I think this sort of post would work better for you lot as a Friday night post but then I would not grace you with my presence in the comments
It’s an older album, but have you heard “Will the Circle be Unbroken” arranged by The Band? Lot of good stuff there.
Would that happen to be the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band? Awesome album. FWIW, NGDB got to tour Russia before anyone else did, at least according to John McCuen & Wikipedia.
Yes, it was. My mistake (similar band names.)
Old Timey?
I don’t usually listen to bluegrass style, but I ran across this one I liked.
Here’s another one that’s quite different.
Music is thankfully something that most of us are able to chose and appreciate on our own terms. It’s even more fun to give others grief on their preferences.
Bah, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
{insert band name/musical genre} sucks. {insert band name/musical genre} is the only one left with any fucking integrity, man.
You sir have played that game before haven’t you?
Once or twice. 😉
Obviously, I have strong opinions about music, but at the end of the day I like what i like. Sometimes it’s even Old Guy Music!
I detest music snobs, though.
I find that my opinion of music depends greatly uppon the nuances of my mood. Pieces that I will enthusiastically listen to in one state of mind become “I don’t want to hear that” in others.
Oh, absolutely. That’s the cool thing about music – there is always something appropriate to your mood or task.
Same here but my moods dont swing that far so my taste is more restricted than most.
here is a fun one on frames of mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i95sEX1YBlA
You got me, and then my brother, listening to these guys. Really like them. This is one of their best ones.
Just saw them live 2 weeks ago…great show as well as the openers who I hadn’t heard of called the hotten hallers. Just a guitar, drums, and a girl on sax. Can’t link youtube from work, but they’re worth checking out.
Suth & MikeS In Hell I’ll be in Good Company is a great song.
And I love they have guy playing a cello as an acoustic bass.
My musical tastes can range from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2c2NEsqzw to metal and everything in between.
This song makes me want to order a martini.
It definitely makes me want to wear a tie.
A Classy tie!
I’ve met my fair share of music snob shitheads.
This was making it’s rounds on alt.radio (shoutcast) : Iedera – Romania WOW 2.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3SkZ5Lu2t0
Not a fan. I assume it’s Romanian.
Yeah. Never heard this one before
Not exactly Nickelback is it.
Look man Romanians have our faults but we are not Canadian, we would not inflict such a thing upon the world
Sure Romania unleashed vampires upon the world, but they never created a Justin Bieber. Who are the real monsters?
Ace of Bass, Abba
Clearly Sweeden
I like your country’s efforts at bring back the video skanks. The only thing I miss about hair metal.
Thanks, Pie!
Your pal’s band is the best of the bunch.
Bad pop transcends cultures. I’ve heard the Amsterdams before but the rest were new to me.
What was the punk/post punk/new wave scene like in Romania? Was it different after the collapse of Mother Russia?
very little local punk really… dunno why
Any good rockabilly bands that I should keep an eye out for?
no idea so i assume no
Romanian indie pop = “culture”…
Some people’s kids.
well here in Europe it is not considered as such but in the savage lands of the Americas…
Everything that is called culture started out as ‘the crap the kids do these days’.
Lol!
Were kids doing Gregorian chants before the monks?
The monks were the crazy kids, with their hippy dippy peacenik ways.
Fever dreams? We haz ’em
In the wake of Robert Mueller’s release of key court filings in the Russia probe on Friday, conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin said Sunday that President Donald Trump would pull an unusual last-minute move to protect himself from potential legal action.
“I would predict here on MSNBC that when Trump leaves office he will resign the presidency 10 minutes before Mike Pence leaves office, allowing Pence to pardon him if there is not a Republican president to follow him,” Rubin told the network’s AM Joy program.
The columnist was commenting on the possibility that the Department of Justice would indict Trump after he leaves office.
She also blasted remarks from Senator Rand Paul, who earlier questioned whether Trump had broken any laws over plans to build a hotel in Russia on NBC’s Meet the Press.
“I don’t see what’s illegal about trying to build a hotel in Russia. This is pretty common and I see no problem with it,” Paul said. “Now if you’re asking and saying I will give you something in exchange for letting us build a hotel, that would be wrong, but I haven’t heard any evidence of that.”
Rubin called the comments “shameful,” saying: “I think there was a $50 million penthouse, if I remember it correctly, that was going to be offered to Vladimir Putin.
“The president has been implicated in a crime. If Rand Paul wants to say Republicans are no longer in favor of holding the president to the same standard of law we hold ordinary citizens, that is his right. But I think this kind of wilful ignorance…really is beneath someone who is in the United States Senate.”
Yeah. The ol’ flea flicker play, in the last two minutes of the game. Shifty.
and- That Rand Paul guy is so crazy he doesn’t even think special prosecutors should be given unlimited budgets to conduct unconstrained fishing expeditions into the past behavior of people based on political affiliation. What a doofus.
“…that was going to be offered to Vladamir Putin.”
So it wasn’t offered. The hotel wasn’t built.
None of this stuff actually happened but we sure have him now.
Do these people really think they are winning anyone over with this nonsense? They are willing to burn the country down to get what they want not realizing that they will end up ash themselves in the end.
Rubin called the comments “shameful,” saying: “I think there was a $50 million penthouse, if I remember it correctly, that was going to be offered to Vladimir Putin.
“The president has been implicated in a crime.
There was a proposal by an associate of Trump’s representative to offer the penthouse to Putin, on the theory that, with Putin in the building, the other oligarchs would bid up the rest of the units by more than $50mm.
What nobody has claimed, though is (a) that the offer was actually made or (b) that Trump even knew about, much less approved, the proposal. That means he has not, in fact, been implicated in a crime.
There is an unresolved issue, though, which is whether the offer, even if accepted, or even if actually consummated, would have broken any laws. To violate the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, it would have to have been done in order to influence Putin in his official duties. Good luck with that, since the proposal had a perfectly legal (as far as I know) purpose – to drive up demand for the building.
Jennifer Rubin’s about as conservative Al Sharpton is but she’s a bit more dishonest. I’m not sure what she is other than a lying hack.
UnCivil mentions taste in music varying with mood.
Sometimes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxGT5z6d-GA
Sometimes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHkyZ62jjQ
Sometimes the link I posted above.
OT: The cop killed in the Borderline shooting – was shot by another cop with a rifle. His body armor stopped all the pistol bullets the shooter sent his way.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-killed-during-borderline-shooting-died-friendly-fire-n945321
Well, there you go. Proof that ammunition should be closely regulated to prevent the public having access to armor-piercing rounds.
Maybe not armor-piercing. My impression is that it takes a pretty high level of body armor to stop rifle rounds at short range.
Your impression is correct.
I once had a batch of 7.62 x 39 military surplus that would shoot through…well, anything you shot it into. I tested it against an oak that was nearly 4 feet in diameter and it zipped through it like it was a paper bag. It would also penetrate 1/2 inch steel plate.
Also, smaller diameter bullets penetrate much better than larger ones. You want a small arm that penetrates really well? Get yourself a 25-06, a .243, a 22-250 and shoot solids through it. I dont think there is any body armor that would stop that stuff.
.308 FMJ is pretty damn unstoppable too unless you are in an armored vehicle.
Level 4 body armor may stop those rounds once or twice with a heavy stop-plate. Then the ceramic shatters and is worthless.
Probably some of the Chi-Comm ammo from the 90s. That was good steel core ammo. Wish I had kept a case and not shot it all before it was import banned.
Officer spray and pray should be carrying a revolver with one round in his pocket Barney Fife style – not a full-auto M4.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/675260800/supreme-court-declines-key-planned-parenthood-case
It seems weird that the USSC would dodge a case where the Circuits disagree unless we take this as some sudden endorsement of federalism.
Of course, even as a pro-choice guy, I still don’t care how funds from Medicaid, a program that I’m not sure should even exist, are regulated.
BTW: Firefox is suddenly bucking me pretty bad . . . bc of the embedded vid links ? My links and fonts won’t stick 🙁
That is really odd. A split in Circuits is usually almost a guaranteed SCOTUS case.
Pretty sure this means that the law is different in the different Circuits that have decided it. What Circuits that haven’t actually decided this issue do, I don’t know.
The SCOTUS seems to be not backing up their decisions in Heller and McDonald.
The 3rd circuit feels that heller allows “may issue”, other circuits have decided differently like the 9th.
https://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/documents/292/rogers.pdf
I don’t have a strong opinion on the matter but I do find PP’s argument that there’s some sort of non-abortion lockbox ridiculous on its face.
I’m not surprised that Roberts would act as if any case that might affect abortion is off-limits; he’s a thoroughly political creature. Disappointed in Kav, though. Let’s hope he hasn’t done the weak thing, and decided to try and placate his enemies by voting their way on cases.
OT: Today in wypipo behaving badly
LOL
okey dokey dukie
There is so many things wrong with everything and everyone in that I dont even know where to start.
The slave trade was abolished by force of arms by the Royal Navy – evil british white men. It’s current practitioners include – Africans and Middle Easterners.
“What about slavery?”
Tell me again how the US going to war to abolish slavery, and how hundreds of thousands of white US soldiers were killed or injured to abolish slavery, is a permanent stain on the US and white American men, forevermore.
Well. I’ve been told that the fact that my Irish ancestors immigrated to the US after the civil war doesn’t change my personal responsibility for the institution of slavery in the US.
And my potato famine-fleeing ancestors who fought in the union army somehow indict me.
My ancestors came over to America some time in 1900-1910, we’re talking great-grandfather/mother here. And they came from poor farm workers who often had to travel to find work; one being the bastard son of a milkmaid.
My last name comes from a farm in the Netherlands.
Yep I sure feel guilty for the institution of slavery – say what now?
I wouldn’t say that humungus sounds like a poor farm.
Who knows what “Humungus” means in Dutchese. Dutchian? Dutchish? Whatever.
Yep. My ancestors came here between 1930-1950 from a country without slavery. But I’m supposed to feel guilty somehow?
Are you referring to the War of Northern Aggression?
Don’t be silly, Canukistan’s invasion of the US had nothing to do with slavery.
You mean the War Between the States.
slavery is a 10,000-year old institution practiced entirely by European settlers to North America since the founding of Jamestown. yep, 10,000 years of American slavery.
The idiots have been taught that slavery was a white on black thing. In fact slavery was just considered a fact of life by every people in the world until very recently and still is by many. No group of people never kept slaves and no people on earth were never enslaved. The notion that slavery was evil and should be abolished is a very recent idea, and like you say, as far as I k now was concocted by industrialized cultures. Before that no one wanted to be a slave but thinking that slavery should be abolished was considered a nutty idea. I wonder if any of them know that the first thing the freed American slaves did when they got to Liberia was to enslave the locals already living there. I am gonna guess ‘No’.
The idiots in the video are conflating race with culture and looking at history through a very narrow crack. Slavery was never a moral issue, it was an economic one.
I am also tempted to think this video is a false flag.
If you want to fuck with their heads ask them why there aren’t that many people of African descent in the Arab world despite a thriving sub Saharan slave trade there. The answer isn’t pretty.
Yep. There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. Guess where most of them are.
Ugh! The pathetic thing is that both sides of this idiotic incident fundamentally agree with one another. They’re both working from the fundamental premise of collectivism. They’re tallying up the worth or non-worth of white people as a race, ascribing the achievements and failings of individuals to the value of the collective.
*headdesk*
How can some people be given technical jobs if they can’t grasp technical concepts.
Because the people that give the jobs dont understand technical concepts?
*Ding Ding Ding*
Is the word “manager” somewhere in their job title? That’s one way.
Nope. The job is 100% technical.
The old IT joke: Those who can’t program manage.
Oddly enough, my manager is actually a good programmer. Of course, he doesn’t do a ton of pure “management”, so that may explain it.
So you have someone like our “Business Intelligence Manager” that has difficulty with Access?
Business Intelligence Manager
Lemme guess – has no experience with business, shows no signs of intelligence, and does not manage.
Two out of three ain’t bad – this individual has been with the company for years, and so has lots of experience with business. Not sure that experience has led to much understanding of business though.
I don’t count working for a business as experience with business. That’s experience with being an employee, certainly. Whether or not they have also acquired business experience is another question entirely.
This kind of people?
Hey, there were some people like that at my old job. They were writing reports, but couldn’t put together a SELECT statement to save their lives. Instead the imported the data into Excel and “managed” it there.
sqlplus / as sysdba
trunc * ;
commit ;
exit ;
They couldn’t even validate the reports because they got different numbers every time they “ran” them. Their excuse to us was that the numbers were “close enough”.
So, remove them from the payroll and tell them “There’s nothing wrong, the numbers asre ‘close enough’.”
My boss didn’t want to make waves by pointing out the potential issues of this, so I did the better option and moved myself into another company. From what I’ve heard they’ve moved up into other positions in the company I left. FFS, they had a whole call center (24x7x365) that didn’t know what their cost per call or revenue per call was, and would, without fail, have hold times of multiple hours every busy season.
Jeebus. I can’t imagine anyone getting away with not knowing their basic business unit metrics, like cost/revenue per call, in my organization.
Technical skills at best let you keep the job.
Getting the job can be done with people skills.
So that’s why no one hires me.
I have work I need to get done, but really don’t feel motivated. At least I’m working from home so I don’t have anyone who can see me procrastinating so much.
have a drink. it helps
Did day drinking yesterday, gonna wait til after 5 like a non drunk today.
Oh look who thinks he is better then the rest of us
The Russians could have hacked your webcam…
What’s this *could have*? They did.
“Don’t blame Trump for the demise of the Weekly Standard”
https://spectator.us/unhappy-demise-the-weekly-standard/
FTA:
“If the Weekly Standard closes down by year’s end, as is widely expected and as Spectator USA first reported, the country will have lost one of its few remaining writer’s magazines. But for most people, the caliber of writing from Andrew Ferguson or Christopher Caldwell or Matt Labash is not what stands out about the Weekly Standard. Its reputation is tied to the Iraq War and to its founding editor’s reinvention of himself as the most acerbic NeverTrumper on Twitter. The latter has led the New York Times and other outlets to blame the closed-mindedness of conservatives toward criticism of Trump for the magazine’s demise.
Allow me to offer some perspective as a former editor and longtime staffer for a conservative magazine that opposed a Republican president from its very beginning. The American Conservative was launched in 2002 because no other conservative magazine on the East Coast was willing to publish much criticism of George W. Bush or the Iraq War. The situation was considerably worse then for NeverBush conservatives than it is today for a NeverTrumper, not least because in 2002, George W. Bush and his foreign policy enjoyed wide support among elite liberals as well as Republicans.
But a conservative magazine can survive, and even thrive, as a critic of a Republican president. President Trump and the conservatives who support him did not kill the Weekly Standard. Its flawed business model was the culprit.
The magazine’s business model worked brilliantly, while it lasted, but it depended on having a single zillionaire owner willing to absorb losses of many millions a year. It’s commonplace that all political magazines lose money. But the way they lose money is the key to their survival or extinction.”
A conservative publication that is more non-interventionist than Code Pink is going to outlast the Weekly Standard. Just beautiful.
Interesting business model
“The magazine’s business model worked brilliantly, while it lasted, but it depended on having a single zillionaire owner willing to absorb losses of many millions a year.”
*facepalm*
So they are dying from too much success? Bye then.
Re: The Star Trek argument from morning links. Pulling an episode from season 1 is an unfair comparison, but you are still wrong. Skin of Evil is the low point of season 1, and it is still better than the freaking ghost flame episode.
Season 1 is so bad it shouldnt even count.
If it doesn’t feature Evil Kirk or Ricardo Montalban’s chest, it sucks.
Nice selection Pie! Thanks!