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Russia playlist
Gorbachov! Tear down that wall.......and turn up this Russia playlist!
The Cossacks are dancing to this one and the yaks are singing.
Russia, Siberia, Moscow, St Petersburg and a cold war.
It’s all here in this Russia playlist.
Hit play: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC18F7oDKY8zH1IOplzHM05MY
We begin the journey in Siberia and make our way across Genghis Khan territory towards Omsk and beyond. We have a look at Chernobyl, Ukraine for a look around and make our way up to Moscow,
We finish up this playlist in St Petersburg.
Hope you enjoy it.
RUSSIA
001 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 007 OST - Main theme
002 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
003 The Beatles - Back in The USSR
004 Iron Maiden - Mother Russia
005 Sisters of Mercy - Dominion / Mother Russia
006 Ramones - Cretin Hop
007 Sting - Russians
008 Russkaja - Peace, Love & Russian Roll
009 Robert Simon Thomas - Troika (balalaika)
010 Jello Biafra, The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - We Created Putin
011 The Cult - Siberia
012 Mastodon - Siberian Divide
013 Yes - Siberian Khatru
014 Pesnokhorki Barnaul - Cossacks songs of Siberia
015 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Siberian Love Affairs
016 The Kills - Siberian Nights
017 The Night Flight Orchestra - Siberian Queen
018 Altai Kai - Traditional Siberian music
019 Vallenfyre - My Black Siberia
020 Skyhooks - Jukebox In Siberia
021 MISERY INDEX - Siberian March
022 Wooly Mammoth - Mammoth Bones
023 Grumbling Fur - Siberian Priest
024 Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan
025 Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Night enchanted
026 The Locust - Live From The Russian Compound
027 ACCEPT - Russian Roulette
028 Cavalera Conspiracy - Genghis Khan
029 Diaframma - Siberia
030 Renaissance - Mother Russia
031 Echo & The Bunnymen - Siberia
032 Dschinghis Khan - Genghis Khan
033 Bad News - Warriors Of Ghengis Khan
034 The Hu - The great Chinggis Khan
035 Shah - Escape
036 Ray Stevens - Surfin USSR
037 Ramones - Locket Love
038 Heirs - Russia
039 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Hero of the Soviet Union
040 Natalia Albychakova - Takhpakh
041 Svetlanas - Go Fck You Self
042 Maloletka - Irkutsk Path
043 Kuban Cossack Choir - The hat all around
044 The Lords of the New Church - Russian Roulette
045 Paul Lay Trio - Irkutsk
046 Elvis Hitler - Rocking Over Russia
047 Russian Circles - 309
048 Thylacine - Irkutsk
049 Valeriy Voloshin and gruppa Pyatiletka - Irkutsk
050 DEVO - Cold War
051 Güiro Meets Russia - It's Not The World, It's You
052 Powerwolf - Nightside of Siberia
053 Altai Kai - Oilo oilo altai
054 Arkona - Yarilo
055 Depeche Mode - People Are People
056 Gorky Park - Bang
057 Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring, Part 1- 3 Game of Abduction
058 Martika - Toy Soldiers
059 Transvision vamp - revolution baby
060 The Stranglers - No More Heroes
061 Gari Gari - Russian gypsy music
062 Russian Sailors - Dance Yablochka
063 Manic Street Preachers - Revolt
064 Elton John - Nikita
065 Krokus - Russian winter
066 Prince - Ronnie Talk to Russia
067 Soviet SOunds - Baikal-Amur Railroad
068 Genesis - Land of Confusion
069 Duran Duran - Planet Earth
070 Today Is The Day - The Russian Porn Ballet
071 Nytt Land - Ballad of Gjallarhorn
072 Rotting Christ - Ветры злые - (featuring Irina Zybina)
073 Metallica - Blackened
074 Anneke van Giersbergen, Árstíðir - Russian Lullaby
075 Der Kommissar - After the Fire
076 Czas relaksu - Andrzej i Eliza
077 korobushka - Folk Russian
078 Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
079 FEAR - Bomb the Russians
080 Rush - Heresy
081 RUSSKAJA - Energia
082 Megadeth - Peace Sells
083 King Crimson - One More Red Nightmare
084 Sodom - Nuclear Winter
085 Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher
086 Talisman - Hey you Horses!
087 Styx - Cold War
088 Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones
089 Gimines - Kai armonika tyliai užgros
090 EXHUMED - Coins Upon the Eyes
091 Mastodon - The Czar
092 CCCP - American Soviets
093 Sapce Rockit - Supersonik Elektronik
094 Septic Flesh - The Eldest Cosmonaut
095 Quicksand - Cosmonauts
096 Arkona - Zimushka
097 Abracadabra - Damned Dances
098 Pink Floyd - Two Suns In The Sunset
099 Prince - 1999
100 Trololo Guy - Sean Sell Duck with Fake Subtitles ( Buffalax Style )
101 Armonika - Gromatele Parašiau
102 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Vodka Inferno
103 Accept - Balls to the wall
104 Killing Joke - New Cold War
105 UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming
106 RAMONES - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg (My Brain Is Hanging Upside)
107 TCHAYOK - Zavarka - Mi-minable
108 COH - Soii Noir
109 Vircator - Tunguska
110 Scorpions - China White
111 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
112 The Stalin - 解剖室
113 KAIRA - OХ РA
114 Alexander Robotnick - Ce n'est q'un début
115 Tunguska Electronic Music Society - Alpha Kawu
116 Arkona - Odna
117 Cist - Antisceptic
118 Sabaton - Nuclear Attack
119 Leningrad Cowboys - Katjusha
120 PRONG - Rude Awakening
121 Imperial Age - And I Shall Find My Home
122 Так - пела метель
123 Fear Konstruktor - Nonexistence
124 Oneohtrix - Russian Mind
125 Police - Every Breath You Take
126 dEpEchE modE - Two Minute Warning
127 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
128 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
129 Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
130 David Bowie - Heroes
131 woven hand - my Russia
132 Survivor - Burning Heart (Rocky IV OST)
133 Forest - As a Shade Above This Land
134 Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
135 Colossus Form - Son Of Nature
136 The Flying Lizards - Russia
137 Djivan Gasparyan - A Cool Wind Is Blowing
138 Iron Driver (feat. Pasha Mrachek) - Prisoner of time
139 Pussy Riot - CHAIKA
140 Boris Alexandrov - Катюша (Katyusha)
141 DEVO - Going Under
142 Motor - Yak
143 Nuclear Assault - Nuclear War
144 Edward Artemiev - Station (Solaris OST)
145 Soviet Valves - Puritan Blues
146 Verasy - Polet
147 FAVALLI - Yuri Gagarin
148 Wolfmother - Cosmonaut
149 Yuri Gagarin - Psychological Discontinuity
150 Witchfinder General - Soviet Invasion
151 Korrozia Metallah - Russian Vodka
152 Russkaja - Kosmopolit
153 Dio - Gypsy
154 The The - slow train to dawn
155 Blues Pills - Gypsy
156 Rush - Red Lenses
157 Corey Hart - Komrade Kiev
158 Master - Metal Doctor
159 Howlin Rain - Phantom In The Valley
160 ARKONA - Liki Bessmertnykh Bogov
161 Pitchblack - IHATEU
162 Ozzy Osbourne - Killer of Giants
163 Scorpions - Wind of Change
164 Yat kha - Chorumal Bodum
165 Nadezhda Babkina, Russkaja Pesnja
166 Ramones - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
167 Russian radio - red flag
168 Manicure - Atomic Summer
169 The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Threat Posed By Nuclear Weapons
170 Love Among Freaks - Berserker
171 ARIA - HERO OF ASPHALT
172 Temnozor - Fatherland
173 Walknut - Motherland Ostenvegr
174 Weird Al Yankovic - Now That's What I Call Polka!
175 Underworld - Underneath the Radar
176 Skyclad - Polkageist
177 Helloween - Russian Roulé
178 John Coltrane - Russian Lullaby
179 Julian Cope - russian revolution blues
180 Rodrigo y Gabriela - The Russian Messenger
181 Kate Bush - Babooshka
182 ВИА - Чаривни гитары
183 Mastodon - The Last Baron
184 Hovert – Omyt
185 Minsk - Consumed by Horizons
186 Kypck - Stalingrad
187 Def Leppard - Gods of war
188 Black Country Communion - Big Train
189 Sabaton - Stalingrad
190 Doomsquad - Russian Gaze
191 Soviet Soviet - Human Nature
192 Murray head - one night in bangkok
193 The Korgis - Young n Russian
194 Chelsea Light Moving - Communist Eyes
195 Helix - Champagne Communist
196 UDO - Train Ride In Russia
197 Mr Weebl - Russian Dancing Men
198 Jamie Jones - Siberian Express
199 They Might Be Giants - Sold My Mind to the Kremlin
200 Ed Khuild - lolololololololol
201 Sepultura - Itsari
202 Vy Pole - Enormous
203 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
204 Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Auto Pilot
205 Buffalex - Horse Eat My Nipple
206 Municipal Waste - Wolves of Chernobyl
207 Drudkh - Cursed Sons II
208 Chernobyl - A song for the fallen
209 Russkaja - Hometown Polka
210 Toxic Holocaust - Out of the Fire
211 Hail Caesar! Soundtrack - 19 Soviet Man
212 The Blow Monkeys - The Man From Russia
213 The Devil's Blood - The Anti-Kosmik Magick
214 Orchid - Cosmonaut of Three
215 Vergeltung - Cold War
216 KYPCK - Alleya Stalina
217 Cabaret Voltaire - Calling Moscow
218 Red Army Choir - Polyushka Polye
219 Iron Curtain - Ready To Strike
220 Porcupine Tree - Russia on Ice
221 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century Boy
222 Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow
223 The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
224 Soviet Soviet - ecastacy
225 KREMLIN - Will You Feed Me
226 AC/DC - Heatseeker
227 ANJ - Gorbachev
228 Katyusha (Катюша) - Aleksandr Marshal & Valeria Kurnushkina
229 ARKONA - Stenka Na Stenku
230 Black Obelisk - The wall
231 Skyclad - Catherine at the Wheel
232 Pussy Riot - Kropotkin-vodka (Kill the sexist!)
233 Brian Eno -- Stedelijk
234 Zola Jesus - Siphon
235 Insect Inside - The First Shining of New Genus
236 MR. ZIVAGO - Little Russian
237 The Real McKenzies - Midnight Train to Moscow
238 Red Army OST - KGB
239 The Toasters - Night Train to Moscow
240 Thy Catafalque - Urania
241 The Apogee - Hieronymus Bosch
242 Sabaton - Panzerkampf
244 RUSSKAJA - Barada
245 Oneohtrix Point Never - KGB Nights
246 Faith No More - A Small Victory
247 Mike and the mechanics - A Call To Arms
248 Michael Jackson - Stranger In Moscow
249 Blondie - Contact In Red Square
250 Rammstein - Moskau
251 Pseudogod - deathwomb
252 KGB - Subway Sleepwalker
253 Igor Butman Big Band - Moscow at 3am
254 Genghis Khan - Moscow
255 Demon - Blue Skies In Red Square
256 Type O Negative - The Profit of Doom
257 COH - Red Square
258 Cougars - Red Square
259 Ray Conniff - Moscow Nights
260 INDIANS IN MOSCOW - Indians in Moscow
261 Radio Moscow - 250 Miles
262 Kingdom Come - Crown of Moscow
263 Powerwolf - Moscow after dark
264 U.D.O. - Decadent
265 System Of A Down - Störagéd
266 Closure In Moscow - Pink Lemonade
267 VIBRATORS - DISCO IN MOSCO
268 IRA PETROWA - MOSKAUER NÄCHTE
269 Visage - Moon Over Moscow
270 Farmers Market - Red Square Dance
271 Wonderland - Moscow
272 Courtney Pine - Red Square Gagarinesk
273 Stray Cats - Storm The Embassy
274 German Shepherds - Communist Control
275 Moloko - Radio Moscow
276 March of the defenders - Moscow
277 Takako Nishizaki - Podmoskovnye vechera( Moscow Nights)
278 Simple Minds - Moscow Underground
279 The Spotnicks - Moscow
280 The Russian Jazz Quartet - Journey from Moscow
281 Bob Crewe Generation - Miniskirts In Moscow
282 MODERN TROUBLE - FLY TO MOSCOW
283 Gorky Park - Moscow Calling
284 BB Gabor - Moscow Drug Club
285 Doe Maar - De bom
286 Manicured noise - Moscow
287 Russkaja - Ras Dwa Tri
288 PLANET P PROJECT - Armageddon
289 Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Musquito
290 Gogol Bordello - 60 REVOLUTIONS
291 Uriah Heep - Gypsy
292 Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
293 The Hollies - Russian Roulette
294 Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen - Red Square
295 Frank Chacksfield - Under Moscow Skies
296 Thomas Dolby - Eastern Bloc
297 The Redskins - Kick Over The Statues
298 The Alchemist - Moscow Mornings - Sunrise
299 N.O.T.A. - Moscow
300 Svetlanas - Where Is My Borscht?
301 Against Me! - Russian Spies
302 James Horner - Gorkij park (Gorky Park 1983) OST
303 Hetalia Russia - Moscú
304 Roberto Jacketti & The Scooters - Moscow Nights
305 Ram J Holder - The Blues in Moscow
306 Ivan Rebroff sings Russian folk songs - Moscow nights
307 Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave Said She Was a Dancer
308 Men At Work - Its a Mistake
309 Skeewiff - Moscow Mule
310 The Clash - Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
311 Captain Sensible - Glad its all over
312 Ulfdallir - Steel Armor
313 Arkona - Oi Ti ne Vecher (Oh Not That Evening)
314 Lena Katina - No Voy A Olvidarte
315 JOHNNY M5 - Moscow Nights
316 Eddy Huntington - U.S.S.R.
317 Selsius - Moscow
318 WINTERUS - MOSCOW
319 Mr. Zivago - Love in Moscow
320 Brutto - Moscow Calling
321 Udo Lindenberg - Moskau
322 Aliza Kashi - Moscow Nights
323 Angelic Upstarts - Last Tango In Moscow
324 ASIA - Russian Dolls
325 Blaze Bayley & Thomas Zwijsen - Russian Holiday
326 Kate Bush - Breathing
327 Roger Waters and David Bowie - When the wind blows
328 Roky Erickson & The Aliens - Sputnik
329 Moscow - Orange Juice
330 Ivan Rebroff - Cossack Patrol
331 Alexandr Gradsky - Как молоды мы были
332 James Horner - Gorky Park - Following KGB
333 B.T.R - Moscow City
334 Gogol Bordello - Hats Off To Kolpakoff
335 CCCP - Sputnik [Cosmos]
336 Russkaja - Go Sputnik
337 Red Spektor - Cosmonaut
338 Bald Red Lady - Cosmonaut
339 Ulver - Russian Doll
340 Hawkwind - Sputnik Stan
341 Bad Acid Trip - Putin Fears Pussy
342 Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
343 Dark Tranquillity - Arkhangelsk
344 TOTAL REJECTS (This Night) I'm Going To Be Destroyed
345 Manic Street Preachers - The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
346 Billy Joel - Leningrad
347 Victor Smolski - The Heretic
348 Boney M - Rasputin
349 Type O Negative - Tripping A Blind Man
350 Leningrad Cowboys - Leningrad
351 Accept - Stalingrad
352 Russian Folk Music - Russian Winter
353 Cavalera Conspiracy - Rasputin
354 Kontrust - Rasputin
355 Bersarin Quartett - St. Petersburg
356 Folkearth - From Volga to Bosphorus
357 Anastasia - Rumor in St. Petersburg
358 Retox - Soviet Reunion
359 Fireside - Let Rasputin Do It
360 Mastodon - Oblivion
361 St.Petersburg Ska Jazz Review - Volga River Boat Man
362 THERION - The Khlysti Evangelist
363 The Mountain Goats - Evening in Stalingrad
364 Rage - Soul Survivor
365 Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
366 ARKONA - Slavsia Rus
367 Russian Folk Music - Kalinka (balalaika)
368 Catch 22 - The Decembrists Song
369 Joanna Stingray - City of Lenin
370 Aria - Attila
371 KAUAN - Khurum
372 Balalaika Ensemble Wolga - Cossacks Dance
373 The Liminanas - Russian Roulette
374 Vasiliy Shumov - Porridge
375 U.D.O. - I GIVE AS GOOD AS I GET
666 Russkaja - Change
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JUST IN: Well-known Zanu PF activist Chimurenga dies!
JUST IN: Well-known Zanu PF activist Chimurenga dies!
US-based pro-Zanu PF activist, Cde Coltrane Chimurenga, has died.
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Literary East Enders
I usually blog about music-related matters, with the occasional look at films and books that allude to left field music (as in my most recent blog, on the recent Coltrane biopic). This one is thus a bit of a departure, as it concerns a group of novels/novelists that have absolutely nothing to do with music, but who have been occupying my reading time (a major part of my waking life, along with listening to music and walking the mutt) over the last few weeks.
I owe a debt of gratitude to Iain Sinclair here, who pointed my way towards these novelists, in various of his own works of Hackney-based literature. He has frequently described this group of Jewish East End writers, who were creating in the immediate pre- and post-World War 2 periods, and formed a sort of precursor to the ‘Angry Young Men’ or ‘kitchen sink’ writers from the north of England, who emerged (and were severally filmed) in the late 50s and into the early 60s. The latter’s protagonists tended to be existential anti-heroes, amoral and troubled, with dodgy attitudes towards both women and employers, and ‘The Establishment’ generally, before the full technicolour riot of The Swinging Sixties blossomed. The heroes of their Literary East End predecessors were surprisingly similar, and Hollywood certainly took an interest in some of them at the time, such were the power of the plots and characterisation involved.
Out of print for several decades, many of these books have been recently republished by Five Leaves (as in the Nick Drake track), Black Spring and New London imprints. The historic referents are to the publisher John Lehmann, who promoted these authors, and published them in very distinctive jackets, drawn by John Minton, a slumming toff from the Royal College of Art. Blogs are too short a form to go into these novels and their pleasures in any detail, but these are the ones that I have enjoyed recently, and which give an insight into a period which tends to be forgotten, in our 1960s-and-beyond obsessions: Alexander Baron and his great trilogy From The City, From The Plough (especially relevant in the wake of the recent film blockbuster Dunkirk), The Lowlife (in particular, with its gambling-addicted existentialist anti-hero, Harryboy Boas, which is the sort of name that Martin Amis would kill to invent) and King Dido (very depressing, however); Roland Camberton, somewhat of an enigma, who only produced Scamp and the great Rain On The Pavements, and then promptly disappeared: Bernard Kops’s The World Is A Wedding; the marvelously-titled Wide Boys Never Work (apparently the first use of the expression), by Robert Westerby, which is a kind of Hackney Brighton Rock, full of rackateers, used car salesmen, gamblers, tarts and hoods, back before these sort of sub-cultures had been labelled and lionised by social and cultural theorists. All are thoroughly enjoyable ‘B-novels’, and describe a world that both Amis fils and Will Self can only re-imagine, to lesser and lesser returns.
I urge you to check some of these out, while they remain in print - they describe a world that has now disappeared, and one that was difficult for malcontents to find a context in which to define themselves. Then along came the likes of Colin Wilson in circa 1956, and it suddenly perhaps became a bit easier? Certainly, the fashionable nostalgie de la boue of the modern age will find its early expression in these pages.
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The Black Arts Movement (1965-1975)
The Black Arts Movement was the name given to a group of politically motivated black poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. The poet Imamu Amiri Baraka is widely considered to be the father of the Black Arts Movement, which began in 1965 and ended in 1975.
After Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, those who embraced the Black Power movement often fell into one of two camps: the Revolutionary Nationalists, who were best represented by the Black Panther Party, and the Cultural Nationalists. The latter group called for the creation of poetry, novels, visual arts, and theater to reflect pride in black history and culture. This new emphasis was an affirmation of the autonomy of black artists to create black art for black people as a means to awaken black consciousness and achieve liberation.
The Black Arts Movement was formally established in 1965 when Baraka opened the Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem. The movement had its greatest impact in theater and poetry. Although it began in the New York/Newark area, it soon spread to Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, and San Francisco, California. In Chicago, Hoyt Fuller and John Johnson edited and published Negro Digest (later Black World), which promoted the work of new black literary artists. Also in Chicago, Third World Press published black writers and poets. In Detroit, Lotus Press and Broadside Press republished older works of black poetry. These Midwestern publishing houses brought recognition to edgy, experimental poets. New black theater groups were also established. In 1969, Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare established The Black Scholar, which was the first scholarly journal to promote black studies within academia.
There was also collaboration between the cultural nationalists of the Black Arts Movement and mainstream black musicians, particularly celebrated jazz musicians including John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Archie Shepp, and others. Cultural nationalists saw jazz as a distinctly black art form that was more politically appealing than soul, gospel, rhythm and blues, and other genres of black music.
Although the creative works of the movement were often profound and innovative, they also often alienated both black and white mainstream culture with their raw shock value which often embraced violence. Some of the most prominent works were also seen as racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and sexist. Many works put forth a black hyper masculinity in response to historical humiliation and degradation of African American men but usually at the expense of some black female voices.
The movement began to fade when Baraka and other leading members shifted from Black Nationalism Marxism in the mid-1970s, a shift that alienated many who had previously identified with the movement. Additionally Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Gil Scott-Heron, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin achieved cultural recognition and economic success as their works began to be celebrated by the white mainstream.
The Black Arts Movement left behind many timeless and stirring pieces of literature, poetry, and theater. Ironically despite the male-dominated nature of the movement, several black female writers rose to lasting fame including Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, among others. Additionally, the Black Arts Movement helped lay the foundation for modern-day spoken word and hip-hop.
Sources:
Darlene Clark Hine, et al., The African American Odyssey (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson, 2010); Thomas Aiello, "Black Arts Movement," Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, ed. Paul Finkelman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
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