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butchersapron said:
Bérurier Noir do a fantastic version of the battle song.
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Now THAT is a great version. I haven't listened to that lot in ages. Interestingly, I only know it done by the Red Army Choir as Partisan's Song:

A rather different rendition! Brilliant thread BTW :cool:

Oh yes:

 
Redland by The Waitresses

I'll be glad when the flag goes up
We'll sing new songs and invent new slogans
There'll be a party and we'll burn the old pictures
I'll finally have some fun

I'll be glad when the flag goes up
New uniforms if they know my sizes
I'll make new friends when I go to the meetings
It won't be better but I'll settle for different

Redland, red
And my house is burning
Redland, red
Well it really won't matter (when it's)
Redland, redland everywhere

I'll be glad when the flag goes up
It will be clear what is right and wrong
I don't care about the leaders and the theories
But I know I'd just like a change

I'll be glad when the flag goes up
There'll be new names for the streets and the cities
Study the lives of the great new heros
I won't be happy but I'll be relieved

Redland, red
And my house is burning
Redland, red
What took you so long
Well it really won't matter (when it's)
Redland, redland everywhere
 


This may not be 'banging' enough for fractionman but it's got a good bit about 'hanging', so close enough.
 
For the day that's in it.



A few more, just links as embedded vids hog machine resources.

- WW2 soviet tune, many versions out there but I like this one by some Russian girl with a fantastic voice.
From the Patrick Rotman docu, need id.
First few lines are terrible but it gets better. Useless guitar riff though.
Belgian (!) Oi (!!) which is quite acceptable.
Chinese cultural revolution classic, up there with Liu Shao-Chi Is A Deviationist Clique Reactionary, Long Live The Third Corp Of The Rebel Army Of The Shanghai Artisans' Apprentices, and of course Those Who Seek To Damage The National Economy By Sabotaging Production Opposing Chairman Mao And The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution And By Corrupting The Revolutionary Will Of The Masses With Material Interests And Letting Bourgeois Ideas Run Amok Must Be Arrested Without Delay By The Ministry Of Public Safety And Severely Punished (I'm Talkin' 2 U Bitch).
 


is a song against war

The Siege of Leningrad, also known as The Leningrad Blockade (Russian: блокада Ленинграда (transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from September 9, 1941, to January 18, 1943, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the Soviets. The total lifting of the siege occurred on January 27, 1944. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest and most destructive sieges of major cities in modern history and it was the second most costly.

the songs in different languages: http://www.wysotsky.com/

During the Siege of Leningrad, I grew up.
I was a skinny feisty little lad.
Bearing witness, I saw how foodstuffs burned up.
I stood in line for the precious bread.

My dear Noble Citizens,
Were you the most innocent?
When we lost count counting the dead?
You ate bread with some caviar, -
While I thought how great we are.
I smoked butts of utter crap and my face turned red

Snow flurries even grounded the birds,
And thieves could find nothing they could steal.
The angels took my parents. Damn! It hurts!
"To stumble"s the worst fear you can feel!

If you were hungry and drew breath
You starved with others and faced Death
All suffered equally, including the police.
While you in the evacuation
Read up on all the information
And heard the radio broadcast the latest "News Release"

The blockade seemed to go on forever
But Our people beat the Nazis HARD!
We couldve lived all satisfied Like cherubs up in Heaven,
If NOT for your obnoxious armed guard.

Ill smile but will NOT shake hands,
You, "citizens with armbands":
Dont touch my soul with your dirty paws!
Your private lives, exotic
And NOT so patriotic
Are known to the labor unions and people of the law.

© Eugene Derbarmdiker. Translation, 2006

1961, Vladimir Semënovič Vysotskij
 



Vysotsky is ironic.

An antisemites song

Im tired of being a gangster and bandit,
Ill join anti-Semites - its cool, safe and splendid!
They have on their side no laws and no orders,
But peoples support of these folks has no borders.

I made up my mind - and someone will be battered,
But who are these Semites - I must know better.
Perhaps, they are people quite decent and fair,
To touch those people, of course, I dont dare.

But one of my buddies, a boozer and cripple,
Explained that these Semites are Jews - its so simple!
Its fortune, its luck, so rare and dear,
I worry no more, since Ive nothing to fear!

On my reputation there was no swine stain -
I always respected this guy Albert Einstein,
Excuse me for being too tough and too vicious,
But Lincolns first name sounds very suspicious

Among them there are victims of hitlerism,
Among them this crank who made up communism,
You see those Jews everywhere around,
Including my fave, Charlie Chaplin, the clown.

But that old boozer - he told me, inspired,
That Jews suck our Christian blood like vampires,
And when we were drinking one man let me know
That they crucified Jesus Christ long ago.

They tortured to death in the zoo poor camels
These Jews feed on blood like on milk do the mammals,
I know these Jews stole bread from the nation
To cause epidemics and widespread starvation.

They grab all the best, and they win all the tosses;Theyve built classy villas and live like big bosses...
Im ready for beating, for looting, for crushing,
Ill kick those kikes and Ill save dear Russia.
 
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