music

I love Toro y Moi so so so so much. This is so good.

Not sure if this counts as 'real' music as the creator states AI was used, but the song absolutely slaps and Disney's animated art style is so convincingly mimicked here. Also serves as great agitprop.

Don't you want me baby

lol Country Joe was born in Washington DC and named after

This song has been getting a lot of play lately. It's a very hard 80s folky rock song about wanting to avenge victims of the US-back Montt regime in Guatemala.

So what's the heel turn? In 2009, he performed the song for Canadian troops in Afghanistan. After,

Cockburn drew wild applause when he sang If I Had a Rocket Launcher, which prompted the commander of Task Force Kandahar, Gen. Jonathan Vance, to temporarily present him with a rocket launcher.

"I was kind of hoping he would let me keep it. Can you see Canada Customs? I don't think so," Cockburn said, laughing.

Now I'm imagining a young Cockburn in that Mexican refugee camp that wants a rocket launcher to shoot helicopters. Then a canadian soldiers gives him a rocket launcher and points towards the refugees where he can live out his actual dream of having a rocket launcher (justice be damned)

real hours

It feels so weird to see this song on Saturday Night live. It brings back a lot of nostalgia, but also hits different than then.

Edit: There's another one too, a song from their new album, The Moon Cave: https://youtu.be/ZU_7tlOHOfI

i am so fucking tired

The second part of the song sounds like something that could be in a Tony Hawk game

I was listening to a podcast about cultural imperialism and https://beehy.pe/ was mentioned - there's 100 people from around the world who hand-curate non-anglosphere music. This also means they're (I think) not sung in English

The singer is Viktor Saltykov, who you may also know as a vocalist in the '80s band Electroclub, who I might share later.

Translation altered from the one by PresidentofWhat on Lyricstranslate.

We met each other,
the waves rolled merrily along,
and the sea gave us a white sea foam surf.
Forgetting everything in the world,
we splashed like little children,
and the stark blue sky circled above us.

Day by day flew by,
and the blizzards arrived,
the snow-white storms surrounded our house.
We closed our eyes,
and again we sailed away
to those blue seas, not covered in ice.

[refrain]
We've shared happiness and sorrow
since the day we met.
You're like an islet in the open sea,
given to me by fate…
Islet x4

The wind dispersed the clouds with
the spring rain, so melodious
and I touched the branches of apple trees and the orchards all bloomed.
This meant, that soon -
we'd see the sea,
with this small miracle in the palm of Earth.

[refrain x2]