Some Czechoslovak music - Soviet-Empire.com U.S.S.R.

Neuron

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01 Aug 2011, 00:11

I, as a Slovak, love this stuff

Neuron

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07 Dec 2011, 17:24

Is everybody here interested just in "glorious" sounding march songs singing about "the Motherland" rather than, you know, the stuff actually people listened and listen to?

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07 Dec 2011, 19:43

Neuron, I didn't see this post before (it might have been posted during one of the many periods in which I was suspended or banned), but these songs are excellent! Thank you for sharing.

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07 Dec 2011, 19:44

By the way, what do you think about the band "Plastic People of the Universe"?

I also have a friend that LOVES the bands Už Jsme Doma and Budoár staré dámy. Have you heard of them?

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07 Dec 2011, 21:24

Thank you very much for going through my links

.I heard of Plastic People, but never heard their music. I've not heard of these 2 bands

. The old Czechoslovak bands I know and listened to are mostly those whose LP records my father has brought back in socialist times and now reside in my drawer

. My phonograph has screwed up a few months ago through..., so I listen to them on my computer.

By the way, which of the music I linked to do you like the most?

khlib

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07 Dec 2011, 21:47

I am really digging The Matadors and Modus

PPU was a Czech band that Vaclav Havel was a big fan of. I do not enjoy their music at all, but you can find it on youtube.

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From January into August 1968, under the rule of Communist Party leader Alexander Dubček, Czechoslovakians experienced the Prague Spring. In August, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. This led to the overthrow of Dubček and to what came to be known as the normalization process. Less than a month after the invasion, Plastic People of the Universe was formed.
Bassist Milan Hlavsa formed the band which was heavily influenced by Frank Zappa (Plastic People being a song by Zappa and the Mothers of Invention) and the Velvet Underground in 1968...
In 1976, the Plastics and other people from underground were arrested and put on trial (after performing at the Third festival of the second culture) by the Communist government to make an example. They were convicted of "organized disturbance of the peace" and sentenced to terms in prison ranging from 8 to 18 months...
It was in protest of these arrests and prosecution that led playwright Václav Havel and others to write the Charter 77.

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07 Dec 2011, 21:59

I like the Matadors and Modus very much too (I just listened to some Modus a few minutes ago in fact), through my most favourite band of these is Elán, been listening to it since I was a little kid.

Vaclav Havel was a scumbag who sold Czechoslovakia and who tried to project a victim image onto himself while he had a Mercedes car and an IBM PC compatible computer, something that even the president did not have as far as I know. The 1989 revolution in CSSR was pretty much the blueprint for all the West funded "Color revolutions" to follow on later.

Dubcek, however is a hero. I really respect and like that man. Shame the new post-1989 leadership probably mudered him by tampering with his car which resulted in an "accidental" car crash. Then all fake communists ex-secret police vultures suddenly presented themselves as "dissidents" and mass robbery was done on our republic, resulting in our split up. All this happened while real communists and loyal, working class party members like my grandfather still live with pensions around 450 Euros per months.

khlib

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07 Dec 2011, 22:13

I took a few classes on Czechoslovak literature, and the only works we read were by dissidents and anti-communist in nature. My professors all praised havlev as a hero, which I guess is to be expected among the emigre population.

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07 Dec 2011, 22:19

khlib wrote:
I took a few classes on Czechoslovak literature, and the only works we read were by dissidents and anti-communist in nature. My professors all praised havlev as a hero, which I guess is to be expected among the emigre population.

Emigres can praise such people all they want, because they don't have to live in the mess that these "dissidents" created. They bring shame to actual dissidents who wanted to actually improve their country.

I'd rather talk about music through

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07 Dec 2011, 22:44

Neuron wrote:

Emigres can praise such people all they want, because they don't have to live in the mess that these "dissidents" created. They bring shame to actual dissidents who wanted to actually improve their country.

I'd rather talk about music through

It always amuses me that none of these people ever want to move back home, now that capitalism reigns.

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08 Dec 2011, 20:35

Some more Modus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6M26Z4EuY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMMnzviI3Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_VjedZx7KA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Vly_Kl ... re=related

By the way, some of you might have noticed I have a new avatar. It is the 1960-1989 Czechoslovak Coat of Arms.

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26 Jan 2012, 18:27

I know this thread is a bit old, but I was wondering if you could provide more links to new wave synth-pop general electronic music from that era in czechoslovakia? I liked the ones you posted, it has a very unique sound to it. I had only heard hungarian new wave before this, really good.

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