"The People's Anthem" and college football
Brian called attention to this but it's already been shoved down the front page. An epic job by Spencer Hall (of Every Day Should Be Saturday) matching up college football coaches/mascots with old Soviet propaganda posters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTozWGHYWk
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:00 PM ^
and the Horst Wessel Lied playing?
I mean as long as we are using the music and propaganda of murderous regimes...
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:19 PM ^
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:31 PM ^
It's a joke. I mean, if anything, a hardcore Communist might be offended by the use of the anthem and propanganda images to celebrate something as "insignificant" as college football.
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:00 PM ^
I absolutely lost it the first time with the Goldy/cow picture, and the Gameday crew shot. Unbelievable.
Now if Spencer would only reupload that Lee Corso Slo-Jam from eons ago...
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:00 PM ^
EDIT: Double
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:03 PM ^
Apparently this is the first and probably only Soviet propaganda rap album. Just in case anyone needs some tailgaiting music.
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:04 PM ^
True, it's not strong.
That being said... Soviet rock music is pretty, pretty, pretty good.
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:23 PM ^
Wasn't trying to say anything one way or another. Don't speak the language and don't have any kind of context to make a judgement on beats, plus I'd completely miss any samples on the off chance they were used over there circa 1984.
I did think it was interesting, but I'll defer to you on "not strong".
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:39 PM ^
Naw, man, didn't think you were. I mean, the album is called "Rap," but.. It's really a lot more like Grandmaster Flash mixed with rock than anything else that came after that we would consider "rap" in 1984. An oddity, and kind of surprising that it's the only one, considering so much of Soviet music (both official and underground) was so effective at mimicking just about every other style of Western music. Rock, reggae, punk, New Wave, jazz, heavy metal, even a little funk... They just never really got to rap.
Also, calling it "propaganda" is a little misleading--Soviet popular music of the rock/Western variety didn't tend to be propaganda--it was either underground music critical of the state, or officially released material deemed acceptable enough. "Rap" was samizdat--it wasn't released by the official channels.
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:49 PM ^
I noticed the same in (I believe) the second and fourth or fifth sound, re: Grandmaster Flash style. That's a bit earlier than my taste goes, but from what I know wouldn't be surprising at the time it was recorded.
With a language barrier you're pretty much left to the description you're given, and I trusted the guy who retweeted it (Rice history prof).
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:03 PM ^
That translates to something like:
"Milkmaid, let's achieve rich yield of milk of each forage cow! "
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:11 PM ^
More like "Milkmaids, let us strive for the greatest yield from each of our foraging cows!"
I assume they're not talking about that candy-ass two-percent or skim stuff.
September 3rd, 2015 at 7:11 PM ^