Comments on: Yu-Mex

Yu-Mex

mr_roboto — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:32:17 -0800

This is a small homage to hundreds of performers who covered themselves with sombreros to become Slavic Mexicans. (via memepool)

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:40:01 -0800

cool! i love cross-cultural mixes like this...this one just short-circuits my brain--the music, the lyrics--all of it. thanks!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:42:39 -0800

The music on this site is truly amazing. And it's a beutiful illustartion of th fact that gorgraphy is no longer the dictating factor in "folk" music and "pop" music is as "folk" as anything. Enjoy children.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:00:19 -0800

excellent stuff, thanks mr_roboto

By: alteredcarbon

alteredcarbon — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:34:58 -0800

Good music deserves good food, I am hungry for a mousaka burrito now...

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:35:35 -0800

Genius. Just genius.

By: Sir Mildred Pierce

Sir Mildred Pierce — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:41:13 -0800

How bizarre...!

By: cali

cali — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:50:50 -0800

I had no idea this existed.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:00:59 -0800

In 1948, the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito ... broke up with the Soviet leader Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin He never called. Plus, they had almost the same first name, and that's just tacky.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:36:58 -0800

This post is so cool! I was in a bierhall in Munich once & started noticing that German oompah music sounds an awful lot like the mariachi music I grew up hearing in San Diego. Turns out it was the other way around. This post was fascinating. Velika hvala! ("Thanks a lot" in Serbo-Croat...)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:14:14 -0800

The communist bloc and the cultural paranoia therein has led to some interesting musicl moments. In the sixties, teens behind the Iron Curtain wanted their rock and roll as much as the rest of the world, yet most of it was deemed to threatening and subversive. So they picked the form that they figured was the most harmess: surf instrumentals. Shoot the curl behind the Berlin Wall, dudes.