bucketfoot Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Day 85 - Baltic countries (Estonia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) Day 85 Estonia Spoiler Lithuania Spoiler Edited March 20, 2018 by Blackstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJean Baby Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 Day 86 - UK Central England (The Midlands) and East of England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Day 86 - The Midlands Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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marlingrl03 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Day 85- Estonia Day 86- The Midlands in England Spoiler 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Day 86 - UK Midlands (Sheffield counts as Midlands, right?) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fourteenbeers Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) Day 86 - UK Central England (Midlands) Edited March 21, 2018 by Fourteenbeers 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Blackstar Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Day 86 - The Midlands and East of England Northampton Suffolk Nottingham Spoiler Hereford Spoiler Coventry Spoiler Birmingham Spoiler 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bucketfoot Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Day 88 - Greece Spoiler 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Powerage5 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Day 87 - North Australia Day 88 - Greece 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlingrl03 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 I tried my hardest to find music from Northern Australia, no luck. I did try! :/ Here is my choice for Greece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJean Baby Posted March 23, 2018 Author Share Posted March 23, 2018 Day 89 - Northern Canada (Yukon, orth West Territories, Nunavut, settlements of the Inuit People, northern parts of Ontario and Quebec. Cities like Yellow Knife, Whitehorse, Thunder Bay and Sudbury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) Day 88 Greece And we came to "my" day, so I'll post even more than I usually do I'll start with Greek rock bands singing in English Spoiler Stoner rock is probably what we mostly produce currently in this respect. Nightstalker (posted by @BlueJean Baby) is the oldest and most known band. There are a few others, like: And something with Greek lyrics by a band that incorporates Greek folk elements, like clarinet (I think I've posted them again in another challenge when we were required to post something from our country) Spoiler This band moved to L.A. a few years ago and made some connections there. They have been signed to Lemmy's label, Steve Ablini engineered one of their albums and Tom Zutaut was involved with them. They have been hyped among some underground circles. Tbh I don't see anything in them that can justify the hype (on the contrary), but anyway... Spoiler The two most (relatively) successful bands outside Greece (both from the 70s) were Aphrodite's Child (posted by @bucketfoot) and this one (Vangelis was involved with them too for this album): Spoiler And two of the most popular anglophone bands locally in the 80s and 90s and also successful outside Greece within the limits of their genres (psychedelic rock and garage punk): Some of the most popular and acclaimed rock bands and artists singing in Greek: Spoiler Spoiler The name of this band translates as "Babies On Fire" (from the Brian Eno song): But I have to post this collaboration "gem" too Spoiler Edited March 23, 2018 by Blackstar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 34 minutes ago, Blackstar said: Day 88 Greece And we came to "my" day, so I'll post even more than I usually do I'll start with Greek rock bands singing in English Reveal hidden contents Stoner rock is probably what we mostly produce currently in this respect. Nightstalker (posted by @BlueJean Baby) is the oldest and most known band. There are a few others, like: And something with Greek lyrics by a band that incorporates Greek folk elements, like clarinet (I think I've posted them again in another challenge when we were required to post something from our country) Reveal hidden contents This band moved to L.A. a few years ago and made some connections there. They have been signed to Lemmy's label, Steve Ablini engineered one of their albums and Tom Zutaut was involved with them. They have been hyped among some underground circles. Tbh I don't see anything in them that can justify the hype (on the contrary), but anyway... Reveal hidden contents The two most (relatively) successful bands outside Greece (both from the 70s) were Aphrodite's Child (posted by @bucketfoot) and this one (Vangelis was involved with them too for this album): Reveal hidden contents And two of the most popular anglophone bands locally in the 80s and 90s and also successful outside Greece within the limits of their genres (psychedelic rock and garage punk): Some of the most popular and acclaimed rock bands and artists singing in Greek: Reveal hidden contents Reveal hidden contents The name of this band translates as "Babies On Fire" (from the Brian Eno song): But I have to post this collaboration "gem" too Reveal hidden contents Great stuff. I'll be giving all of that a listen, love a bit of stoner rock anyway (listening to Planet of Zeus atm and it's very good) and Barb Wire Dolls is certainly a great name. Also, thanks for giving us Vangelis, well not you but.... thank you Greece. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 That Ian Gillan video. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 29 minutes ago, bucketfoot said: Great stuff. I'll be giving all of that a listen, love a bit of stoner rock anyway (listening to Planet of Zeus atm and it's very good) and Barb Wire Dolls is certainly a great name. I've got a part 2 coming up but it isn't rock. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Day 89 - Northern Canada (Nunavut) This is weird shit but she's the first artist that came to mind when I saw Inuit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 (edited) Day 88 Greece part 2 Greek popular music. The current majority of it sucks, so I'll post mostly stuff from past decades. Due to geographical and historical factors, Greek music has both western and eastern elements. Rebetiko, a musical genre played by Greeks living in Asia Minor and then migrating in Greece as refugees after WWI, was the basis of urban Greek popular music. A song from the opening scene of a movie about the history of rebetiko (interwoven with Greek history): Spoiler Another repost from the other time. The two earliest recordings of Misirlou (known from the Dick Dale surf version), both by Greek immigrants in the U.S and sung in Greek. The first one is more "oriental", the other closer to rebetiko: Spoiler Spoiler A "neo-rebetiko" written by one of the most acclaimed Greek composers. It's from a 60s neorealist film. The same composer wrote this song, the English version of which was covered by The Beatles (Paul wanted to do it, John thought it was cheesy ): Spoiler A neo-traditional song by another composer: It's been common here to set poetry to music. This an exampe of it and also of fusing Greek music with rock. The singer has a good rock voice and is very popular but also despised by many because he's seen as something like the Greek Bono And a song called "August", which blends western and eastern elements (the latter are mainly the vocals): Two movie themes written by another famous Greek composer: Spoiler And some classical One of the greatest sopranos of all time: Spoiler Nikos Skalkotas, like classical composers in other countries, wrote music inspired by Greek dances Spoiler Edited March 24, 2018 by Blackstar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BlueJean Baby Posted March 24, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 24, 2018 Day 90 - U.S. State of California From Hollywood, California 😆 This has been a really challenging challenge, but it was fun. I will open a new challenge thread tonight. Thanks to @Blackstar for all the hard work in getting one geographically correct, that was a challenge within itself 😉 Hope to see you in the new thread 😆 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Dog Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 90...Cali Spoiler Spoiler 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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