Polish patriotic songs with anticommunist message

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Edited by: pawian Aug 31, 10, 19:01 #1

On such days as today, I become patriotically sentimental.

A few songs about Poland, all my favourite:

John Wiśniewski has Fallen - about a massacre of workers by communist forces in 1970. It taught workers how to properly organize protests and 10 years later they won:

A song for my daughter, a song about strikes against communist dictators in August 1980.

Armour, by Jacej Kaczmarski, about martial law and Polish patriotic resistance

Have Hope, a song to a poem by Adam Asnyk in 19 century but adopted for the needs of 20 century

And we don`t want to escape from here, generally about Polishness:

Jest takie miejsce, jest taki kraj - There is such a place, there is such a country - generally about Polishness:
Nice performance on stage

Bad performance, but with nice views of Polish landscape:

Not a song but a BBC report from 1 May 1983 about anticommunist riots in Warsaw. See the communist police beating old people, including women. And they thought they would evetually prevail? Morons.... :):):):)

And one more film about anticommunist demonstrations in 1982.

What are your favourite patriotic songs?

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Aug 31, 10, 19:11 #2

The first intro sounds like the start of Psycho Killer by Talking Heads.

The second one like The House of the Rising Sun by the Animals.

The third sounds a little Spanish but is Polish right enough.

The fourth one sounds like it's from the Balkans.

The fifth one from a musical.

The sixth one could be the Polish Evita.

The last one is too sentimental for me.

Typically Polish music, Pawian. The national anthem is pretty patriotic ;)

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Edited by: pawian Aug 31, 10, 19:21 #3

Seanus:

The first intro sounds like the start of Psycho Killer by Talking Heads.
The last one is too sentimental for me.
Typically Polish music, Pawian. The national anthem is pretty patriotic ;)

It seems you like beating records. In less than 10 minutes you listened to all seven songs. Congrats!

I hope you realise what I hint at? I mean that you could spare yourself this cheap comment. It is not the music which counts, though it is great and I don`t care what it resembles or reminds one of, but message in the lyrics. I am afraid you will have to work it out for a bit longer time. :):):):)

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Aug 31, 10, 19:28 #4
Thanks, Pawian ;) Some messages were important, yes.

aphrodisiacThreads: 22 Posts: 3,998 Joined: Apr 15, 09 ♀	Edited by: aphrodisiac Aug 31, 10, 19:34 #5
I like this one, which in my mind described those times as well. Jacek Kaczmarski (RIP) Pawian, there is a line I remember from one of the songs from the period, I think it is Kaczmarski as well: wejdzmy w wode glebiej kochani, dosyc tego brodzenia przy brzegu, zanurzylismy juz po kolana, nasze nogi zmeczone po biegu........?????

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Edited by: Paulina Aug 31, 10, 20:19 #6

aphrodisiac:

there is a line I remember from one of the songs from the period, I think it is Kaczmarski as well:
wejdzmy w wode glebiej kochani,
dosyc tego brodzenia przy brzegu,

zanurzylismy juz po kolana,

nasze nogi zmeczone po biegu........?????

It's "Świadkowie" ("Witnesses"):

Lyrics:
http://www.textofsong.com/teksty-piosenek/j/jacekkaczmarski/swiadkowie

I also like "Obława" :) I've read it's a modified translation of Vladimir Vysotsky's "Охота на волков"?

And I like "Mury" ("Walls"). It was an anthem of Solidarity movement:

I've read it was inspired by melody and lyrics of "L'Estaca" by Lluís Llach.
"Mury" is prophetic in a way with this "And the walls grow, grow, grow"...

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Aug 31, 10, 20:36 #7

Paulina:

It's "Świadkowie" ("Witnesses"):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbGxr98apNY
Lyrics:
http://www.textofsong.com/teksty-piosenek/j/jacekkaczmarski/swiadkowie

thank you for that. I have not heard this song in ages and it takes me to a really sentimental times in my life:). What a great song that is.

Paulina:

I also like "Obława" :) I've read it's a modified translation of Vladimir Vysotsky's "Охота на волков"?

I think I knew that. Vysocki was great.

Paulina:

And I like "Mury" ("Walls"). It was an anthem of Solidarity movement:

that is right.

Thanks a lot Paulina:)

PaulinaThreads: 2 Posts: 561 Joined: Jan 31, 08 ♀	Aug 31, 10, 20:40 #8
aphrodisiac: Thanks a lot Paulina:) My pleasure :)

Mr GrunwaldThreads: 34 Posts: 2,358 Joined: Dec 16, 08 ♂	Aug 31, 10, 21:39 #9
A little anti-occupant message One little episode with looking down at a famous building in Warsaw ;P But in general PATRIOTA! :D

EurolaThreads: 6 Posts: 2,647 Joined: Dec 2, 06 ♀	Sep 1, 10, 05:06 #10
Wow! Thanks for the beautiful songs. He was in Chicago in 1982 or 1983 and I went to see the concert. people cried when he was singing this. 'Zeby Polska byla Polską' Jan Pietrzak

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Edited by: pawian Oct 15, 11, 21:58 #11

Krystyna Prońsko - Psalm of Queuers -1980

Sorry, I cannot translate as nicely as Boletus:

What is this queue standing for?
For somberness/drabness
What are you waiting for in it?
For old age.
What will you buy when you reach the counter?
Exhaustion.
What will you bring home?
Stony doubt.

Be like a stone, stand, endure,
One day these stones will move
And they will run like an avalanche
through the night.

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