Gogol Bordello is a multi-efnik Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999… or possibly 1998.
60 revolutions per minute
This is my regular speed
So how do you want me to live with it?
How do you want me to live with it?
Without ringing all alarms!
Without overthrowing czars!
Without emptying the bars!
Without screwing with your charts!
60 revelations per minute
This is my regular need
So how do you want me to live with it?
How do you want me to live with it?
Without ringing all alarms!
Without overthrowing czars!
Without emptying the bars!
Without screwing with your charts!
I’m gathering new generation
That’s gonna stand up to it
To this karaoke, karaoke dictatorship
Where posers and models with guitars
Boogie to the shit for beats
I make a better rock revolution
Alone with my dick!
Without ringing all alarms!
Without overthrowing czars!
Without emptying the bars!
Without screwing with your charts!
Si lo mueve como lo bate que rico el chocolate
No esperarás que por alguien me mate
Without ringing all alarms!
Without overthrowing czars!
Without emptying the bars!
Without screwing with your charts!
60 por minuto es mi reputación
Y no te estoy hablando de revolución
Hace mucho tiempo que no te decían
Basta de injustica, muerte y policía
Digas lo que digas ya esta todo arreglado
Hagas lo que hagas te mandan deportado
El que tiene impone y sobre la ley dispone
Mientras que el pobre es pobre
Muere de hambre y otro se la come
Sonidelo nacional esta rumba Cuba…
Oh yeah, speaking of Gogol…
On Gogol Boulevard (OGB) was the irregular bulletin of New York City Neither East Nor West, networking East and West alternative oppositions and printing news and documents unavailable in the corporate and “left” media, using mostly material from Communist/ex-Communist countries. We singularly filled a void and we used this needed Eastern specialty as a doorway to incorporating concerns of “Third World” and “Fourth World” (land-based indigenous peoples) struggles, with a particular focus on supporting activists with anti-authoritarian and anti-Stalinist perspectives.
The OGB News Service had regular sections in The Shadow, Profane Existence, Fifth Estate, Black Fist and other papers and are now also published on the internet…
[The] title refers to Moscow’s Gogol Boulevard, a favorite hangout for counter-culture youth dissidents, anti-war, and human rights activists. On May 3, 1987 this milieu braved poking a hole in the Soviet dictatorship by organizing a small art exhibit/demonstration on Gogol Boulevard. It was met with a violent riot by plainclothes agents, police, and special internal forces soldiers. On May 4, blood was spilled again with Gogol Boulevard being raided and swept with mass arrests. On May 10 Gogol Boulevard witnessed one of the Glasnost era’s first ever youth demonstrations that openly called for human rights. Though also repressed, it was a formative event, and we take our name from that week. See you on Gogol Boulevard…
Next : http://flag.blackened.net/agony/nenw.html. Unfortunately, flag is down atm, so… I’ll dig through the archives for some of the original materials published by OGB (and its predecessors) and maybe then throw up on my blog.
“On May 3, 1987 this milieu braved poking a hole in the Soviet dictatorship by organizing a small art exhibit/demonstration on Gogol Boulevard.”
I wonder how the “milieu” is doing these days, I wonder if their toes are bravely poking through the holes of their free market thread bare socks?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol
Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice and socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.
Working in a forge, black lungs, burnt skin
Callouses, arched back, hammering, hammering
Stalin watching over us pigeon shit head
We’d spit on the floor at this red bastard god
That’s how grateful we are!
(Scrub away, scrub away)
Bronze statue, pink marble, built to last
We brought him to his knees in a single night
And the boots that remained I attacked, I attacked
Hammering, hammering, the past is past
That’s how grateful we are!
And the noise rang out, metal on metal
Pigeons flit, dust settled
Out from the shadows we took to the streets
David chopping at the giant’s feet
That’s how grateful we are!
(Scrub away, scrub away)
You still want to come? Too late, too late
We’re cut and we’re fallen like harvested wheat
But we lived on our feet, at least, at last
We will live on our feet, at least, at last
That’s how grateful we are!
Let’s give it up for the Golden Gate Quartet –
Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’
Stalin wasn’t stallin’
When he told the beast of Berlin
That they’d never rest contented
Til they had driven him from the land
So he called the Yanks and English
And proceeded to extinguish
The Fuhrer and his vermin
This is how it all began
Now the Devil he was reading
In the good book one day
How the lord created Adam
To walk the righteous way
And it made the Devil jealous
He turned green up to his horns
And he swore by things unholy
That he’d make one of his own
So he packed two suitcases
Full of grief and misery
And he caught the midnight special
Going down to Germany
Then he mixed his lies and hatred
With fire and brimstone
Then the devil sat upon it
That’s how Adolf was born
Now Adolf got the notion
That he was the master race
And he swore he’d bring new order
And put mankind in it’s place!
So he set his scheme in motion
And he was winning everywhere
Until he up and got the notion
For to kick that Russian bear
Yes he kicked that noble Russian
But it wasn’t very long
Before Adolf got suspicious
The he had done something wrong
Cause that bear grabbed the Fuhrer
And gave him an awful fright
Seventeen months he scrapped the Fuhrer
Tooth and claw, day and night
Then that bear smacked the Fuhrer
With a mighty armored paw
And Adolf broke all records
Running backward towards Krakaw
The Goebbels sent a message
To the people everywhere
That if they couldn’t hit the Fuhrer
Go down hit that Russian bear
Hi
Slightly off topic have you looked into the rise of far right micronations @ndy?
anon69,
Um… dunno. Please explain? (Has The Libertarian Party assumed power in Micronesia or…?)