Red Army Choir

[stpalm]

I downloaded a bunch of these Soviet military songs. now, I hate Soviets and their totalitarian shit, but this is good music! So bombastic and militaristic!

Check out "Farewell to Slavinkia"

so kickass

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. I have a Commie-related guilty pleasure too

Socialist housing. Now, I've seen plenty of social housing in both Eastern and Western Europe. I've seen it from the ground, in the air, and I've lived in it too, so I know that as functional architecture it sucks, but sometimes it can have a weird austere grandeur to it. I know I shouldn't get visual pleasure from these clifflike precast blocks set in wide fields or arranged in mesmerizing repeats, but I do.

[stpalm]

4. played Half Life 2?

City 17 takes place in a landscape like that

[Briarius]

2. yea, they have a cool sound

there's some of their stuff on The Hunt for Red October soundtrack and I've got some others, it's really cool stuff! I really like 'The Sacred War' and the Volga boat song, as stereotypical as that is.

[stpalm]

3. Other good ones:

"There March the Soliders"
"We Are the Red Cavalry"

hows that for a stereotypical soviet nationalist totalitarian propaganda?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Red Army Chorus fans should see the film Total Balalaika Show

which is about a joint outdoor concert between the Red Army Chorus and a crazy Finnish band called the Leningrad Cowboys.

You haven't lived until you've heard the Red Army Chorus sing "Delilah" and "Sweet Home Alabama." :-)