@wallhackio "Evening song", about Leningrad (a different city, also relatively far up north, but not that far), by the singer Mark Bernes
@wallhackio Not sure, have you heard this song yet? Con el alma llena de banderas, by Quilapayún, from Chile.
@wallhackio If you haven't heard of Quilapayún, here's them singing about nationalizing the copper: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oktSWkfcRQs
They also performed this classic, which you probably have heard: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_qQj25KaUE
I can't send you a cool song from Yemen, because, as I said, YouTube took the channel down 
@wallhackio A song from the Palestinian resistance (unfortunately I basically don't know Arabic, so I can't translate...): https://youtube.com/watch?v=SFCdt3xjYJ4
@wallhackio Also Arabic, unfortunately I don't know whose song or the translation of the lyrics... I wish I did, I really like the melody...
@wallhackio It wouldn't be Vaporeon 
music thread if I didn't add at least one Pokémon melody: https://youtube.com/watch?v=85t-XbzRzTA
@wallhackio We are seamen, Iran, https://youtube.com/watch?v=ztaHVt0AeS4
As a Vaporeon of the sea , I approve
@wallhackio "At the call of comrade Lenin", which is basically a translation of the famous communist song По долинам и по взгорьям to English & Hindi
@wallhackio Utho meri duniya, performed by Laal, from Pakistan
The video has English subtitles: https://youtube.com/watch?v=owHGL8ZG0WI
@wallhackio Here's a catchy Soviet song about the youth flying to the taiga for construction projects: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cCou_BWKg1A
Modern performance of a song about the mountaineers who fought in the mountains during World War 2: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uY56sQr8NvA
@wallhackio Iran
🎵
The enemy shall know that we are the roaring wave
We are born of the sea, sons of the storm
(Also a lot of other lyrics, but you know that Vaporeon sees lyrics about the sea and goes "🫵 water")
@wallhackio Death to America, by Hamed Zamani: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LXaYxS4IqkI
Another song by the same singer, "What if Khamenei gave orders of jihad?": https://youtube.com/watch?v=9FkUbetIYd0
@wallhackio I suppose that's enough for now
But if you want more suggestions, just ask, I have a lot more, there are 45 gigabytes in my music directory
@wallhackio Here's a song about the Communist Party of Vietnam: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vq8gTyRE6wo
@wallhackio Arriba en la Cordillera, Patricio Manns, from Chile: https://youtube.com/watch?v=moCSOP4Y2KU
@wallhackio Al-Deffa, Autostrad, from Palestine, https://youtube.com/watch?v=O19pg8-YzIM
@wallhackio Georgian folk song გაფრინდი შავო მერცხალო https://youtube.com/watch?v=RBahtSW34ak
I do not know Georgian at all, but I found this PDF with a translation on the 2nd page: https://people.brandeis.edu/~burt/gaprindi.pdf
@wallhackio "I will forever be your son", by the Korean People's Army State Merited Chorus, https://youtube.com/watch?v=nAcYD2PC0wk
(Let me know if I need to stop sending you music, at this point I'm just sending you what I'm listening to at that moment, I am having fun sharing it with someone, but I have no idea whether you're even still interested)
@vaporeon_ keep them coming!
@wallhackio Understood, will keep them coming 
Here's the song 노들강변 ("Nodul Riverside"), this video has both a performance by Moranbong Band from the north of Korea, and also by Song So Hee from the south: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7GKh08VbGDc
And here's a much older recording of the same song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=10s3IUGjMr4
@wallhackio If you're OK with pop music, there's this, "City girl comes to village to get married", https://youtube.com/watch?v=4VjeuthVOI8
(But also, if you haven't done so yet, do listen to the "Nodul Riverside" song, I think it's really nice)
@wallhackio Another Korean pop song, the song itself is whatever, but the video has some really weird CGI 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RriEmnNVj88
@wallhackio Here's a song from a film
이 내 마음 나라를 지켜 / My heart, defending the country
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xaxuqftHQgo
If I had a lot more artistic skills, I would draw the two people from the video as Umbreon & Espeon
@wallhackio Some songs from south Korea, for a change:
반미반전가 / Song against America, against war
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0dr2G1UeuKo
들어라 양키야 / Listen, Yankee
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ZJZFdjpmDA
@wallhackio Here's a song about peasants taking revenge on their landlord, performed by the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ms87gWtI9Y4
@wallhackio "Righteousness is my weapon", Julia Boutros, from Lebanon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7lOA1zqag24
@wallhackio "Where are the millions?" https://youtube.com/watch?v=CzXs7CDz21I
(There is a translation in the subtitles)
@wallhackio أطلق نيرانك , Julia Boutros, https://youtube.com/watch?v=AWu2NsnP2MY
@wallhackio Have you heard this one yet? Might be a well-known song, I'm not sure, but sending it just in case
Tiến Về Sài Gòn / Onward to Saigon
Here's a version with English subtitles: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LOtdu1on2aI
Here's another (more recent?) performance that I like: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pR06brbzXoA
@wallhackio There are also these:
Giải phóng Miền Nam / Liberate the South: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A870-v6ujbI
Mỗi Bước Ta Đi / Every step we take: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fRZUoaJR5ns
@wallhackio Relatedly, I think the anthem of Vietnam is very beautiful
Tiến Quân Ca
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SceSkkRtC2s
@wallhackio For something completely different, here's a traditional (or at least traditional-style?) music from Mongolia:
The Camel, by Khusugtun, https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pjqszdpy3BY
@wallhackio Apparently our instance limit is 50MB and not 25MB, so here's that song from Yemen that I wanted to share
The video has subtitles
"Aden said"
(Aden is a city in Yemen)
@wallhackio More music for you!
From Yemen, by the Creative Production Unit of Ansar Allah (you know, the ones who did the shipping blockade)
But unfortunately I don't know what the song is about, it looks different from their average military song production
I really should learn Arabic at some point...
@wallhackio Here's a song from Palestine
من فوق الأرض وتحتها من لجج البحر وجوها
Over the ground and under the ground, in the sea and in the air
(There's 30 seconds of Abu Obeida talking at the beginning, the song itself starts after that)
@wallhackio На Марсе будут яблони цвести / Apple trees will bloom on Mars
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0YQFBZOo6ks
@vaporeon_ i'm not gonna favorite any more of these because there's so many but don't interpret that as me losing interest!
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio I will say, I am impressed that even as varied as my music taste is, across many genres, you have found music to which I can say, "I don't think I could listen to this"
@The_T @wallhackio Now I'm curious which of these made you say "I don't think I could listen to this"
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio I'm not sure... I think most of the ones I clicked on (not many) were, kind of folks-y music? Which is the one genre I've always struggled to vibe with. The other thing is that I don't think I listen to any music that isn't either English or Japanese...
@The_T @wallhackio The Ti doesn't listen to music that isn't in English
Vaporeon thinks there is basically no good music that is in English
I suppose then it makes sense that their music preferences don't have anything in common...
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio There's a lot of good music that's in English... and some of it is even radically left-leaning.
@The_T @wallhackio I must admit that this (in English) is a pretty good song
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BJH1Uolu7io
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio sure... but it's also painfully folksy...
@The_T @wallhackio What does that mean? 
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio it is the genre "folk music"
@The_T @wallhackio How do I recognize a song of the genre "folk music"? What makes it different from any other music?
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio teaching music genre theory is over my pay grade; but generally looking up an artist on Wikipedia will list what genre they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weavers
@vaporeon_ the first two paragraphs of this might also be worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre
I definitely think the most important part is that: genres are (socially) political, and can thus be contradictory or arbitrary.
@The_T @wallhackio Well, do you have any radical left music in Japanese? I could use some more of that, I only got 4 Japanese songs (not counting Pokémon ones, and those that are translations of songs from other languages) in my music folder...
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio I do not. My Japanese music falls into a few categories:
- Japanese Hip-Hop that is like 50% or more in English anyway.
- Vocaloid music that I enjoy because I play rhythm games.
- Tokusatsu theme songs.
- BABYMETAL.
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio The closest is for number 2, a song that appears to be about an alien girl falling in love with you, but is closer to a commentary on social isolation/being an outcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t1NMRse6aI
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio (turn on the subtitles, they're in English)
@vaporeon_ @The_T there's plenty of rap and punk with english lyrics that have radical messaging
@wallhackio @The_T > in Japanese
@vaporeon_ @The_T ah reading comprehension, my greatest enemy
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ regarding English... except for Chumbawamba, a lot of the songs I'd still call left-leaning, aren't wildly radical, but they're still meaningful enough in being anti-authoritarian or acknowledging of prejudice.
Some stuff that fits into that:
Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us (very much about racism and prejudice)
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Faith No More - We Care A Lot (a parody of charity concerts like Live Aid; there are 2 versions of it; I prefer the one on "Introduce Yourself")
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Nine inch Nails Mix) (it's the one that has a music video)
Pink Floyd - Animals (the entire album, but especially Dogs and Pigs (Three Different Ones))
Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name (I should listen to more of them, all of their songs are radical)
Ozzy Osborne - Crazy Train (to a much lesser extent; it's more of a "can we all please fucking chill and be nice to each other" song)
@The_T @wallhackio I looked up the "I'm Afraid of Americans" one, and it doesn't seem particularly anti-american to me? I don't get the lyrics at all...
I don't get subtext, I need lyrics that make it obvious what the song's message is....
Can you send me the link to that one Chumbawamba song again? Maybe the lyrics, too?
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio I'm Afraid of Americans is written, from Bowie's point of view, of being someone un-American and the fear of becoming like Americans, complacent in it. Casually accepting the violence, casually accepting that everyone's just out for themself.
Some Chumbawumba ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqUBwlHld4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0Rf-N_FVE (might want to look up the lyrics to this one, the rapper in it has an accent that can be a little tricky)
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio lyrics for Enough is Enough: https://genius.com/Chumbawamba-enough-is-enough-lyrics
@The_T @wallhackio Just finished listening to the first one ("The day the nazi died"), that song is good
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio yeah, it helps that it is very unsubtle. Chumbawamba is wild; all their music is really anti-fascist, and then they had like one hit song that became a hit by accident, Tubthumping; which has pretty tame lyrics, is more of just a drinking song.
@vaporeon_ @The_T the day the nazi died by chumbawamba is a must-listen
@wallhackio @The_T Anyway, what does Clodsire think of this song? I think the part starting at 02:45 can be considered rap? IDK, I don't understand music genres
@vaporeon_ @The_T what language is this?
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio definitely not rap; I'd just call it rock, kind of pop rock-y? But I do like the sound of it, instruments wise.
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio oh I skipped ahead and yeah it has a rap in it; which is characteristic of nu metal; this sounds like a very light form of nu metal, like Evanescence's Wake Me Up would be
@vaporeon_ @The_T clodsire likes this :]
as for whether the bridge is rap, it is an interesting debate imo. it might "literally" be rap but it doesn't "feel" like rap music
like "360" by charli xcx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsHeOi4c0Y) features monotone vocal delivery over a repetitive instrumental. and its braggadocious like much modern rap music is. but i wouldn't call it rap
i would argue that aesthetic and feel are just as important to rap music as the literal form
@wallhackio
Bandiera Ħamra, which is a Maltese version of the Italian song Bandiera Rossa: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TabK4ExS2m0
@wallhackio Chantons notre victoire, from Benin: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vqQf5mPi8
@wallhackio I'm surprised that someone is finally interested in the music that I like (often, it feels like nobody else on here likes the same music...), but I appreciate it!
Here's a song from about friendship between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Madagascar, in Malagasy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HqUBJQ81I2I
Regretfully, I do not know anything about the history of Madagascar... Or how to learn about it...
(May I ask what you mean with too many? Does your instance have limits on the number of favourites that you can place? It was somewhat useful as a sign of that you have actually seen my post, but of course I can't tell you what to do)