Any good communist or socialist music?

[Kosoma]

recently, i've really began liking communist tunes - whether it is the internationale anthem, or soundtracks for cold war games, the music gives me shivers. Even oldies from ussr that make anyone nostalgic - this is the music i like.
do you guys have any ideas or suggestions for this type of music? what video games have awesome authoritarian soundtracks? army marches? soviet style rock?
please share

[tachosomoza]

Paul Robeson did a beautiful rendition of the Soviet National Anthem.

[Comrade J]

recently, i've really began liking communist tunes - whether it is the internationale anthem, or soundtracks for cold war games, the music gives me shivers. Even oldies from ussr that make anyone nostalgic - this is the music i like.
do you guys have any ideas or suggestions for this type of music? what video games have awesome authoritarian soundtracks? army marches? soviet style rock?
please share

Communism = stateless, classless society in which workers own and control the means of production. Not a brutal repressive dictatorship or oligarchy.

You say you want 'authoritarian soundtracks' yet communism is intrinsically anti-authoritarian. Welcome to the site anyway, when you read around a bit you might have a better idea about communism and the different schools of thought within.

The song I like most is A La Barricadas, a song the Spanish anarchists sung in the Civil War against Franco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHANDPKLUJ0

However, I think some members of the left are way too caught up in nostalgic soviet and spanish revolutionary songs, like everything they do is a tribute to some old glorious age. So this is about the only song I like, and even then only because it's in the Ken Loach movie Land and Freedom.

[Kosoma]

there was a socialist/communist society in which the music happened, and there was authority that foresaw that this society functioned well. but i meant only to describe the music as evoking the feelings of authority or community, and yes, even nostalgia.

[Nicolai]

System of a Down perhaps? Although I don't know of many English artists when it comes to leftist music.

Although ironic, I like the Red Army Choir, might check it out.
( And hi everyone; this is my first post :bored:)

[mattieire]

Look up Dropkick Murphys,there on the left and are pretty sweet aswell :)

(also my first post :laugh:)

[Niall]

the clash?

[Chris]

Ivan Baranov has modern communistic rock from Russia, as well as the band Eshelon.

Ivan Baranov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBhcOd9ZQRM
Eshelon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAMYb7aTyhU



( And hi everyone; this is my first post :bored:)

Welcome! What part of Norway are you from?

[DDR]

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[Apoi_Viitor]

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[Niall]

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[Vendetta]

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[Minima]

oh look up vput by the soviet army choir on youtube. that is something i want to sing while marching on the mass graves of capitalists. =)

also fanfare for a common man by Copland. it'll raise the hairs on your back and other parts of your body I won't mention.

[MaximMK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwE56y-THM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwE56y-THM)

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[Lord Testicles]

Edit: Should have read the op.

[RedSunRising]

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[Rooster]

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:rolleyes:

Incidentally, Tetris was invented in the USSR.

[☭The Revolution☭]

Click on the radio tab at the top of this page.

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

ANYTHING by Bert Brecht and Kurt Eisler...

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[bailey_187]

theres some, but generally it shits, and non-communist music is better

[Rooster]

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Here's a documentary about the history of the Internationale.

[Ocean Seal]

theres some, but generally it shits, and non-communist music is better
I would dismiss this as a troll attempt if I didn't know you better.

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[bailey_187]

yeeeeee, erm, thanks for proving my point

[thesadmafioso]

http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php

This is a pretty decent source of downloadable songs which pertain to the sort of genre which I think you are looking for.

[∞]

Why do you need to integrate music and your political views together?

[thesadmafioso]

I don't think he is trying to integrate his musical taste and his political views so much as his political views give an added degree of depth to this music.

[∞]

I don't think he is trying to integrate his musical taste and his political views so much as his political views give an added degree of depth to this music.

I find can depth out of a song even if it doesn't have political quality. In fact the highest regarded and my favorite songs are not political.

[thesadmafioso]

I find can depth out of a song even if it doesn't have political quality. In fact the highest regarded and my favorite songs are not political.

I'm certainly not saying that a song has to have an overt political connection to it for it to have depth, just that it can be a factor in it for some individuals.

[Magón]

Well outside the old Communist Hymns, there's always a band called The Last Internationale.

They're a small time band, but they've got some good modern songs about workers and other things pertaining to Class Struggle. Not all their songs, but they've got a few.

[Red Commissar]

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Its old and in Spanish but I like it. Bella Ciao is pretty good though there's a metric shitton of variants.

[RedSunRising]

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[Sam_b]

Ideology music tends to be lame.

[The Man]

Awesome ones, my personal favs:

The way this one is played, is amazing:

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This is good too:

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[MarxSchmarx]

... generally it shits, and non-communist music is better

Great. Then you have your choice of a gazillion radio and TV stations, every other pretentious prick in your life going on about some dead guy whose music is now played in elevators or a band that remains obscure because their music is lame and derivative, and copious internet matter dedicated to non-communist music.

As to the OP's request to have a little corner of the cyberspace that they don't have to be inundated with mass-produced rubbish that actually tries to speak to a better world:

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[Rooster]

Ah, militaristic communist songs? Ha, why didn't this one to come mind.

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[Ocean Seal]

yeeeeee, erm, thanks for proving my point
I for one actually enjoy music constructed around socialist ideology (I don't just bear with it because it happens to be socialist).

[∞]

Well actually, this song is pretty badass. zZqVOFSYRWI

[ColonelCossack]

i like the red flag, even though its used by the most stupid, idiotic fucking betrayal of the working class that is new labour. The lyrics and the tune, though, make me feel even more nostalgic than when I listen to the Internationale.

[Nicolai]

Welcome! What part of Norway are you from?

Noticed I never replied to you~ I'm from the south-eastern part, born in Vestfold.