Fan video with pictures: I haven’t been able to find decent live performances of many of the last batch of songs. I note that many of them are slower tempo numbers and may well have been phased out of Gogol … Continue reading
Fan video with pictures: Gogol Bordello has several songs that are pretty clearly anti-conformity. “Let’s Get Radical” is a prime example of this. In the lyrics, the singer is woken up by a girl who wants to go to Brighton … Continue reading
Fan video: “Haltura” is entirely in Russian (translations at both links). The word “Haltura” means: secondary work about which one is not serious or to which one is not fully committed; hackwork, moonlighting, freelancing…. Haltura is when you are pretending … Continue reading
I can’t find a decent live recording of this track, so here’s the album version: “Occurrence At The Border (Hopping On A Pogo-Gypsy Stick)” features some top notch guitar work by Oren Kaplan and Eugene Hütz. Its a kind of … Continue reading
3284. “When The Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind Of Guy)” by Gogol Bordello
Album version here. Live: Gogol Bordello’s second album was 2002′s Multi Kontra Cult Vs. Irony. While it was later surpassed in awesomeness by Gypsy Punk Underdog World Strike, its still a pretty sweet album. The album opens with the hilarious … Continue reading
3283. “Mishto” by Gogol Bordello
Album version here. Live: “Mishto” is a word that literally means “good,” as in “How are you?”/”I’m good.” But the lyrics are really beside the point in regards to this song. Indeed, while I know there is some singing in … Continue reading
3282. “Undestructable” by Gogol Bordello
Album version here. Live, with the song “Baro Foro” “Undestructable” starts around 3:00: To my ear, the musical star of “Undestructable” is accordion player Yuri Lemeshev. The little bit he plays after each chorus is the hook for the whole … Continue reading
Album version of the song is here. Live: “Santa Marinella” is apparently sung in a mix of Italian and Russian. Here’s some background on the song from a user named geetarzguy at the official Gogol Bordello forums (linked above): Santa … Continue reading
Album version here. Live: I’ve mentioned before that there are some songs that suffer from being between two great songs, but there are also some albums where I miss much of the end of the record because I hit a … Continue reading
3279. “Underdog World Strike” by Gogol Bordello
Album version here. Live (partial version – I recommend the album version in this case): In its own way, “Underdog World Strike” seems to be the most genuinely “punk rock” of Gogol Bordello’s Gypsy punk songs. It reminds me of … Continue reading