Songs I’ll listen to
There are many songs in the Internet, so it’s impossible for us to listen to them. Thus, we should know how to choose, to separate the diamonds from the mud, as my friend Mitsos says. Below you can see some links (drum links) from which I plan to download some songs. I don’t believe I’ll download them because there are too many and I won’t manage to listen to them. They are formated as mp3 files and that is a great victory of the free software against the proprietary software, propiertary but always riddled wma of Microsoft, (because it’s very awful having a thing micro and soft 
) So, I wonder where the piracy is, if you have a commodity and you don’t have the time to listen to it. I’m afraid it has been converted to a non-commodity and that is a great fist against the commodity production. Anyway, if you want to listen to the songs you should click, like me, on the button “open” and not on the button “save”, because, as you know, you may be hunted by the record companies, since you should pay the bill of the possessed music just as you should pay for the oxygen you breathe, as the Kyoto Protocol has been buried by the USA. Because of the season I opened this page, I’ll begin with Christmas songs and I’ll go on with political songs. You may think it’s strange for this hint to be said by a marxist, but you should also think you probably have a false opinion on Marxism. Have a nice listening
Christmas songs
Christmas collections
Delta Club
Mariah Carey in Christmas songs
Child Xmas songs from group “Zouzounia”
Greek carols
Carols from all over the world
Political songs in various languages
Various anthems from Greek, Soviet, Russian to ND & PASOK parties.
Chinese songs
from the era during which China attempted something about socialism.
Two hungarian and two czech songs
I’ll try to find more. One of them is written on the music of the Soviet song “Partisans of Amur” which has been sung in many languages.
Political songs in uncommon languages.
Songs for Che Guevara
Arbeiter Einheitsfront,
The famous song of interwar in music of Eisler, lyrics of Brecht and jazz rythm. In this collection you’ll listen to various languages.
English (and American) songs
Because Britain and USA aren’t only Gordon Brown and George Bush; you’ll see the Obama’s works soon, oh poor Afganistan!
French songs
The famous Appel du Comintern is included (L’Internationale is a different song) , which has been written by Hanns Eisler & Franz Jahnke (in German of course) but its career was culminated after its translation in French by Mitch Abidor.
German songs
By a great bourgeois culture which was defamed by the nazi regime. We should not forget that the new inspiration on philosophy, mathematics and law flourished in Germany. I recall the nazi fanatic boy from “Cabaret” singing “Tomorrow belongs to me” and only the old proletarian foreseeing the horrible tomorrow of nazism as another prophet having seen the future of the German youth; the youth which was to be “destroyers for whose death noone grieves … sigh of relief is raised over their grave” as said another great German poet, Berthold Brecht.
Italian songs
They don’t need any recommendation. They come from the great italina partisan movement which was ended with the execution of Mussolini and his collaborators in front of the U.S. Army in opposition to some other countries, like Greece, in which the fascists were not only granted by an amnesty but they also continued to govern.
Spanish songs (except Che’s songs) and one portugese
The Latin-American songs are included. “A las barricadas”, “El pueblo unido jamαs serα vencido” something from Victor Jara, the Spaniard comintern or komintern, if you like; together with the famous Portugese “avante camarad”.
Yugoslavian songs
One in Serbian and one in Slovenian, although I think these are not languages but dialects of the same language.
You can also listen to:
some songs from Roland Adhamh (soon available) and songs from North Korea. These latter songs, I think, are more theological than proletarian. I don’t speak Korean but I was surprised when I read titles like “wish of health to kim jong il”. I look the words of L’Internationale “Il n’est pas de sauveurs suprêmes … Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-mêmes – There are no supreme saviours … Producers, let us save ourselves” and I see the difference between the theological and the materialistic view of history.
Songs of the Greek National Resistance (partisan songs or “andartika”)
Partisan songs by the band of Thanos Mikroutsikos and Petros Pandis
Among them there is the song “The ultimate combats” or “sternes maches”, which is a recording on the rythm of “Warszavyanka”, the same rythm of the famous “a las Barricadas“. You can also download the collection “Andartes” or “Partisans”, sung by the chorus of PPSP, a greek maoist student’s group of 70′s. You can download a torrent for these latter songs or download another compressing.
Panos Tzavelas’ partisan songs
Panos Tzavelas ufortunately “left” us on 27-1-2009 in age 84. He was a great fighter of Democracy and a multi-tortured man by the greek monarch-fascist regime. Panos Tzavelas was a member of EAM, the Greek National Liberation Front and its military arm of ELAS, the main force of Resistance in Greece. He rescued the partisan songs, until the period of the Greek Junta (1967), by singing them in taverns, as their recording was then illegal. During the Junta period, the singing of those songs was declared illegal too. Thus, we should honour Panos Tzavelas’ contribution to the rescue of these songs, despite his social-democratic influence after Junta, as he had hoped that the social-democratic “pasok” would be able to solve the problems of the working class; nobody is perfect… “Pasok” solved the problems of bourgeoisie against the working class and Tzavelas abandoned it.
And… some nationalistic culture The Band of the Greek Army. The knowledge of the nationalistic culture is necessary, as thus we can perceive the difference between the working class and the nationalistic culture. You may argue that the marches of the Red Army were militaristic as well. I would argue that the Red Army was completely different, as it had a different stucture: in its early years the soldiers elected the officers and later the soldiers participated in the administration of the companies.
And after the nationalists, L’Internationale.
The Internationale of the workers in 37 languages. The difference with nationalist songs is evident. The latter are sung only by the members of a nation. So you can see who would sing the march “The marching army of Greece guards it” and who would sing “Debout, les damnés de la terre” or “Arise, the wretched of the earth”. L’Internationale in 17 languages & 29 performances, L’Internationale in 20 languages & 25 performances
The performance of the political songs I found in the internet comes to an end. I’ll go on searching other links, especially English-speaking and Greek (yes Greek!) rock and latin. We should bear in mind that the roman culture is part of the Greek popular tradition. Besides, we called ourselves “Romnji” until the independence from the Ottoman Empire; and, southern Greece has been independent for 180 years and northern Greece for 80-100 years now.
Everything I’ll find, it will be placed on this page.
I found more songs
But I have no time to download them
The hits of 50′s
I found them shared in 16 volumes, so I think you must dowload all volumes in order to listen to one single song. That’s a bitter thing!
But if you want to choose only some songs, you can download the torrent (1) & torrent (2).
Adamo
Aerosmith
The group “Agamoi Thytae”
The name of this group is a pun. The literal name means “The umarried sacrificers”, the 2nd word “thytae or thytai” (pronounced: thite) is an ancient type of the word for the “sacrificer” ; the current spoken type in greek is “thytes” and not “thytai” but if the group used the “thytes” the pun would not be succesful. The pun is that: If the name of the group is pronounced as a single word (agamithite) it means “fuck off all of you”.
Chronis Aidonidis
A traditional Thracian singer with a great voice.
Charoula Alexiou
Laika & Kyriakes (greek popular & Sundays)
No 2
23 Songs
The songs of Charoula & Ximeroni (the sun is rising)
The songs of the last day (ta tragoudia tis chtesinis meras) & The songs of my home (ta tragoudia tis gis mou)
The smarts – (Ta tsilika)
Civil War (emfylios)
A Paris
Love is dizziness (I agapi ine zali)
Charis Alexiou in unforeseen songs (I Charis Alexiou se aprovlepta tragoudia)
Love Night (Nychta erota)
This parfume lasts for many years (Kratai chronia afti i kolonia)
Our own night (I diki mas nychta)
Through the prayers (Di’ efchon) & Hey
Nefeli Street (odos nefelis)
Traveling arround the word & A kiss of the world (Gyrizontas ton kosmo & ena fili tou kosmou)
The game of love (to pechnidi tis agapis)
Strange light (paraxeno fos)
Whispers (psithiri)
To the edge of your heaven (os tin akri t’ ouranou sou)
A music trip (mousiko taxidi)
Anthology (anthologio)
Charis Alexiou – some songs
Charoula Alexiou – Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Performance in Votanikos (it’s a name of an artistic centre and a name of a quarter of Athens too)
Alice Cooper
Themis Andreadis
Manolis Angelopoulos
Anorimi (The Immatures)
Arabian songs
Arabian slow dance rhythm (tsifteteli)
Some arabian songs
Arash
Arleta
Louis Armstrong
Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Centre of transferable soldiers (kentro dierchomenon)
The beginning (Archi)
Broadcast – Glass Musical Theatre – 3 Songs (Ekpompi – Gyalino Mousiko Theatro – 3 Tragoudia)
The time passed immediately (Grigora i ora perase)
Light (Fos) – I’m searching for it
Nikolas Asimos
In the bankruptcy of the world (sto falimento tou kosmou) – The Diogenes’ lantern (to fanari tou Diogeni) – Fart for free! (klaste eleftheros) – I’m a villain (ime palianthropos)
Industry of the pavement (Viomichania tou pezodromiou)
The tape with Barell which brakes itself in order to go out [!!!] (Kasseta me to vareli pou gia na vgi to spai) – O xanapes
These titles are very cult. The word “xanapes” means “say it again”; the word “O” is the male article; but when we say “O xanapes” our mind thinks the “kanapes” means “a sofa”, namely “a xofa”. The “X” in word “xanapes” is pronounced as “KS” and not “Z”.
The title with Barell is a disunderstandable. What does the poet want to say?
The trickery (i zavolia)
Bad Company
Argiris Bakirtzis
Ballads
Beatles
Bee Gees
Chuck Berry
Best Singles
CD-1.1
CD-1.2
CD-2.1
CD-2.2
Grigoris Bithikotsis
The songs of Grigoris Bithikotsis in 5 CD’s
For Grigoris (Gia ton Grigori)
Songs sung by different artists in a concert in memory (or in honour, I don’t know the year of the concert) of Bithikotsis.
Blue Oyster Cult
Boney-M
Goran Bregović
Le temps de gitans (1989)
Arizona dream OST (1993)
La Reine Margot (1994)
Underground (1995)
Tales And Songs From Weddings And Funerals (1997)
Ederlezi (1998)
Silence of the Balkans (1998)
Kayah & Bregović (1999)
Irish Songs (1998)
Thessaloniki-Yannena With Two Canvas Shoes [Giorgos Dalaras] (1999)
Songbook (2000)
Cafe del Arte
Compact Disc Club
Magic moments
Modern Rhythms (Moderni Rithmi) – Greek songs based in european rythms during 60′s – 1st Collection
Modern Rhythms (Moderni Rithmi) greek songs of european rythm during 60′s – 2nd Collection
New Wave (Neo Kyma)
The (greek) New Wave was a music movement against the thoughtless mimicry of the european music during 60′s, namely against the rhythm which remarks the above songs (Modern Rhythms) and it is not related with other “New Waves” in world music.
Hessel said
Hi Andreas,
My Name is Hessel, I’m from the Netherlands.
Many thanks for your political songs! I’ve been collecting political music for about a year and a half now and I must say; you’re site made my day. Too bad some of the files didn’t exist anymore, but thanks anyway,
The best wishes,
Hessel.
antrikos said
Hello Hessel,
Please, tell me which links are unavailable. I’ll try to find the available ones.
The soundtrack “The travelling players” includes many political songs, which they are not included to other collections.
The homonymous movie narrates the recent greek history through the story of a troupe.
antrikos said
Dear Comrades and the others,
You can download many soviet songs from http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/
Vietkong said
Comrade Adriko, are there any Greek dictatorship hymns (hountotragouda) available? -except those of the army-
Thank you in advance.
antrikos said
Yes, they are but I don’t advertise them.
Vietkong said
I think such songs rather defame the fascists than they advertise them. Is that possible for me to have them? Thank you!