Before I go to 9th, congrats on those to avoided the nodium.
9th place (4 points): Grad - Gradsko Setaliste (Eng trans: City Promenade)
One would think a band whose name translates into City and has a song title with the same word (plus suffix) in it would create generic, boring music but that isn’t necessarily it. It has a kitschy 1980s appeal that almost puts me east of the Iron Curtain during that time. It feels as though it should be part of the Atomic Blonde movie soundtrack. Not sure if I’d put this on a playlist but it’s still kinda cool to listen to.
8th place (5 points): IC3PEAK - Смерти Больше Нет (Eng trans: Death No More)
This was a true WTF song for me. The first 2/3 of the song is completely kickass. It’s weird as fuck but sounds really solid. Then the rest kinda dies out not unlike the band members in the music video. Really disappointing because it was sounding like potential podium material before then.
7th place (6 points): Краснознаменная дивизия имени моей бабушки – Сонник
That name is one hell of a mouthful. It’s the longest band name I’ve ever seen. It’s actually how I found out that they existed.
The band’s name is romanized as Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Imeni Moej Babushki but shortened to KDIMB. Red Banner Division Named After My Grandmother is a Russian indie band with 13 members and has a very eclectic catalog. This song is about the interpretation of a dream that the person being sung about is having. It’s why the name translates roughly into “Dream Interpretations”
It was a really weird song when I first heard it but it grew on me after a while. It’s actually a really good description of basically every song I’ve listened to of theirs. It sounds really weird at first but after a few listens it becomes pretty good. Thing is that I don’t want to have to power through a few listens before liking a song.
Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus
6th place (7 points): Indukti - And Who’s The God Now?
Man I am so conflicted. There are parts of this song that sound awesome and are podium material. Then, there are parts of this song where I’m losing patience waiting for something to happen. That sort of inconsistency in pace is not a good sign.
I checked the rest of the band figuring that they have some really good stuff that isn’t super-long and I was wrong. Aside from one song that’s a prelude, every song I found on Spotify is at least 6 minutes long. I guess they have a thing for really long songs.
I can’t think of a single song I love that’s 10 or more minutes long. A song has to be one of the greatest of all-time to keep me hooked for that long and this is not that song. I appreciate the moments that are great and I guess I’ll average that out with the ones that suck and rank it in the middle.
5th place (8 points): Iné Kafe - Závisť (Eng trans: “Envy”)
User comment: This was a fun category to look for. I don’t speak Slovak, so hopefully this isn’t some white supremacist anthem or something like that.
Don’t worry. It’s about some lazy smart guy with talent wasting away while a fool with no talent surpasses him.
Iné Kafe (Eng trans: Other Coffee) is a Slovak punk rock band and they sound exactly like they listened to some early music from Bad Religion and found their muse. That’s good news because I love Bad Religion.
Anyway, Iné Kafe was very successful locally and they have a couple of albums that went platinum in Slovakia during the late 90s/early 2000s. Like most punk music, it’s pretty straightforward and simple but also catchy. It isn’t their best song but it’s a good one.
This is the first walrus where I’m assessing songs rather than just submitting them too. Hope I can think of some cooler categories if I participate in the future.
