Miszon pisze:First of all - I'm quite surprise, that someone from Italy, not polish-speaking person, is the fan of LPP3 chart. How does it happen? I mean - how did you find LPP3, is there some special story about that?
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It's really unusual. But of course I'm very happy of that
A friend of mine who loves German new wave, casually gave them Aya RL's debut album. He said
"I've found this while I was searching for some German bands. It's so bad, take it, I wouldn't listen to it anymore".
I didn't have any expectation, but then I listened to it and I thought:
"my friend, you are crazy, this is one of the most creative albums I've ever heard".
It was some years ago. At the time I had a very stereotyped concept of Polish culture.
I thought Polish people were only god-fearing Wojtyla fans. What an idiot I was, I'm so ashamed for this today!
After listening to this album I felt the need to explore your music scene, to understand if there were other bands like that.
So I discovered Siekiera.
"Hey, they are great too!"
Then came Maanam.
"My god, they're even greater!"
Then Repulika.
"Oh gosh, this is the most incredible band I've ever heard!"
Every new band was a surprise, they all sound different from each other, all in a creative, peculiar way.
The greatest shock for me was to discover that they were popular. Popular bands with such an experimental sound!
LAO CHE - I wonder, which of their albums you were listening to? Because their each album is totally different, in music and lyrics. Debut was quite psychodelic about prechristians and middleages myth and legends from our region. "Powstanie Warszawskie" is punk rock concept album about Warsaw Uprising in 1944, "Gospel" is about God in specifical mixture of pop, rock, reggae, and other. "Prąd stały/prąd zmienny" is rather cold wave and their last album - "Soundtrack" - is soundtrack for not existing film with lot of electronic devices.
Just some songs on Youtube, but I will surely listen to their albums.
Example 4: according to some sources I've found on this forum, "Jestem panem świata" by Bank was one of the greatest blockbusters of the early 80s in Poland, with around 500.000 copies sold, but no one of his songs reached the LP3 top-20. This is really strange too...
I don't know. Actually i thought they were "one hit wonder"
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I see. Anyway, can anyone confirm that at the time their first album was a best seller? Do you have some sources?
Miszon pisze:That's why it still has so strong trademark and is recognizable in Poland. 1000th and 1500th LPP3 were broadcasted or noted in almost every big polish TVs and radio stations with lot of special guests - musicians and journalists.
Very nice. In Italy we don't have a powerful alternative media like that.
It seems nice, but I don't understand Polish unfortunately.
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Is there any English subtitle?
Of course, old legends of 80s remained stil very popular: Kult, Dżem, Bajm, T.Love, Republika, Lady Pank, Perfect, Maanam (last four considered as most popular polish groups of all-time)
I wish Italy could have such good popular artists. With the exception of the great Franco Battiato (one of my favourite singers ever), today Italian superstars are all examples of bad, bad music.
OK - it was very short summary
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. I can write some most known albums of groups above, if you want to
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Sure, I would appreciate it a lot!
If I can ask it, try to avoid metal or bands with an American sound, because it's not a style I love (I mean, I don't like Rage Against the Machine or Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
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I'm more into British rock music: post-punk, new wave, gothic rock, brit-pop, progressive rock, some electronic music too. Obviously I would appreciate also some folk singers, if they have interesting arrangements.
Llucky mentioned Polski Top Wszechczasów and this is good recomendation. People vote it once a year, so it shows what is important for them in alltime history od polish rock. That will give you some clues about popularity of newer bands you were looking for.
I knew this chart, but I was surprised to see some bands I thought to be among the most popular in relatively low positions. For example, Lady Pank placed only a song, "Zawsze tam gdzie ty", at no. 86 (if I can say that, musically speaking it's not one of their best songs, maybe it's there because of its lyrics). No one of their songs from the 80s is in, I was surprised to not find "Kryzysowa narzeczona", "Sztuka latania" (my favourite, a real masterpiece) or "Mniej niz zero".
Maanam were also low, but at least they placed two songs (even if only at no. 67 & 91). Anyway, it's a good chart.
Glad to see "Wieża radości wieża samotności" so high, it's such a wonderful piece of music.
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