Date: 2006-04-27 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thenipper.livejournal.com
Mark Mardell: Serbian turbo-folk connoisseur. Who knew?!

His Newsnight appearances will now be seen in an entirely new light.

Date: 2006-04-27 09:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
i don't know what the name of the dancing is that you do to turbo-folk (let alone "rugbo-folk" as i first typed) but i can imagine mardell doing it

Date: 2006-04-27 09:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zenith.livejournal.com
Our Very Own Mark Mardell is just not the same when he's not being made to dress up in a series of hilarious costumes like wot Andrew Neil always made him do.

Date: 2006-04-27 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
my GOD I want more turbofolk in my life.

No mention of German house bobbins :(

DOGZ WERE BARKING

Date: 2006-04-27 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
>my GOD I want more turbofolk in my life.

Concur.

Re: DOGZ WERE BARKING

Date: 2006-04-27 10:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
I have only heard one example of turbofolk, it is called 'Gili Gili' and is by one Jelena Karleusa, it is INCREDIBLE.

Re: DOGZ WERE BARKING

Date: 2006-04-27 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
You should have talked to her about trends!

Re: DOGZ WERE BARKING

Date: 2006-04-27 10:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boyofbadgers.livejournal.com
Is it about setting Croatians on fire? Most turbofolk has distinctly nationalist overtones.

Re: DOGZ WERE BARKING

Date: 2006-04-27 10:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
It goes "gili gili gili gili gili something something something". It may well be.

Around the time I found it, I read an interview with another turbofolk singer called Ceca, who is the widow of one of the country's most notorious gangsters! And Jelena Karleusa is her big rival, also apparently the daughter of a top brass Serbian minister, and I can't remember the details but the rivalry reached such heights that one of them tried to arrange for the other to be KIDNAPPED!

Re: DOGZ WERE BARKING

Date: 2006-04-27 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boyofbadgers.livejournal.com
Yep, Ceca = Mrs Arkan, Arkan generally being regarded number one evil fvcker in the Bosnian war.

Re: DOGZ WERE BARKING

Date: 2006-04-27 10:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
Ceca is v Eurotrash-glam, platinum blonde hair and probably-fake bosom and probably-not-fake fur coat. GANGSTER'S MOLL!

Date: 2006-04-27 09:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com
I think I might change the tag line of poptimists to "bling and bosom".

Date: 2006-04-27 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blue-russian.livejournal.com
Don't the Poles have something like turbo-folk - turbo-polka or technopolka or something? I thought I remembered reading something about it as well.

Date: 2006-04-27 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blue-russian.livejournal.com
No war criminals' molls to sing it, I guess.

Date: 2006-04-27 02:43 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
here's a zip of some turbofolk faves lying around on my hard drive.

http://www.speedyshare.com/809228955.html

a lot of it's perhaps not quite full-on "turbo", but you might enjoy it regardless.

cheers,
Mind Taker

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