More Thursday Mindlessness, Only Now More Diverse

I decided I was bring horribly horribly eurocentric with my boring video postings. Not merely eurocentric, but limiting myself to NW Europe. What total lack of diversity! What, can't the former satellite states of USSR get any credit?

Really, they're all moving into the modern age. Here we have post-punk beach music from Hungarian rockers Supernem. It's enough to make you want to drive your Trabant all of the way to the shores of the Baltic and see if the surf's up:

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And who would believe that even in the Czech Republic they have Gothic bands? Not too bad, actually. Bratrstvo Luny:

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Ani Lorak of Ukraine can definitely rock a soft love ballad with "Rozkazhy". As best I can make it out, she's moping about how she's devoted her entire life to some guy, but what she wants the most of anything is to hear him tell her "I love you". Mariah Carey, look out.

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Of course, in Russia, they have actual culture, this is traditional instruments and good musicians. Of course, if you are Russian at soccer game and this comes on speaker, you are required as patriotic gesture to drink entire bottle of vodka, empty the benches of stadium onto field, and fight until police come with tear gas.



Of course, you might want to think twice, in case this is the team you are playing:



As to this last video, nobody has ever figured out what the hell it's supposed to be about. Nobody. Ever.

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you can't believe how hard I had to dig for this, but at long last: Tibetan Reggae.

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No Thursday would be complete without a Korean punk rock club video.

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