3.31 Silly Season Game #2016021152: You want it @ you can't have it - Every day you'll see the dust

2017-03-31: Звери - Tequilajazzz

Ok we're within Mother Russia now. This is probably my favorite Russian band, creating a pretty unique style, with the rhythm section still mostly unmatched in Russia. This song is pretty simple musically, but the video is pretty good. Tequilajazzz means exactly what you think it means and is pronounced exactly the way you think it is pronounced.


Eastern Bloc, west to east, by the Gatest Gamer.

2017-03-30: Але - 5'nizza

Ukrainian, bi tri, however many language band. Started off as couple of stoner theater nerds jamming to various black music - reggae, RnB, hip-hop etc. They released 2 albums in early 00s and became massively popular in Eastern Bloc before breaking up in early 10s. They have now reformed and released a new album, where this song is taken from. It's in Ukranian and Russian, and it is about missed opportunities in life. The band's name is a stylized word "pyatnitsa" which means "friday"


The Eastern Bloc, west to east, by the Gatest Gamer

3.29 Silly Season Game #2016021137: 3 Cups in 6 @ 2 Cups in 8 - You've been had if you think that it had any relevance to you anyway

2017-03-29: Așa și așa - Cuibul

Not done with Moldova yet, because Gamer has a huge crush on the singer. Cuibul started off as a Russian speaking rock/funk fusion band in the 90s. Few years ago the band members realized they all got old and nobody wanted to look at bunch of old dudes playing loud music, so they found the current singer, allowed her to translate their songs into Romanian and rearranged them into this light acoustic lounge. Cuibul means "Nest"

2017-03-28: Nunta extremală - Zdob și Zdub

Now we move to Moldova, and crashing a wedding. Zdob si Zdub have been around since mid 90s, starting off as a hardcore band and gradually integrating more and more ethnic elements into their music and losing the hardcore element. This song is from 1999, just as they started getting into ethnic stuff. A fun fact: "Zdob si Zdub" is an onomatopoetic for a beating drum

Music from the Eastern Bloc, from west to east, from the Gatest Gamer.

3.27 Silly Season Game #2016021124: We Got No Harty @ Last Cup Moments - And when I fall I really fall and that's when you go to my head

2017-03-27: VARJÚ - Másfél

Music from the Eastern Bloc, going from west to east

We're gonna start off with the westernmost band on the list: Masfel, from Hungary. Masfel is a an instrumental fusion band, that's been around since late 80s, although it has been pretty quiet for the last decade or so. It's fun instrumental stuff. Masfel means 1.5, a word that's present in plenty of languages, but not in english. -Gatest Gamer

2017-03-26: Slip Sliding Away

You know the nearer your destination the more you're slip slidin' away


This closes out laarmer's Paul Simon Week

2017-03-25: Kodachrome

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It’s a wonder
I can think at all


It's laaarmer's Paul Simon week