http://thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:50:16 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 http://thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-2598 The sweeping, unstoppable wave « The Tar Pit Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:14:27 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-2598 [...] Gina Matache, a "Romanian folklore singer"1, is herself a very talented, educated and quite clever manele singer. In fact I like her so much that one of her lyrics is now in my [...] [...] Gina Matache, a "Romanian folklore singer"1, is herself a very talented, educated and quite clever manele singer. In fact I like her so much that one of her lyrics is now in my [...]

]]> http://thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-693 On the tangled ball of music that is rock « The Tar Pit Sat, 03 Jul 2021 08:46:29 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-693 [...] But maybe, just maybe, among Altın Gün, Steven Wilson, Pain of Salvation and others like them, among these maybe there's to be found a new energy, the seeds of new life -- and not just Pink Beetles in a Purple Zeppelin, as Arjen correctly intuits, but the seeds of actual meaning. It will be difficult for rock, as I know it, to pull through this, and it might die as a result -- take the beautiful example of the latest LTE piece; it certainly takes you places, but unfortunately those are places I've visited so many times before, and these transparent (and intentional!) reruns are getting tiresome. Notice the almost suspect absence of American Greats at this table of "rock music": has the great US and A succumbed to the level of manele? [...] [...] But maybe, just maybe, among Altın Gün, Steven Wilson, Pain of Salvation and others like them, among these maybe there's to be found a new energy, the seeds of new life -- and not just Pink Beetles in a Purple Zeppelin, as Arjen correctly intuits, but the seeds of actual meaning. It will be difficult for rock, as I know it, to pull through this, and it might die as a result -- take the beautiful example of the latest LTE piece; it certainly takes you places, but unfortunately those are places I've visited so many times before, and these transparent (and intentional!) reruns are getting tiresome. Notice the almost suspect absence of American Greats at this table of "rock music": has the great US and A succumbed to the level of manele? [...]

]]> http://thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-433 On musical frames of reference « The Tar Pit Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:51:24 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-433 [...] it like it is", vorba poietului. That aside, yes, I was born in Rahova and I sometimes listen to manele. [...] [...] it like it is", vorba poietului. That aside, yes, I was born in Rahova and I sometimes listen to manele. [...]

]]> http://thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-34 When the law does more harm than good, or an exercise in independent thought « The Tar Pit Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:16:22 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2015/never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania#comment-34 [...] it. They essentially ate their taxpayers' money with this shit, and now-democratic Romanians stand this the way they've stood it during communism, Ottoman rule, and probably during the Dacian times too, [...] [...] it. They essentially ate their taxpayers' money with this shit, and now-democratic Romanians stand this the way they've stood it during communism, Ottoman rule, and probably during the Dacian times too, [...]

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