#greek songs

[gemsofgreece]

Happy November 17th with music!!!

Greece has three national holidays; March 25th, the Independence Day, October 28th, the ΟΧΙ (No) Day aaaaand November 17th, the Polytechneio Day.

In fact, November 17th is considered a semi-national day, as it doesn't commemorate an ethnic uprising against some foreign oppressor or invader but the political intranational uprising against the Colonel Dictatorship of 1967-1974. It is the anniversary of the revolt that took place in the National "Metsovion" Technical University of Athens (Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο - Ethnikó Metsóvio Polytechnío) by its students in November 1973. (Greek Polytechneia are high education engineering universities, so they are not the equivalent to technical schools.) The uprising was the most impactful anti-junta movement in Greece - students commandeered the University, operated a radio station and started protesting against the junta and spreading effectively the message to the Greek people, who started gathering around the school. Their effective protests harmed the dictators, who sent the army to surround the university and threaten the students. While the students and the junta were still in negotiations, the army broke the academic asylum, a tank demolished the gates and soldiers invaded the school. During the episodes that ensued, there were 40 deaths and more than 2,000 injured reported. The Polytechnic movement did not bring down the junta, however it was a crucial contributor to its weakening and to the spread of awareness against it across the globe. (The dictatorship eventually fell about half a year later, during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in which Greece failed to provide significant assistance to Cyprus or even protect its own interests.)

The spirit of the university's revolutionaries as well as the general hardship Greece went through in those seven years were the inspiration for a lot of great artists, particularly poets and musicians, and birthed numerous classic Greek songs. Below are four of my favourite ones, from the many that became symbols of this era, and are today sung by school choirs across the country!

Ὀταν σφίγγουν το χέρι - When they clench their fist

Ο Δρόμος - The Road

Θα σημάνουν οι καμπάνες - The bells will toll

Είμαστε δυο - We are two

Lyrics of the last one in English:

We are two, we are two, it's eight o'clock, turn off the light, the guard knocks, they'll come again at night one in the front, one in the front, and the rest will be following him, then silence and what follows is the usual again. They hit twice, they hit thrice, they hit one thousand thirteen times, you are hurting, I am hurting too but who is hurting the most, only time will tell.

We are two, we are three, we are one thousand thirteen, we ride the times, in time, in rain blood thickens in the wound and the pain turns into a nail. (x2)

The avenger, the saviour, we are two, we are three, we are one thousand thirteen.

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[den-antexwallo]

θα’θελα τόσο

να’ρθεις να καθίσουμε δίπλα στο καράβι

κι ως το τέλος της διαδρομής

να σ’έχω ονομάσει αγάπη

με τα πέλματα ψάχνεις ουρανούς

μα δε σου φτάνουν τα αστέρια στους καρπούς

και σε ψάχνω στην πόλη που όλο νυχτώνει

#γκρικ ποστ #γκρικ κουοτς #γκρεεκ #γκρεεζ #γρεεκζ #γρεεκ ταμπλρ #γρεεκ ποστς #γκρις #γκρικς #γκρικ ταμπλερ #γρεεκ κουοτς #greek quotes #greek posts #greek songs #greek tumblr #greek lyrics #συναισθήματα #ερωτας #σε θελω #μου λειπεις #τήνος #μαρίνα σπανού #spotfiy #τραγουδι #καλοκαιρι #λογια αγαπης #αγαπή #ελληνικά στιχάκια #ελληνικο tumblr #καλοκαίρι

[lydiaplain]

Here.. Looking for balance.. ⚖️🎶✨

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[alatismeni-theitsa]

😶

#ok we ARE a bit dramatic okay?? #Greek songs #TikTok

[artnesss]

Θα έρθει μια μέρα που όλα τα καλοκαίρια που μου χρωστάς θα μου τα δώσεις πίσω.

Πιο αληθινά.

Πιο ευτυχισμένα.

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[oneirataxiakh]

άνθρωπε μου, τι ξεφτίλα να σου χαλάνε το όνειρο και εσύ να τους αφήνεις.

��ανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου

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[birinasiyabend]

Το Καπηλειό

#greek #hainides #greek songs #Spotify

[sugaroto]

Can I consider the traditional Greek song "brunette" a gay song since it's kind of a love song and the pronouns are gender neutral

#sugarenia talks #greek #greek songs #μελαχρινό

[universalambients]

The Temple of Artemis (250 AD) Ambient Music

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[samthechaotic]

I just love how in "Achilles Come Down" there're two voices:

a) A poetic, monotone, calm voice trying slowly to persuade him not to jump and to use his pain as a tool to fight life as an opponent cause the soul is not weightless and some of them worry about him.

b) YA DENSE M*THER F***ER, JUMP NOW!

#achilles come down #ancient greek #greek mythology #greek songs #greek poem #greek poetry #i love how he goes from all of us to some of us like you cause agamemnon is there #it's definitely patroclus who's talking to him not to jump #how the most dangerous thing is to love #poem #poetry #dark acadamia quotes #light academia #love #dark acamedia #chaotic academia #love poems

[gemsofgreece]

Christopher Lee and Sotiria Bellou, the emblematic Greek rebetiko singer in the 80s. 

Fun fact: Lee had met Bellou during his vacation in Greece in the late 80s. Lee described himself as a fan; he was a collector of her 50s recordings and he told her her voice reminded him of Billy Holiday. Naturally, Bellou took a liking to him. When a journalist visited her at her house for an interview, he was startled by a frame of Lee as Count Dracula hanging on the wall. This is how Bellou told him and we know about their encounter and mutual appreciation.  

We all know Christopher Lee but here’s a song with the unique voice of Sotiria Bellou from 1951, so he definitely knew this song and probably loved it :) 

This is rare footage from a live in 1972. The man with the mustache playing the bouzouki, Vassilis Tsitsanis, is also the composer of the song and extremely prominent in Greece’s music history. 

#greece #christopher lee #music #songs #dracula #sotiria bellou #rembetiko #greek music #vassilis tsitsanis #greek songs #greek facts

[den-antexwallo]

Μην κοιμηθείς νωρίς,

Ο ήλιος θα σβήσει για να

Ανάψουμε εμείς.

#γκρικ ποστ #γκρικ κουοτς #γκρεεζ #γκρεεκ #γρεεκ ταμπλρ #γρεεκζ #γκρικ ταμπλερ #γρεεκ ποστς #γκρικ μπλογκ #γρεεκ κουοτς #greek quotes #greek posts #greek songs #greek lyrics #greek tumblr #spotify #marina spanou #ερωτας #συναισθήματα #σε θελω #μου λειπεις #χωρισμός #εμεις #τραγουδι #ελληνικο μπλογκ #ελληνικά στιχάκια #μουσικη #Spotify

[la-pluiee]

Κλείνω τα μάτια και βλέπω το αύριο

κι είναι ένα αύριο δίχως εικόνες.

Ίσως να ζει η αγάπη μεθαύριο.

Ίσως περάσουν κι αυτοί οι χειμώνες.

#greek posts #greek tumblr #greek quotes #γρεεκ ποστς #γρεεκ κουοτς #greek songs

[alatismeni-theitsa]

I've fallen in love with this Greek song! Give it a listen, the intensity, the melody and the visuals will wisk you away.

#greek songs #greek music #lambrini ioannou #Youtube

[ena-nistagmeno-koala]

"…Η ομορφιά της ζωής

Είναι που δεν ξέρουμε τι θα γίνει αύριο

Γιατί άμα ξέραμε αύριο και μεθαύριο τι θα γίνει

Θα 'τανε άνοστη η ζωή, μονοτονία"

#greece #greek songs #ελληνικα στιχακια #γκρικ ποστ #Spotify #greek posts #greek #greek tumblr #γκρικ μπλογκ #γκρικ ταμπλερ #γκριικ #γρεεκ ποστς #γκρικ κουοτς

[thespiritofstars]

Είχα μια φορά μια θάλασσα

που από λάθος μου τη χάλασα

κι από τότε φτιάχνω κύματα

έρωτες, καημούς κι αισθήματα

μα με ζαβολιές κι άλλες διαβολιές

δεν ανθίζουν αγκαλιές

Ποτέ δε θα ξεχάσω αυτή τη θάλασσα

αυτή που χάλασα για να σε βρω

παλεύαμε στα κύματα κι εσύ κι εγώ

μα είχαμε οδηγό

τον ουρανό

Έχω δυο ψυχές αγάπη μου

κλειδωμένες στο ντουλάπι μου

με τη μια μιλάω για θαύματα

η άλλη ζει μέσα στα τραύματα

ειν' αναποδιά, να 'χεις δυο παιδιά

κλειδωμένα στην καρδιά

Κάτσε καλά - Κώστας Μακεδόνας

#greek music #greek songs #Κάτσε καλά #Κώστας Μακεδόνας #1990s music