Bjork - Gloomy Sunday (click here to DL song)

Gloomy Sunday
1933 was a dark year for anyone living in central Europe, as German democracy fell under the Nazis, and her vulnerable citizens fled the crackdown on the opposition, not knowing when they would ever safely return. It was in this atmosphere of shock that Hungarian
Rezső Seress composed his most famous song, 'Gloomy Sunday'. As well as being the most popular song he would ever write, it was also associated with a spate of suicides in Budapest, and when the song was translated into English this became part of its publicity campaign in the United States. Since then, the song is as famous for this urban legend as it is for its beauty. Seress himself committed suicide in Budapest in the equally fateful year of 1968.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, have you heard Diamanda Galas version of this son? A lot more souly than Bjørks slightly boring version. Check it out here, it's a nice video as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWVWY5QUzg&feature=related

Anney E.J. Ryan said...

i have to agree w. tommy, although I like the sarah mclachlan version better.

Anonymous said...

Hey are you a professional journalist? This article is very well written, as compared to most other blogs i saw today….
anyhow thanks for the good read!