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BGM
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Start Wearing Purple

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Gogol Bordello, the Gypsy-punk band responsible for the song "Start Wearing Purple", which I consider my own personal Vikings theme song, is going to be performing at First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on November 1st. The first time I saw this video (someone posted it here a year or two ago) I thought it was great. Here is a link to the Quicktime video if you have not seen it, or need to get this catchy tune back into your brain. :)

http://gogolbordello.com/chronicles/vid ... index.html
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I love this band. Im glad they support our vikes!

If you like crazy punk/folk music check them out. Gypsy Punk is the perfect description of them.
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thanks for the link...by the way I was one the one who posted it last year in the thread about the new theme song the Vikes were using...


Gypsy Punk is an exellent album...also e-music has all of the Gogol Bordello stuff and if you sign up you can get 25 downloads for free and than you can cancel the subscription if you dont want to continue...
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odinspeak wrote:thanks for the link...by the way I was one the one who posted it last year in the thread about the new theme song the Vikes were using...


Gypsy Punk is an exellent album...also e-music has all of the Gogol Bordello stuff and if you sign up you can get 25 downloads for free and than you can cancel the subscription if you dont want to continue...
Thanks for posting it originally! This song always jazzes me up!

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Post by Colinito »

thanks for the song! liked it a lot. klezmir punk I guess. Definitely cool in relation with the Vikings.

If you like klezmir stuff, you should check out a band called Estradasphere out of Santa Cruz, CA. They play seriously everything under the sun, from doo-wop to deathmetal, but they have quite a few klezmir songs. This one klezmir/death metal song called "Ballad of Tosho and Slavi" that I'm thinking of in particular. It's pretty awesome.
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