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Polish sentimental ballads


pawian 221 | 23,970
17 Jul 2012 #1
Autumn Reflection by Elżbieta Adamiak.



Actually, just like the moon, people know only my autumn side

I like Polish ballads with a nostalgic message - exhibiting sentimental or wistful yearning for happiness.
catsoldier 62 | 595
17 Jul 2012 #2
I like Polish ballads with a nostalgic message - exhibiting sentimental or wistful yearning for happiness.

That is really nice.

Does this mean that you are trying to tell us that we only know one side of you?
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
17 Jul 2012 #3
Does this mean that you are trying to tell us that we only know one side of you?

My parents, my birth day (Zodiac horoscope, Western and Chinese), God etc made me a person with multiple personalities. :):):):) One day I listen to heavy metal, next to sentimental music. Currently, I am in the mood for sentimental.

E.g.,

Autumn two crickets` concert

Chestnut trees are rustling


catsoldier 62 | 595
17 Jul 2012 #4
In fairness we need to quit pf, If you look at the most recent posts you and I have the majority. Best of luck.
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
18 Jul 2012 #5
Thanks, the same to you. I hope you don`t quit.

Great song, Remember nothing serious is happening


sa11y 5 | 331
19 Jul 2012 #6
This is also very nice - Little Elf, about unexpected love and losing that love. All on example of little elf appearing from nowhere in the cold and wanting to stay for few moments...

youtube.com/watch?v=BDwzlX_PcKs
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
19 Jul 2012 #7
Thanks but your input belongs to another thread:
Polish songs by females about females and their life affairs
PolishWarsaw - | 1
20 Jul 2012 #8
I can recommend Katarzyna Groniec and Renata Przemyk, they are both very skilled singers, with charasteric voices and witty lyrics.
But when you hear them, you'll love them or desest them, i guess it's difficult to be somewhere in between ;)
sa11y 5 | 331
20 Jul 2012 #9
your input belongs to another thread

You right, I didn't realize such thread exists - otherwise I would have posted it there :)
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
20 Jul 2012 #10
No problem! All these music threads share songs with each other.

I can recommend Katarzyna Groniec and Renata Przemyk, they are both very skilled singers, with charasteric voices and witty lyrics.

I know these names, especially Przemyk, but to be honest, I haven`t heard any of their sentimental ballads which might be called attractive and pleasant to ear. Sorry, if you know some, tell us.

I much prefer Irena Santor from communist times.
Wild beaches are long gone


hague1cmaeron 14 | 1,368
20 Jul 2012 #11
You can't get much better than this as far as ballads.
Pierwszy siwy włos- Marta Mirska:
youtube.com/embed/G-lnKUlILYU
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
20 Jul 2012 #12
Fantastic rock ballad: Peggy Brown by Myslovitz

And a much more peaceful ballad by the same group:

The Length of the sound of loneliness
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
20 Jul 2012 #13
One of my favourite songs. But this...is painful.



The pain, the pain!
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
20 Jul 2012 #14
One of my favourite songs.

Nicely translated lyrics.

The pain, the pain!

I am sorry, delph. It must get better one day, you just need to be strong.
Puzzie 1 | 53
20 Jul 2012 #15
One of my favourite songs. But this...is painful.

Do YOU really like Myslovitz, a Polish band? YOU?

I'm knocked out.

:)
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
20 Jul 2012 #16
You can't get much better than this as far as ballads.
Pierwszy siwy włos- Marta Mirska:

Wow, so old songs??? From 1956?

Hah, here is an even older one! From 1936! :):):) You can`t beat me!!! :):):):)

youtu.be/N-hg58QQmdc

The "Last Sunday" -- erroneously called "THAT Last Sunday" -- was composed by Jerzy Petersburski in 1936. It is a nostalgic tango with lyrics by Zenon Friedwald describing the final meeting of former lovers who are parting. The Polish title was "To Ostatnia Niedziela" ("The Last Sunday"). The song was extremely popular and was performed by numerous artists (best kown performance by Mieczysław Folg). Along the way, it first gained the nick-name of "Suicide Tango" due to its sad lyric (although, the real "suicie song" in the night restaurants of Eastern Europe (...)

So, as I planned, we are going to Bieszczady Mountains next week as the stormy spell will leave Poland at last.

I can`t wait. Today I am looking for info on Bieszczady sites, mounts and tracks and listening to these wonderful songs with fascinating pics of the Mountains.

Bieszczady Angels



Go bieszczading with us today by SDM



August sky SDM



My Bieszczady by rock group KSU

Bieszczady by Jacek Kaczmarski



A hit of the 1960s by Piotr Szczepanik- Burn Yellow Calendars

Come back to the Land of Dream
Where spring lasts forever
Burn yellow calendars


When I play this melody on my accordion today, my wife melts and does everything what I want.... :):):):)

The same singer in another ballad
To love - how easy to say
To love - means asking for nothing
Because love is unknown


Also, a nostalgic ride through Warsaw of 1960s:
boletus 30 | 1,361
24 Sep 2012 #18
Krywan

After getting two of my friends (a Welsh and an Irish) into some discussion about "white voice" and pentatonic scale I once risked demonstrating to them two versions of "Krywaniu". One was by Masniaki (nice landscape) and one by Goranie (below). I expected a lukewarm reception, but in fact they both really loved it.


sofijufka 2 | 187
25 Sep 2012 #19
do you like it?
youtube.com/watch?v=wcO-YZyK86M&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=YutTzWWLO6w&feature=related

and this one?
youtube.com/watch?v=g9z9kt1dx44&feature=related

or this?
youtube.com/watch?v=AXnUJCFKaKg&feature=related
hague1cmaeron 14 | 1,368
25 Sep 2012 #20
do you like it?

Not the version you provided, that is just a terrible blend, you can't call that highlander music.

or this?

I like the Aston Tango, quite a lot
I am also a big fan of "W tę noc upalną" - Tango sung by Ordonówna:


OP pawian 221 | 23,970
30 Sep 2012 #21
There are no more deserted beaches where I used to collect amber by Irena Santor.



Little cafes by Irena Jarocka



Both songs are a few dozen years old.

A hit of the 1960s by Piotr Szczepanik- Burn Yellow Calendars

And Never again by Szczepanik, on Valentine`s Day to all women we love:
Never again look at me this way
Never again tell me you don`t love me
Never again poison your words with bitterness
Never again punish me with dead silence


youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CqPjvbnMn7U
Rysavy 10 | 307
15 Feb 2013 #22
Ahh.. I like the sound of that last one Paiwan, and I really like the post with 'Anna Szałapak', I truly enjoy tangoes. and of course on different music thread I mentioned my fangurl squeals for the more modern balladeers like Andrzej Piaseczny (heh,,I even remembr to spell his name by remembering Sexy-secksni).

Accordians are smexy for Polish? I will have to brush up!! I here I have been wooing him with guitar ballads!
crochetbitch88 2 | 83
15 Feb 2013 #23
No, you cannot go now
You're taking the last water from me
I'm burning like ember

Merciless, fawn emptiness
I have cracked, dry lips
My kiss is blood

No, you cannot go now
When I'm all hunger
For your eyes, hands of yours
Tell me, tell me that you are going to stay
Before you take my air away
Before I go in for a big nothing

No, you cannot go now
I'm a red-hot ice
I'll do anything, just be
Stay, stay a little while, a moment
I'm burning, I'm burning
With cold fire of black suns

No, you cannot go now
Look at the leaves so young
Before the autumn rust and death
Please be on the bridge of goodbyes
Do not kill this love
Let it die in peace

Please be on the bridge of goodbyes
Do not kill this love
Let it die in peace

Let it die in peace

Hanna Banaszak
My father's favourite song :)



There is a wind, which slits the nostrils of a man;
There is a wind like that.
There is a frost, which turns man's jaw into marble;
There is a frost like that.
To me you're not a thyme or a rose
Nor "a romantic moment under the moon" -
But the dark wind,
But the white frost.

The title of this poem is Upojenie, which means Ecstasy or Intoxication, both accurate I reckon
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
18 Feb 2024 #24
Certain songs haunt me to listen to them a few times a week.

E.g., Rain, sung by Marek Jackowski, the creator of famous Maanam group, and by a popular singer Maria Jopek. Lyrics by famous poet Gałczyński.

The most beautiful fragment starts at 2:21



I've already told you fifty times
to go away, it's raining,
it's funny to stand face to face like that,
it's really an incredibly funny thing;

to look you in the eye: who saw it?
to watch such a silent film without words under the rain,
to hold one's hand in one's hand: who heard it?
and yet tomorrow we will meet here again -

it's hard to part anyway,
it's hard to part anyway,
well, even if it rains a little, let it rain -

it's still hard to part,
it's hard to part anyway,
I guess the rain must have enchanted us here.

II
There are such beautiful streets in Żoliborz district,
such poplars, and such wind in the tracks.
When evening comes, the electric lights are on
and I feel as good as if I were eight years old;

you say: "Darling!" I tell you: "My love!"
and so we walk crosswise and diagonally, and
in the street that leads to Bielany
there are so many lights, as if Chopin was humming something -

it's still hard to part,
it's hard to part anyway,
well, even if it's raining a little, let it rain -

it's hard to part anyway,
it's hard to part anyway,
I guess the rain must have enchanted us here.

Ricardo2000
19 Feb 2024 #25
youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZ1qmXZBuY&list=RDZzZ1qmXZBuY

(refrain:)
Hey, hey, hey falcons
Pass the mountains, forests, pits
Ring, ring, ring my little bell
In the steppe
Ring, ring, ring
Ricardo2000
19 Feb 2024 #26
Beautiful song about a uhlan(polish rider) saying farewell to his Ukraine girl
jon357 74 | 21,749
19 Feb 2024 #27
Very well known and popular. Sung in Ukrainian too.

Seems strange to see it in English.
OP pawian 221 | 23,970
20 Feb 2024 #28
Hey, hey, hey falcons

Not bad. However, I wouldn`t call it a ballad which should be slow and atmospheric while Hey, Falcons song should be performed energetically.

Never mind, here are more traditional ballads by Polish artists:

Ania Wyszkoni, Ask me about it, Darling:

You could ask if I love you,
but then you open the abyss.
So, as you see, my love,
this is not such a good question at all.

Ask me why I love you,
because it's not true that I love you for nothing.
And it's not true that it's for everything.
Ask me about it, darling.

And I love you,
And I love you for it.
I speak and describe air.
And I love you for that,
And I love you for that,
I love you for being.

There are people who know me,
who apparently know me inside out.
They are those who talk, talk about something
that never happened.

And I love you,
And I love you for it.
I speak and describe air.
And I love you for that,
And I love you for that,
I love you for being.





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