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Gogol Bordello — Dub The Frequencies Of Love
Album: Super Taranta!
Avg rating:
4.3

Your rating:
Total ratings: 1149









Released: 2007
Length: 6:09
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Give me a vision when I got none
and thunderbolts in each hand of my own
for I'm comin' back to level
Everything they taught us wrong

With a crave for for panacea
World is crawlin' on all fours
In a search of a new prayer
Gods are throwin' thunderbolts

So dub it like toyarisch would
Dub it like a best friend could
Dub it like a brother would
Onto Transmigration!

I need leads how to keep going
On the trail of ultimate from the streets to the subconscious
from subconscious to the God

Master tell me how come everything they taught us
Always seems to be so god damn wrong
In the meantime music from the tiny island
Takes over the world

Frequencies of love
Gather round, oh come on
Frequencies of love
Overcome, overthrow!

So dub it like tovarisch could
Say it like a brother would
Hold me like a mother would
Onto transmigration
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This SO SUCKS. I never say this about anything on RP. But I have to draw a line somewhere - this is it for me!
 yofitofu wrote:
Music made for and by Borat.
 
and me of course.
Music made for and by Borat.
 dancnbarefoot wrote:
They are a fun band. I love their gypsy punk vibe. 

"American wedding! Where is the red herring? where is the vodka? "
 I've seen them live. What a fun!)

Tiresome - the schtick really doesn't wear well.
I suppose I could troll this site and give this a 10
Hell's teeth.  PSD for me...

Straight to Jefferson Airplane.  Another result, RP.
I usually love the Bordello. But this is garbage.
And I thought Jimmy Buffet music sucked...
I'm coming to the conclusion that Gogol Bordello is the only punk band I like.  More than like, I LOVE them!  Especially live!
To me Gogol Bordello always sound like what would happen if Animal had a solo side project away from his regular gig with the Muppets. 
Seeing how the rating reflects my opinion about this song, I'd hint Bill another of their songs.
I was a huge fan of Gogol Bordello back in 2005, saw them live at festivals a lot - quite the rowdy, rebelious lot, up beat, funny gypsy punkers, it was hilareous! Anyway, after that, they were kinda leaning on their early succes - that was how I felt. They threw in samba, even a rapping dude, didn't like it.
So try "Start wearing Purple" or "Dogs were Barkin" from their 2005 album "Underdog World Strike" for a better world / punk vibe, a lot of dancing or jumping around and lol. Would fit here too, on RP!!
It's the singing that ruins it for me. So OTT and ridiculous. Even the accent sounds fake.

Maybe in the right (circus?) setting, they'd be perfect, but just listening in a mixed playlist (out of a theatrical context), it just doesn't work. 
In protest against the much too negative mood against this emathic band, I raised my rating to………  10! 
Not my favorite of their songs, but they are soooo sooo good if you just give them a chance.  If you want a taste of the energy and spirit of this band, check out the NPR Tiny Desk Concert that they put on:  

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/128111544/gogol-bordello-tiny-desk-concert

And if you ever have a chance to see them live, you must go!
Love this band; strange and quirky! Saw them on Green Day's BST festival bill.
it is  enough to jump off a bridge into a herd of cowbells. 
I gave it 10. Just because to level the hate. It's not nearly as bad as the elitists here present.
I've heard much worse american/uk junk on RP but it was sugar coated, as always.
Sounds like some russian garbage.
This is fun!
This absolutely SUCKS - and that is so not like me to actually post - come on Bill?? What also sucks is there is no PSD via Sonos...
Mais quelle merde !
 aelfheld wrote:
I'll give them points for consistency.
 
Most excellent comment. I liked them the first 2 times, and then got tired of the schtick.
 
gif of Borat dancing with man in homeland
 
 
Album cover design by Albanian goatherd?
 
I'll give them points for consistency.
People here seem to have such delicate ears! 
They are a fun band. I love their gypsy punk vibe. 

"American wedding! Where is the red herring? where is the vodka? "
Nah. If my toilet could sing while flushing, this might be its orchestration. 
The beating of the fire buckets will continue until moral improves.

Oh-pah!
 BClass wrote:
Uncanny resemblance to that song from the South Park episode where everyone is ninjas.
 

What about the music from the "You're Getting Old" episode when Stan transitions into permanent cynicism?
Just gets aggravating after awhile. Thunderbolts in my ears.
The singer sounds like a cross between David Byrne and Alex Jones.
When will this song finish?!
Lighten up and unclench your sphincter fellow listeners. This is pure fun with a wink and at least a 6 to me.
This is ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC.  It is this stuff that has me turn off RP... Come on Bill?!
Oiy!!! My dogs left the room.
worst song ever!
 BobbyCat wrote:
Ouch! I rushed to give it a sucko-barfo but I've already done that earlier. Can't degrade it from 1 to 0, that's a shame Bill {#Frustrated}

 
I did it for you! 
 michaelmaersch wrote:
Oof dah!!!
 

Which is defined by discovering you believe you are eating pate and discover it's cat food...and you like it.
Is there a "0" anywhere?  Yikes!  Tryin' to freak me out over here.
keep it coming!
FINALLY! some Gogol Bordello!  the Most Premium Dancer...{#Bananasplit}
 cjp64 wrote:
PSD

 
Ha! I psd'd Grateful Dead and landed here.  First blush: meh.
Perhaps the least popular song in a stable playlist. {#Stupid}

Ouch! I rushed to give it a sucko-barfo but I've already done that earlier. Can't degrade it from 1 to 0, that's a shame Bill {#Frustrated}
PSD
Help. PSD isn't working. I can't take this much longer.
 scrubbrush wrote:
Rowdy!

 

Rowdy ,,,you mean like when you're in a fist fight and someone pokes you in the eye?
I suppose if the average is a 4.2 that qualifies it as "Acceptable" and therefore we will have to continue enduring this horrible arrangement of sound.
This is aweful
Oof dah!!!
Funny, I look back and I disliked this set on January 28th,,,,and I still dislike it today.
 
Rowdy!

Holy cow ... I thought that was never going to end.

Thank you Van for the much-needed palette cleanser.



 
{#No} stop it!
Pleeeereease make it stop!!!!
Rarely who from East Europe or Balkans likes "Gogol Bordello", it is so phony that only Madonna could promote it...


Another amazing band that rp introduced me to.
"Michael Jackson is the most premium dancer"
Maybe OK live on stage, but it hurts my ears now.
Is it over yet or what?
seriously,,, 
A couple of groups in Québec and France sound similar.  At least in terms of vocal style.
awesome set,,,,,,
Saw these guys live and it was an amazing show, but translated to a non-live environment?

Doesn't work, the lead singers voice is quite honestly, terrible. However, his stage performance is totally electric - worth checking out live! 
Fecking BRILLIANT! {#Drummer}{#Dancingbanana}{#Clap}{#Bananapiano}{#Bananasplit}{#Bananajam}{#Drummer}
 Stylist wrote:
I want to have a PNA button (Play Never Again) for this song!

 
I'd accept a PASBTGATO (Play Another Song By These Guys After This One) button.

For those who can appreciate the mayhem, humor, and general fun of these guys, try the album "Gypsy Punks: Underground World Strike".  It's their best. 
You're welcome.
 
I want to have a PNA button (Play Never Again) for this song!
 Bushpig wrote:
5 for the cover + 1 for the song + 2 for the craziness. Yep, a solid 8.

 

Lol..well it made me look up and check it out. I'll give a 5 for that.
 boober wrote:
Sounds like that dog that does the insults with the cigar in his mouth.

 
Nice comment {#Lol}. That'll be Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, whose best ever performance was "Revenge of the Nerds" at a Star Wars premiere. It makes me weep with laughter.
Absolute tripe.

"Hey guys, let's sell this b.s. to the rubes, and make 'em believe that it's true gypsy music. We'll make millions. Millions!" 
Bill is going quite worldly in the last 4, with a slightly Eastern European feel

Yoav — Yellowbrite Smile
Los Straitjackets — The Casbah
Notorious — Romanian Train Song
Gogol Bordello — Dub The Frequencies Of Love
Simply ghastly.   So much so it broke my concentration working with it's aural hideousness.  Have to switch off....
Great Balkan segue from Notorious! I'd love to see this bunch of bonkers Balkanites live - more fun than a barrelful of monkeys :o)
Surprised to hear Gogol Bordello on RP!  While I'm not a huge fan of them, their music is just a little too silly for me, I appreciate the diversity displayed here.
 boober wrote:
Sounds like that dog that does the insults with the cigar in his mouth.
Best comment. He descends into a guttural snarl that holds no attraction for me. But their song about how there's no fun allowed in town: Now that's great.


I had a problem with a Joni Mitchell song from yesterday or maybe any day..what a gutsy play...no major complaints!..personal preference at a personnel time..I guess that its why I choose this station over my own catalog..very nice
Uncanny resemblance to that song from the South Park episode where everyone is ninjas.
 This? This is tame.
Last night I was at a concert which turned into a Ukulele fest - it was a lot weirder than this.
this is disgusting 
5 for the cover + 1 for the song + 2 for the craziness. Yep, a solid 8.
This is just horrible. First song on Radio Paradise that I really didn't like.
 darcand wrote:
Thank God for the PSD button.

 
Damn there's no PSD on my iTV. This is like Borat rock.
this guy was great in "Everything Is Illuminated"!
Glad to see that Gogol made it on air in RP! Awesome Bill, we want more of them, they have excellent songs!!
Too bad that many listeners do not appreciate their style. Very good for us in Europe though, they have a very big fan base around here :)
Don't ever stop playing these guys. No matter what the haters say. 
There is NO mistaking a Gogol Bordello song.
Great bonkers Balkanites! Worthy successors to the little-known but much-lamented (by the Nottingham jury, at least) 3 Mustaphas 3. This lot are more bananas than Fyffes, more nuts than Planters, more bonkers than a swingers club. Great craic in a Balkan stylee. 7 from the Nottingham jury.
This is not what you want to hear at 8:30 a.m. at the office —
i feel like I should be at a raucous kitchen party staring into the bottom of an empty vodka bottle instead {#Sick}
Please, please, please stop playing this horrible band. Please?
this song has a rating of 4 - there is a reason for that.  It sucks and its horrible.  
Somebody drive an ice pick into my ears, please.
 spindrift wrote:
{#Think}  ——>{#Shifty} —-> {#Jump}
 
Exactly! lol {#Biggrin}
The very wonderful American Wedding.. how many other songs namecheck 'marinated herring' and 'Donald Trump'?

Have you ever been to American wedding? 

Where is the vodka, where's marinated herring? 
Where is the supply that gonna last three days? 
Where is the band that like Fanfare. 
Gonna keep it goin' 24 hours 

Ta-tar-ranta-ta-ta 
Super taran-ta taran-ta ran-ta ta 

Instead it's one in the mornin' 
and DJ is patchin' up the cords 
Everybody's full of cake 
Staring at the floor 
Proper couples start to wonder 
That it's time to do 
People gotta get up early 
Yep, they gotta go 
People gotta get up early 
And she'd gotta boyfriend 
And this whole fucking thing 
Is just a one huge disappointment 

Ta-tar-ran-ta 

Nothing gets these people going 
not even Gypsy Kings 
nobody talks about my Supertheory 
of Supereverythings! 
SO be you Donald Trump 
Or be an anarchist 
Make sure that your wedding 
Doesn't end up like this 

I understand the cultures of a different kind 
But here word celebration just doesn't come to mind
 midreaming wrote:

don't get talked down by these wheat toast afficionados. half of 'em think that johnPaulGeorge RingoJingo band is the only thing that's ever happened in music. shut-ins sitting in front of a 'puter huggin their box of fiber bars. . GB is totally worth seeing live. As much for the music as being in the crowd.  granted i was at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz CA. Their fans throw down like they do and it's fun to be in the middle of that. no uppity in this dude either. before the show i stood behind him at StreetLight Records. He stood and talked to the cashier like he was from the neighborhood. he had a stack of cd's as long as his arm so there was time to chat. awesome show!!
 
I'm with you on this... they are the most awesome band live,,, saw them a year or so ago and loved it!

But what's interesting is that it was this track, which was on the cover mount CD of the UK's very wonderful Uncut magazine, that first alerted me to GB - funny how one person hears something and is drawn to it whilst others are totally turned off - but wouldn't it be dull if we all had the same taste?

 
Thank God for the PSD button.
 FluorideFreeMN wrote:


Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back!  I hold a special spot for Gogol Bordello; my bucket list includes seeing them play live because I've heard their shows are unforgettable~
 
don't get talked down by these wheat toast afficionados. half of 'em think that johnPaulGeorge RingoJingo band is the only thing that's ever happened in music. shut-ins sitting in front of a 'puter huggin their box of fiber bars. . GB is totally worth seeing live. As much for the music as being in the crowd.  granted i was at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz CA. Their fans throw down like they do and it's fun to be in the middle of that. no uppity in this dude either. before the show i stood behind him at StreetLight Records. He stood and talked to the cashier like he was from the neighborhood. he had a stack of cd's as long as his arm so there was time to chat. awesome show!!
Ref to Bill's on-air comment,
 I'm with you on "weirdly compelling" , first time I hear an I'm compelled to
 be hear again. thanks Bill
                                                      -C
he is most premium dancer.
 Propayne wrote:
love'em
 

Along with Balkan Beatbox and Tumir Muskat :)
 FluorideFreeMN wrote:


Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back!  I hold a special spot for Gogol Bordello; my bucket list includes seeing them play live because I've heard their shows are unforgettable~
 
I believe it just look at the album cover!!!  Crazy right!{#Devil_pimp} Rated a Kool 7!


 juanos wrote:
Gogol Bordello ranks amongst the worst RP has ever played... .. if I could rate lower than 1, it would go down there!
 
30% of the listener ratings agree!

Horrible 
 Poacher wrote:

I have. Saw him at a festival and was not really expecting much as I am not a fan of gypsy music. But they were huge fun and gave a great show, at the end I had to admit to myself I really enjoyed the gig. 

But its an acquired taste and if you have not seen his stage presence I can see why this is rated so low.
 
+1 Saw them live last spring - excellent!
{#Think}  ——>{#Shifty} —-> {#Jump}
It isn't singing or music - just annoying noise.
 lily34 wrote:
saw a concert vid of these guys (maybe a bonarroo set?) and it was AMAZING. i would love to see them live.
 
I have. Saw him at a festival and was not really expecting much as I am not a fan of gypsy music. But they were huge fun and gave a great show, at the end I had to admit to myself I really enjoyed the gig. 

But its an acquired taste and if you have not seen his stage presence I can see why this is rated so low.
 FluorideFreeMN wrote:


Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back!  I hold a special spot for Gogol Bordello; my bucket list includes seeing them play live because I've heard their shows are unforgettable~
 
Ha.. came back to add a comment.... still terrible and I wouldn't dream of taking it back.... yuck 
Sounds like that dog that does the insults with the cigar in his mouth.
love'em
 ckcotton wrote:
Terrible....up there with most of Yoko's "music"

 

Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back!  I hold a special spot for Gogol Bordello; my bucket list includes seeing them play live because I've heard their shows are unforgettable~
I see the ratings, but I'd much rather hear this than anyone named Marley!
I have finally figured this out - like all public-facing servers, I'm sure the streaming devices at RP occasionally suffer from overload as more and more people log on to listen.

So Bill plays some Gogol Bordello, causing hundreds if not thousands of people to immediately switch to Soma or some other streaming music service.

Overload problem solved . . .  
I don't mind the music as much as I mind the incredibly inane album art.
Blergh.
 Wilfrue wrote:
This has no redeeming value. What a terrible song.
 
Man, this is punk at its most elemental. Fucking great!
Gogol Bordello ranks amongst the worst RP has ever played... .. if I could rate lower than 1, it would go down there!
I love these guys!  For anyone who doesn't "get it", check out the documentary "Non-Stop" which is available on Netflix streaming.

A synopsis:  "Fusing the instrumental approach of Eastern European gypsy music with the energy and attitude of punk rock, Gogol Bordello is one of the most unusual success stories of pop music in the new millennium, and Eugene Hutz hardly has the background of a typical rock frontman. Born near Kiev in 1972, Hutz and his family fled the Ukraine after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, and they made their way through Eastern Europe as refugees before coming to America in 1990. After playing with local bands in Vermont, Hutz relocated to New York City in 1997. While working as a DJ at downtown clubs, he began meeting fellow expatriate musicians, and in 1999 Gogol Bordello was formed. Gogol Bordello's frantic live shows earned the band a loyal following both at home and on the road, and their third album, 2005's Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike became a major independent success. Filmmaker Margarita Jimeno followed the band on the road for several months, and the result was Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, a documentary which looks at the group's colorful history and rigorous schedule as well as offering a look at the high-energy live show that's made them famous. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi"
THIS AWFUL!!!!  Come on Bill!
_Terrible!
I know I "shouldn't" like this group, but I really do.  It's like how I feel with most Beck or White Stripes songs...strange stuff, but it just grabs you (well, me anyway).