i for one prefer greek

not only do i love the sound, but the stixoi, seem to be so much deeper than any other lyrics, particularly the old stuff, and i love that, none of this kalomira "den einai kala ta ellinika mou" bullshit, but real music, plus some of our greek singers have real fonares, a particular favourite of mine are the zembekika but i don't mind the odd tsiftiteli etc

what about you guys?

yeh i agree that Greek is so much better. i love it when you can hear the greek instruments the bouzouki, lyra etc. when i listen to greek music is makes me feel so much more like a greek i guess it makes me realise how rich our language and coulture and everything is from a simple song.

jen i couldn't have said it better...axx u gotta love the lyraaaa

I LIKE BOTH!!!!!!

I dunno bout any of you guys, but the klarino sends shivers down my spine. I love the old greek stuff, its the best.

It really depends what mood im in as to wether i want to listen to greek or english. I love a lot of different types of music, funk and heavy metal, dance and r'n'b just depends on my mood.

i love greek better and i make it well known.... there is a deeper meaning in all of it and the music and passion truly comes from the heart.

I agree Greek is much better. However, This Kalomira shit is fckd. The problem is that greeks are attracted to foreign things and they seem unsure as to where their modern music is heading.

Look at turkish and Lebanese modern music, the music actually sounds like it comes from that region. A lot of greek music is pathetic and it sounds like western music.

I downloaded Giannis vasiliou album yesterday. A great album with very good tsiftetelia music. But because he is considered an evening singer, it's not that popular liek the Anna Vissi's. But really the depth and complexity of his music is much more than a vissi song.

I keep downloading these new greek albums and the songs are so wishy washy, the music is wishy washy. It all dates after a few months. Tsiftetelia music has been around for thousands of years, it does not date. Vissi music dates.

Zeimbekika music is great, it follows a 9/8 music pattern which is unusual. This is similar to Marvin Gayes 'Heard it through the grapevine' which is considered by some as the top song of all time.

Middle eastern music starts at a point and ends at that point. The problem is, the bouzouki was designed to not sound like the Turkish instruments, it's designed from the Sazi but tuned differently. But a lot of greeks use it for tsiftetelia songs. That's fine but sometimes they overdo it with the bouzouki. Bouzouki in my view is for Zeimbekika.

Here is a quick quote from an article on

'In Western music, the musical notes are a half step (semitone) apart. For example, on a standard Western piano or harpsichord, each white key and each black key represents one of the 12 possible notes that can be used in Western music, and each is a half step higher than the key immediately adjacent to its left. However, many (but not all) Middle Eastern songs use quarter tones. A quarter tone is a pitch that is halfway between two adjacent keys on a Western piano. So, instead of having 12 possible notes to use as the basis of building a scale, Oriental music has twice as many possible notes to choose from.'

What I am trying to say is that we just dont know what to expect with a lot of these new Greek singers. Sometimes their albums the music sounds so western it's very dissapointing. We might think a lot of the songs sound exotic etc, but really the music is no different to western music there is not much to distinguish it.

we can't stand kalomira cos al we see is another britney spears clone, but to the greeks its something new, my dad says ppl like kalomira because of her innocence, meanwhile im thinking innocence my arse shes got greece wrapped around her finger, but my dad doens't know who britney spears is, so thats why he doesn't get it, same with the greeks in greece, its something new and they take a liking to it, im hoping people will get over it soon, doesn't look that way though

GREEK WITHOUT A DOUBT...

Greek

The music and lyrics are so passionate.

greek for sure... anatrixiazo me ta ellinika, mhtropano makes me love being greek more and more everytime i hear his songs terzi pwaaaahhhh we own

word B)

Greek all the way...

yeh the klarino is also a great one. my brother loves it so much that he said hes gonna make his kids(if he has any) play the klarino and bouzouki.

indeed... nothing beats greek music, i listen to it 24/7

it's meaningful yet passionate - nothing can compare to it!

I added a poll for this

lol good idea niko

stop copying me will ya

What??? haha all I said was Greek all the way...you're copying me...

i like greek more den english
i love listening to classical cretan artists like silouris, skoulas, moundakis, papadakis, psarantonis
listening 2 the lyra puts shivers down my spine
yea im kritiko lol

i'm not from crete

and the lyra stil sends shivers down my spine

love it

ah yes indeed the lyra is awesome but the klarino r0ckssss - pontian stylezzzz the pontian xorous are crazyyyyyyyyyy...

glykoula mou i must take you some time, i'll bring timmy along and a few others, we'll have a ball :shades:

opaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

bring on the klarinaaaaaa

pontiaka are awesomeeeeee their music is fuken mad!!!! i member wen i was in sydney and we to marrickville i think its called west side lounge we went for a cretan convention as my sister is in a greek dancing group..... they tried to teach me pontiaka i looked a dickhead!! lol but it gave me goose bumps the way they did it... we call them salt n pepper the way they always shake haha

and yehhh lira is awesome i love listening to it

lollll @ westside lounge haha memories of when i was like 5...i remember it so well, haven't been there in agessssssss

and yer pontiaka are awesome but i too look like a dickhead attempting it

soccer we'll learn together and look like dickheads together

ill join in in looking like a dickhead. i can only dance kotsari really really well cos i had to perform it for like 3 years in a row at greek school.

hey GP ppl i enjoy english and greek music equally there are moments that i like to hear anythin except kinezika opera and classical music hahahahahaha.

muahahahaha @ west side lounge in marrickville oh soccer tsikaki mou i was thereeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

did you guys perform back in 2003/04???? cozzzzzzzz i was thereeeeeeeeeeeeee

pontian music effen r0cks i highly rate it over the cretans any day lololol the pontian know how to have fun, bring on the kotsari, tik and seranitsaaaaaaaaaa... i have all the pontian mixessssssssss watch them be played on my 21st bzzzzz :shades:

oh and a must the kotsari! pontian style but not cretan :shades: the omega vibes hit bzzzzzzz i'm psyched i feel like dancing it now lol :tongue:

23qqqqqqqqqq mou haha u were there what a laugh OMG!!!!! did u see the darwin dance group Pan hellenic dancers!?!?!

opalakia but its ok i never knew u then!!!! or else i would have been sitting with ya lol

glyks we shall attened the west side lounge functions and look like complete vlimata together for sure

When we came there we only knew one pontian dance....KOTSARI i learnt tik and serenitsa while i was there... cant believe u were there how awsome

When i hear the Kritikia lyra i freak.... and just start dancing..even in public ask my sister...... i had a kritiko cd in my car one day coz i had practice that night and i had maleviziotiko pumping... almost crashed coz my feet were dancing....

the old style kalymnian tsabouna is unbelievable the kalymnikia sousta my group last performed at Darwins Major greek Festival 'GLENTI' we did it old school with the tsabouna then the violi kicked in and we had the crowed screaming
.... no wonder we are so EFFEN PROUD TO BE WOGS

Sennitsa did you see our old man dance how that guy had te bastouni and keeps falling over and getting up and dancing?

ameeeeee i was there!!!! hehehehehehehehehehe small w0rld i swear!!!!

yes the PAN HELLENIC DANCERS FROM DARWIN! and then you had the cretan dance association who performed after you guys... i must admit you guys know how to perform well d0ne!!

hahahe yeh man you'd be sitting next to me and when the pontian dances came on i would've dragged you to the dance floor :shades:

Greek music fuck yeah.
i have more greek songs on my ipod than english hahaha.
WHen i go out, i love rnb and house..

I used to do pontian dancing for 5 years, travelled alot. it was pretty sweet. THose of you in melbourne, you know the Pontikia Estia in Sunshine? yeah thats where i used to dance.

Love dancing the kotsari, when i hear that drum, im like pwooooooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, get the fuck up and start dancing!

the only listenable greek songs are zembekika... and for that reason i'm ADAMANTLY saying english music, as there are hundreds of different styles and genres to choose from... whereas with greek, there are only zembekika for me to listen to.

nothing else is listenable, sorry. You all know I'm right.

whatever.
you totally know you shake your ass in the mirror every night dancing along to s'bira sovara... and songs of the like.


i prefer greek... but old school grk... none of this bullshit that has come out recently. greek singers have turned themselves into plastic and that's what their songs are like. rubbish in the end. still adamantly in love with ploutarho though. that guy is a god. every other guy should look at him and be amazed and curse their mothers for making them ugly compared to him. ahhh shutup you know it's true.

the other thing about greek music is the emotion you can hear and witness in clips. that stuff you can't really see in english music. not that the lyrics to some english songs aren't every emotive.

i prefer meaning to "shake that laffy taffy"... even though i do have that on my ipod

For me,nothing can compares with bouzouki's sound but i also like every kind of METAL music.
Also i do not like pop music.
Those words are very silly and unkind for me which starts with POP-music,POP-ularity,POP-ulism!!
Keep in Real

Geiaaaa