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(YouTube) Strange A-Ha's Take On Me, as interpreted by a quintet of North Korean accordionists   (youtube.com) divider line 50
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2012-02-03 02:58:36 PM
That was actually pretty impressive. But it really needed to have an animated pencil drawing of Kim Jong Un running around on the floor in front of them, and toward the end he'd started running toward the audience and appear to hit a glass wall and then he'd pound on it with his fists and break through and in a flash he'd transform from a sketch into the real person and there'd be a light sheen of perspiration on his face and he'd lift up from the floor and fix us all with a warm, inviting smile.
 
2012-02-03 03:20:39 PM
There's not enough beer to make me click this.
 
2012-02-03 03:30:27 PM
Fun fact:
Minutes after that video was recorded, all of those people were shot!
 
2012-02-03 03:32:52 PM
doczoidberg: Fun fact:
Minutes after that video was recorded, all of those people were shot!


Fun Fact #2:

Minutes after those people were shot, the soldiers tried to eat the accordions.
 
2012-02-03 03:33:53 PM
Oh, way to skip the bridge, Jun.
 
2012-02-03 03:34:05 PM
 
2012-02-03 03:39:30 PM
I like the cell phone that rings at the end.
 
2012-02-03 03:44:50 PM
dahmers love zombie: I'm gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench... (new window)

I've never seen that before. Thanks.
 
2012-02-03 03:59:04 PM
Havent those people suffered enough?!?!
 
2012-02-03 04:06:57 PM
Then who was phone?
 
2012-02-03 04:08:51 PM
Shostie: I like the cell phone that rings at the end.

Not good. Cell phone use is prohibited during the 100 day mourning period for Dear Leader...

Link (new window)
 
2012-02-03 04:12:56 PM
NowhereMon: Shostie: I like the cell phone that rings at the end.

Not good. Cell phone use is prohibited during the 100 day mourning period for Dear Leader...

Link (new window)


This could have been filmed before Kim Jong Il died for all we know.
 
2012-02-03 04:31:42 PM
One of the odder tributes I've seen,but definitely good.
 
2012-02-03 06:09:06 PM
Pocket Ninja: That was actually pretty impressive. But it really needed to have an animated pencil drawing of Kim Jong Un running around on the floor in front of them, and toward the end he'd started running toward the audience and appear to hit a glass wall and then he'd pound on it with his fists and break through and in a flash he'd transform from a sketch into the real person and there'd be a light sheen of perspiration on his face and he'd lift up from the floor and fix us all with a warm, inviting smile.

For some reason that last bit reminded me of the ending of the video for Tunak Tunak Tun.
 
2012-02-03 06:56:10 PM
It's not very "Juche" to play music from a Norwegian band, is it?
 
2012-02-03 07:13:33 PM
Needs more Weird Al.
 
2012-02-03 07:22:03 PM
Bathia_Mapes: Then who was phone?

ha. oh. oh my.
 
2012-02-03 07:29:34 PM
why do we allow this country to exist? nuke them from orbit.
 
2012-02-03 07:33:44 PM
I like the ad for I have no idea what they're selling but a parrot tries to sing the song. Which is unfortunate for that company, 'cos the whole point of advertising is product recall, not "Wow, what a cool commercial! Wait, what're they trying to get us to buy?"
 
2012-02-03 07:33:50 PM
Not as good as Jeffster....
 
2012-02-03 07:39:37 PM
...I'll be gone
 
2012-02-03 08:25:31 PM
The Great Leader wrote that song while dropping a deuce on "Juche"
 
2012-02-03 08:30:00 PM
gimmegimme: doczoidberg: Fun fact:
Minutes after that video was recorded, all of those people were shot!

Fun Fact #2:

Minutes after those people were shot, the soldiers tried to eat the accordions.


North Korean Fun Fact #3:

They could double the DPRK's GNP with a youtube channel.
 
2012-02-03 09:02:21 PM
The guy in the middle looks like he has too much experience having fun doing something. Shoot him first.
 
2012-02-03 09:09:13 PM
I kinda liked their take on it.
 
2012-02-03 09:30:20 PM
Did anyone else have visions of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind?"
 
2012-02-03 10:27:26 PM
Can't... stop... laughing...
 
2012-02-03 10:31:06 PM
Why were the radies regs welded together?
 
2012-02-03 10:42:40 PM
valdronius.sydlexia.com
 
2012-02-03 10:45:17 PM
That song probably had just gone to #1 on their Billboard Chart.
 
2012-02-03 11:08:37 PM
Man, Dear Leader was on a roll when he wrote that!
 
2012-02-03 11:26:57 PM
They all seem to be very talented musicians, and I like that song, but I never need to hear that again. Once was enough.
 
2012-02-03 11:57:42 PM
1. I wonder if they were permitted to hear the decadent Western version.

2. If yes, were they told that it was not written first in NK by the Dear Leader, and

3. What's with the Reds and accordians? Soviets, East Europeans, if it's not a polka, it's some dirty communist play that accordian
 
2012-02-04 12:14:01 AM
That hurt my ears.
 
2012-02-04 01:49:32 AM
It almost has a zydeco like sound to it.
 
2012-02-04 02:28:03 AM
Not that any of you will understand this, but my wife still has that tape.
 
mjg
2012-02-04 03:23:00 AM
Would have been more ironic if they had played "Sweet Home Alabama"
 
BHK
2012-02-04 04:11:40 AM
If this is what they are forced to do in labor camps, then conditions there are even worse than I could have imagined.
 
2012-02-04 04:21:40 AM
I was listening to this group when they were still underground. They're pretty obscure and I'm surprised anybody on Fark would have heard about them.
 
2012-02-04 04:29:42 AM
But only two have squeezeboxes.
 
2012-02-04 05:31:31 AM
ecmoRandomNumbers: There's not enough beer to make me click this.

And the thing is, I bet these guys are better than the original.

I'm still not going to click it though.
 
2012-02-04 09:54:08 AM
Ooph...that was a rough intro.
 
2012-02-04 10:08:37 AM
dahmers love zombie: I'm gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench... (new window)

Since originally seeing that video, my wife and I now simply refer to the song (original version) as "Pipe Wrench Fight".
 
2012-02-04 10:19:30 AM
That was pretty great!

I'll bet those chairs are exactly the same distance from each other.
 
2012-02-04 11:36:47 AM
Happy Hours: ecmoRandomNumbers: There's not enough beer to make me click this.

And the thing is, I bet these guys are better than the original.

I'm still not going to click it though.


There is two hot girls in it.

/not kidding
//720 hd too
 
2012-02-04 11:52:05 AM
FTA: a-ha's eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, filmed in Pyongyang, North Korea december 2012. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at the international arts and culture festival Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway February 8-12, 2012 (Juche 101). For more info please go to www.traavik.info and www.barentsspektakel.no

The North Koreans have a working time machine!!
 
2012-02-04 12:24:01 PM
TheChadnt: dahmers love zombie: I'm gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench... (new window)

Since originally seeing that video, my wife and I now simply refer to the song (original version) as "Pipe Wrench Fight".


How often does the subject come up anyway then?
 
2012-02-04 02:15:15 PM
dahmers love zombie: I'm gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench... (new window)

Literally obligatory.
 
2012-02-04 05:47:16 PM
dahmers love zombie: I'm gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench... (new window)

"Sketchy Arm,"

Works on most levels.
 
2012-02-05 04:52:23 AM
kyleaugustus: FTA: a-ha's eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, filmed in Pyongyang, North Korea december 2012. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at the international arts and culture festival Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway February 8-12, 2012 (Juche 101). For more info please go to www.traavik.info and www.barentsspektakel.no

The North Koreans have a working time machine!!


Yes. The drawback is that it only lets you travel between points in spacetime where/when accordions are being played.
 
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