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Damjan Murko: Slovenia’s very own celebutard.
Slovenia’s legal code doesn’t have anything like Turkey’s infamous Article 301, and that’s why folks like Damjan Murko can get away with butchering the national anthem without going to jail for two to three years.
Slovenia’s anthem is an otherwise magnificent work. You can hear it here. [Right click and save as…] This may get me in trouble with some people, but I like Croatia’s anthem a bit more; at least musically. In terms of content, nothing in the world tops Slovenia’s epic Zdravljica. Have you ever listened to national anthems? They all seem to follow a similar pattern:
O, [insert country name here], you are totally beautiful,
Your [select one or more: lakes, seas, rivers, mountains, valley, parking lots] are just so awesome,
obviously much better than anywhere else,
I totally want to spill my blood all over you,
Hooray!
Compare this with Slovenia’s anthem, which:
1) Doesn’t mention Slovenia
2) Doesn’t even mention any rivers or natural wonders,
3) Calls for blessings on “all nations”,
4) Calls for freedom for all, friendship and peace.
Seriously, can anyone top that? Here is an anthem that doesn’t celebrate its host country, but celebrates our own common humanity and the noble goal of world peace. It makes me want to hug the whole world and tell it how much I love it.
But first I want to totally destroy Murko.
(Thanks Alenka!)
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Zravljica kicks our “O Canada, terre de nos aieux” in the pants.
Don’t know about your ranking of the Slovenian national anthem there…Perhaps it is the link but it reminds me of technicolor Disney musicals like Snow White– just too much and too many sopranos.
If you want to indulge in an altruistic view of humanity, let us start with Mr. Murko: he deserves a good kicking for those specs to begin with….the color me bad haircut and edgy frosting….exaggerated hand-gestures…exposed contrasting cuffs and collars…….
You forgot to mention 1 thing. Slovenia’s anthem is also a half drinking song.
Well, Zdravljica is a toast song. NOT drinking song! It doesn’t go on about 3 barrels of ale, it’s a toast to young and old, to women and men and children, to all peoples, to peace…
The Slovenian national anthem is just the seventh stanza of this poem.
But it’s true - it’s the whole toasting context that makes it different and so universal.
True, although that is the poem and only part of it is in the anthem itself (not the drinking part of course). And for some reason, whenever I hear it, I always want to start singing the part of it that talks about the “sweet wine”. I guess that comes from learning the poem itself in the elementary school.
So, who’s this Murko guy anyway?
Murko must be a cefur faggot that deserves to be banned from the country. I propose ti change the anthem with this other stanza from Mr. P’s poem:
V sovražnike ‘z oblakov
rodú naj naš’ga treši gróm;
prost, ko je bil očakov,
naprej naj bo Slovencov dom;
naj zdrobé
njih roké
si spone, ki jih še težé!
Hey! You guys are effing mean!
@Michael M.: Luckily you are wrong!
Article 174 of Slovenian Penal Code stipulates that “whoever acts disrespectfully towards flag, herald or anthem of the Republic of Slovenia shall be fined or imprisoned up to a year”
All we need now is a good prosecutor
@Damjan Murko: Take this. And stay there!
“Can anyone top that?”
Yes, the Kazakh national anthem as sung by Borat. Awesome.
Not bad to:
Hoch vom Dachstein an, wo der Aar noch haust,
bis zum Wendenland am Bett der Sav’
und vom Alptal an, das die Mürz durchbraust,
bis ins Rebenland im Tal der Drav’
Dieses schöne Land ist der Steirer Land…
one move. one simple move. he opened his golden mouth and.. BAM!! he did the impossible and destroyed the whole anthem.
P.S his winning smile at the end is priceless.
Gibt es eigentlich von der Hymne der Steiermark auch eine Fassung in der “windischen Sprach”? Wenn schon das Wendenland erwähnt wird.
Sorry, but he does not
Call for blessings on “all nations”,
Žive naj vsi narodi … doesn’t mention god or his blessings, and the translation: “God’s blessing on all nations” hurts my atheistic feelings, seriously, well not seriously, but I wish it was translated correctly,
and I’m proud of poor old scorned Damjan, he went to the stadium and he sang the anthem. Well despite of the the results, he dared doing it.
Zoran Predin’s version of the zdravljica is the coolest version of a national anthem I know
Hey, since you’re speaking of anthems, y’all should check Laibach’s (Slovenia’s finest and most intelligent) last record Volk (word play on folk/volk) which is all reinterpretations of anthems from around the world… with a lot of artistic licence of course. NSK all the way!