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Itâs a Romanian song from the '70s; I only understand a few words of it, but an ex-gf liked them, so here we are.
The song just transports me to somewhere in the medieval Romanian sticks ⌠save for the guitar riffs. I like some of their other stuff too, including mugur de fluier.
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Welcome to the thread.
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Adriano Celentano made this song for his Italian audience. Itâs gibberish, but itâs how he perceived U.S. English sounded to Italians who didnât speak that language.
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Italians and their fascination with AmericaâŚ
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Sounds like a song used in a Tarantino movie.
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Classic. Also, he was YUUUUGE in the 70s & 80s in Yurp.
Ah, right, youâre from Germany, innit?
Having lived outside of the U.S. for about five years, I unintentionally became well-versed in another music genre that much of non-Eastern Europe would gladly soon forget. You know, Italo Disco.
Even in random Guangzhou backstreets, I would hear Boney M., Arabesque, Scotch, and Modern Talking playing ⌠either an original song, or a truly bizarre remix. Russia seems pretty obsessed with Italo Disco.
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GAAAAH. Modern Talking! Iâm amazed I didnât develop brain cancer from being subjected to that garbage. Their popularity is diametrically opposed to their âtalent.â Super-popular in Eastern Europe and Japan AFAIK.
Itâs funny - whenever we have to do a road trip in Germany, the radio plays almost the exact same shit they did in the 80s, as if the last 40 years of music didnât happen.
Italian pop is pretty awful, and itâs all youâll hear driving through Italy, too 
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Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13
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fun facts about the J. Giles BandâŚ
J Giles was the lead guitarist. âMagic Dickâ was the trumpet/sax/harmonica player. Peter Wolf was singer/frontman. Wolf was also roommates with future director David Lynch and got Lynch stoned for the first time in the late 70âs. Lynch decided he didnât care for it.
Ok, only the last one is really âfunâ, but J Giles was one of the few bands that I, a not-very-good-because-I-didnât-practice-enough teen drummer could reliably play along to. No weird double bass, no big Peart-esque fills or Keith Moon crash-n-bash. Just straight up backbeats and few licks for key changesâŚ
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Weâre not aware of any big time covers of âI doâ. Magic, how that songâs arrangement/instrumentation fits together.
I recently discovered Dark Italo and love playing it during work. Music usual classic rock, '80âs, '90s but am allowed to use my headphones in one ear. Dark Italo, Synthwave, Bedroom/Dream Pop and Shoegaze discovered this way. Love it.
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We stand corrected. It turns out that the J. Geils version is the ultimate cover:
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