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Bardcore

454 points by ogogmad 6y ago

rbanffy 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c&feature=youtu.be You're welcome.
- zeristor 6y ago
  Pumped up kicks 1066 A.D Cover in Old English (Anglo Saxon) Bardcore https://youtube.com/watch?v=JcKqhDFhNHI https://youtube.com/watch?v=JcKqhDFhNHI
  - ogogmad 6y ago
    A few songs sung in Middle English: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bardcore+middle+english https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bardcore+middle... One commenter described it as sounding like English with Dutch pronunciation.
    - rbanffy 6y ago
      It's not Bardcore unless it's sung in period-correct languages ;-)
      - notahacker 6y ago
        The slightly more recognisable late medieval English is more fun to play with for laughs e.g. 'I am but a girl, smaller than thee / Allowest me not from thy sight' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFQnLwLyec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFQnLwLyec and the 'and she calleth a horse' line in this :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKNi0Pk43c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKNi0Pk43c
- tsimionescu 6y ago
  Have been listening obsessively to this a few weeks ago, absolutely lovely (especially if you know modern french and can marvel at the pronunciation differences). For anyone else curious about that part of it, an interesting little video [0] shows the evolution of French and its ancestors' phonetics from (reconstructed) Proto Indo-european to modern French. It's fascinating to see especially how French spelling almost stopped evolving somewhere around Old French, while pronunciation changed dramatically. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD--OdhdJfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD--OdhdJfg
- formerly_proven 6y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/c/AlgaltheBard/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/AlgaltheBard/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 (Hildegard von Blingin')
chroem- 6y ago
Finally, something to go with my pirate metal.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  thanks for the genre tip! drum & bugle metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3c5rNFLew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3c5rNFLew too far inland to be pirates? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGko10RIGtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGko10RIGtY
  - chrisjarvis 6y ago
    that second song is dope. in regards to the genre of pirate metal this is my understanding to be one of the more popular bands (and a very fun song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0
    - apocalyptic0n3 6y ago
      I'm partial to Storm Seeker, which is more traditional folk metal combined with pirate metal. Their lyrics aren't really humorous, either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnttPJHt6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnttPJHt6s
  - ygra 6y ago
    I guess Versengold is more folk than metal.
    - 082349872349872 6y ago
      good point. In that case, how about disco metal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=787t4NZN0mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=787t4NZN0mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0
- Laremere 6y ago
  See also: The show Westworld's soundtrack. The show is set in western themed park in the near future, and contains several excellent remixes of others songs in a western style.
dschuessler 6y ago
The one that made me smile the most is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkpxEezTu4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkpxEezTu4s The main melody and these cliché medieval chords are a fit made in heaven. I find that most of the stuff on YouTube lacks this kind of cleverness though.
- est31 6y ago
  My favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbufWzX1NA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbufWzX1NA I really like the bass. The pirates of the Caribbean theme fits really nicely as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95M9UsQS2HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95M9UsQS2HI Probably helps that the original music was made for and recorded on classical instruments. If you like vocals in ancient english: https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9
  - hannasanarion 6y ago
    Hildegard von Blingin doesn't do "ancient english", that's early modern English, c. 16th century. This account is the only one I have found using early medieval dialects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A
    - est31 6y ago
      I used the term "ancient" as an indication that it was older than the contemporary english because I didn't know which category it fell into, whether it was old english, middle english, or, as you say, early modern english. Thanks for naming the right category.
- notahacker 6y ago
  Just a shame there were no vocals for the almost-period-appropriate lyrics, (and they were a lot less inspired by medieval myths than some of the other English metal songs of the time) No lyrics for the 'bardcore' versions of Stairway either: perhaps they could borrow them from this Gregorian chant version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn5lydAZ6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn5lydAZ6k
hugh4life 6y ago
No mention of Stary Olsa? Death in Rome does neofolk covers of pop songs.
- rossdavidh 6y ago
  I do believe I actually stumbled across Stary Olsa playing at a Renaissance Faire in Texas. They blew my mind. I kept thinking, "how did they end up in Texas?" Nice folks, also.
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Shared404 6y ago
This can make decent ambience for D&D, before the game starts at least. Sometimes in game as well in a tavern or some such place.
chrisjarvis 6y ago
related and similarly fun is the rather esoteric genre of "wizard disco". https://bandcamp.com/tag/wizard-disco https://bandcamp.com/tag/wizard-disco
ljp_206 6y ago
I have also recently learned about "dungeon synth," which was a pleasant surprise. Plenty of compilations and examples if you do a YouTube search.
- aasasd 6y ago
  From just the name, I feel like it should resemble Burzum's prison years. Edit: in practice, what I hear so far sounds more like a mod-tracker version of Summoning. Really, for actual atmospheric black-fantasy synth stuff, Summoning is the name to look up. (The old albums are greatly preferable: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgLFdNSwks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgLFdNSwks)
lxe 6y ago
Interesting that this trend is on wikipedia. Talk discussion about deletion and notability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bardcore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bardcore
- Freak_NL 6y ago
  It's probably safe now after the (lightweight, it's just the entertaining Pass notes column) Guardian article¹. 1: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/24/never-mind-the-ballads-how-bardcore-took-over-pop-music https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/24/never-mind-the...
bitwize 6y ago
Bardcore is arguably traceable to the "What Is Love?" meme which originated in 2005 on YTMND, based on a 1996 Saturday Night Live skit. It consisted of a short, repeated loop taken from the skit of the three "Roxbury Guys" (90s lounge lizards, basically) bobbing their heads to Haddaway's "What Is Love?" in their car. Endless variants and edits of the loop were made -- one of the most memorable being "What Doth Love Be?" which features a medieval-instrumentation version of the Haddaway riff and a Bayeux Tapestry style art work of three men in a boat: https://youtu.be/3uHz0KdIbhY https://youtu.be/3uHz0KdIbhY Of course, the song "What Is Love?" on its own makes an excellent bardcore candidate: https://youtu.be/Kbj4bulZX2Y https://youtu.be/Kbj4bulZX2Y
- noio 6y ago
  Always happy to see someone else remembering YTMND. I have a soft spot for the endless remixing with different video/audio influences. I guess it is a similar thing that people do now on TikTok, but maybe people were less inclined to use videos of themselves as source material in the early 2000s
mattkevan 6y ago
Hildegard von Blingin’ is pretty good too. https://m.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 https://m.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 Plus their name is unreasonably funny.
- spelunker 6y ago
  Those vocals wow!
- gliese1337 6y ago
  Hildegard von Blingin' is the absolute #1 best.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
  From the Gotye "Somebody that I used to know" cover, modified lyrics? "To send a wagon for thy minstrel and refuse my letters" "Was there cause to cast me off?" The absolute totally freakin' brilliance!
  - encom 6y ago
    "All ye bully-rooks with your buskin boots" "Best ye go, best ye go" "Outrun my bow" Oh god, I'm in tears. This is amazing.
- henrikschroder 6y ago
  I so wish she would descend from her cloister and grace us with more of her bangin' tunes. There's nothing I love more than when exceptionally skilled people spend a ton of effort on what's essentially a joke. Her version of Jolene is crazy good, and all of her small changes to the lyrics and the music are absolutely perfect. Ridiculously accurate re-styling of the song!
- yreg 6y ago
  I also like the_miracle_aligner[0], here's his take on Smells Like Teen Spirit in classical latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk [0] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A
ccffpphh 6y ago
My favorite of this style is honestly Nothing Else Matters by Algal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8 He does a great job, plays the instruments on video too.
- kbenson 6y ago
  It would honestly be really cool to encounter this (or something like it) unexpectedly in some fantasy type movie. One of my favorite things of the new Westworld series was the Player piano openings of more recent hits.
  - darekkay 6y ago
    I especially liked the western style of "Paint it Black" from The Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iZ9JRVmJ5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iZ9JRVmJ5o
- SigmundA 6y ago
  Youtube linked this from that video, wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTCiuTUaEvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTCiuTUaEvs
- arthurcolle 6y ago
  I love the Scala & Kolacny Brothers cover of this one too, featured in Zero Dark Thirty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABPBly90Nk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABPBly90Nk
_Microft 6y ago
Y.M.C.A.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7zqpZBVrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7zqpZBVrc X-Files theme, discovered in a medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8GFh7Fz5M&t=278s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8GFh7Fz5M&t=278s 30 seconds in, Gangsta's Paradise sounds like Anno 1502 background music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywM446-vcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywM446-vcE
- Balgair 6y ago
  Oh wow, now that cover of Gangster's Paradise could really use some lyrics. Coolio's original song is a masterpiece. Especially looking back after the death of George Floyd and it's aftermath, that 1995 song resonates more than it has in the last 25 years. It's words of the street and the oppressed are universal and timeless (unfortunately). Maybe take the bardcore cover and alter Coolio's lyrics to represent the lead up to the Peasant's Revolt of 1381?
  - xcambar 6y ago
    Reacting to you saying "Coolio's original masterpiece": Coolio actually sampled/covered the song "Pastime Paradise" from Stevie Wonder https://youtu.be/_H3Sv2zad6s https://youtu.be/_H3Sv2zad6s
lhoff 6y ago
I really like the "THE REAL SLIM SHADY" Cover from Beedle the Bardcore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU EDIT: "WITHOUT ME" ist also great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiV7hwfLXGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiV7hwfLXGE
- kbenson 6y ago
  Oh, that top comment[1] for the slim shady one is epic. I want to see that performed now. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU&lc=UgxGPmAFigFUR-XANcN4AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU&lc=UgxGPmAFigFUR...
tda 6y ago
Thank you HN for pointing me to this! It still exists on the internet of 2020, innocent creative brilliance with a nice dose of humor, not spoiled by commercial interests. This almost feels like the internet of yore
- breakfastduck 6y ago
  Isn't it just! Clear serious commitment on those making sure language is authentic. Hearing some of the instrumental covers makes me fantasize about all the 'bands' of musicians & the songs they'd play live, never to be written down & back before music could be recorded. I would love to imagine a group playing a song not quite unlike this in a tavern & people going wild... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ (System of a Down - Toxicity - Medieval Style - Bardcore)
  - natcombs 6y ago
    After watching this video, I now get why this exists. That was pretty cool
    - Teever 6y ago
      My personal favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7olFGxw3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7olFGxw3Y It brought a rare smile to my face during the stressful times in March when COVID started blowing up.
      - grugagag 6y ago
        Heres one of my recent finds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhn_8OIMWFs&list=OLAK5uy_kEqS_tSoax6m3cFM1KMje9I3QYErYu7Zo&index=5&t=0s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhn_8OIMWFs&list=OLAK5uy_kEqS_...
        gnat 6y ago
        Mispaste? That's an Ethiopique piano piece for me.
bashmelek 6y ago
As enjoyable as this is, I still can't help but to worry that it's another imitation of something historical or traditional eclipsing the actual thing it is meant to pay homage to. Let's not forget the original, else we run the risk of forgetting, and the closest thing becomes and imitation of an imitation. I'll search medieval music and so often I find modern, original, creations. It can be great and sometimes I'm in the mood for it, but I want us to have as a culture a memory of our older arts.
- breakfastduck 6y ago
  That's more a search / trending issue I think. Absolutely the best way to remember things through history and keep them alive is to keep making them. The commitment some of these artists are showing to ensure the language & pronunciation is as accurate as possible is astounding. Really, this is a hell of a way to get kids interested in old languages when they're being taught at school. Rather a cynical view you're taking I think.
  - bashmelek 6y ago
    My experiences with searching for older music precede this trend, a few years back I researched bardic tradition and that lead to me exploring traditional Welsh music and it really opened my mind to how much is out there. The internet helps enormously but even still things take digging, and get lost. I hope that this style trending does lead to a renewed interest and appreciation of medieval music and history. It's a matter of how the seeds fall, so to speak. Many might just enjoy these modern takes, but then there are those who will take it further to learn about the old source.
  - bitwize 6y ago
    A few years ago, there was a Westerner who got together with a couple of Japanese craftsmen and started producing ukiyo-e -- Japanese woodblock prints -- of Super Mario, Link, Samus, and other video game characters rendered in a traditional style with the hope of reviving interest in the style. It turns out that ukiyo-e's popularity waxed and waned over two centuries, with art audiences getting bored of it until some new artist found a way to make the medium contemporary and relevant again with new subject matter. So, far from trivializing a great Japanese tradition by associating it with material from his vidya, he was keeping it alive the exact same way Japanese artists kept it alive over the centuries.
shoo 6y ago
Forty Six & 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rauFQHnfDLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rauFQHnfDLc
zeitg3ist 6y ago
Thanks, now I know what the play on my next remote D&D session!
_Microft 6y ago
The inevitable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP1QJguEJJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP1QJguEJJc
fito 6y ago
This is the one great thing that has come out from this cursed year.
- Balgair 6y ago
  Unfortunately, I think this is just how years go now.
gpvos 6y ago
Fitting musicke for these times of ye plague.
therockspush 6y ago
This is great. I can picture a group of medieval brutes sharpening their blades around a fire listening to the toxicity version, getting amped up before a castle raid.
eruleman 6y ago
Hildegard von Blingin's cover of Bad Romance is the anthem of Bardcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2zpbcW-h-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2zpbcW-h-c
aasasd 6y ago
Well, I mean, if you were on youtube in the past few months and outside of the default suggestion trashpile, I can't imagine how you'd manage to evade this phenomenon.
- freeone3000 6y ago
  By having tuned home pages? I never see music suggested to me on YouTube (assumably because I don't listen to music on YouTube)
  - aasasd 6y ago
    That's a bit of a loss on your part: Youtube has, ahem, a large music library—my favorite litmus test is the presence of Gruuthaagy's output. And secondly, Youtube's recommendations surface some great stuff once in a while, if you manage to teach it that your taste is not quite generic. One of my musical pastimes formerly was searching for two disparate genres together on YT. (However, apparently either I've reached the limit of that configuration space, at least for now—or it's Google's algo killing the results by becoming too imprecise.)
    - 082349872349872 6y ago
      YT is how I discovered techno contradance is a thing. Still have yet to have had it turn up decent electro bluegrass, but it did find some album-oriented bluegrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLMsvaRWhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLMsvaRWhY
      - aasasd 6y ago
        Well, if I try to imagine electric bluegrass, I get rockabilly. My favorite cover of DSotM is the meh-titled ‘Jazz Side of the Moon’ by Yahel, Moreno, Hoenig and Blake. More specifically, it's the only worthy cover so far imo (though the bluegrass one is a quite strong contender, yeah). Surprisingly ‘JSotM’ isn't on YT in entirety—which is the greatly preferred mode of listening to it—but some snatches can be had at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yahel%2C+Moreno%2C+Hoenig%2C+Blake https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yahel%2C+Moreno... P.S. As for techno contra dance: I like my techno on the harder side, so expected something in the vein of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_35FTnYVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_35FTnYVA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4. After seeing some fine synchronized pair dancing, of the jumpstyle-shuffle sort, it's quite conceivable for me.
dfischer 6y ago
This one is quite incredible. System of a Down - aerials Bardcore https://youtu.be/tAVkuRKwuDI https://youtu.be/tAVkuRKwuDI
cos2pi 6y ago
Don't forget the oud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHeDpGcZVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHeDpGcZVM
- billfruit 6y ago
  The Hurdy-Gurdy would also be interesting to see in such songs.
murat124 6y ago
This is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk
a6h 6y ago
https://youtu.be/I5TB9DT6s-E https://youtu.be/I5TB9DT6s-E A fellow once told me the earth is quite unholy They call me slow of mind 'round the land And a maiden very cruel, wrote out I am a fool In letters spelléd out using her hand - What Zit Tooya (in the comments)
userbinator 6y ago
I wonder if someone mistyped "hardcore", and then thought "bardcore sounds like an interesting genre, I should make some".
narrator 6y ago
Not as new, but synthwave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave is a recent genre that has been gaining in popularity. Back before the complete consolidation of radio after the Telecommunications Act of 1996, there were a lot of local DJs who would find bands and promote them. The genres that were part of "popular" music changed over the decades. Now, on the other hand, if you turn on the radio, the music sounds roughly the same as it did 20 years ago.
- bigiain 6y ago
  Also Chillwave, which has made a bit of a resurgence on the back of the fabulous outro track from the recent Unhinged movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qE6RrkgJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qE6RrkgJA (Which, for those who don't recognise it, is a cover of a mid 70's Blue Oyster Cult song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c )
  - kyleee 6y ago
    An Art Bell bumper music classic; I enjoy the Chillwave version you've included. Thanks for sharing it
- canadianwriter 6y ago
  Glad it's making a comeback - basically 80's new wave making a comeback. Though I find a lot of the new stuff is cookie cutter, people just trying to recreate an exact Bladrunner/Outrun exact sound. I make more of a new wave style sound - things like Thomas Dolby (she blinded me with science) and Gary Numan (cars), using synths to make something totally different. Hope this kind of creative stuff gets more popular. My album: https://lostastronaut.ca https://lostastronaut.ca
- barry-cotter 6y ago
  > Now, on the other hand, if you turn on the radio, the music sounds roughly the same as it did 20 years ago. Twenty years ago rock was a living genre instead of something on life support from old geezers and rap and hip hop weren’t default music, rock was. Country has also gotten way less Christian and again, much more rap and hip hop influenced. If you listen to a years worth put number ones from 2002 it does not sound like 2022. The difference isn’t as great as 1960-1980 but “roughly the same” it is not.
Tade0 6y ago
I wonder how much did Netflix's Witcher(or the game for that matter) contribute to the emergence of this genre?
- kroltan 6y ago
  Witcher is not the first medieval fantasy show or game. Memes using the Bayeux tapestry were a reasonably active niche a few years ago, I suspect this phenomenon is derived from that.
  - mixedCase 6y ago
    The Witcher, the Netflix show, has a bard song which became a popular earworm. I'm confident it has played a part in the popularization of Bardcore as a meme/genre.
  - booleandilemma 6y ago
    Pretty sure normies learned about bards from The Witcher and not, say, EverQuest.
    - kroltan 6y ago
      Has Bardcore reached "normies" at all yet?
      - throwawaynothx 6y ago
        You're here arnt you.
    - xcambar 6y ago
      Or maybe people with a regular western European education didn't wait for the Witcher to know what a bard is. That's like... hundreds of millions of people. Most of them "normies" by your standards, certainly :)
  - watt 6y ago
    I think the juxtaposition of modern writing and wit in Witcher with the not-really-medieval society stuck with pre-steam technology might be the catalyst for creating the Bardcore genre.
jedberg 6y ago
Not sure if this fits the genre exactly, but here is Smells Like Teen Spirit in Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  Μα Τον Δια: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fA6dTnyrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fA6dTnyrE (a musical accompaniment for the Odyssey thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352463 )
stephen_cagle 6y ago
I kinda like this bardcore version of Creep by Radiohead.-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiIjMIlRw&pbjreload=101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiIjMIlRw&pbjreload=101
themodelplumber 6y ago
Not bardcore, but I'll throw in some Norton Commander for my HN friends... https://youtu.be/qmVeQEysvtk https://youtu.be/qmVeQEysvtk
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  The Putin propaganda[1] reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fix7P6aGXQ&t=100 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fix7P6aGXQ&t=100 [1] This clip is a Sotchi submarine. (We're in the alps and therefore don't have a real beach, so not only do we have artificial beaches, we're building an artificial surf pool near our slopes to stay competitive.) Natali's pop propaganda has been even less subtle in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPdxUyUUhes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPdxUyUUhes more factory girls in propaganda: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907
garrettm 6y ago
This is great :D
rashkov 6y ago
I've made a playlist of the few dozen youtube links posted here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55akf--9BvWcN-V7M3z0jSMCAPFsNCWs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55akf--9BvWcN-V7M3z0...
ummonk 6y ago
There is a similar genre of groups doing Indian classical covers of songs e.g. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqqiOgzFLmFeo3vB9jW_SuwP-cT44Oa7l https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqqiOgzFLmFeo3vB9jW_Suw...
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
  I ... don't know ... what to say. In theory anything that increases exposure to the glories of the Carnatic tradition is a good thing. Whether or not this actually counts as that is open to debate. I look at the playlist and don't know whether to laugh or groan.
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Semaphor 6y ago
Huh. That’s cool. Medieval music has been a thing in Germany for many years (with relatively few pop covers though). From pure market-music (the kind played at medieval fairs), to versions with metal and/or electro elements. Ougenweide [0] was one of the earliest in the 70ies, Zupfgeigenhansel [1] from the same time did some covers (Bella Ciao in German here) Die Streuner [2] are not as close to the pure-medieval style but use a lot of self-built instruments. Satolstelamanderfanz [3] are mostly instrumental and traditional, Corvus Corax [4] are similar, but far bigger, drum heavier, and also have a few covers. Tanzwut [5] is an example of medieval electro-metal Schelmish [6] is party-medieval music with metal influences, In Extremo [7] is probably the most successful medieval metal band. I could probably go on for hours, but I think this is already a bit much, so I’ll stop here ;) [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95EoHfFGBeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95EoHfFGBeU [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_loaZEwKkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_loaZEwKkc [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoIHHwjg-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoIHHwjg-0 [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJkp06x7EE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJkp06x7EE [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWruBwPNBOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWruBwPNBOs [5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5fmbSnVQrI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5fmbSnVQrI [6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQiSZdX8vA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQiSZdX8vA [7]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcde8YTe2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcde8YTe2M
- hutattedonmyarm 6y ago
  My first thoughts when reading the title jumped to In Extremo and Saltatio Mortis!
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  More party-medieval: Otava Yo's St. Patrick's Day performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghO5oPVtG_w&t=420 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghO5oPVtG_w&t=420
- SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago
  And even a Medieval-metal-comedy band ( Feuerschwanz )
eesmith 6y ago
Back in 2003, Rondellus came out with "Sabbatum: Medieval Tribute to Black Sabbath". See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2y51ixsu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2y51ixsu8 for their version of War Pigs, titled "Verres Militares". In 2006, Richard Thompson included a short (30 second) instrumental riff on "Oops I Did It Again" in medieval style, titled "Marry Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt", as part of his "1000 Years of Popular Music" album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIMJDNQx0B4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIMJDNQx0B4 . He jokingly referred to it as a "medieval ballad from Brittany". I'm sure there are other precursors.
shannifin 6y ago
Ha! I love it!
jl6 6y ago
When is a genre a -core and when is a genre a -wave?
- syncbehind 6y ago
  If you just quiet down and listen it's a-core. If you take your hands and wave them like you just don't care, it's a-wave. Just kidding, I have no idea.
scns 6y ago
The first two albums of Ritchie Blackmore's (of Deep Purple fame) project Blackmore's Night blew me away, Debut album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_Uo3mr30A&list=OLAK5uy_muzTk_kNikYnLIU9cHAijuvYWhq3hBivA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_Uo3mr30A&list=OLAK5uy_muz... Check out Play for me Minstrel play, a duet with the singer of Jethro Tull on the flute. Starts quiet but later they start shredding on flute and guitar unisono. Second album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttqnz-xnwWM&list=OLAK5uy_k7ddy7aWWbWTCdBtFeJg7MBtOORwj4WV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttqnz-xnwWM&list=OLAK5uy_k7d... Check out Spanish nights.
mlang23 6y ago
Oh, I didn't know. Nice genre. My favourite so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8
NavinF 6y ago
An example of Bardcore for any Code Geass fans out there: https://youtu.be/-6aUHWI13TM https://youtu.be/-6aUHWI13TM
C1sc0cat 6y ago
Interesting about two weeks ago I discovered Bardcore when I was looking for cues to use in online roll d20 games. I am playing a PF2 gnome bard which is what triggered the search, though I was looking initially for circus style music and things lie the original intro to mack the knife (german version)
afandian 6y ago
On a related note, there's a great trend of high-quality remakes in altogether more recent historical styles. Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox is a great example. This Frank-Sinatra-esque "Still Alive" (by "8-Bit Big Band") is really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vbhTi1ieI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vbhTi1ieI
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  the subtitles were a nice touch
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n0mad01 6y ago
rather adjacent to bardcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Pjm_yq9V4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Pjm_yq9V4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4p_yFsGyfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4p_yFsGyfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3I7wT2U294 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3I7wT2U294 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdT5Ov-AWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdT5Ov-AWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HtvH34CmZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HtvH34CmZY edit: links added
205guy 6y ago
Youtube hadn't shown me any of these songs yet, so this posting was my introduction. I watched a bunch and it's a fun trend--now I suppose I'll see them recommended. My observation is that finally those history majors, English majors, and music majors in college (universities in the US) will pay off with a bit of attention. I often see some in the tech crowd dismiss the humanities, suggesting that non-STEM degrees that don't lead to a lucrative career are a waste. Well, I think this shows that having some people who know those things makes life a bit better for everyone.
_theory_ 6y ago
I submit the possible Japanese inverse: Metal with traditional instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponTbDDMYjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponTbDDMYjw
haspoken 6y ago
Most of bardcore sounds too modern to me, likely because it is being done with modern equipment with certain modern expectations. Contrast the bardcore version of popcorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLT2fNBSf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLT2fNBSf0 with an version actually played with medieval instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJ_mUap_2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJ_mUap_2A Another example is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxjH2HCWzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxjH2HCWzo This is a trailer for BBC4's Medieval Season. The music is Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze played on Medieval Instruments.

454 points by ogogmad 6y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c&feature=youtu.be You're welcome.

zeristor 6y ago
Pumped up kicks 1066 A.D Cover in Old English (Anglo Saxon) Bardcore https://youtube.com/watch?v=JcKqhDFhNHI https://youtube.com/watch?v=JcKqhDFhNHI
- ogogmad 6y ago
  A few songs sung in Middle English: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bardcore+middle+english https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bardcore+middle... One commenter described it as sounding like English with Dutch pronunciation.
  - rbanffy 6y ago
    It's not Bardcore unless it's sung in period-correct languages ;-)
    - notahacker 6y ago
      The slightly more recognisable late medieval English is more fun to play with for laughs e.g. 'I am but a girl, smaller than thee / Allowest me not from thy sight' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFQnLwLyec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFQnLwLyec and the 'and she calleth a horse' line in this :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKNi0Pk43c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKNi0Pk43c
tsimionescu 6y ago
Have been listening obsessively to this a few weeks ago, absolutely lovely (especially if you know modern french and can marvel at the pronunciation differences). For anyone else curious about that part of it, an interesting little video [0] shows the evolution of French and its ancestors' phonetics from (reconstructed) Proto Indo-european to modern French. It's fascinating to see especially how French spelling almost stopped evolving somewhere around Old French, while pronunciation changed dramatically. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD--OdhdJfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD--OdhdJfg
formerly_proven 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/c/AlgaltheBard/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/AlgaltheBard/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 (Hildegard von Blingin')

chroem- 6y ago

Finally, something to go with my pirate metal.

082349872349872 6y ago
thanks for the genre tip! drum & bugle metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3c5rNFLew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3c5rNFLew too far inland to be pirates? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGko10RIGtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGko10RIGtY
- chrisjarvis 6y ago
  that second song is dope. in regards to the genre of pirate metal this is my understanding to be one of the more popular bands (and a very fun song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0
  - apocalyptic0n3 6y ago
    I'm partial to Storm Seeker, which is more traditional folk metal combined with pirate metal. Their lyrics aren't really humorous, either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnttPJHt6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnttPJHt6s
- ygra 6y ago
  I guess Versengold is more folk than metal.
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    good point. In that case, how about disco metal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=787t4NZN0mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=787t4NZN0mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0
Laremere 6y ago
See also: The show Westworld's soundtrack. The show is set in western themed park in the near future, and contains several excellent remixes of others songs in a western style.

dschuessler 6y ago

The one that made me smile the most is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkpxEezTu4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkpxEezTu4s The main melody and these cliché medieval chords are a fit made in heaven. I find that most of the stuff on YouTube lacks this kind of cleverness though.

est31 6y ago
My favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbufWzX1NA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbufWzX1NA I really like the bass. The pirates of the Caribbean theme fits really nicely as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95M9UsQS2HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95M9UsQS2HI Probably helps that the original music was made for and recorded on classical instruments. If you like vocals in ancient english: https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9
- hannasanarion 6y ago
  Hildegard von Blingin doesn't do "ancient english", that's early modern English, c. 16th century. This account is the only one I have found using early medieval dialects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A
  - est31 6y ago
    I used the term "ancient" as an indication that it was older than the contemporary english because I didn't know which category it fell into, whether it was old english, middle english, or, as you say, early modern english. Thanks for naming the right category.
notahacker 6y ago
Just a shame there were no vocals for the almost-period-appropriate lyrics, (and they were a lot less inspired by medieval myths than some of the other English metal songs of the time) No lyrics for the 'bardcore' versions of Stairway either: perhaps they could borrow them from this Gregorian chant version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn5lydAZ6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn5lydAZ6k

hugh4life 6y ago

No mention of Stary Olsa? Death in Rome does neofolk covers of pop songs.

rossdavidh 6y ago
I do believe I actually stumbled across Stary Olsa playing at a Renaissance Faire in Texas. They blew my mind. I kept thinking, "how did they end up in Texas?" Nice folks, also.

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Shared404 6y ago

This can make decent ambience for D&D, before the game starts at least. Sometimes in game as well in a tavern or some such place.

chrisjarvis 6y ago

related and similarly fun is the rather esoteric genre of "wizard disco". https://bandcamp.com/tag/wizard-disco https://bandcamp.com/tag/wizard-disco

ljp_206 6y ago

I have also recently learned about "dungeon synth," which was a pleasant surprise. Plenty of compilations and examples if you do a YouTube search.

aasasd 6y ago
From just the name, I feel like it should resemble Burzum's prison years. Edit: in practice, what I hear so far sounds more like a mod-tracker version of Summoning. Really, for actual atmospheric black-fantasy synth stuff, Summoning is the name to look up. (The old albums are greatly preferable: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgLFdNSwks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgLFdNSwks)

lxe 6y ago

Interesting that this trend is on wikipedia. Talk discussion about deletion and notability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bardcore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bardcore

Freak_NL 6y ago
It's probably safe now after the (lightweight, it's just the entertaining Pass notes column) Guardian article¹. 1: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/24/never-mind-the-ballads-how-bardcore-took-over-pop-music https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/24/never-mind-the...

bitwize 6y ago

Bardcore is arguably traceable to the "What Is Love?" meme which originated in 2005 on YTMND, based on a 1996 Saturday Night Live skit. It consisted of a short, repeated loop taken from the skit of the three "Roxbury Guys" (90s lounge lizards, basically) bobbing their heads to Haddaway's "What Is Love?" in their car. Endless variants and edits of the loop were made -- one of the most memorable being "What Doth Love Be?" which features a medieval-instrumentation version of the Haddaway riff and a Bayeux Tapestry style art work of three men in a boat: https://youtu.be/3uHz0KdIbhY https://youtu.be/3uHz0KdIbhY Of course, the song "What Is Love?" on its own makes an excellent bardcore candidate: https://youtu.be/Kbj4bulZX2Y https://youtu.be/Kbj4bulZX2Y

noio 6y ago
Always happy to see someone else remembering YTMND. I have a soft spot for the endless remixing with different video/audio influences. I guess it is a similar thing that people do now on TikTok, but maybe people were less inclined to use videos of themselves as source material in the early 2000s

mattkevan 6y ago

Hildegard von Blingin’ is pretty good too. https://m.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 https://m.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9 Plus their name is unreasonably funny.

spelunker 6y ago
Those vocals wow!
gliese1337 6y ago
Hildegard von Blingin' is the absolute #1 best.
PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
From the Gotye "Somebody that I used to know" cover, modified lyrics? "To send a wagon for thy minstrel and refuse my letters" "Was there cause to cast me off?" The absolute totally freakin' brilliance!
- encom 6y ago
  "All ye bully-rooks with your buskin boots" "Best ye go, best ye go" "Outrun my bow" Oh god, I'm in tears. This is amazing.
henrikschroder 6y ago
I so wish she would descend from her cloister and grace us with more of her bangin' tunes. There's nothing I love more than when exceptionally skilled people spend a ton of effort on what's essentially a joke. Her version of Jolene is crazy good, and all of her small changes to the lyrics and the music are absolutely perfect. Ridiculously accurate re-styling of the song!
yreg 6y ago
I also like the_miracle_aligner[0], here's his take on Smells Like Teen Spirit in classical latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk [0] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVcb9puAsOhXBT2_XPFf-A

ccffpphh 6y ago

My favorite of this style is honestly Nothing Else Matters by Algal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8 He does a great job, plays the instruments on video too.

kbenson 6y ago
It would honestly be really cool to encounter this (or something like it) unexpectedly in some fantasy type movie. One of my favorite things of the new Westworld series was the Player piano openings of more recent hits.
- darekkay 6y ago
  I especially liked the western style of "Paint it Black" from The Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iZ9JRVmJ5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iZ9JRVmJ5o
SigmundA 6y ago
Youtube linked this from that video, wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTCiuTUaEvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTCiuTUaEvs
arthurcolle 6y ago
I love the Scala & Kolacny Brothers cover of this one too, featured in Zero Dark Thirty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABPBly90Nk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABPBly90Nk

_Microft 6y ago

Y.M.C.A.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7zqpZBVrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7zqpZBVrc X-Files theme, discovered in a medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8GFh7Fz5M&t=278s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8GFh7Fz5M&t=278s 30 seconds in, Gangsta's Paradise sounds like Anno 1502 background music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywM446-vcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywM446-vcE

Balgair 6y ago
Oh wow, now that cover of Gangster's Paradise could really use some lyrics. Coolio's original song is a masterpiece. Especially looking back after the death of George Floyd and it's aftermath, that 1995 song resonates more than it has in the last 25 years. It's words of the street and the oppressed are universal and timeless (unfortunately). Maybe take the bardcore cover and alter Coolio's lyrics to represent the lead up to the Peasant's Revolt of 1381?
- xcambar 6y ago
  Reacting to you saying "Coolio's original masterpiece": Coolio actually sampled/covered the song "Pastime Paradise" from Stevie Wonder https://youtu.be/_H3Sv2zad6s https://youtu.be/_H3Sv2zad6s

lhoff 6y ago

I really like the "THE REAL SLIM SHADY" Cover from Beedle the Bardcore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU EDIT: "WITHOUT ME" ist also great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiV7hwfLXGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiV7hwfLXGE

kbenson 6y ago
Oh, that top comment[1] for the slim shady one is epic. I want to see that performed now. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU&lc=UgxGPmAFigFUR-XANcN4AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okjFDo2aSU&lc=UgxGPmAFigFUR...

tda 6y ago

Thank you HN for pointing me to this! It still exists on the internet of 2020, innocent creative brilliance with a nice dose of humor, not spoiled by commercial interests. This almost feels like the internet of yore

breakfastduck 6y ago
Isn't it just! Clear serious commitment on those making sure language is authentic. Hearing some of the instrumental covers makes me fantasize about all the 'bands' of musicians & the songs they'd play live, never to be written down & back before music could be recorded. I would love to imagine a group playing a song not quite unlike this in a tavern & people going wild... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ (System of a Down - Toxicity - Medieval Style - Bardcore)
- natcombs 6y ago
  After watching this video, I now get why this exists. That was pretty cool
  - Teever 6y ago
    My personal favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7olFGxw3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7olFGxw3Y It brought a rare smile to my face during the stressful times in March when COVID started blowing up.
    - grugagag 6y ago
      Heres one of my recent finds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhn_8OIMWFs&list=OLAK5uy_kEqS_tSoax6m3cFM1KMje9I3QYErYu7Zo&index=5&t=0s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhn_8OIMWFs&list=OLAK5uy_kEqS_...
      - gnat 6y ago
        Mispaste? That's an Ethiopique piano piece for me.

bashmelek 6y ago

As enjoyable as this is, I still can't help but to worry that it's another imitation of something historical or traditional eclipsing the actual thing it is meant to pay homage to. Let's not forget the original, else we run the risk of forgetting, and the closest thing becomes and imitation of an imitation. I'll search medieval music and so often I find modern, original, creations. It can be great and sometimes I'm in the mood for it, but I want us to have as a culture a memory of our older arts.

breakfastduck 6y ago
That's more a search / trending issue I think. Absolutely the best way to remember things through history and keep them alive is to keep making them. The commitment some of these artists are showing to ensure the language & pronunciation is as accurate as possible is astounding. Really, this is a hell of a way to get kids interested in old languages when they're being taught at school. Rather a cynical view you're taking I think.
- bashmelek 6y ago
  My experiences with searching for older music precede this trend, a few years back I researched bardic tradition and that lead to me exploring traditional Welsh music and it really opened my mind to how much is out there. The internet helps enormously but even still things take digging, and get lost. I hope that this style trending does lead to a renewed interest and appreciation of medieval music and history. It's a matter of how the seeds fall, so to speak. Many might just enjoy these modern takes, but then there are those who will take it further to learn about the old source.
- bitwize 6y ago
  A few years ago, there was a Westerner who got together with a couple of Japanese craftsmen and started producing ukiyo-e -- Japanese woodblock prints -- of Super Mario, Link, Samus, and other video game characters rendered in a traditional style with the hope of reviving interest in the style. It turns out that ukiyo-e's popularity waxed and waned over two centuries, with art audiences getting bored of it until some new artist found a way to make the medium contemporary and relevant again with new subject matter. So, far from trivializing a great Japanese tradition by associating it with material from his vidya, he was keeping it alive the exact same way Japanese artists kept it alive over the centuries.

shoo 6y ago

Forty Six & 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rauFQHnfDLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rauFQHnfDLc

zeitg3ist 6y ago

Thanks, now I know what the play on my next remote D&D session!

_Microft 6y ago

The inevitable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP1QJguEJJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP1QJguEJJc

fito 6y ago

This is the one great thing that has come out from this cursed year.

Balgair 6y ago
Unfortunately, I think this is just how years go now.

gpvos 6y ago

Fitting musicke for these times of ye plague.

therockspush 6y ago

This is great. I can picture a group of medieval brutes sharpening their blades around a fire listening to the toxicity version, getting amped up before a castle raid.

eruleman 6y ago

Hildegard von Blingin's cover of Bad Romance is the anthem of Bardcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2zpbcW-h-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2zpbcW-h-c

aasasd 6y ago

Well, I mean, if you were on youtube in the past few months and outside of the default suggestion trashpile, I can't imagine how you'd manage to evade this phenomenon.

freeone3000 6y ago
By having tuned home pages? I never see music suggested to me on YouTube (assumably because I don't listen to music on YouTube)
- aasasd 6y ago
  That's a bit of a loss on your part: Youtube has, ahem, a large music library—my favorite litmus test is the presence of Gruuthaagy's output. And secondly, Youtube's recommendations surface some great stuff once in a while, if you manage to teach it that your taste is not quite generic. One of my musical pastimes formerly was searching for two disparate genres together on YT. (However, apparently either I've reached the limit of that configuration space, at least for now—or it's Google's algo killing the results by becoming too imprecise.)
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    YT is how I discovered techno contradance is a thing. Still have yet to have had it turn up decent electro bluegrass, but it did find some album-oriented bluegrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLMsvaRWhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLMsvaRWhY
    - aasasd 6y ago
      Well, if I try to imagine electric bluegrass, I get rockabilly. My favorite cover of DSotM is the meh-titled ‘Jazz Side of the Moon’ by Yahel, Moreno, Hoenig and Blake. More specifically, it's the only worthy cover so far imo (though the bluegrass one is a quite strong contender, yeah). Surprisingly ‘JSotM’ isn't on YT in entirety—which is the greatly preferred mode of listening to it—but some snatches can be had at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yahel%2C+Moreno%2C+Hoenig%2C+Blake https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yahel%2C+Moreno... P.S. As for techno contra dance: I like my techno on the harder side, so expected something in the vein of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_35FTnYVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_35FTnYVA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4. After seeing some fine synchronized pair dancing, of the jumpstyle-shuffle sort, it's quite conceivable for me.

dfischer 6y ago

This one is quite incredible. System of a Down - aerials Bardcore https://youtu.be/tAVkuRKwuDI https://youtu.be/tAVkuRKwuDI

cos2pi 6y ago

Don't forget the oud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHeDpGcZVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHeDpGcZVM

billfruit 6y ago
The Hurdy-Gurdy would also be interesting to see in such songs.

murat124 6y ago

This is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk

a6h 6y ago

https://youtu.be/I5TB9DT6s-E https://youtu.be/I5TB9DT6s-E A fellow once told me the earth is quite unholy They call me slow of mind 'round the land And a maiden very cruel, wrote out I am a fool In letters spelléd out using her hand - What Zit Tooya (in the comments)

userbinator 6y ago

I wonder if someone mistyped "hardcore", and then thought "bardcore sounds like an interesting genre, I should make some".

narrator 6y ago

Not as new, but synthwave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave is a recent genre that has been gaining in popularity. Back before the complete consolidation of radio after the Telecommunications Act of 1996, there were a lot of local DJs who would find bands and promote them. The genres that were part of "popular" music changed over the decades. Now, on the other hand, if you turn on the radio, the music sounds roughly the same as it did 20 years ago.

bigiain 6y ago
Also Chillwave, which has made a bit of a resurgence on the back of the fabulous outro track from the recent Unhinged movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qE6RrkgJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qE6RrkgJA (Which, for those who don't recognise it, is a cover of a mid 70's Blue Oyster Cult song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c )
- kyleee 6y ago
  An Art Bell bumper music classic; I enjoy the Chillwave version you've included. Thanks for sharing it
canadianwriter 6y ago
Glad it's making a comeback - basically 80's new wave making a comeback. Though I find a lot of the new stuff is cookie cutter, people just trying to recreate an exact Bladrunner/Outrun exact sound. I make more of a new wave style sound - things like Thomas Dolby (she blinded me with science) and Gary Numan (cars), using synths to make something totally different. Hope this kind of creative stuff gets more popular. My album: https://lostastronaut.ca https://lostastronaut.ca
barry-cotter 6y ago
> Now, on the other hand, if you turn on the radio, the music sounds roughly the same as it did 20 years ago. Twenty years ago rock was a living genre instead of something on life support from old geezers and rap and hip hop weren’t default music, rock was. Country has also gotten way less Christian and again, much more rap and hip hop influenced. If you listen to a years worth put number ones from 2002 it does not sound like 2022. The difference isn’t as great as 1960-1980 but “roughly the same” it is not.

Tade0 6y ago

I wonder how much did Netflix's Witcher(or the game for that matter) contribute to the emergence of this genre?

kroltan 6y ago
Witcher is not the first medieval fantasy show or game. Memes using the Bayeux tapestry were a reasonably active niche a few years ago, I suspect this phenomenon is derived from that.
- mixedCase 6y ago
  The Witcher, the Netflix show, has a bard song which became a popular earworm. I'm confident it has played a part in the popularization of Bardcore as a meme/genre.
- booleandilemma 6y ago
  Pretty sure normies learned about bards from The Witcher and not, say, EverQuest.
  - kroltan 6y ago
    Has Bardcore reached "normies" at all yet?
    - throwawaynothx 6y ago
      You're here arnt you.
  - xcambar 6y ago
    Or maybe people with a regular western European education didn't wait for the Witcher to know what a bard is. That's like... hundreds of millions of people. Most of them "normies" by your standards, certainly :)
- watt 6y ago
  I think the juxtaposition of modern writing and wit in Witcher with the not-really-medieval society stuck with pre-steam technology might be the catalyst for creating the Bardcore genre.

jedberg 6y ago

Not sure if this fits the genre exactly, but here is Smells Like Teen Spirit in Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk

082349872349872 6y ago
Μα Τον Δια: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fA6dTnyrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fA6dTnyrE (a musical accompaniment for the Odyssey thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352463 )

stephen_cagle 6y ago

I kinda like this bardcore version of Creep by Radiohead.-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiIjMIlRw&pbjreload=101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiIjMIlRw&pbjreload=101

themodelplumber 6y ago

Not bardcore, but I'll throw in some Norton Commander for my HN friends... https://youtu.be/qmVeQEysvtk https://youtu.be/qmVeQEysvtk

082349872349872 6y ago
The Putin propaganda[1] reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fix7P6aGXQ&t=100 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fix7P6aGXQ&t=100 [1] This clip is a Sotchi submarine. (We're in the alps and therefore don't have a real beach, so not only do we have artificial beaches, we're building an artificial surf pool near our slopes to stay competitive.) Natali's pop propaganda has been even less subtle in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPdxUyUUhes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPdxUyUUhes more factory girls in propaganda: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907

garrettm 6y ago

This is great :D

rashkov 6y ago

I've made a playlist of the few dozen youtube links posted here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55akf--9BvWcN-V7M3z0jSMCAPFsNCWs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55akf--9BvWcN-V7M3z0...

ummonk 6y ago

There is a similar genre of groups doing Indian classical covers of songs e.g. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqqiOgzFLmFeo3vB9jW_SuwP-cT44Oa7l https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqqiOgzFLmFeo3vB9jW_Suw...

PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
I ... don't know ... what to say. In theory anything that increases exposure to the glories of the Carnatic tradition is a good thing. Whether or not this actually counts as that is open to debate. I look at the playlist and don't know whether to laugh or groan.

imwm 6y ago

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Semaphor 6y ago

Huh. That’s cool. Medieval music has been a thing in Germany for many years (with relatively few pop covers though). From pure market-music (the kind played at medieval fairs), to versions with metal and/or electro elements. Ougenweide [0] was one of the earliest in the 70ies, Zupfgeigenhansel [1] from the same time did some covers (Bella Ciao in German here) Die Streuner [2] are not as close to the pure-medieval style but use a lot of self-built instruments. Satolstelamanderfanz [3] are mostly instrumental and traditional, Corvus Corax [4] are similar, but far bigger, drum heavier, and also have a few covers. Tanzwut [5] is an example of medieval electro-metal Schelmish [6] is party-medieval music with metal influences, In Extremo [7] is probably the most successful medieval metal band. I could probably go on for hours, but I think this is already a bit much, so I’ll stop here ;) [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95EoHfFGBeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95EoHfFGBeU [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_loaZEwKkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_loaZEwKkc [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoIHHwjg-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoIHHwjg-0 [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJkp06x7EE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJkp06x7EE [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWruBwPNBOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWruBwPNBOs [5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5fmbSnVQrI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5fmbSnVQrI [6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQiSZdX8vA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQiSZdX8vA [7]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcde8YTe2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcde8YTe2M

hutattedonmyarm 6y ago
My first thoughts when reading the title jumped to In Extremo and Saltatio Mortis!
082349872349872 6y ago
More party-medieval: Otava Yo's St. Patrick's Day performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghO5oPVtG_w&t=420 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghO5oPVtG_w&t=420
SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago
And even a Medieval-metal-comedy band ( Feuerschwanz )

eesmith 6y ago

Back in 2003, Rondellus came out with "Sabbatum: Medieval Tribute to Black Sabbath". See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2y51ixsu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2y51ixsu8 for their version of War Pigs, titled "Verres Militares". In 2006, Richard Thompson included a short (30 second) instrumental riff on "Oops I Did It Again" in medieval style, titled "Marry Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt", as part of his "1000 Years of Popular Music" album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIMJDNQx0B4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIMJDNQx0B4 . He jokingly referred to it as a "medieval ballad from Brittany". I'm sure there are other precursors.

shannifin 6y ago

Ha! I love it!

jl6 6y ago

When is a genre a -core and when is a genre a -wave?

syncbehind 6y ago
If you just quiet down and listen it's a-core. If you take your hands and wave them like you just don't care, it's a-wave. Just kidding, I have no idea.

scns 6y ago

The first two albums of Ritchie Blackmore's (of Deep Purple fame) project Blackmore's Night blew me away, Debut album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_Uo3mr30A&list=OLAK5uy_muzTk_kNikYnLIU9cHAijuvYWhq3hBivA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_Uo3mr30A&list=OLAK5uy_muz... Check out Play for me Minstrel play, a duet with the singer of Jethro Tull on the flute. Starts quiet but later they start shredding on flute and guitar unisono. Second album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttqnz-xnwWM&list=OLAK5uy_k7ddy7aWWbWTCdBtFeJg7MBtOORwj4WV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttqnz-xnwWM&list=OLAK5uy_k7d... Check out Spanish nights.

mlang23 6y ago

Oh, I didn't know. Nice genre. My favourite so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8

NavinF 6y ago

An example of Bardcore for any Code Geass fans out there: https://youtu.be/-6aUHWI13TM https://youtu.be/-6aUHWI13TM

C1sc0cat 6y ago

Interesting about two weeks ago I discovered Bardcore when I was looking for cues to use in online roll d20 games. I am playing a PF2 gnome bard which is what triggered the search, though I was looking initially for circus style music and things lie the original intro to mack the knife (german version)

afandian 6y ago

On a related note, there's a great trend of high-quality remakes in altogether more recent historical styles. Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox is a great example. This Frank-Sinatra-esque "Still Alive" (by "8-Bit Big Band") is really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vbhTi1ieI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vbhTi1ieI

082349872349872 6y ago
the subtitles were a nice touch
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n0mad01 6y ago

rather adjacent to bardcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Pjm_yq9V4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Pjm_yq9V4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4p_yFsGyfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4p_yFsGyfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3I7wT2U294 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3I7wT2U294 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdT5Ov-AWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdT5Ov-AWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HtvH34CmZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HtvH34CmZY edit: links added

205guy 6y ago

Youtube hadn't shown me any of these songs yet, so this posting was my introduction. I watched a bunch and it's a fun trend--now I suppose I'll see them recommended. My observation is that finally those history majors, English majors, and music majors in college (universities in the US) will pay off with a bit of attention. I often see some in the tech crowd dismiss the humanities, suggesting that non-STEM degrees that don't lead to a lucrative career are a waste. Well, I think this shows that having some people who know those things makes life a bit better for everyone.

_theory_ 6y ago

I submit the possible Japanese inverse: Metal with traditional instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponTbDDMYjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponTbDDMYjw

haspoken 6y ago

Most of bardcore sounds too modern to me, likely because it is being done with modern equipment with certain modern expectations. Contrast the bardcore version of popcorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLT2fNBSf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLT2fNBSf0 with an version actually played with medieval instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJ_mUap_2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJ_mUap_2A Another example is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxjH2HCWzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxjH2HCWzo This is a trailer for BBC4's Medieval Season. The music is Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze played on Medieval Instruments.