15M views · Jul 13, 2010 · 6:48 · 1 HN recommender · 6 mentions · discussed 2011–2021
A song by Pig With The Face Of A Boy that narrates the history of the Soviet Union from a worker's view, set to the Tetris melody.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN posts it as a clever, catchy musical joke whenever Tetris or Soviet history comes up.
“Besides being "meta", it's also clever and kinda catchy.”HN comment, 2011
“Besides being "meta", it's also clever and kinda catchy.”
Clever, catchy history of USSR to Tetris tune
There is a song that uses the concept of Tetris, and the folk tune used in the game, in order to tell the "complete history in the soviet union". Besides being "meta", it's also clever and kinda catchy. this video
“a 6-minute video from 2010”
Not completely off-topic, a 6-minute video from 2010: Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris [1] [1] this video
“Tetris I work so hard In arranging the blocks”
> Tetris I work so hard In arranging the blocks But each night I come home To my wife in tears. What's the point of it all When you're building a wall And in front of your eyes It disappears? Source: this video
“sings along "I've got plenty of gold, and I'm standing in line for a loaf of bread...”
That is so catastrophically false I can't even. Capitalism has empirically been, by several orders of magnitude, the most powerful force in the world for eradication of poverty. But hey, when you define poverty by relative income levels instead of absolute levels of depravation, you can say what you said. But you are forgetting the tragic suffering of the historical poor and those under socialism, feudalism, and pretty much all of history for all time. Today's $10k/yr poor live way, way, way better than the hanseatic merchants of yore. There is no enforced policy that keeps people down. People just look far down from above, even if the tide is actually, in reality, lifting all extraordinarily rapidly. Edit: sings along "I've got plenty of gold, and I'm standing in line for a loaf of bread..." this video
“immediately starts playing in my head”
Whenever I read about Tetris, the "Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris" immediately starts playing in my head: this video
“Well here is the soundtrack...”
Well here is the soundtrack... this video Compete History of the Soviet Union, arranged to the music of Tetris. Pigwiththefaceofaboy.
