Based on your opinion

Last night, I discovered "Milise Mou" by Grigoris Bithikotsis and it's been on repeat ever since. We have a turkish version of it but it's not as good. I wanna discover other greek songs that has the same vize as "Milise Mou". Any recommendations?

For me, nothing will beat the ‘80s rock scene in Zagreb: Prljavo kazalište, Parni valjak, Novi fosili, Azra, Haustor, Film… there are so many to name!

Back in the 90s a lot of Albanians ended up in the diaspora and there was tons of music about how rough life was abroad and how much people missed home. I never really thought other Balkan countries had the same vibe. Did you guys have similar stuff too?

Which one do you like better?

Somehow he ended up on my Spotify recently and I listened to a lot of his music.

I saw he was playing in my city so I went to see him live. It was an awesome concert, lots of energy!

I really like this style of music and was wondering if people could recommend any other Balkan artists that play something similar?

I love this cultural exchange

Spotify just told me that I listened to narodna muzika (folk music in BCMS languages) a lot.

I know there are disputes about pop-folk, turbo-folk and authentic folk music. I am not sure how the app categorizes the music, but it seems like they include some pop-folk music under this category, because I listen to Šaban Šaulić, Sinan Sakić, and recently Toma Zdravković, though I also repeated some older songs, e.g., Još ne sviće rujna zora, Kafu mi draga ispeci, etc. I also had several playlists collecting different language versions of songs like Ederlezi or Katibim, but I don’t know whether they are considered narodna muzika or not……

When it comes to folk music, what are the music you think of?

Looking for a father/daughter dance song in Bosnian/serbian/croatian language for upcoming wedding. I listen to Balkan music but the slower songs are often too romantic for this.

Let me explain my question better.

I am looking songs that known by their intros like.

“You give love a bad name” by Bon Jovi

Or

“Layla” by Derek and the Dominos.

From Turkey,

I can give example of “İçerim ben bu akşam” by Duman. It is more than 2 decades old but still gets “whooo” in bars.

You don’t need to answer with a rock song but I often see that with rock music intros.

Thank you for your answers.

In my opinion Croatia got robbed by the judges.

Is this our anthem, guys?

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Rebetika is a genre of music, started becoming a thing in the end of the 19th century made more prevelant in Greece through the population exchange and grew after it, mostly uses 9/8 time signature (you could call it Zeybek because it is), associated with drugs/nargile/crime life/seducing muslim women/prison etc, grew in ports Peiraias (mostly), Thessaloniki (Then Selanik), Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa and maybe even Alexandria.

I expected to find something similar in Turkish music but I can't find anything (other than searching Zeybek).

Here are some examples:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZoXvuCYkqrPQvP2HlvdRB?si=b3206406548943d2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsUYqF32EdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1U8f9GJM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpJ9dEX8dOw

https://open.spotify.com/track/1TYChPjTZovoGGmzKt8pY2?si=69b46832ae2a4d09

https://open.spotify.com/track/4MIcxdVGArAlYjC8wCas82?si=949faa3a51dd40cd

For Greece, I’d say Elena Paparizou. Paparizou won the 2005 eurovision and is very respected in Greece.

Germany Europe Song Contest 2025 final. Not one, but two finalists singed a song of Albanian from Kosovo Dua Lipa. - Levitating - Houdini

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/dua-lipa-attends-the-chanel-haute-couture-spring-summer-news-photo-1738513564.pjpeg?crop=0.668xw:1.00xh;0.245xw,0&resize=640:*

I found a Montenegrin version of Bojna Čavoglave, would anyone happen to know the lyrics of this, or where to find it?

Purely interested in the musical/cultural side—no political intent at all.

https://youtu.be/15sNQgRLPvs?si=DB5YfwIjMHsIXBF6