19-474: Your Eyes may refer to: Albums [ edit ] Your Eyes (album) , by Kult, 1991 Songs [ edit ] "Your Eyes" (Arashi song) , 2012 "Your Eyes" (Jai Waetford song) , 2013 "Your Eyes" (Kate Ryan song) , 2008 "Your Eyes" (Stray Kids song) , 2022 "Your Eyes", by Cook da Books from the La Boum 2 soundtrack, 1982 "Your Eyes", by
38-438: A former record among Polish artists, surpassed by Artur Rojek 's "Syreny" in 2014. Although the recent post-2000 albums by Kult enjoyed less popularity, Kult remains one of the best-known Polish musical groups. The band released a total of 13 studio albums and two live albums, including the 2010 recording of a MTV Unplugged concert. Kult was formed in 1982 from Kazik Staszewski 's previous band, Novelty Poland. In July 1982
57-562: A second album, the slightly psychedelic " Posłuchaj to do Ciebie " was released. Since then the band gained much popularity in Poland, with songs such as "Do Ani", " Arahja " and "Krew Boga" reaching #1 on Polish Radio 3 chart (LP3). After 1989 and the end of Communist rule in Poland Kult enjoyed great success, with each of a series of albums bringing new hits to the tops of the radio charts. The "Generał Ferreira / Rząd oficjalny" from
76-563: The Black Book of Censorship . The book was based on one of two copies of guidelines in the safe of every censorship department of GUKPPiW ( Główny Urząd Kontroli Prasy, Publikacji i Widowisk ). The official name of the guidelines in Polish was "Książka Zapisów i Zaleceń GUKPPiW" (The Book of Records and Recommendations of GUKPPiW). These materials included photocopies of the originals and personal notes in his notebooks. No-one at his office
95-647: The Główny Urząd Kontroli Publikacji i Widowisk (GUKPiW). The bureau was liquidated after the fall of communism in Poland , in April 1990. Library collections were systematically cleansed, the majority of the books destroyed, some isolated in Party or academic libraries. A list of prohibited publications and black-listed writers was created in 1950 during the darkest years of Stalinism in Poland with some 1,682 items, and subsequently modified many times by
114-469: The underground press and publications in Poland (called bibuła in Polish). After the rise of Solidarity movement in 1980, independent editors were allowed to indicate, with a sequence [----] , that a fragment had been censored, instead of hiding such deletions or withdrawing their entire publications. Publishers demanded the right to leave a white space to indicate how much of the text was cut, but that
133-451: The 1991 album " Your Eyes " reached No. 1 on LP3 and stayed in the Top20 for 33 consecutive weeks. "Dziewczyna bez zęba na przedzie", "Komu bije dzwon", "Gdy nie ma dzieci" and "Lewy czerwcowy" (from the 1998 album " Ostateczny krach systemu korporacji ") all reached No. 1 and stayed in the Top20 for 37, 38, 30 and 23 weeks, respectively. In addition, "Gdy nie ma dzieci" spent 9 weeks at #1,
152-489: The British new wave , but the band gradually incorporated more diverse and innovative styles in their music. The music of the band is primarily associated with strong lyrics by Staszewski and distinct wind section (saxophones, horn). Before forming the band, all members of the original quartet had been playing together in either Poland or Novelty Poland, two bands led by Staszewski between 1979 and 1981. The first concert of
171-599: The Damned from Music for Pleasure , 1977 "Your Eyes", by Diplo from Diplo , 2022 "Your Eyes", by Hardline from II , 2002 "Your Eyes", by Simply Red from Love and the Russian Winter , 1999 "Your Eyes", by Tatsuro Yamashita from Big Wave , 1984 "Your Eyes", by the Sundays from Static & Silence , 1997 "Your Eyes", by Underground Lovers from Leaves Me Blind , 1992 "Your Eyes", from
190-603: The band performed at its first concert at the Remont Club in Warsaw . Although it was not released until July 1987, the first Kult release was recorded in September 1986. Kult's music has its roots in punk, but now it has some elements of rock, ska, jazz, traditional balladry, reggae, and even poetry. From the start, the group has had an instantly recognizable sound and is distinguished by the voice and provocative lyrics of
209-540: The communist authorities in the Polish People's Republic . Some writers popular before World War II, for example Wacław Kostek-Biernacki who was sentenced to death as an enemy of the state in 1953, had their books not only removed from libraries, but also meticulously destroyed. In addition to the censorship of the publications, the state also jammed foreign radio stations, such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America . The decades of relentless censorship fed
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#1732771773266228-651: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Your_Eyes&oldid=1227487470 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Your Eyes (album) Kult is a Polish rock band formed in 1982 in Warsaw , originally consisting of Kazik Staszewski (lead vocals, saxophone), Piotr Wieteska (bass), Tadeusz Bagan (guitars) and Dariusz Gierszewski (drums). Kult's early works were strongly influenced by alternative , progressive and punk rock , as well as
247-546: The lead singer, Kazik Staszewski. Kult became famous for the atmosphere they created at their concerts and the unorthodox message in their songs. Kult's songs attack 'the system', understood as a conglomerate of the communist state apparatus, the Catholic Church, and others. In the nineties Kult took on the 'new system', which was seen as founded on pseudo-democratic leaders, the clergy and corporations. The original members of Kult were: The band's lineup changed over
266-473: The musical Rent , 1996 "Your Eyes", written by Edwin Schneider See also [ edit ] For Your Eyes Only (disambiguation) In Your Eyes (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Your Eyes . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
285-463: The new band in July 1982 sold only 14 tickets. However, in 1986 the band recorded its first album (named eponymously " Kult "; released the following year), which attracted much attention and included early punk-inspired hits "Krew Boga", "O Ani" and "Wspaniała nowina". Initially the censorship office did not allow for release of many songs by Staszewski, clearly aimed against " the system ". Also in 1987
304-542: The plastic used in artificial Christmas trees were also covered there. Other topics were mentioning the names of censored authors, unless negative arguments about their works were given. Even statistical data about coffee drinking in Poland were banned as this might cause protests against reexporting this product from Poland. In the 1990s when after the Bureau was dissolved and its archives released, not all copies of such censorship guidelines were submitted and their existence
323-681: The years. As of 2008, Kult consists of: Censorship in the People%27s Republic of Poland Censorship in Communist Poland was primarily performed by the Polish Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows [ pl ] ( Główny Urząd Kontroli Prasy, Publikacji i Widowisk ), a governmental institution created in 1946 by the pro-Soviet Provisional Government of National Unity with Stalin 's approval and backing, and renamed in 1981 as
342-407: Was allowed to take them out of the building or reprint them: the Bureau censors were allowed only to remove these guidelines from the safe and read them on site. The document was generic in nature: "It's forbidden to write about any info on the disaster in X". "It's forbidden to write about any increase in deaths from xy ". Natural catastrophes, or even carcinogenicity of asbestos , or noxiousness of
361-610: Was rejected. Nevertheless the change spelled a setback for GUKPiW and interventions were less common: an article with dozens of cuts might have a greater impact on the readers' minds than the words missing. The censorship law was eliminated after the fall of communism in Poland, by the Polish Sejm on 11 April 1990 and the GUKPiW was closed two months later. In 1977 one of the Polish censors, Tomasz Strzyżewski , defected to Sweden with stolen classified documents which he published in
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