The band's debut album, The Beginning, which consisted entirely of instrumental music, was released in 1990 with average success. By 1993, the band released the follow-up, The New Shape, with the line-up expanded to include Sławomir Romanowski and Robert Amirian. The album featured vocals by Robert Janson and Robert Amirian, along with guest vocalists including Edyta Bartosiewicz.
The band's breakthrough was the 1994 album Emu, which marked a significant change in musical direction, i.e. the band now had a lead singer, Anita Lipnicka, and started performing primarily in Polish. This formula was highly successful, and both Emu and the following 1995 album, Elf, sold more than half a million copies each. In 1995, the band won a Polish music award, the Fryderyk, for best Polish music group. Furthermore, the band provided a number of songs (mostly from Elf) for the soundtrack of the movie Młode wilki.
In 1996, Varius Manx appeared on the television show "Szansa na sukces", a kind of karaoke show in which the participants sing the songs of the visiting band. The winner of the show was the 19-year-old Kasia Stankiewicz. When, shortly afterwards, Amirian and Lipnicka both left the band, the remaining members asked Stankiewicz to join the band as new lead singer. This new line-up recorded Ego, which featured the band's biggest hit to date, the song "Orła cień".
In 1997, the band released its 6th album, End, which was a commercial hit, though it sold far less that the band's preceding albums.
In 2000, Varius Manx released their first compilation album Najlepsze z dobrych, which included four new songs along with remastered versions of the band's greatest hits. Shortly afterwards, Kasia Stankiewicz left the band and was replaced by Monika Kuszyńska. With her as lead singer, the band recorded the albums Eta (2001), Eno (2002) and Emi (2004).
In 2006, during the band's summer tour, the band members were involved in a car accident, which left lead singer Monika Kuszyńska paralyzed from the waist down. The band suspended its activities until 2010, then with a new lead singer, Lari Lu, with whom the band recorded the album Eli (2011).
The band's current lead singer, since 2013, is Edi Ann.
Dlaczego ja
Varius Manx Lyrics
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Zamyslam sie po samo dno
A zadna mysl nie cieszy mnie
Znow czarno-bialo robi sie
Tesknota to jest takie zlo
Co atakuje z czterech stron
Zabiera wszystko to co mam
Nie daje szans
Nim ona to zrobi
Zabij mnie
To nic nie boli
Jesli chcesz
Miec swiety spokoj
Zabij mnie
Zamkne oczy
Rozkladam karty ludze sie
Pasjans wychodzi wciaz na nie
Dokola wszystko mowi mi
Ze to ostatnie moje dni
Poniewaz milosc slepa jest
Ma czasem prawo mylic sie
Pytanie tylko jedno mam
Dlaczego ja?
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Added by Marcin Lesiak
The lyrics to Varius Manx's song "Dlaczego ja" (Why Me) express feelings of hopelessness, despair, and a desire for escape from the pain of memories and lost love. The first stanza describes a dark, oppressive atmosphere that the singer finds himself in, feeling as though he is sinking to the bottom of a deep pit. He is plagued by a sense of nostalgia, which he describes as an attack from all sides that takes away everything he has and leaves him with no chance. The chorus repeats the desire for death, either by the hand of the singer or that of another, as a way to escape the pain and find peace. The second stanza describes the singer as increasingly alone and uncertain of his future, surrounded by reminders of his own mortality and the fleeting nature of love.
Line by Line Meaning
W powietrzu zawisl metny mrok
An opaque darkness hangs in the air
Zamyslam sie po samo dno
I ponder down to the very bottom
A zadna mysl nie cieszy mnie
But no thought brings me joy
Znow czarno-bialo robi sie
Everything has gone black and white again
Tesknota to jest takie zlo
Nostalgia is such a curse
Co atakuje z czterech stron
Attacking from all directions
Zabiera wszystko to co mam
Stealing everything I have
Nie daje szans
Not giving any opportunities
Zabij mnie
Kill me
Nim ona to zrobi
Before it does
Zabij mnie
Kill me
To nic nie boli
It won't hurt a bit
Jesli chcesz
If you want to
Miec swiety spokoj
Have some holy peace
Zabij mnie
Kill me
Zamkne oczy
I'll close my eyes
Rozkladam karty ludze sie
I'm shuffling the cards, laying them out
Pasjans wychodzi wciaz na nie
Solitaire still won't work
Dokola wszystko mowi mi
All around me, everything is telling me
Ze to ostatnie moje dni
That these are my last days
Poniewaz milosc slepa jest
Because love is blind
Ma czasem prawo mylic sie
And sometimes has the right to be wrong
Pytanie tylko jedno mam
I only have one question
Dlaczego ja?
Why me?
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Irena Orska
Uwielbiałam ten kawałek w 95 i 96 roku, tyle sie wtedy działo w mojej mlodosci. 1978 pozdrawia.
Piolas
Lato rok 95, kolonie w Krynicy Górskiej. Wtedy kupiłem z kieszonkowych ów kasetę, oryginał z hologramem, to było coś, to były czasy :-) Dwa lata temu w Empiku wpadło mi w ręce CD i powróciły nutki i wspomnienia. :-)
Robert Kabata
To jedna z bardziej niedocenianych plyt z lat 90 - tych, dla ludzi którzy słuchali wtedy rocka i jego odmian mocniejszych, Various Manx uchodziło za lekki obciach,calkiem niesłusznie. Ta płyta, to kawał rzetelnego i szczerego rocka, w zasadzie bez slabych punktów, zapelniaczy itp. Super!
Maciej 1
To prawda wtedy to byl lekki obciach.Dzisiaj dochodzimy do wniosku ze to swiatowy poziom .Pozdro 74
Magdalena Dąbrowska
Cudowne lata 90 te!
Jac Kozbi
Młode Wilki. Proszę niech te czasy wrócą! Boże!
Nie Znasz Mnie
Tez bym chciala aby wrocily
W SK
Nie już to nie wróci piękne czasy to były
Alfatin ski
Jac Kozbi dokładnie
Pogar Ragop
Chcę tego samego! Wrócić do lat nawet 80tych!