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'''Spitalul de Urgenţă''', literally "Emergency Hospital", is a [[Romania]]n [[poprock music|poprock]] band, integrating elements of traditional [[Romanian music]] into a sometimes hard-edged [[rock music|rock]] sound,<ref name="ale">[http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=1729 Ale house rock], ''The St. Petersburg Times'', Issue #1008(75), October 1, 2004. Accessed on line 2 July 2006</ref><ref name="Chernov">Sergey Chernov, [http://www.go-magazine.ru/articles/show/381 Spitalul De Urgenta…] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092910/http://www.go-magazine.ru/articles/show/381 |date=2007-09-29 }}, Go Magazine (''Moscow Times'') Issue 10

October 7 -– November 4, 2004, accessed on line 2 July 2006 specifically cites "Western [[punk rock|punk]] and East European folk" influences.</ref> although also incorporating influences as diverse as [[Balkans|Balkan]] [[folk music]],<ref name="Chernov" /><ref>The album notes of ''Să cânte muzica!'' (CAT Music #101 2154 2, Romania, 2002) credit the song ''"Nuntă în Balcani"'' ("Balkan Wedding") as containing''"elemente de natură folclorică"'' ("elements of a folkloric nature").</ref> European classical music,<ref>The album notes of ''Să cânte muzica!'' explicitly credit the song "Lume, Lume" as containing a theme by [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]].</ref> and cartoon soundtrack music.<ref>The album notes of ''Să cânte muzica!'' explicitly credit the song "Barbut" as containing elements of ''"muzica de desene animate amaricane"'' ("music from American animated cartoons").</ref>

The group was formed 2000 in [[Bucharest]].<ref name="Official">[http://www.alma.ro/hrm/aa_10b.hrm Official Spitalul de Urgenţă page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008211843/http://www.alma.ro/hrm/aa_10b.hrm |date=2007-10-08 }} on A&A Records, accessed 2 July 2006.</ref> ''Spitalul de Urgenţă'' is also the Romanian title of the American television show ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'', but band leader Dan Helciug says that the name actually derived from a time they were playing a concert and "all the musicians arrived injured… we looked like a band from a hospital."<ref name="Chernov" /> Helciug has now worked with quite a range of musicians and continues to release music in this style under the name ''Spitalul de Urgenţă'' more or less regardless of exactly who he is playing with. He also plays in the more rock oriented band Nod, which he describes as a blend of [[Rammstein]], [[Depeche Mode]] and [[Korn]].<ref name="ale"/>

Helciug's lyrics often feature a bitter wit that does not lend itself to easy translation,{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} especially because of his tendency to paraphrase (both musically and lyrically) pieces of well known traditional songs. For example, the chorus of their song "Trăiască Berea" ("Long Live Beer") uses a phrase from a traditional song, "Foaie verde şi-o lalea" ("Green leaf and a tulip"):<ref>For "Foaie verde şi-o lalea" being a recurring phrase in traditional Romanian songs, see Marin Marian Balasa, [http://www.sfin.ro/articol_5397/economia_erosului__i___.html Economia Erosului (1)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712191634/http://www.sfin.ro/articol_5397/economia_erosului__i___.html |date=2007-07-12 }}, ("The economy of Eros"), ''Septămăna Financiăra'', Nr. 66, 26 June 2006. Accessed online 2 July 2006. The phrase "Foaie verde" is common to the point where, for example, [[Dorel Livianu]]'s 2002 album in the EPM (France) ''Songs From Romania'' series, there are three song titles containing the phrase. ([http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/5358297/a/Songs+From+Romania.htm Song list] accessed on line 2 July 2006.) On the [[Maria Tănase]] compilation ''Magic Bird -– The Early Years'', there are two. ([http://www.cdroots.com/rien-42.html Album notes] accessed on line, 2 July 2006.) For the matter of musical paraphrase, the album notes of ''Să cânte muzica!'' explicitly credit ''"elemente de natură folclorică"'' ("elements of a folkloric nature") for the bulk of the songs.</ref>

The album ''Alcool Rafinat'' ("Refined Alcohol", 2005) includes a number of covers and parodies including a reworking of the [[Judas Priest]] song "Breaking the Law" as "Caut un bou" ("Looking for an Ox"), in which a cow wanders through Bucharest looking for love, and a more straightforward translation of the [[Tiger Lillies]]' song "Whore" as "Curva".<ref>The Judas Priest and Tiger Lillies songs are explicitly credited in the album notes of ''Alcool Rafinat'', CAT Music 101 2502 2, Romania 2005. "Caut un bou" contains the lyrics "Sunt o vaca plictisita…De taur sunt mult iubita" ("I'm a bored cow…Much in love with a bull"). Besides the explicit mention of Bucharest as a locale ("să mă ia la BucureştiBucurești"); there is also "Să mă plimbe pe Magheru", the Magheru boulevard being one of Bucharest's main boulevards.</ref>

* Dan Helciug (vocals) <ref name="Official"/>

* Vali Craciunescu (accordion) <ref name="ale"/>

* “HeArt”"HeArt" (2016)

* {{roin iconlang|ro}} [http://www.alma.ro/hrm/aa_10b.hrm Former Official page] on A&A Records [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20071008211843/http://www.alma.ro/hrm/aa_10b.hrm archived 2007-10-08]

* {{roin iconlang|ro}} [http://danhelciug.ro/ Dan Helciug official page]