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how is it to have shit taste and know nothing about Viktor Tsoi?
>>65465258
иди в жoпy
>>65465328
Nice google translate, nigger
>>65465258
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dpPdbnTHA
пepeмeн
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1ObUMFWMo
babarism begins at home
and that only 1 example. he ripped off a lot of western songs unknown to russians.
>>65465377
literally retard
Why is it every time I look for some decent contemporary Russian music, I'm always disappointed. What's some good Russian music, droogs?
Гpyппa кpoви is my jam
>>65465912
https://youtu.be/s56yferAew4
>>65465912
If you're into screamo/hardcore scene there are some pretty good bands
>>65465912
The thing about Russian scene is that it never really existed.
Remember, you couldn't buy shit in Russia unless you basically smuggled records here or had connections; you didn't have radio with top-40 hits, you couldn't buy any non-Russian music in shops. Yep, you had no Pink fucking Floyd, no Rolling fucking Stones, no Rod fucking Stewart. Just Alla Pugachyova. Some German or Italian shit if you were really fucking lucky to have relatives there. Guess why our radio still loves Adriano Celentano and Italo disco. Muh memories
I don't even mention guitars and equipment. You've heard of Yegor Letov, maybe? His first equipment was home-made. That was the only way to go in Siberia.
You couldn't just release your overly 'capitalist' music and get money for it. The mainstream artists were complete shit until perestroika. In USSR music like Kino was literally underground. Tsoy had to work his day job and pour all his time in his hobby. Ironically, Tsoy died early in the '90s, which is still top lel in Russia.
In the '90s we had a bunch of cool acts and for some time we had more or less ok music market. Then 2000s came and it quickly died. The end.
>>65465912
>>65466355
There was a pretty sweet 80s Russian punk scene.
Vitas is very nice musician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACAvBBMb6BM
>>65466355
Oh yeah why didn't I consider that? My family are Russian and I always hear how communism just stifled creativity and progress through your east Europe. Dark times.
Hope you guys can eventually pull through because Russian music is officially in the grave.
>>65466434
I LOVE VITAS.
Even the Chinese love him.
Leader of the free world tb h
>>65466392
Yeah, influences of punk and metal squeezed through the borders and still maintain their presence in Russia. But to be really honest, aside from Grazhdanskaya Oborona aka GROB aka Yegor Letov's band, I haven't heard much good stuff.
But let's be real—what could really grow out of the Soviet 'scene', in a country where you couldn't even buy music? Without decent market for music? True, we had people like Letov who literally devoted their lives to music. But these were select cases.
Also, Letov is pretty hard to understand for outsiders, because of his heavy usage of Russian folklore/culture which is virtually unknown in the west. It's not the "OPA OPA DAVAI DAVAI SUKA BLYAD GULYAYEM" kind of stuff
What did he listen to?
>>65465258
I do though, gruppa krovi is dank
>>65466735
Karl and the Marxists
>>65466735
contemporary vomitcore
>>65466604
>I always hear how communism just stifled creativity and progress through your east Europe.
The thing is, commies emphasized propaganda greatly.
Western music was greatly shamed in USSR as was counterculture in general. Still it squeezed through the border, and became cult/exotic stuff, an object of desire among everyone. This was what happened with Adidas: it was one of the first clothing brands from abroad to be allowed in USSR.
Unfortunately, as for now, not even in the West the record business feels very well. Many big name Russian artists have been releasing albums for free in the past—such as Leningrad, Mumiy Troll and so on. What we have now is a lot of acts emphasizing sex appeal… Which pretty much reflects the Western trends too—see Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and so on.
Russian hip-hop is big too and it's really shit. I mean, hip-hop already is pretty shit, but this is some next level degeneracy.
The rest is shitty EDM… So pretty much the reflection of the situation around the world. The US music market experiences pretty much the same thing. So not much hope for us.
>>65466735
The cheers of proletarians
https://youtu.be/TIFCr5OJ0z4 Dyuna is GOAT Russian comedy rock
https://youtu.be/XveGQdHa18I Leningrad—THE essential "DAVAI DAVAI OPA OPA BLYAD"-core
Seriously, this is the essence of XXI tracksuit man lifestyle, in pop package. If you dig any deeper, you only have chanson left.
>>65467329
>Russian chanson
Any good?
https://youtu.be/_O0m4PdQz8M —DDT. Staple of Russian AOR radio. Russian Stairway to Heaven in a sense that we've all heard it 1,984,834,343 times
>>65467329
As a russian i sincerely apologize that leningrad exists
>>65467381
Eyyy that song was my childhood
>>65467368
No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z93SNmcyrio
Chanson is, literally, Russian meme for its poor quality
Mikhail Krug (jokingly translated as Michael Circle) managed to die at the peak of his popularity, making him Russian 2Pac
>>65467465
This song was everybody's childhood, adolescence, and funeral
Continuing the thread https://youtu.be/8elQqqGi11k —the rare example of GOOD Russian alt-rock, made famous by cult Russian movie Brat 2 ("Brother 2"). You guessed it—the movie is about mafia
>>65467381
Ahhh fuck this song.
Ok am I the only one who thinks that Russian (or any Slavic language) isn't one of those languages that sound nice when sung? Like Spanish or Japanese or Icelandic, that just have that melodic knack.
>>65465912
Grimes.
>>65467580
Well it's hard to say, it might be. I've heard foreigners tell me that Russian sounded cool to them because they saw it as raw and powerful language.
Now, this is some good shit. https://youtu.be/mIKF8BI4snY —Belorussian Beatles-esque radio staple melded with folk and some sick tonality changes. VIA Pesnyary
I liked this guy's songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QyAYf5niVY
Another GOAT Belorussian pop folk—https://youtu.be/0rHjakawG8M Another Russian radio staple
>>65467772
Yep, Vysotsky is kind of like Russian Bob Dylan, countercultural folk hero
>>65467862
There were also guys like Kaczmarski in Poland and Kryl in Czech Republic
>>65467879
Hm, haven't heard about them here
My personal fave: https://youtu.be/OPPJLoEe_gM —peculiar mix of Alla Pugachova, called "prima donna of Russian pop", and heavy metal. Predating Loveless by several years—/mu/ BTFO by Russians as usual
https://youtu.be/Dsa0-rcM6WA —Barykin. Back in the late '80s, this was a common practice: singers taking hints from the west, while keeping the texts conservative as possible. For example, this song is about a fucking airport.
>>65467985
This bangs but is very Russian mom-core, sorry.
https://youtu.be/jpne8fCwFJ8 —Zemlyane—literally space-rock. Because it's a song about space. An unofficial "people's" space anthem. Usually transmitted on radio every 12th of April (Gagarin's flight anniversary)
>>65468130
I really like this. And the cinematography of the video reminds me of A Clockwork Orange.
>>65468174
This is considered GOAT song in Russia. I used to love it too
Now time for some MEMES https://youtu.be/tCLV63q9Kl4 Not-so-rare Russian meme of highest caliber. Only 7 years too late
Now back to normal music https://youtu.be/bApDSAXeaDc Literally Russian Vanilla Ice. Song starts at 0:55
https://youtu.be/W7hAo28NCXc "Kombinatziya"—the song is literally called "American Boy". It's about a Russian mail order bride.
There's an awkward video of Medvedev dancing to it
https://youtu.be/Ewvue4Y9vaM —"Kombinatziya"—"Buchgalter", i.e. "accountant". A song about loving an accountant. Yep. Russian synth-pop with goat riff
Literally saving all of these for a spree later. Shout out to the anon posting all the gems.
>>65468410
It's easy to post them, these are still in heavy rotation on radio
Now the closest Russian language alt-rock came to being popular in the West: https://youtu.be/f9253G7_Ct8 Marakesh—Jdat ("To Wait"). Emo/scene vocals, but still pretty good otherwise.
https://youtu.be/qgXpTUEU4LM Splin—Vyhoda Nyet ("No Escape"). The essential "I'm 14 and am different from the other people" alt-folk with distorted guitars and loud-quiet-loud.
>>65465258
>Viktor Tsoi
yeah GTA4 nostalgia
https://youtu.be/nj5nuYYrZvg —Mumiy Troll—Vladivostok 2000.
I should have started from this song. Literally the first video shown on Russian MTV. Kickstarted the wave of alt-rock in Russia, essential listening
Some other stuff by this band:
https://youtu.be/Ok1-XYV3k60
https://youtu.be/wuZAwBbEFJU
>>65468518
Forgot to add: it was in GTA4 OST
https://youtu.be/jcZ2tfJIUGI an example of Russian dance-pop Eurobeat with some qt 3.14 in the video
https://youtu.be/DzRTKNM0meU —same thing, differen qt
>>65465258
really sad
https://youtu.be/8q3jAQkuyTo now for t.A.T.u., the one and only pair of Russian dykes
https://youtu.be/TmJ_hGOVebs
https://youtu.be/6yP4Nm86yk0
https://youtu.be/-F-JfWqMG6g
https://youtu.be/NU-XAxBkEaE What happens when you mix Eminem with Julian Casablancas? Namely, what happens when you're a white teen with a rich daddy but you like rap? You get Detsl—the first Russian rapper.
This here is some real communist propaganda, quite literally. If your dad is die-hard anti-communist, you shouldn't show it to him. I warned you! https://youtu.be/bvweq8NYsN0 An orchestral song about Lenin, with added funk.
>>65467862
Isn't Boris Grebenshchikov a better counterpart? I've never gotten into him, but everyone calls him Russian Bob Dylan.
https://youtu.be/P1nAnLzcfrY Boris Grebenschikov/Aquarium—actually the guy who copied Dylan through and through, as well the rest of rock music. Cult figure in Russia
>>65469156
Literally posted this a minute later >>65469193
Yanka Dyagileva was one of the most popular people in Russia's Soviet underground. Made two great noise rock albums, one really good folk album, and a super depressing hybrid of both before she committed suicide/was murdered by the KGB (depending on who you ask).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goWUZEbqkcw
Now for the albums. Yegor Letov and his band Grazhdanskaya Oborona—Russian psychedelic/punk folk icon, aka slav cat guy.
Genre—low-fi (more like lowest possible-fi); punk, psychedelic, Russian folk, jangle pop
https://youtu.be/r0vE1L6x3-I?list=PLYPaDz5WltbFnY2F7XVgHimpka1K5bK_0 —for alt-rock/punk recorded on potato
https://youtu.be/Gd3DEtbxP30 —for lean production and more acoustic folk
https://youtu.be/B2h6jAHe3Dk now back to shitty perestroika synth-pop with MIDI
>>65468948
kys
https://youtu.be/y_IObE7MIqs —Russian accordion song about how giving away Alaska was wrong, generally celebrating Russian culture over Americanism.
OK enough is enough, here's one last song. This one is from GTA4 OST https://youtu.be/6zElaBl5Gvw
Keep classy blyad
>>65465258
I love Gruppa Krovi (the album), it's one of my favorite new wave records. I still don't even know what are Tsoi's political views though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loiFVOEjEsY Best russian music
>>65466001
too bad I´m not 13 years old :(
