Би-2 – Hipster
Against hipsters, that’s Хипстер (= hipster) by Би-2. Whether the lyrics start with Болью хипстер (tormented hipster) as here is claimed (with a translation that’s not entirely correct), or with мой милый хипстер (my dear hipster) as seen here and in many other places, he gets the short end of the stick.
London vibes
Узкие джинсы, майка с принтом = skinny jeans and a shirt with a print. This rhymes with В целом не важно что будет потом: generally, it doesn’t matter what comes after. Лечь на дно (lit.: lie on the bottom) with your London music (вместе с музыкой Лондона), all gone by (всё прошло) and out of style (всё такое не модное). For Russian readers, there’s more about the song and video here; for those who want to sing along, there’s karaoke. From the album 16 Плюс (16 Plus), released in 2014.
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Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (from recent to old).
Best Russian Music in
Лучшая русская музыка.
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Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but also distinctly idiosyncratic. The music is usually accessible (we categorize it under Pop), but the attitude is rock.
Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
The word offret is Swedish and means ‘sacrifice’; the band Offret is Russian and makes heavy music. The link between the word and the band: a
1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
