Komsomolsk 3x
Азбука = abc, плохой = bad, and вкус = taste. It becomes плохого and вкуса due to the genitive case. Eyes closed, tongue bitten (глаза закрыты, язык прикусан), this is the ABC of bad taste.
Азбука плохого вкуса (ABC of bad taste, 2017)
The lyrics appear on screen.
Азбука Вкуса (ABC of Taste) is a supermarket.
Всё исчезло (Everything disappeared, 2018)
I clicked somewhere (я нажала что-то) and everything disappeared (исчезло всё). Everyone has their own swamp (у каждого своё болото); watch how everything will disappear (смотри как всё исчезнет).
On the same channel, there’s an interview (8 min.) and an explanation (5 min.) of the song. Lyrics here.
Фестиваль2 (Festival2, 2018)
Sounds much more cheerful. Maybe (Может быть) it’s all just for us (всё это только для нас). Да, может быть, навсегда: yes, maybe, forever.
The lyrics appear on screen.
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 YouTube playlist (from recent to old).
Best Russian Music in the
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.
