Зарница – I Wanna Pet Your Dog (Корги)
A crossbreed between The Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Dog (1969) and Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog (1899). A bit of rock ’n’ roll and a bit of sophistication. Хочу погладить твою корги: I want to pet your corgi.
Also features a reference to The Cure. Or at least, a record (пластинка) of theirs.
Иди за мной,
Я приведу тебя туда,
Где я и ты, пластинка Cure,
и нам больше некуда спешить
Zarnitsa
A зарница (zarnitsa) is heat lightning, but the term also has (Soviet) historical significance; see Wikipedia in English or Russian.
It is also a band from Moscow, with their latest (2020) album На самый главный вопрос ответ (Answer to the Most Important Question). The title track can be found here, and the cover featuring a dog is shown in this article.
Корги is from the EP Нюанс (2018). Listen on Bandcamp, Soundcloud, or Spotify. Lyrics are available on the Bandcamp track page.
Gav gav
If you think you hear a few “woof woof” sounds, you’re mistaken. A Russian dog doesn’t say woof or waf but “gav” (гав). Learn more at How do Animals sound in Russian (Russian with Nastya, 2020, 5 m), Animal Sounds in Russian | Звуки Животных (Ru-Land Club, 2018, 13 m), and How do animals sound in Russian? (Real Russian Club, 2017, 6 m).
More
- Эмо-ревайвал (2020)
- Амбициозная (2020)
- Похмелья (2018)
- Сотни дорог (2016)
For live performances (men in dresses), check
this and
this (2019).
Find more Zarnitsa on
Instagram and
VK.
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of posting).
Check out
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
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Music
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.
