ЛЮТИК – 7 whisky-colas and Tired of Drinking
Sasha Moskalets (feminist and badass according to her own Instagram) used to sing in Sewage Sour and now performs under the name ЛЮТИК (or LYUTIK), which means Buttercup. She was also a model, as shown and described by Reykjavikboulevard (2013), and at some point, she needed (or used to need) something to drink on time.
7 виски кол
Whisky-cola, for example. It starts with two and quickly moves to five. It doesn’t stop there, nor at the seven mentioned in the title. I’m having so much fun (мне так весело) – I hope I forget everything (надеюсь всё забуду) as soon as I get home (как только я зайду в свой дом).
Устала пить
And sometimes, it gets exhausting or too much. Я устала пить: I’m tired of drinking. And больше не могу, I can’t anymore. But then there’s the next problem. Как мне выносить эту Москву, how do I survive this Moscow.
Both songs performed acoustically on On Air (2020).
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Read Группа «Лютик» поет о безысходности, «Медуза» (с пониманием) представляет премьеру сразу трех клипов (Meduza, 2020).
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in the order of posting).
Also see
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.
