25/17 3x
Pop (or light rap) that you can hear 24/7. Figuratively speaking, of course. Formerly (until 2009) known as Иезекииль 25:17 – named after the Bible verse in Ezekiel (= Иезекииль), best known for being recited by Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994).
25/17 is/was Ant (Ant) or Anton Zavyalov (1982) and Bledny (Pale) or Andrey Pozdnukhov (1976).
Подорожник (Plantain) (2014)
From the album Русский подорожник (Russian
plantain).
Featuring
Dmitry Revyakin (=
Dmitry Revyakin), from
Kalinov Most (=
Kalinov Most). Performed again in 2020 on
Evening Urgant; see the playlist
Music Performances.
Жду чуда (Waiting for a Miracle) (2012)
Waiting for a miracle – from the album На волне.
There’s also a
cover (2019) by
Anacondaz.
Никто не сможет меня остановить (No One Can Stop Me) (2009)
No one can stop me – from Только для своих.
Lip-syncing often (read: almost always) doesn’t go quite right in Russian clips, but don’t let that stop you. See also (in the same style and with the same issue)
На городской карте.
More
- Комната (2017)
- Новый вирус (with Zoya Berber, 2016)
- Я никогда не видел моря (2015)
- Волчонок (2015)
- Думай сам (2014)
- Звезда (2012)
Interview in
Bledny – Drugs, Death, Salvation (вДудь, 2018, 81 m).
Acoustic concert on
NTV (2018, 55 m).
Listen on
Apple Music,
Last.fm or
Spotify.
See/read
Wikipedia (RU).
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
More
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.
The Retuses 3x
Music
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).
Offret 3x
Music
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.
До свиданья, дорогая!
Music
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.
