Йорш (Yorsh) 3x
We are punk rock, our life is scars, the state is the main enemy: Йорш (or Yorsh) in three parts, from 2010 to 2020. Ёрш is beer with vodka and the old name. Punk from Podolsk (= Подольск), since 2006.
Панк-рок – это мы (Punk Rock – That’s Us) (2018)
From #Нетпутиназад (#NoWayBack, 2019). Just like Андерграунд (Underground), which also has a piano version (2020).
This is punk rock poetry. Nothing more, nothing less.
Punk rock, that’s me (Панк-рок - это я)
Punk rock, that’s you (Панк-рок - это ты)
Punk rock, that’s us (Панк-рок - это мы).
Lyrics
Lyrics with
translation
Шрамы (Scars) (feat. наконечный) (2020)
More poetry but far less punk in Шрамы. Our life (Наша жизнь) is scars (это шрамы).
We are losing hope
And growing up too early
Our life is scars
Our life is scars.
From
Счастье, Часть 2 (Happiness, Part 2, 2020).
With Наконечный (
Spotify,
YouTube). See also
Юра, мы всё проебали (2020), Наконечный & Йорш with
ДМЦ.
Acoustic
cover by A. Bukalo ft. A. Brylyov (2020).
Чёрный флаг (Black Flag) (2010)
Newer music could have been chosen. But then you’d end up with В сердце игрушки or Армия Жизни, and it wouldn’t have been much better. It still had to be somewhat punk.
So here’s a second punk poem, from Добро и зло (Good and Evil) (2010, Spotify, YouTube). Выше, выше, черный флаг (Higher, higher, black flag) – государство главный враг (the state is the main enemy). In Russian, it rhymes.
Lyrics
Lyrics with
translation
More
- Особый резон (2020) covers Yanka Dyagileva; original here
- Нарисуй Мне Счастье (fan-video) (must log in) (2019)
- В рамках закона (fan-video) (2019)
- Против тебя (2019)
- 26 (Ножи остры и порох есть) (2016)
- За 50 (2014)
See
Йорш – Реалити-шоу (film about the band) (2019, 60 m) and
Documentary about the punk band Йорш (2018, 21 m).
See/read
Dima Sokol (Йорш) – «Punk is the dark mirror of society» (Rockcult, 2020).
More about Yorsh on
Wikipedia, more from them on
Instagram,
VK, and their
website.
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).
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.
