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[Isaac Clark]

how is it to have shit taste and know nothing about Viktor Tsoi?

[Lincoln King]

иди в жoпy

[Jose Wilson]

Nice google translate, nigger

[Charles Bell]

youtube.com/watch?v=f9dpPdbnTHA
пepeмeн
youtube.com/watch?v=vc1ObUMFWMo
babarism begins at home

and that only 1 example. he ripped off a lot of western songs unknown to russians.

[John Rivera]

literally retard

[Jaxon Rivera]

Why is it every time I look for some decent contemporary Russian music, I'm always disappointed. What's some good Russian music, droogs?

[Henry Gonzalez]

Гpyппa кpoви is my jam

[Samuel Gomez]

youtu.be/s56yferAew4

[Xavier Davis]

If you're into screamo/hardcore scene there are some pretty good bands

[Samuel Jackson]

The thing about Russian scene is that it never really existed.

Remember, you couldn't buy shit in Russia unless you basically smuggled records here or had connections; you didn't have radio with top-40 hits, you couldn't buy any non-Russian music in shops. Yep, you had no Pink fucking Floyd, no Rolling fucking Stones, no Rod fucking Stewart. Just Alla Pugachyova. Some German or Italian shit if you were really fucking lucky to have relatives there. Guess why our radio still loves Adriano Celentano and Italo disco. Muh memories

I don't even mention guitars and equipment. You've heard of Yegor Letov, maybe? His first equipment was home-made. That was the only way to go in Siberia.

You couldn't just release your overly 'capitalist' music and get money for it. The mainstream artists were complete shit until perestroika. In USSR music like Kino was literally underground. Tsoy had to work his day job and pour all his time in his hobby. Ironically, Tsoy died early in the '90s, which is still top lel in Russia.

In the '90s we had a bunch of cool acts and for some time we had more or less ok music market. Then 2000s came and it quickly died. The end.

[Ethan Perry]

There was a pretty sweet 80s Russian punk scene.

[Josiah Kelly]

Vitas is very nice musician

[Jayden Sullivan]

youtube.com/watch?v=ACAvBBMb6BM

[Ryder Cruz]

Oh yeah why didn't I consider that? My family are Russian and I always hear how communism just stifled creativity and progress through your east Europe. Dark times.
Hope you guys can eventually pull through because Russian music is officially in the grave.

[Daniel Moore]

I LOVE VITAS.
Even the Chinese love him.
Leader of the free world tb h

[Parker Russell]

Yeah, influences of punk and metal squeezed through the borders and still maintain their presence in Russia. But to be really honest, aside from Grazhdanskaya Oborona aka GROB aka Yegor Letov's band, I haven't heard much good stuff.

But let's be real—what could really grow out of the Soviet 'scene', in a country where you couldn't even buy music? Without decent market for music? True, we had people like Letov who literally devoted their lives to music. But these were select cases.

Also, Letov is pretty hard to understand for outsiders, because of his heavy usage of Russian folklore/culture which is virtually unknown in the west. It's not the "OPA OPA DAVAI DAVAI SUKA BLYAD GULYAYEM" kind of stuff

[Nicholas Barnes]

What did he listen to?

[Hunter Cruz]

I do though, gruppa krovi is dank

[Gabriel Nelson]

Karl and the Marxists

[Colton Robinson]

contemporary vomitcore

[Logan Johnson]

>I always hear how communism just stifled creativity and progress through your east Europe.

The thing is, commies emphasized propaganda greatly.

Western music was greatly shamed in USSR as was counterculture in general. Still it squeezed through the border, and became cult/exotic stuff, an object of desire among everyone. This was what happened with Adidas: it was one of the first clothing brands from abroad to be allowed in USSR.

Unfortunately, as for now, not even in the West the record business feels very well. Many big name Russian artists have been releasing albums for free in the past—such as Leningrad, Mumiy Troll and so on. What we have now is a lot of acts emphasizing sex appeal… Which pretty much reflects the Western trends too—see Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and so on.

Russian hip-hop is big too and it's really shit. I mean, hip-hop already is pretty shit, but this is some next level degeneracy.

The rest is shitty EDM… So pretty much the reflection of the situation around the world. The US music market experiences pretty much the same thing. So not much hope for us.

[Isaac Bell]

The cheers of proletarians

[Aaron Campbell]

youtu.be/TIFCr5OJ0z4 Dyuna is GOAT Russian comedy rock

[Jeremiah Garcia]

youtu.be/XveGQdHa18I Leningrad—THE essential "DAVAI DAVAI OPA OPA BLYAD"-core

Seriously, this is the essence of XXI tracksuit man lifestyle, in pop package. If you dig any deeper, you only have chanson left.

[Chase Stewart]

>Russian chanson
Any good?

[Benjamin Perry]

youtu.be/_O0m4PdQz8M —DDT. Staple of Russian AOR radio. Russian Stairway to Heaven in a sense that we've all heard it 1,984,834,343 times

[Andrew Mitchell]

As a russian i sincerely apologize that leningrad exists

[John Diaz]

Eyyy that song was my childhood

[Camden Davis]

No

youtube.com/watch?v=z93SNmcyrio

Chanson is, literally, Russian meme for its poor quality

Mikhail Krug (jokingly translated as Michael Circle) managed to die at the peak of his popularity, making him Russian 2Pac

[William Hughes]

This song was everybody's childhood, adolescence, and funeral

Continuing the thread youtu.be/8elQqqGi11k —the rare example of GOOD Russian alt-rock, made famous by cult Russian movie Brat 2 ("Brother 2"). You guessed it—the movie is about mafia

[Gavin Johnson]

Ahhh fuck this song.

Ok am I the only one who thinks that Russian (or any Slavic language) isn't one of those languages that sound nice when sung? Like Spanish or Japanese or Icelandic, that just have that melodic knack.
Grimes.

[Connor Morgan]

Well it's hard to say, it might be. I've heard foreigners tell me that Russian sounded cool to them because they saw it as raw and powerful language.

Now, this is some good shit. youtu.be/mIKF8BI4snY —Belorussian Beatles-esque radio staple melded with folk and some sick tonality changes. VIA Pesnyary

[Wyatt Cooper]

I liked this guy's songs
youtube.com/watch?v=9QyAYf5niVY

[Jack Mitchell]

Another GOAT Belorussian pop folk—youtu.be/0rHjakawG8M Another Russian radio staple

[Adam Hill]

Yep, Vysotsky is kind of like Russian Bob Dylan, countercultural folk hero

[Isaiah Peterson]

There were also guys like Kaczmarski in Poland and Kryl in Czech Republic

[Bentley Cooper]

Hm, haven't heard about them here

My personal fave: youtu.be/OPPJLoEe_gM —peculiar mix of Alla Pugachova, called "prima donna of Russian pop", and heavy metal. Predating Loveless by several years—Sup Forums BTFO by Russians as usual

[Connor Reyes]

youtu.be/Dsa0-rcM6WA —Barykin. Back in the late '80s, this was a common practice: singers taking hints from the west, while keeping the texts conservative as possible. For example, this song is about a fucking airport.

[Owen Myers]

This bangs but is very Russian mom-core, sorry.

[Wyatt Flores]

youtu.be/jpne8fCwFJ8 —Zemlyane—literally space-rock. Because it's a song about space. An unofficial "people's" space anthem. Usually transmitted on radio every 12th of April (Gagarin's flight anniversary)

[Matthew Morales]

I really like this. And the cinematography of the video reminds me of A Clockwork Orange.

[Angel Williams]

This is considered GOAT song in Russia. I used to love it too

Now time for some MEMES youtu.be/tCLV63q9Kl4 Not-so-rare Russian meme of highest caliber. Only 7 years too late

[Chase Sanchez]

Now back to normal music youtu.be/bApDSAXeaDc Literally Russian Vanilla Ice. Song starts at 0:55

[David Price]

youtu.be/W7hAo28NCXc "Kombinatziya"—the song is literally called "American Boy". It's about a Russian mail order bride.

There's an awkward video of Medvedev dancing to it

[Leo Walker]

youtu.be/Ewvue4Y9vaM —"Kombinatziya"—"Buchgalter", i.e. "accountant". A song about loving an accountant. Yep. Russian synth-pop with goat riff

[Hunter Roberts]

Literally saving all of these for a spree later. Shout out to the user posting all the gems.

[Easton Perry]

It's easy to post them, these are still in heavy rotation on radio

Now the closest Russian language alt-rock came to being popular in the West: youtu.be/f9253G7_Ct8 Marakesh—Jdat ("To Wait"). Emo/scene vocals, but still pretty good otherwise.

[Mason Sanchez]

youtu.be/qgXpTUEU4LM Splin—Vyhoda Nyet ("No Escape"). The essential "I'm 14 and am different from the other people" alt-folk with distorted guitars and loud-quiet-loud.

[Wyatt Davis]

>Viktor Tsoi

yeah GTA4 nostalgia

[Kevin Bell]

youtu.be/nj5nuYYrZvg —Mumiy Troll—Vladivostok 2000.

I should have started from this song. Literally the first video shown on Russian MTV. Kickstarted the wave of alt-rock in Russia, essential listening

Some other stuff by this band:

youtu.be/Ok1-XYV3k60
youtu.be/wuZAwBbEFJU

[Kevin Cruz]

Forgot to add: it was in GTA4 OST

[Thomas Lee]

youtu.be/jcZ2tfJIUGI an example of Russian dance-pop Eurobeat with some qt 3.14 in the video

youtu.be/DzRTKNM0meU —same thing, differen qt

[Levi Hill]

really sad

[Xavier Walker]

youtu.be/8q3jAQkuyTo now for t.A.T.u., the one and only pair of Russian dykes

youtu.be/TmJ_hGOVebs
youtu.be/6yP4Nm86yk0
youtu.be/-F-JfWqMG6g

[Jose Rogers]

youtu.be/NU-XAxBkEaE What happens when you mix Eminem with Julian Casablancas? Namely, what happens when you're a white teen with a rich daddy but you like rap? You get Detsl—the first Russian rapper.

[Matthew Brown]

This here is some real communist propaganda, quite literally. If your dad is die-hard anti-communist, you shouldn't show it to him. I warned you! youtu.be/bvweq8NYsN0 An orchestral song about Lenin, with added funk.

[Nolan Thompson]

Isn't Boris Grebenshchikov a better counterpart? I've never gotten into him, but everyone calls him Russian Bob Dylan.

[Hunter Hall]

youtu.be/P1nAnLzcfrY Boris Grebenschikov/Aquarium—actually the guy who copied Dylan through and through, as well the rest of rock music. Cult figure in Russia

[Joseph Lewis]

Literally posted this a minute later

[Jackson Sanchez]

Yanka Dyagileva was one of the most popular people in Russia's Soviet underground. Made two great noise rock albums, one really good folk album, and a super depressing hybrid of both before she committed suicide/was murdered by the KGB (depending on who you ask).

youtube.com/watch?v=goWUZEbqkcw

[Carson Butler]

Now for the albums. Yegor Letov and his band Grazhdanskaya Oborona—Russian psychedelic/punk folk icon, aka slav cat guy.

Genre—low-fi (more like lowest possible-fi); punk, psychedelic, Russian folk, jangle pop

youtu.be/r0vE1L6x3-I?list=PLYPaDz5WltbFnY2F7XVgHimpka1K5bK_0 —for alt-rock/punk recorded on potato

youtu.be/Gd3DEtbxP30 —for lean production and more acoustic folk

[Elijah Lee]

youtu.be/B2h6jAHe3Dk now back to shitty perestroika synth-pop with MIDI

[Adrian Barnes]

kys

[Kayden Baker]

youtu.be/y_IObE7MIqs —Russian accordion song about how giving away Alaska was wrong, generally celebrating Russian culture over Americanism.

[Matthew Flores]

OK enough is enough, here's one last song. This one is from GTA4 OST youtu.be/6zElaBl5Gvw

Keep classy blyad

[Jaxon Bennett]

I love Gruppa Krovi (the album), it's one of my favorite new wave records. I still don't even know what are Tsoi's political views though

[Michael Ross]

youtube.com/watch?v=loiFVOEjEsY Best russian music

[Hudson Turner]

too bad I´m not 13 years old :(