[rastignac]

There is a whole world of Slavic music that can be helpful on the ground, useful for language acquisition and even enjoyable. This is just a little start based on experience.

1. Океан Ельзи - Okean Elzy

From Lviv and very popular throughout the FSU. Ukrainian language. Remind me of a band like U2 or Coldplay.

2. 5'NIZZA (means Friday)

From Kharkiv, about 10 years ago. Their homemade recording became huge through the FSU in 2002. Fun stuff. Acoustic slavic reggae?

3. Кино / Виктор Цой - Kino, Viktor Choi (means Film)

Legendary Saint Petersburg band and iconic singer around the end of the USSR. Died young. As big as Kurt Cobain in the FSU.

4. Владимир Высоцкий - Vladimir Vysotsky

Super huge Soviet singer/songwriter and actor. Another icon of Russian language music culture. Think Dylan.

5. Бумбокс - Boombox

Contemporary Ukrainian band mixes beats and acoustic guitar and moving more to rock these days. Nice lesson about beta provider behavior in the first video.

[Icarus]

Моральный Кодекс (Moral'nyy Kodeks) - Первый снег (First Snow)

[Icarus]

Time for some Russian children's songs...

Песенка крокодила Гены (Crocodile Ghena's Song): a happy birthday song back from Soviet times. Most Russian chicks I have met were positively surprised that I know the song...

[Icarus]

The cultured, non-naked version of FEMEN, also from Ukraine...

Dakh Daughters - Rozy / Donbass

[rastignac]

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Моральный Кодекс (Moral'nyy Kodeks) - Первый снег (First Snow)

I love the twangy, minor surf guitar intro in this. It seems to show up a lot in Russian music.

[Icarus]

Ой ходить сон коло вікон (Ukrainian lullaby that allegedly inspired George Gershwin to compose Summertime)

[rastignac]

(02-01-2014 10:39 PM)Icarus Wrote:  

Time for some Russian children's songs...

Песенка крокодила Гены (Crocodile Ghena's Song): a happy birthday song back from Soviet times. Most Russian chicks I have met are positively surprised that I know the song...

Same sing from the original cartoon sung my Ghena himself. I went ahead and learned it once. Soviet cartoons amaze me.

[rastignac]

Fleur from Odessa.

Very much a goth chick band in Ukraine, influenced by early British things like the Cocteau Twins. They've been making music for about 10 years and have a number of spin off bands.

[Icarus]

(02-01-2014 10:57 PM)rastignac Wrote:  

Same sing from the original cartoon sung my Ghena himself. I went ahead and learned it once. Soviet cartoons amaze me.

Here's another song with Ghena and Cheburashka:

[Icarus]

A Moldovan band sings a Viktor Tsoi classic:

Zdob şi Zdub - Videli Noch

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

I like most songs from other Slavic nations more than Croatian ones, although there are some many good ones there too. This one from the Czech rock singer Jaromir Nohavica is my absolute favorite (lyrics here):

My favorite song from Bosnia... light rock, and the lyrics are hilarious:

Also like this Macedonian folk song (link to lyrics under the video):

[Icarus]

Russian band Leningrad (Ленинград) playing the hilariously named song "Pizdabol" (пиздабол) with very fuckable blonde singer Alisa Vox-Burmistrova (Алиса Вокс-Бурмистрова):

[fokker]

Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defence) - Khuy (Dick)

Basically, just one verse and chorus:

Right now, right now, right now it will rise
Like a slave on his knees

My dick is as white as Lenin
My dick is as hard as Stalin

Nu vot, nu vot, nu vot seichas vstanet
Peredo mnoyu kak rab na kolyany

Moi khui - bledny kak Lenin
Moi khui - zhelezny kak Stalin

[Icarus]

Gents,

Please consider embedding only one video per post. This thread has so many YouTube videos already, that my browser became excruciatingly slow when I opened this thread, and I had to kill the plugin-container.exe process (which was occupying over 200 MB already).

[Icarus]

Another one from Leningrad (Ленинград), this one is named "Bitch from The Facebook" (Сука из Фейсбука)

Here are the lyrics in Russian:

Quote:

СУКА ИЗ ФЕЙСБУКА
Сергей Шнуров

«Котики» и «зайки» –
Из великих фразы,
Я ей ставлю «лайки»,
А она ни разу.

Вот такая сука,
Сука из «фейсбука».
Бяка, даже бука,
Из «фейсбука» сука.

Я пишу ей коммент,
А в ответ ни строчки,
Жизнь моя проходит
В этой суходрочке.

Вот такая сука,
Сука из «фейсбука».
Бяка, даже бука,
Из «фейсбука» сука.

В «инстаграме» луки
Все мои игнорит,
И без этой суки
В мире много горя!

Вот такая сука,
Сука из «фейсбука».
Бяка, даже бука,
Из «фейсбука» сука.

Вот такая сука,
Сука из «фейсбука».
Бяка, даже бука,
Из «фейсбука» сука.

And here's the Google Translate RU --> EN translation:

Quote:

"Seals" and "Bunny" -
Of the great phrases
I put her "husky"
And she never.

That's such a bitch,
Bitch from "the Facebook."
Byaka even beech,
Of "the Facebook" bitch.

I write to her comments,
And in response to a single line,
My life passes
In this busywork.

That's such a bitch,
Bitch from "the Facebook."
Byaka even beech,
Of "the Facebook" bitch.

In "instagrame" bows
All my ignore,
And without this bitch
In the world a lot of grief!

That's such a bitch,
Bitch from "the Facebook."
Byaka even beech,
Of "the Facebook" bitch.

That's such a bitch,
Bitch from "the Facebook."
Byaka even beech,
Of "the Facebook" bitch.

[Feisbook Control]

Saw these guys here.

[Iron Fisted Buddha]

I've been listening a lot to Russian orthodox religious music the last couple of days:

[Orion]

Serbian music, traditional and folk

There, over there (Written by King Nicholas I of Montenegro)

Folk dance, hard to translate title (Heroes had gathered/danced would be roughly)

[ColSpanker]

One of my favorites:

[Orion]

Interesting: This one is a pop-folk song from a Serbian diva of the genre. Apparently, this one is dedicated to her late husband, a dude widely suspected for war crimes during Yugoslav Wars, most notably for massacres during and after siege of Vukovar (many of his associates have been convicted, and he was also known as a thug and mafia boss)

Loosely translated as "My Darling". This genre sort of marked the nineties era.

[JWLZG]

I can't believe no-one has mentioned Катюша yet:

Quote:

Расцветали яблони и груши,

Поплыли туманы над рекой.

Выходила на берег Катюша,

На высокий берег на крутой.



Выходила, песню заводила

Про степного, сизого орла,

Про того, которого любила,

Про того, чьи письма берегла.




Ой ты, песня, песенка девичья,

Ты лети за ясным солнцем вслед.

И бойцу на дальнем пограничье

От Катюши передай привет.



Пусть он вспомнит девушку простую,

Пусть услышит, как она поет,

Пусть он землю бережет родную,

А любовь Катюша сбережет.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Simply haunting and elegantly red-pill:

Tražena si roba u gradu, Siniša Vuco Wrote:

The most wanted merchandise in town

We've passed a lot
And look where are we now
Both of us sad, everything dying

Is this our love
That we used to swear on?
Everyone is pushing their own truth
And life keeps dividing us

Tražena si roba u gradu, Siniša Vuco Wrote:

Chorus:
You're the most wanted merchandise in town
Everybody wants you so young and pretty
And I'm on the threshold of my forties
And I have to keep going without you

But you'll remember sometime
When you aren't so young and pretty any more
You'll remember all the things you had in me
But you went away

I've passed the half of my life
And your youth and beauty
Used to be like the air I used to breathe

You want a different life
You want all the people to admire you
And your age of nineteen
Is like a wound in my chest

But you'll remember sometime
When you aren't so young and pretty any more
You'll remember all the things you had in me
But you went away

[pechorin]

Garik Sukashev.

[RawGod]

[finton_the_toole]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Nikita: