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Re: Russian Songs

Postby ruskyed » Sat Jun 11, 2016 9:40 am

Владимир Бунчиков Летят перелётные птицы
A song of some historical and cultural significance, recorded in 1948. There are many versions of this song on YouTube. The one at this page might be the first recording, but it's hard to be sure:
http://pesnipodgitaru.ru/pesni/sovetskie-patrioticheskie-pesni-30-40-godov/pesni-o-velikoy-otechestvennoy-voyne/letyat-pereletnyie-ptitsyi
Basically the song employs a metaphor of flying migratory birds as a contrast to express love of one's homeland.
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Re: Russian Songs

Postby ergot » Tue Jun 21, 2016 8:09 am

Alex Sparrow - Сумасшедшая
Hopefully this meets the approval of Rusky Ed! Not only is it a fun song and video, but it has English subtitles and the lyrics in Russian in the video description. Simultaneously entertaining and educational. It's the best of both worlds!
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Re: Russian Songs

Postby ruskyed » Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:01 pm

Леонид Агутин - Шаланды, полные кефали...
Awesome song! BTW, there's an interesting key change between the verses and the chorus. You don't see that kind of thing very often in pop music. This cover version of the song came out in 2001, but the original song was published way back in 1943 and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/hDSxfoHWCS8 Interestingly, this version of the song only has 67k views, whereas the original version is getting close to two million views.
«Шала́нды, по́лные кефа́ли…» — известная советская песня, написанная композитором Никитой Богословским на слова Владимира Агатова для кинофильма Леонида Лукова «Два бойца» (1943), где её исполнил Марк Бернес, игравший бойца-одессита Аркадия Дзюбина.

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Re: Russian Songs

Postby ergot » Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:45 pm

Russian National Anthem - Rock Version
Let's face it our national anthem sucks badly. The Russian national anthem rocks, especially this version.
WikiPedia has the words and translation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem_of_Russia
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Re: Russian Songs

Postby sandman » Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:37 am

On the topic of national anthems it's hard to argue that ours is anything other than a flop. Ours is hard to sing, it's boring, the lyrics are uninspiring, and it would be fair to say that it is basically an unpleasant song. The Russian national anthem is actually pretty good. Having made that admission, I still think we got a lot going for us as a country, it's just that our national anthem pretty much sucks! Just saying... lol
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Re: Russian Songs

Postby CactusHugger » Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:32 am

Wow! The Russian National Anthem rocks! I felt surge of patriotism energize my body as I listened to that song. It must be nice to have a national anthem that actually inspires and motivates! Ours is so boring that it makes you wonder about the musical taste of whoever agreed to name it our national anthem! GO RUSSIA!
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Re: Russian Songs

Postby mrgreen » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:12 pm

MORGENSHTERN - Вот Так
TEN million views in a six weeks. Pretty popular... at least in Russia.
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Re: Russian Songs

Postby ruskyed » Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:12 pm

Песенки для детей - Едет трактор - мультик про машинки
Most awesome nursery school song ever!
По полям, по полям (In the fields, in the fields)
Синий трактор едет к нам. (A tractor rides towards us.)
У него в прицепе кто-то песенку поет! (In the trailer someone sings to us!)
А ну, малыш, давай! (Well, kid, let's go!)
Попробуй отгадай (Try to guess)
Кто же, кто же, кто же, кто же (Who, who, who, who)
Песенку поет?! (Sings a song?!)

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Re: Russian Music

Postby drdesert » Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:02 pm

ruskyed wrote:Полина Гагарина - Кукушка (OST Битва за Севастополь)
The video for this song was posted on YouTube Mar 31, 2015 and has nearly five million views at this time. Although not a huge number of views by USA standards, it's still substantial. Certainly the song lyrics are much more substantial than the lyrics of the typical American pop song, but then that's not exactly saying much given the pathetically superficial nature of American pop culture.
LYRICS IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/kukushka-%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0-cuckoo.html
Polina Gagarina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polina_Gagarina
Battle for Sevastopol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Sevastopol

This is easily the greatest female vocal performance of all time. Here in the USA people sometimes regard the pathetic whining of Whitney Houston as something to be admired. Such retarded decadence can only occur in people who have no spiritual connection to anything other than the trivial. So, many soulless subhumans inhabit this once great nation. It would be good to cleanse this nation of the worthless and the irresponsible.
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Re: Russian Songs

Postby twister » Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:39 am

CactusHugger wrote:Wow! The Russian National Anthem rocks! I felt surge of patriotism energize my body as I listened to that song. It must be nice to have a national anthem that actually inspires and motivates! Ours is so boring that it makes you wonder about the musical taste of whoever agreed to name it our national anthem! GO RUSSIA!

That may be true, but have you heard the black national anthem? Talk about a song that sucks! That one goes far beyond just sucking!
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