Russian pop music

[Dr. Z]

A little while ago while messing about on a shortwave radio looking for clandestine Numbers Stations I tripped over an interesting radio station "The Voice of Russia". Of course, I didnt understand a damn word of it so I couldnt get any tracks for myself but the music was damn good IMO.

Last weekend I met up with Chenko (from ocuk/IRC) and he had a few CDs by eastern bloc artists. I love this stuff :D The only artist name I could remember was "Virgin" which makes searching the internet VERY "tricky" indeed, but google video came up trumps with this:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8570883009014784969&q=virgin

I had heard the music before I saw the videos, so I had no idea what to expect but it would seem like the videos are fairly watchable :p

Anyone else into music from strange lands (other than Japan)?

[leowyatt]

Interesting video ;)

Never heard much of it myself, though do like the Greek music we hear on holiday :)

[Daz]

Decent pop that. Nice wabs too.

The only foreign stuff I tend to listen to is some of Nobuo Uematsu's stuff. But that's from Japan, so I wont mention it :p

[Dee]

I listen to a lot of stuff by Koji Kondo :embarassed: ;D

Sorry, thats Japanese as well!

[petemc]

Not bad. Russian sounds like English played backwards though. Kinda weird :) Imagine if she fell off that bike. Her pants would burn up instantly. :D At the mo I listen to nothing but JPop, JRock, Anime OSTs and Jstuff :D

[Rich_L]

Nice wabs too.
There was music there too?! :undecided: :shocked: :evil:

Lovely breasticles, think she would get 1.5 touches, and no more! :D

[Matblack]

Thats bloody awful, sounds like a Eurovision song contest entry

MB

[Dr. Z]

You were google video searching for virgin, and expect us to believe you wanted this?

Yes.

[Will]

*gulp*

/buys "teach yourself russian tapes"
/moves to Russia...

[HollyThirtyFive]

I like the mixture of guitars, with abit of dance, but it is abit eurovision for me!
Foreign music? Well the japanese ones I like the Polysics, Isao Tomita, but then thats japanese.

I like Yann Tiersen, and hes french (did the Amelie soundtrack)
I love Millencolin and they are swedish (seeing them at reading yay:D)
Inflames are cool, and theyre from Sweden, or Norway I believe!

[Will]

Foreign stuff well I do like Spanish music a fair bit, also the Gipsy Kings album when they worked with a middle eastern producer and had an arabic beat with spanish theme - worked very well indeed. :cool:

[William]

The Virgin Video;

Whilst I can understand the women in bikinis gyrating and generally making good use of themselves - what is the need for a semi-naked black man with an afro grinding himself to the Slavic KellyClarksonesque beat for? :undecided:

[Will]

I didn't see any black man.... :p

[Dr. Z]

This is the only track I can find on there from her. Its one of the most poppy tracks I suppose. The rest is slightly heavier/different I suppose.

I have also found out that its Polish, not Russian, which is excellent as there is a Polish girl on my course at uni so I can get her to translate it all and bring me back more stuff! :D

[Tommy]

Haha, anyone else notice the blatent Irn-Bru product placement?

Maybe it's because the language is so different, but it got sounding pretty repetitive... it was overlong too, 3:49 is too long for a pop song. It sounded hopeful the begin with at least, and it gets 10/10 for the eurotrash video with norks ;D

and petemc, I couldn't resist doing this after you said that:
reverse song (http://torolk.homestead.com/files/polskybackwardsky.mp3)

The only foreign band I think I listen to much is Sigur Ros. And Air, but that sounds less foreign.

[Blackstar]

Haha, anyone else notice the blatent Irn-Bru product placement?
No i did, i was more interested in that than anything else.

[Fayshun]

I have a Russian rock album by a group called Kruiz, it's ok, and only bits of it are in Russian.

And I've got 2 CD's by the Ukranians, they rock (although I believe one of them comes from that very Ukranian place, Wolverhampton, where I did indeed see them live)

[Mondo]

There was music? :shocked: