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[gnomygnomy.livejournal.com]

I don't really care for techno music. At all. It should die.

But when it's in Russian, that makes it okay. Go figure THAT one out!

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[happy-accidents.livejournal.com]

I agree. *Guilty Pleasure*

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

There are very few Russian techno songs that I will sing along with and not get tired of. For the most part, they sound the same. I'm on a hunt to find more Russian or Ukrainian rock music.

[gnomygnomy.livejournal.com]

Ooh! What've you got so far?

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

БИ-2, Мумий Тролль, Сплин, Океан Ельзи - Most of the popular bands that people have heard of.

Русский рок

[rottenshworz.livejournal.com]

http://www.vasilyev.com/files/kot.mp3
http://www.vasilyev.com/files/vdali.mp3
http://www.vasilyev.com/files/ostrova.mp3

Re: Русский рок

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

Спасибо, though not quite to my tastes :p

[torick.livejournal.com]

Are there any examples of those?
I'd say techno came to Russia since Kraftwerk's been put as OST for one of russian animation series.

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

I agree. :c)

[devinshire.livejournal.com]

Ha! I couldn't agree more. :)

[lemur-cat.livejournal.com]

Being in a foreign language, especially one that I have any hope of understanding, somehow makes virtually any type of music okay! People think my prejudice against English is irrational, but they're just weird.

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

I am the same way :)! The reason is probably because other than it sounding appealing and different is because we either don't understand the lyrics completely or like they would sound in English. Even though after reading through the translations or understanding words myself, they all end up somewhat simple (just as English :\), but we like it better anyway ^^

[idealforcolors.livejournal.com]

Also, if the lyrics are shallow, stupid, overly clever, or otherwise annoying, it's harder to tell :)

agreed

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's better not knowing at all :)

[lemur-cat.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere (I think it was "Making Sense of Japanese," which is a much better book than the title suggests): "Be careful not to confuse the feeling of having read a good piece of writing with the feeling of having been able to read something in Japanese." My appreciation for writing has been dulled terribly by the horrible pretentious literature classes they keep making me take, so I think for me it's mostly the latter ^_^

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

That's a good quote! Which makes me think, I probably get carried away with being able to read Russian more than what is being read.

[lemur-cat.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^_^ Warning, it's paraphrased, not verbatim.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Here here! Although there are certain genres of music that are accentuated by certain languages, i.e. a genre for a language.

E.g. Your techno to Russian dealie (especially Руки вверх's "Крошка Моя")
Any love song/pop thing to Italian (Gianluca Grignani)
Any new age/fantasy thing to Japanese (like those theme songs on Adult Swim, Inyuasha)
Any rock to Russian/English

I'm afraid to say that hardly anything sounds good in French unless it's slow. Like Jacques Brel or Francis Cabrel.

[alazanaxe.livejournal.com]

The main techno music I like is from Tatu, and they translated it into English, but it didn't sound as good on half the songs... >.

[slotos.livejournal.com]

Would this be fine enough? (http://www.kazantipa.net/index.php?m0=3)
This? (http://music.monty.ru/)

PS: Enjoy ;)