erhm, actually, he recorded 3 albums in 3 days☝🤓(first day - drums, second - bass and rhythm guitar, third - vocals and solo) but that's still impressive
In the 80s he used to be very prolific. In 1989 he recorded six albums with GrOb, ten albums for his side project "Kommunizm" with other GrOb members, and produced albums of other Siberian punk groups and musicians. Also note that unlike Nirvana, Letov recorded his albums on consumer-grade recording equipment inside his home studio. Well into the 90s his neighbors would complain about noise coming from his flat.
This happened because he was fleeing from the KGB. When he and Yanka Dyagileva ran away from the city and traveled a lot, he wrote poems and songs on the road. By the time a relatively safe opportunity to return home appeared, he had already made albums based on his notes. In one song, he writes a funny line where he says that all the songs sound the same because he recorded them as quickly as possible.
back in the days of print media, magazines would often have flexi-discs of promotional tunes tucked in the centerfold. Carcass probably printed a couple for the British rags. The thing is, XRays fade really quick from the light, so the graphics may suffer.
Why would Carcass try it 😂 they’re in the UK and freely had access to equipment. The ones made from X rays sound horrendous and only last for a few spins. They’re also loose and floppy and more expensive unless you’re stealing the materials.
Well, Letov's music is much harder to understand than Tsoi's, even by Russian speaking, let alone by those who don't know the language. For example, a phrase like "eternity smells of oil" and the question of eternity and death itself is a reference to "Crime and punishment" (Svidrigailov's monologue about "eternity" being a small room filled with spiders). And that is only one phrase from a 13 minute song lol. Letov's music contains many similar references to russian and soviet formal and non-formal culture, and that is something not always interesting for someone outside Russian-speaking world.
14 минут 15 секунд в версии из одноимённого альбома. И я тебе открою, видимо, секрет, у очень многих групп существуют разные записи песен, отличающиеся по длине, исполнению и даже, иногда, тексту. И, чувак, тебе реально больше нечего было сказать?
@@BrobjeV, ну, не знаю насчёт этого. Он как минимум был первым басистом в группе Автоматические Удовлетворители, и это в принципе была его первая группа)
I like how this is about a punk band and how they were living under such's repression and its "i cant say this or that or this... and cant say this in youtube".
If you can read Russian, treat yourself with Letov's lyrics. It's a schizo word soup which somehow manages to be just barely meaningful, yet hitting hard emotionally.
I tried to understand letov’s lyrics I couldn’t make sense of it, though if you look at the lyrics to Без меня I interpreted as a person who knows that they’re dying and that the lyric and the/my world runs away, it runs far away without looking back as the person they loved that didn’t reciprocate back or that the person is moving on to the afterlife but that’s my opinion.
@@Cdcollector97У Летова много песен, что были сделаны из фраз из книг и фильмов, а также написанные после впечатлений. Поэтому Русское Поле и является до сих пор не разобранным текстом.
@@Cdcollector97 Letov's lyrics are hard to translate. There is very free approach to language at play. Impressionistic word-painting. He would use certain words just for their ring or use clusters of words to convey one certain meaning or emotion. Sometimes it was meant to be nonsense. He was into early 20th century avantgarde, Russian futurists... He referred to some of his early lyrics as "absurdist".
fun fact: 1:55 that format of disks made from x-ray films was nicknamed "музыка на костях" or "музыка на рёбрах" which means "music on bones" or "music on ribs"
bro was persecuted by the kgb and the soviet party, put in a mental hospital, almost lobotomized, and years later after the fall of the union really said "nah they weren't that bad we should try it again"
the funniest thing about Letov is that he HAD NO political views. He was just against everything and everyone. On one day he could be communist, and on another he hated communism. Anyway, love from Russia!
From what I’ve heard he was an anarchist which makes sense. He became more of an eco-anarchist in his later years, also I’m pretty sure he said a fan asked him if there was any new music coming soon after his final 2007 album: why do we have dreams? shortly before he passed he said that he used up his creativity and that there were to be no more music coming from him. Fun fact: the album: why do we have dreams? was inspired by a bad lsd trip he experienced and used that for the entire album.
Some considerations. 1) The phrase "Lenin is rotting in the mausoleum" has the meaning of "turning over in his grave", therefore he was not attacking Lenin, but rather the corrupt Soviet bureaucracy. Also because as a young man Letov created portraits of Lenin in schools and offices. In fact Letov basically remained a communist, more specifically a sort of anarco-communist, although extremely critical of establishment, especially in the disastrous post-Soviet years. He embraced neutral political views only towards the end of his life. 2) The fact that his mother had reported him to the KGB is still without any source, it is more likely that she had turned to the authorities because he had run away from home - a fact later transformed into a "report to the KGB". Ditto for the "terrorist attack". No source. 3) Admission to psychiatric hospital and heavy treatments were a common practice for "restless" subjects (let's not forget that Letov was an alcoholic) but it was not necessarily due to political reasons - they were common practice in all Europe and US. Letov himself said regarding what he had experienced that "those practices were the same in America too." This fact is omitted in the video. 4) The practice of making discs from x-ray plates was not due to prohibitions, but to the cost and limited availability of the tapes in the 60s. In the 70's and 80's reel-to-reel and then cassette tapes became diffused in USSR too - still they were more expensive than "x-ray records". These tapes made their way all over the USSR. Official records were never enough to satisfy demand, so tapes and x-ray records were how people obtained this music. There was no complete ban on "Western" music as you might understand it. It's just the state owned everything and they had no intention in paying dollars or pounds abroad for royalties. I hope that many clichés about the USSR will one day be proven wrong.
) Letov’s political views have always been just a way to express something more. In the crudest simplification we can say that his work is the embodiment of one of the defining qualities of Russian culture as a direct connection with the transcendent. Also, all his poetry is imbued with Christianity. He was baptized in Jordan in March 2000 2) The mother of one of his fellow gang members reported him. He was not in prison, he was under recognizance not to leave. But he was persuaded to confess to terrorist activities and he sent a note to his friends: “Under the pressure of Major Meshkov, I am forced to commit suicide.” The note was intercepted by the KGB and he was sent to a psychiatric hospital. It was November 1985. Later, after the psychiatric hospital, he participated in the first Novosibirsk rock festival with the group "Adolf Hitler" in April 1987. The public was shocked, but there was no immediate punishment. Returning to Omsk, he understood that this would take a couple of months. And in May-June 1987 he recorded 5 albums in a very short period of time. He is called to the psychiatric hospital. He understands that this is a trap and runs with his friend Yana Diaghileva (he met her in Novosibirsk at a rock festival) from the city to hitchhike throughout the country. He took reels of his albums with him and, staying with friends, made copies for distribution. By January 1988, the persecution was stopped and he returned home. 3) He became heavily involved in alcohol in 1991 after the death of his friend Yana Diaghileva. Until now, the mystery was whether it was suicide or murder. She drowned in the river. He dedicated his song Ophelia to her. And perhaps the lion's share of the album One Hundred Years of Solitude is dedicated to her. 4) With these x-rays, it's complete nonsense. Smuggling of records in the USSR has been very well established since the 70s. Records were sold on the black market in good quality, but were expensive. Letov even made money from their resale.
I have read only the "Lenin take" of yours, and that's enough. The phrase in the song goes like "daddy Lenin is completely dead, he dissoluted into mold and linden honey" -- where you saw the "rolling in his grave, because of soviet bureaucracy"? The rest of your post is not worth to even analyse.
I am so fucking happy rn, my favorite music youtuber made video about my favorite musician. It is shame tough you did not mentioed Egor I Opizdenevshie (Egor and fucked ups) Letov's band he formed after the GROB broke up. Their music was combination of psychedelic rock, noise rock and russian folk music.
About his ideology. He once said "in past I thought that I was an anarchist, now I now that I was the only true communist". He thought that USSR wasn't communism but just dictatorship that pretends to be communism
This is not a correct definition of who Letov was. It would be more correct to say that he was attracted to political extremism. He could called himself both an anarchist and a fascist. Closer to death, he seems like got tired of politics and went into spiritual matters/Christianity or something like that.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat. USSR never pretended to be communist, they always called themselves socialist. Communism was supposed to be the long term goal
Flexidiscs were a thing only in a short period of time in early 60s, people listened to music on magnetic tape in the 80s, that's also why early grob albums are exactly 30 minutes, so you could fit two on each side of standard tape reel at 7.5 inch speed
You mean the x-ray ones, in Russia? Flexi discs in general were a common giveaway with magazines all thru the 80s, into the 90s. And much longer in the punk scene. It was only really torrenting in the late 90s/early 00s that stopped flexis being a common thing. But I'm pretty sure there's some throwbacks STILL making paper magazines, with Flexi discs (but it's a rare gimmick, now. In the 80s and early 90s, every suburban newsagency had magazines with Flexi discs; Mostly music, sometimes weird stuff like instructions, interviews, etc. And up til PC's became standardized in the early 90s with the 386, a lot of computer games and software for early home computers like the Commodore 64, zx Spectrum etc were sometimes distributed on Flexi discs.
Смотря какие и как их понимать, потому что сам Летов в интервью редко пояснял их смысл и вовсе считал, что это делает творчество не интересным и не даëт слушателю интерпретировать сказанное, написанное, услышанное и увиденное по своему.
Fun fact: When the goverment said "Hey, what if we rename all those nameless airports in honor of some famous people who lived in that cities? That's might be awesome" The Omsk airport was suggested to be named after Letov, but his name was scrapped after he got in to the top. Also the minister of the culture told that "Narrow-minded and marginalized GrOb fans are not representing Omsk. All this commotion is just to gaining some cheap hype" and that naming an airport in honor of a person who is alive is a "poor taste"(Letov has been dead for 10 years at this point) Yes, the man who is responsible for art, cinema and herrritage is THAT dumb(Now Medinsky is in charge of the new stete-promoted history books). So in the parralel universe there is might be Egor Letov's Airport
Except the part where the then-Minister of Culture thought Letov was alive and thus it wasn't fitting to name the airport after a living person, I get and agree with his idea that Letov does not fully represent Omsk. That city has a long history that goes beyond him. He is worthy of having a street named after him though, or even a village or a small town.
Regardless of Mudinsky's incompetence, I generally don't think that naming an airport after Egor Letov would be a good idea. It would go against punk philosophy, don't you think?
@@d.whillmar1740 the f they gonna do? He's dead and doesn't care. That would be actually quite a masterful slap on the face of punk community. And I don't mean this as a bad thing, I'm all for punk, but it would really make things interesting if the Machine actively acknowledged the Punk and did something to spite it. Like currently and always the establishment was an enemy of the punk only passively, by the "virtue" of being bad and doing bad things. But what if some element of establishment went like "Well, you wouldn't like if we praised you now, would you?" P.s. it's not at all that deep and I'm just goofing around
Мы вышли за рамки людских представлений И даже представить себе не могли Что выше всех горестей, бед и мучений Мы будем под слоем промёрзшей земли Great video!!1!
Yegor Letov was not against the Soviet Union, he was against a totalitarian system dominating the USSR at the time. He stated that he is a communist multiple times, not just in the 90s, but also he mentioned that he was a communist for all his life
Btw, egor's letov father was some general. Because of that, they record album "Солдатский сон"("dream of soldier")in side-project "Коммунизм"("Communism") with army-folk songs in it. Letov never serve in the ussr or russian army, and that was confusing so much people, especially casual ussr guys, who was serving in the army, and listening his songs. My father thought he was some army musician.
if you're willing to check out letov's music, you should also try listening to his side project "Egor i Opizdenevshie", which he formed after GrOb's break up in early 90's. it was a transitional period in letov's sound, something between his 80's raw noise punk and his 00's shoegazy psych rock. so it has a unique blend of noise rock, psych rock and post-punk. their album "sto let odinochestva" ("one hundred years of solitude") has a status of underground classic (also highest rated russian rock album on rym) and it is probably the one album i would put on in my last hour
Great video. Nazbol Party was a complete postmodern irony at the time. One of its co-founders, Serghei Kuryohin, a legendary avant-garde jazz pianist, had been known for his intellectual pranks for years. Few years before it, he filmed a legendary documentary on still Soviet TV arguing how Lenin, by consuming amantia mushrooms, became a mushroom himself, and also a radiowave (because mushrooms are solid emobodimend of radiowaves, you see), and Soviet TV viewers either believe it, or were legitimately outraged. And the next year after he founded and immediately left the Nazbols alongside Letov, he was giving series of interviews on how he's now a founder of a behavioral paychology institute that turns people into cozy unthreatening bourgeouis with gnome garden statues. Nazbols started just like that. "What is the most ridiculous, outrageous, and self-contradictory party we can possibly create?" What happened was that among four founders of the Nazbol party, there were Dugin and Limonov. Limonov continued running it for a decade, actually successfully turning it into a popular movement and then a terrorist organization with chaos and protest as a sole goal. And Dugin became an ideologue the American edgy right wingers glorify as a mind behind Putin. All of that happened long after Letov left, though. As close to a vatnik as he became late in his life in his continuous quest to oppose whatever ideology Kremlin holds, he was no Nazbol.
@@knyazshyshkin He was. He came up with the idea. The confusion comes from Limonov holding the №2 party card (№1 was issued for the name of Joseph Stalin), and from Limonov leading the party ever since. But it was Kuryohin's idea nevertheless. It was an attempt to parody Serghey Zharikov, a conceptual rock band drummer turned campaign manager for Vladimir Zhirinovskiy in early 90s. The most details on the issue can be found in the Serghey and Egor Letov brothers legendary 2001 interview, the same one where they describe Dugin's bad trip where he got afraid of Kazakhtan swamp folk who worship a swamp cat and poison Russian people's air, if you know what I mean.
@@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659 he had nothing to do with creation of nbp. He was the first person to join after the partys creation. First 4 party cards were as follows in order: Dugin, Lomonov, Limonov's driver(Letov was very salty about this), Letov
Много напутано, не совсем все так верно, но что главное что Летов не был антисоветчиком НИКОГДА, он был против тех поздних застоев СССР, но он никогда не хотел распада своей страны в которой он родился и вырос, понимаю вам тяжело такое понять.
Да, еще как не понять. Этот кровавый гниющий котел противоречий уже не являлся страной ни для кого и развалился бы в любом случае. До этого застоя страна была хуже и безумнее, захваченная самопровозглашенными террористами, буквально главной угрозой для человечества после рейха, и наибольшая угроза была для самих граждан совка.
Underground music from eastern block countries such as USSR or Czechoslovakia can be the realest shit. It’s really hard to discover it even for me as native speaker, unlike most other music wchich only takes me few minutes to pull up the songs in good quality, it can take several hours to find listenable version of the songs from this era, but it’s still worth it.
I remember that era very well. My family owned a bunch of bootleg cassettes and records. And you're exaggerating the risks. End of 70-s and early 80-s was actually a rather toothless era for the Soviet Establishment. Letov was a pretty scandalous character, and I'm amazed at how little of the repressive apparatus was used against him compared to earlier Soviet "neformal" artists. The State simply had no concept of dealing with people like that, and in the end they basically concluded that these artists were mentally unsound or in the CP jargon "persons with diminished mental and social responsibility". A great example of what happened to people like that was Victor Tsoy and his band "Kino", who after a 2 week stint in a mental asylum (because he refused to serve as a conscript in the Soviet military) was released of his own reconnaissance, deemed mentally unfit and given a job with "reduced social responsibility" that is shoveling coal into the furnaces of the coal electric plant, working a 24 hour shift with 3 days of recuperation in between. As a "lightly mentally disabled" he was also freed from needing to pay his bus fare. In the early 50-s and early 60-s Letov would most likely be given a stern prison sentence of 4-5 years or so but he (and we the youth of early 80-s) were very lucky this was no longer the expected norm.
"that is shoveling coal into the furnaces of the coal electric plant" чел, кочегарами постоянно становились всякие поэты, художники и музыканты в СССР. Это не какая-то работа как наказание, а лакомая непыльная работенка для человека, у которого артистические амбиции выше карьерных. Бродский тоже кочегаром в бойлерной работал. Просто закинул несколько лопат в бойлер и сидишь себе стихи и песни фигачишь. Дворниками и сторожами тоже много кто по таким же причинам работал.
Letov about his work: "I am now saying quite soberly and sincerely: all my songs (or almost all of them) are about love, light, joy. That is, about what it feels like when it's not there. Or what it feels like when it is born in you, or rather, when it dies."
it's a nice surprise to see video about Letov in English. I've started to listen to his punk albums in my early teens and he's the only musician whose music stayed with me throughout the years unlike most of the bands I liked. I'm now in my 20s and listen to his late psychedelic albums since they're a lot more warm and cozy or his other projects like "Communism" and "Egor and Opiz*enevshie" which introduced me into russian bard rock where he's also considered a legend. So I think his late work deserves to be heard and it's sad that it's overlooked in this video. If you interested in other sibpunk figures then I recommend to listen to Пик Клаксон, Инструкция по выживанию, Черный Лукич or if you like his acoustic stuff then you should give Alexandr Bashlachev and Alexander Nepomnyaschi a try. sry for a long comment
His political ideology is actually in line with his songs. He said in an intervew that late USSR was nothing like the original communist idea, he thought that the ideals of Lenin were forgotten, and the Lenin himself was turned in a rotting tourist attraction (I don't quite remember the intervew so don't quote me on this)
Letov was in the National Bolschevik party with Edurad Limonov and Alexander Dugin. They were all fascinated by Hitler and fascist imperialist ideologies. There are videos here on RUclips of Letov giving an interview with a German Nazi flag behind him. Late Letov coming from a family of a military general was actually praising the goverment and also supporting Kremlin politics. To play alternative music in the USSR you had to be related to a certain family working in the institutions.
A few months before Letov's death, when he released his last album, he literally said in an interview: "On our previous album, we've done 200% of what we planned. On this album, 500% of what we planned." Maybe it was the best time for him to leave.
In general, translating from Russian to English considered a hard task (believe me, i had to translate multiple reports on neutron fluence for Korean nuclear institute). And after translating a scientific report or a comedic text you think: "Wow, that was hard". But then you look at something like "Who will die first?" or "Russian field of experiments" and you shoot yourself on a step of trying to understand, which words you can even use to write that down in english, you haven't even touched trying to save the meaning. But as a native speaker, i can say, that sometimes his songs don't having any meaning, but have a lot of ViIiBe. Vibe of cthonic fear and "toska", but a strong vibe nonetheless
i'm sorry but that nazbol party wasn't "a mix of bolshevism and nationalism" , letov was an anarchist, not anticommunist and you are politically illiterate. Nazbol party was a kitsch postmodern performative party
thank you very much for this video! I'm hope that sometimes you can tell the history of АукцЫон (or "Auction"). It is fantastic band which play experimental, alternative and psychedelic (!!!) rock in USSR(since 1978 !!!!). I'm from Russia, but it is blow my mind that it was happend) They are still playing their songs and have very sophisticated music and lirics. Just try to find their perfomanse. Garcusha's \ Гаркуша dances in jacket with epaulettes are signature of the band)
bro thank you! i discovered grazhdanskaya oborona over 15 years ago. several years later i tried finding it again and i couldnt find it anywhere because i couldnt remember how the bands name was spelled nor could i remember yegors name. thanks again
Rock was not unpopular in USSR. There were even official releases of many bands like Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and many others. Some were streamed on radio and western music was not illegal and spread out freely on cassette, tape or vinyl.
wow, first video on english about my favorite singer, its super pleasantly to see this! I think you should have mentioned about his albums "sto let odinochestva"(hundred years of loneliness) and "prug-skok"(idk how to translate), that he wrote after death of his first beloved Yanka Dyagileva. imho,his best albums, with very good arrangements anyway, thanks for the video!
In Hungary two punk bands went to the jail for long years the CPg (1983)originally from the city of Szeged (near by Serbain part of Yugoslavian border) , and the Közellenség ( Public Enemy in English) (next year the orwellian 1984) from city of Veszprém (near by lake Balaton). The second band hadn't too much gigs, and recognizable lyrics by the way so that was clearly communist style conceptional lawsuit against them. CPg openly had critize the one party system style dictatorship, yes youngsters that was real dictatorship. Also the singer of CPg called Güzü was in a mental hospital when he come out the jail. Unfortunatly I had not finished our punk documentary, but very similar story of his life was in a 2021 Hungarian movie called 'Erase Frank'. That was watchable on Netflix too. The CPg did not got nothing financial recognition for those interesting similarities. The CPg had an old documetary from 1999 and the Közellenség too a few years later.
Thank you for making such a video! Letov's music and story surely deserves much more attention. His heritage tends to be underappreciated in Russia, which is not surprising because of his rebelous nature. Regime mainly promotes propaganda music and control/censor everything else in nowadays Russia. Therefore there are many great musicians being claimed as 'foreign agents', which is not surprising as well. Anyway, peace and love from Siberia!
Funny enough those lyrics weren't actually poking fun at Lenin but criticising what the ussr had turned into, which was far different from what lenin had envisioned
Нихуя себе, смотрю тебя уже давно, не думал что об этом когда-нибудь напишешь, truly incredible work, thank you for spreading the culture, ngl, you are the best
Guys, you still don't know the truth about Tolyatti. Letov came to perform there with his GrOb. They came, got in, and then he went out to walk around the city, alone. He was walking down the street, and our local punks came towards him. - Stop, they said. - What are you doing, pretending to be Letov? - Guys, I am Letov, punks hoy! - Oh, and you're also lying?! Anyway, they beat up Yegorka. In the evening, he comes out on stage at the concert, his face all smashed. He takes the microphone and says: - I'll never come to your shitty city again!
i want to add some fanfacts his real name is Igor, but he takes scene name Egor because he think Egor is silly and stupid name. first his scene name was Egor Dokhliy (dokhliy is mean dead or deadlike. he was so skinny in young age). he also hated the fact that in one time his band was gaining popularity so the band decide to play with dirty sound that would be hard to listen to. Egor loved cats and cactuses. I remember seeing my dad's GrOb records as a child and the covers were striking in their intricacy
Спасибо за видео! Было крайне приятно увидеть видео о нас, от вас, даже в такое время! Знаете как приятно осознавать, что тебя не всё ненавидят? Это многого стоит. ( + Здесь не совсем раскрывается контекст песней Летова, как например фразы "Ленин гниёт в своём мавзолее". ) Спасибо, что выслушали. I'm very sorry, that i didn't write this on English. Thanks very much again for video:)
Small correction: in the end of the 70s-early 80s USSR there's much more prevalent not to make illegal copies of Western music, but illegal trading of originals, brought by foriengers, and Letov's brother made money out of this activity X-ray copies were much more earlier. In the 50s and 60s in USSR.
When I heard Letov in 1990, I realized that it was forever! For me, a Soviet schoolboy, it was a discovery that greatly influenced my life! I picked up the guitar. I learned to sing. Some aspects of my worldview were formed thanks to the songs and personality of Egor himself. His works carry a powerful message and will be eternally relevant in this looking-glass world! Thank you! A man named Igor Letov!
0:55 very good band called : 'Zero' (Nol') that's one of my favourite bands on this moment, because of using accordion as one of the main instruments (then balaika too) mixed it in a appropriate way - it's sounds fantastic!
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And yeah, i remembered reading some info, that he recorded 3 FUCKING ALBUMS. NOT SONGS. 3 ALBUMS IN 1 NIGHT. Its like WHOLE Nirvana discography
erhm, actually, he recorded 3 albums in 3 days☝🤓(first day - drums, second - bass and rhythm guitar, third - vocals and solo) but that's still impressive
@@kotpar-pw4xp but acthulahyyy
In the 80s he used to be very prolific. In 1989 he recorded six albums with GrOb, ten albums for his side project "Kommunizm" with other GrOb members, and produced albums of other Siberian punk groups and musicians.
Also note that unlike Nirvana, Letov recorded his albums on consumer-grade recording equipment inside his home studio. Well into the 90s his neighbors would complain about noise coming from his flat.
Kurt was a half-asser
This happened because he was fleeing from the KGB. When he and Yanka Dyagileva ran away from the city and traveled a lot, he wrote poems and songs on the road. By the time a relatively safe opportunity to return home appeared, he had already made albums based on his notes. In one song, he writes a funny line where he says that all the songs sound the same because he recorded them as quickly as possible.
Printing records with old x-ray images is dope as hell. I’m surprised western bands like Carcass never tried it
back in the days of print media, magazines would often have flexi-discs of promotional tunes tucked in the centerfold. Carcass probably printed a couple for the British rags. The thing is, XRays fade really quick from the light, so the graphics may suffer.
@@MSHNKTRLDecibel Magazine still does flexi
Why would Carcass try it 😂 they’re in the UK and freely had access to equipment. The ones made from X rays sound horrendous and only last for a few spins. They’re also loose and floppy and more expensive unless you’re stealing the materials.
@@PlutoTheGod just bc its cool and morbid
Or Crass
He is unironically one of the greatest punks ever, not just in Russia. Sadly almost unknown in the west, even compared to someone like Tsoi.
Well, Letov's music is much harder to understand than Tsoi's, even by Russian speaking, let alone by those who don't know the language. For example, a phrase like "eternity smells of oil" and the question of eternity and death itself is a reference to "Crime and punishment" (Svidrigailov's monologue about "eternity" being a small room filled with spiders). And that is only one phrase from a 13 minute song lol. Letov's music contains many similar references to russian and soviet formal and non-formal culture, and that is something not always interesting for someone outside Russian-speaking world.
"Русское поле экспериментов" Песня на 10 минут 😂
14 минут 15 секунд в версии из одноимённого альбома. И я тебе открою, видимо, секрет, у очень многих групп существуют разные записи песен, отличающиеся по длине, исполнению и даже, иногда, тексту. И, чувак, тебе реально больше нечего было сказать?
Цой не был панком, вообще даже никогда
@@BrobjeV, ну, не знаю насчёт этого. Он как минимум был первым басистом в группе Автоматические Удовлетворители, и это в принципе была его первая группа)
This video dropped on the 34th anniversary of Viktor Tsoi’s death, rest in peace Letov and Tsoi
Damn it's today? Now I feel bad
Rest in Peace Tsoi!
Цой Жив!
Dam what legends RIP
Tsoi shoked on madzo
In fact, if you place Yegor Letov in political coordinates, it will look like 4 swastikas in 4 quarters.
Rainbow 🌈 swastikas by any chance?
@@Eminovici ones in the liberal half
I really want to argue with this but I can't
"I fly outside of all realms"
I like how this is about a punk band and how they were living under such's repression and its "i cant say this or that or this... and cant say this in youtube".
The irony
They don't get it yet :)
state authoritarianism vs corporate authoritarianism 😁👍
If you can read Russian, treat yourself with Letov's lyrics. It's a schizo word soup which somehow manages to be just barely meaningful, yet hitting hard emotionally.
Did he write that song called "god is my slave"?
I tried to understand letov’s lyrics I couldn’t make sense of it, though if you look at the lyrics to Без меня I interpreted as a person who knows that they’re dying and that the lyric and the/my world runs away, it runs far away without looking back as the person they loved that didn’t reciprocate back or that the person is moving on to the afterlife but that’s my opinion.
@@Cdcollector97У Летова много песен, что были сделаны из фраз из книг и фильмов, а также написанные после впечатлений. Поэтому Русское Поле и является до сих пор не разобранным текстом.
@@questionsfrog1918 hm, I don't know this one.
@@Cdcollector97 Letov's lyrics are hard to translate. There is very free approach to language at play. Impressionistic word-painting. He would use certain words just for their ring or use clusters of words to convey one certain meaning or emotion. Sometimes it was meant to be nonsense. He was into early 20th century avantgarde, Russian futurists... He referred to some of his early lyrics as "absurdist".
fun fact: 1:55 that format of disks made from x-ray films was nicknamed "музыка на костях" or "музыка на рёбрах" which means "music on bones" or "music on ribs"
That’s cool as fuck damn
@@alicelittle2516 Cool, but actually kinda low quality kind of record. Those degraded really fast unlike vinyl.
bro was the embodiment of “ never let them know your next move “
His political beliefs? depends who he is trolling today
bro was persecuted by the kgb and the soviet party, put in a mental hospital, almost lobotomized, and years later after the fall of the union really said "nah they weren't that bad we should try it again"
Its kinda his mood because he even a have song "I'll always be against" wich many ppl think against any gov and system that he live on.
He said in one of his interviews that "real communism is heaven on earth" and called the USSR a failed project.
If he didn't have an enemy to fight then he would lose all relegancy. That's a classic musician move.
That’s cause what replaced it was even more shit
To be fair Russia experienced a massive collapse in living standards afterwards.
Its so bizzare feeling to listen about him from english speaking person while being russian, great vid!!
yea thats so crazy because one is English and one is Russian that is like the opposite
@@Person0fColor Im russian by the way, from Russia, me, Im from Russia and actually.................
the funniest thing about Letov is that he HAD NO political views. He was just against everything and everyone. On one day he could be communist, and on another he hated communism.
Anyway, love from Russia!
I like his way of thinking
From what I’ve heard he was an anarchist which makes sense. He became more of an eco-anarchist in his later years, also I’m pretty sure he said a fan asked him if there was any new music coming soon after his final 2007 album: why do we have dreams? shortly before he passed he said that he used up his creativity and that there were to be no more music coming from him. Fun fact: the album: why do we have dreams? was inspired by a bad lsd trip he experienced and used that for the entire album.
Ну не верно. Он только после нацбола отказался от полит. идей, а до этого был националистом.
@@Cdcollector97That’s not right. He was a national Bolshevik party supporter and founder.
that's what it is all about 🤘
Egor Letov is, in my opinion, one of the most punk mofos that ever lived
cringe
@@92GreyBlue lyrics in his songs alone elevate him above your average punk mofo.
@@BizarreThing Average punk mofos are mindless followers so you're probably right.
@@BizarreThing B A S E D
Being a punk in communist country, is enough.
Some considerations. 1) The phrase "Lenin is rotting in the mausoleum" has the meaning of "turning over in his grave", therefore he was not attacking Lenin, but rather the corrupt Soviet bureaucracy. Also because as a young man Letov created portraits of Lenin in schools and offices. In fact Letov basically remained a communist, more specifically a sort of anarco-communist, although extremely critical of establishment, especially in the disastrous post-Soviet years. He embraced neutral political views only towards the end of his life. 2) The fact that his mother had reported him to the KGB is still without any source, it is more likely that she had turned to the authorities because he had run away from home - a fact later transformed into a "report to the KGB". Ditto for the "terrorist attack". No source. 3) Admission to psychiatric hospital and heavy treatments were a common practice for "restless" subjects (let's not forget that Letov was an alcoholic) but it was not necessarily due to political reasons - they were common practice in all Europe and US. Letov himself said regarding what he had experienced that "those practices were the same in America too." This fact is omitted in the video. 4) The practice of making discs from x-ray plates was not due to prohibitions, but to the cost and limited availability of the tapes in the 60s. In the 70's and 80's reel-to-reel and then cassette tapes became diffused in USSR too - still they were more expensive than "x-ray records". These tapes made their way all over the USSR. Official records were never enough to satisfy demand, so tapes and x-ray records were how people obtained this music. There was no complete ban on "Western" music as you might understand it. It's just the state owned everything and they had no intention in paying dollars or pounds abroad for royalties. I hope that many clichés about the USSR will one day be proven wrong.
) Letov’s political views have always been just a way to express something more. In the crudest simplification we can say that his work is the embodiment of one of the defining qualities of Russian culture as a direct connection with the transcendent. Also, all his poetry is imbued with Christianity. He was baptized in Jordan in March 2000 2) The mother of one of his fellow gang members reported him. He was not in prison, he was under recognizance not to leave. But he was persuaded to confess to terrorist activities and he sent a note to his friends: “Under the pressure of Major Meshkov, I am forced to commit suicide.” The note was intercepted by the KGB and he was sent to a psychiatric hospital. It was November 1985. Later, after the psychiatric hospital, he participated in the first Novosibirsk rock festival with the group "Adolf Hitler" in April 1987. The public was shocked, but there was no immediate punishment. Returning to Omsk, he understood that this would take a couple of months. And in May-June 1987 he recorded 5 albums in a very short period of time. He is called to the psychiatric hospital. He understands that this is a trap and runs with his friend Yana Diaghileva (he met her in Novosibirsk at a rock festival) from the city to hitchhike throughout the country. He took reels of his albums with him and, staying with friends, made copies for distribution. By January 1988, the persecution was stopped and he returned home. 3) He became heavily involved in alcohol in 1991 after the death of his friend Yana Diaghileva. Until now, the mystery was whether it was suicide or murder. She drowned in the river. He dedicated his song Ophelia to her. And perhaps the lion's share of the album One Hundred Years of Solitude is dedicated to her. 4) With these x-rays, it's complete nonsense. Smuggling of records in the USSR has been very well established since the 70s. Records were sold on the black market in good quality, but were expensive. Letov even made money from their resale.
I have read only the "Lenin take" of yours, and that's enough.
The phrase in the song goes like "daddy Lenin is completely dead, he dissoluted into mold and linden honey" -- where you saw the "rolling in his grave, because of soviet bureaucracy"?
The rest of your post is not worth to even analyse.
@@ПророкМухоед Dont know about his lenin take, but Letov was without a doubt a staunch Soviet patriot.
From what I understand he was an anarchist.
@@eris_irise Not uncommon for Russians to have schizo belief combinations
Я был на его концерте в Ставрополе в 2006году. Это было охрененно крутое выступление. Егор покойся с миром.
panki hoi !
I am so fucking happy rn, my favorite music youtuber made video about my favorite musician. It is shame tough you did not mentioed Egor I Opizdenevshie (Egor and fucked ups) Letov's band he formed after the GROB broke up. Their music was combination of psychedelic rock, noise rock and russian folk music.
Agreed
Sto let odinochestva is literally the best fucking album
@@alexkior Sto let odinochestva is my favorite album, it is so fucking great
❤❤❤
"fucked ups" doesn't convey the whole meaning of "Опизденевшие". it's something like "the completely and utterly fucked ups"
About his ideology. He once said "in past I thought that I was an anarchist, now I now that I was the only true communist". He thought that USSR wasn't communism but just dictatorship that pretends to be communism
Many communists at the time also thought so
Typical whitewashing xD
Aren't they all? Socialism, communism never works. Not for the masses at least..
This is not a correct definition of who Letov was. It would be more correct to say that he was attracted to political extremism. He could called himself both an anarchist and a fascist. Closer to death, he seems like got tired of politics and went into spiritual matters/Christianity or something like that.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat. USSR never pretended to be communist, they always called themselves socialist. Communism was supposed to be the long term goal
Любимый исполнитель, недавно видел его, когда гулял по лесу
Патлатого корейца видел?
Дурачок что-ли?
Flexidiscs were a thing only in a short period of time in early 60s, people listened to music on magnetic tape in the 80s, that's also why early grob albums are exactly 30 minutes, so you could fit two on each side of standard tape reel at 7.5 inch speed
You mean the x-ray ones, in Russia? Flexi discs in general were a common giveaway with magazines all thru the 80s, into the 90s. And much longer in the punk scene. It was only really torrenting in the late 90s/early 00s that stopped flexis being a common thing.
But I'm pretty sure there's some throwbacks STILL making paper magazines, with Flexi discs (but it's a rare gimmick, now. In the 80s and early 90s, every suburban newsagency had magazines with Flexi discs; Mostly music, sometimes weird stuff like instructions, interviews, etc. And up til PC's became standardized in the early 90s with the 386, a lot of computer games and software for early home computers like the Commodore 64, zx Spectrum etc were sometimes distributed on Flexi discs.
Hell yeah! Letov is one of my favorite musicians from Russia. His songs are relevant to this day.
Смотря какие и как их понимать, потому что сам Летов в интервью редко пояснял их смысл и вовсе считал, что это делает творчество не интересным и не даëт слушателю интерпретировать сказанное, написанное, услышанное и увиденное по своему.
I'm sorry for you
Fun fact:
When the goverment said "Hey, what if we rename all those nameless airports in honor of some famous people who lived in that cities? That's might be awesome" The Omsk airport was suggested to be named after Letov, but his name was scrapped after he got in to the top. Also the minister of the culture told that "Narrow-minded and marginalized GrOb fans are not representing Omsk. All this commotion is just to gaining some cheap hype" and that naming an airport in honor of a person who is alive is a "poor taste"(Letov has been dead for 10 years at this point) Yes, the man who is responsible for art, cinema and herrritage is THAT dumb(Now Medinsky is in charge of the new stete-promoted history books).
So in the parralel universe there is might be Egor Letov's Airport
Except the part where the then-Minister of Culture thought Letov was alive and thus it wasn't fitting to name the airport after a living person, I get and agree with his idea that Letov does not fully represent Omsk. That city has a long history that goes beyond him. He is worthy of having a street named after him though, or even a village or a small town.
Medinsky once said that Russians are a unique people because they have an extra chromosome. He is also the author of a school history textbook.
There is a kommunizm song that's called "Letov International Airport", by the way
Regardless of Mudinsky's incompetence, I generally don't think that naming an airport after Egor Letov would be a good idea. It would go against punk philosophy, don't you think?
@@d.whillmar1740 the f they gonna do? He's dead and doesn't care. That would be actually quite a masterful slap on the face of punk community. And I don't mean this as a bad thing, I'm all for punk, but it would really make things interesting if the Machine actively acknowledged the Punk and did something to spite it. Like currently and always the establishment was an enemy of the punk only passively, by the "virtue" of being bad and doing bad things. But what if some element of establishment went like "Well, you wouldn't like if we praised you now, would you?"
P.s. it's not at all that deep and I'm just goofing around
He was never anticommunist. He was anti late USSR which he viewed as an embodiment of betrayal of Lenin ideas. He said it in his interviews.
Мы вышли за рамки людских представлений
И даже представить себе не могли
Что выше всех горестей, бед и мучений
Мы будем под слоем промёрзшей земли
Great video!!1!
Очень глубокие строчки на самом деле...
Yegor Letov was not against the Soviet Union, he was against a totalitarian system dominating the USSR at the time. He stated that he is a communist multiple times, not just in the 90s, but also he mentioned that he was a communist for all his life
Totalitarian system = communism.
He was nazbol
@@leepictroll643 yeah, but who at some point in their lives didn't get involved in some weird stuff anyways? bc he eventually left this organization
Idk, in Все идёт по плану he doesn't sound supportive of communism at all
@@nothingwrong2293 he didn't support the thing the USSR became over time, not the ideology
Btw, egor's letov father was some general. Because of that, they record album "Солдатский сон"("dream of soldier")in side-project "Коммунизм"("Communism") with army-folk songs in it. Letov never serve in the ussr or russian army, and that was confusing so much people, especially casual ussr guys, who was serving in the army, and listening his songs. My father thought he was some army musician.
If I'm not mistaken I remember reading about Letov being forcibly conscripted because of his music and that he was released from it around 1987.
@@parasatc8183No, Letov was sent to a mental hospital, and one of the group members was sent to serve by force in Baikonur
Always nice to see foreigners talk about GrOb. Cheers
if you're willing to check out letov's music, you should also try listening to his side project "Egor i Opizdenevshie", which he formed after GrOb's break up in early 90's.
it was a transitional period in letov's sound, something between his 80's raw noise punk and his 00's shoegazy psych rock. so it has a unique blend of noise rock, psych rock and post-punk.
their album "sto let odinochestva" ("one hundred years of solitude") has a status of underground classic (also highest rated russian rock album on rym) and it is probably the one album i would put on in my last hour
I was mega obsessed with that side project a few months back
Great video.
Nazbol Party was a complete postmodern irony at the time. One of its co-founders, Serghei Kuryohin, a legendary avant-garde jazz pianist, had been known for his intellectual pranks for years.
Few years before it, he filmed a legendary documentary on still Soviet TV arguing how Lenin, by consuming amantia mushrooms, became a mushroom himself, and also a radiowave (because mushrooms are solid emobodimend of radiowaves, you see), and Soviet TV viewers either believe it, or were legitimately outraged.
And the next year after he founded and immediately left the Nazbols alongside Letov, he was giving series of interviews on how he's now a founder of a behavioral paychology institute that turns people into cozy unthreatening bourgeouis with gnome garden statues.
Nazbols started just like that. "What is the most ridiculous, outrageous, and self-contradictory party we can possibly create?"
What happened was that among four founders of the Nazbol party, there were Dugin and Limonov. Limonov continued running it for a decade, actually successfully turning it into a popular movement and then a terrorist organization with chaos and protest as a sole goal.
And Dugin became an ideologue the American edgy right wingers glorify as a mind behind Putin.
All of that happened long after Letov left, though. As close to a vatnik as he became late in his life in his continuous quest to oppose whatever ideology Kremlin holds, he was no Nazbol.
Kuryohin wasn't the main founder though, it was Limonov.
@@knyazshyshkin He was. He came up with the idea. The confusion comes from Limonov holding the №2 party card (№1 was issued for the name of Joseph Stalin), and from Limonov leading the party ever since.
But it was Kuryohin's idea nevertheless. It was an attempt to parody Serghey Zharikov, a conceptual rock band drummer turned campaign manager for Vladimir Zhirinovskiy in early 90s.
The most details on the issue can be found in the Serghey and Egor Letov brothers legendary 2001 interview, the same one where they describe Dugin's bad trip where he got afraid of Kazakhtan swamp folk who worship a swamp cat and poison Russian people's air, if you know what I mean.
@@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659
Thanks for the reply. Will look that interview up.
@@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659 he had nothing to do with creation of nbp. He was the first person to join after the partys creation. First 4 party cards were as follows in order: Dugin, Lomonov, Limonov's driver(Letov was very salty about this), Letov
Не Курехин, а Лимонов.
now that's a real fuckin punk
no, he is not
@@KirylKrotky then what the fuck is a punk to you bro
9:14 It was called "Адольф Гитлер" for anyone wondering.
ООО БЛЯ БАЗА ПОДЬЕХАЛА!!! Love from Russia
🚀
Гоооооооооол
СЮДЫЫЫЫААА
The UK probably needs a musician like this right now
?
To be against socialist party?
Seems no one can see how authoritarian the current UK government has become, judging by the other two replies.
@@HeroSword_P Nowhere near as authoritarian as USSR.
@@bennymountain1 I don't remember USSR banning cutlery knives, with all honesty
This band is fucking based. ~From Serbia
Pozz brate Srbine
GG Alin got nothing on this fucking madlad ✊✊✊
Edwin Borsheim.
GG would give this guy HIV
@@ItzBruce-po2bvRIP Ed
Много напутано, не совсем все так верно, но что главное что Летов не был антисоветчиком НИКОГДА, он был против тех поздних застоев СССР, но он никогда не хотел распада своей страны в которой он родился и вырос, понимаю вам тяжело такое понять.
Да, еще как не понять. Этот кровавый гниющий котел противоречий уже не являлся страной ни для кого и развалился бы в любом случае. До этого застоя страна была хуже и безумнее, захваченная самопровозглашенными террористами, буквально главной угрозой для человечества после рейха, и наибольшая угроза была для самих граждан совка.
@@orgax все сказал?
@@orgax такое ощущение, что это написал школьник, которому влили понос в голову про СССР и теперь ходит по инету разбрызгивая говно
@@schlangen7889 Только школьники могут нагуглить историю совка?
@@orgaxpropaganda
Underground music from eastern block countries such as USSR or Czechoslovakia can be the realest shit. It’s really hard to discover it even for me as native speaker, unlike most other music wchich only takes me few minutes to pull up the songs in good quality, it can take several hours to find listenable version of the songs from this era, but it’s still worth it.
Czechoslovakia mentioned
Where can it be found ?
@@juanvaldez5422 search for a blog "muzika komunika", good start
Today is the anniversary of Viktor Tsoi’s passing, another important mf in Soviet music history. RIP Tsoi and RIP Letov
I needed this so much since im literally obsessed with Letov and all of his projects
Wish you mentioned Егор и Опизденевшие and Коммунизм tho
Illegal vinyl made out of x-ray prints is the most metal and cool thing ever
they were called "Music on the bones"
@@MisterIncog я знаю)
@@RolandVaVa дэээ музыка на костях. Ну пусть иностранцы тоже образовываются
I remember that era very well. My family owned a bunch of bootleg cassettes and records. And you're exaggerating the risks. End of 70-s and early 80-s was actually a rather toothless era for the Soviet Establishment. Letov was a pretty scandalous character, and I'm amazed at how little of the repressive apparatus was used against him compared to earlier Soviet "neformal" artists. The State simply had no concept of dealing with people like that, and in the end they basically concluded that these artists were mentally unsound or in the CP jargon "persons with diminished mental and social responsibility". A great example of what happened to people like that was Victor Tsoy and his band "Kino", who after a 2 week stint in a mental asylum (because he refused to serve as a conscript in the Soviet military) was released of his own reconnaissance, deemed mentally unfit and given a job with "reduced social responsibility" that is shoveling coal into the furnaces of the coal electric plant, working a 24 hour shift with 3 days of recuperation in between. As a "lightly mentally disabled" he was also freed from needing to pay his bus fare. In the early 50-s and early 60-s Letov would most likely be given a stern prison sentence of 4-5 years or so but he (and we the youth of early 80-s) were very lucky this was no longer the expected norm.
"that is shoveling coal into the furnaces of the coal electric plant" чел, кочегарами постоянно становились всякие поэты, художники и музыканты в СССР. Это не какая-то работа как наказание, а лакомая непыльная работенка для человека, у которого артистические амбиции выше карьерных. Бродский тоже кочегаром в бойлерной работал. Просто закинул несколько лопат в бойлер и сидишь себе стихи и песни фигачишь. Дворниками и сторожами тоже много кто по таким же причинам работал.
Отличная работа, друг!
Letov about his work:
"I am now saying quite soberly and sincerely: all my songs (or almost all of them) are about love, light, joy. That is, about what it feels like when it's not there. Or what it feels like when it is born in you, or rather, when it dies."
it's a nice surprise to see video about Letov in English. I've started to listen to his punk albums in my early teens and he's the only musician whose music stayed with me throughout the years unlike most of the bands I liked. I'm now in my 20s and listen to his late psychedelic albums since they're a lot more warm and cozy or his other projects like "Communism" and "Egor and Opiz*enevshie" which introduced me into russian bard rock where he's also considered a legend. So I think his late work deserves to be heard and it's sad that it's overlooked in this video. If you interested in other sibpunk figures then I recommend to listen to Пик Клаксон, Инструкция по выживанию, Черный Лукич or if you like his acoustic stuff then you should give Alexandr Bashlachev and Alexander Nepomnyaschi a try. sry for a long comment
Lenin rotting in his grave sounds like a reflection on what was done to what he was trying to build
His political ideology is actually in line with his songs. He said in an intervew that late USSR was nothing like the original communist idea, he thought that the ideals of Lenin were forgotten, and the Lenin himself was turned in a rotting tourist attraction (I don't quite remember the intervew so don't quote me on this)
Letov was in the National Bolschevik party with Edurad Limonov and Alexander Dugin. They were all fascinated by Hitler and fascist imperialist ideologies. There are videos here on RUclips of Letov giving an interview with a German Nazi flag behind him. Late Letov coming from a family of a military general was actually praising the goverment and also supporting Kremlin politics. To play alternative music in the USSR you had to be related to a certain family working in the institutions.
Thank you Letov for helping create a cool bug.
I'm from Serbia, never heard of him. Deeply grateful for his activism against NATO bombing '99.
Peace to all!
A few months before Letov's death, when he released his last album, he literally said in an interview:
"On our previous album, we've done 200% of what we planned. On this album, 500% of what we planned."
Maybe it was the best time for him to leave.
Spoken like a true communist
Летов это один из тех самых людей которыми ещё долго будут восхищаться, такие люди рождаются раз в 100 лет.
Hello from Belarus! :P
In general, translating from Russian to English considered a hard task (believe me, i had to translate multiple reports on neutron fluence for Korean nuclear institute). And after translating a scientific report or a comedic text you think: "Wow, that was hard". But then you look at something like "Who will die first?" or "Russian field of experiments" and you shoot yourself on a step of trying to understand, which words you can even use to write that down in english, you haven't even touched trying to save the meaning. But as a native speaker, i can say, that sometimes his songs don't having any meaning, but have a lot of ViIiBe. Vibe of cthonic fear and "toska", but a strong vibe nonetheless
one of the greatest of all time
i'm so glad that one of my favorite bands from my own country is recognized by foreign youtubers
Someone needs to turn this into a documentary
EGOR LETOV MY BELOVEDED
i'm sorry but that nazbol party wasn't "a mix of bolshevism and nationalism" , letov was an anarchist, not anticommunist and you are politically illiterate. Nazbol party was a kitsch postmodern performative party
Massive video. Just added some new music to my playlists!
thank you very much for this video! I'm hope that sometimes you can tell the history of АукцЫон (or "Auction").
It is fantastic band which play experimental, alternative and psychedelic (!!!) rock in USSR(since 1978 !!!!). I'm from Russia, but it is blow my mind that it was happend) They are still playing their songs and have very sophisticated music and lirics.
Just try to find their perfomanse. Garcusha's \ Гаркуша dances in jacket with epaulettes are signature of the band)
I'm in the former USSR (Tallinn, Estonia). This is your best video mate! Awesome job!
Наш человек)
bro thank you! i discovered grazhdanskaya oborona over 15 years ago. several years later i tried finding it again and i couldnt find it anywhere because i couldnt remember how the bands name was spelled nor could i remember yegors name. thanks again
Rock was not unpopular in USSR. There were even official releases of many bands like Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and many others. Some were streamed on radio and western music was not illegal and spread out freely on cassette, tape or vinyl.
glad more people are finding abt egor
I’m totally unable to eat lunch without Coolea yapping in the background
wow, first video on english about my favorite singer, its super pleasantly to see this!
I think you should have mentioned about his albums "sto let odinochestva"(hundred years of loneliness) and "prug-skok"(idk how to translate), that he wrote after death of his first beloved Yanka Dyagileva. imho,his best albums, with very good arrangements
anyway, thanks for the video!
In Hungary two punk bands went to the jail for long years the CPg (1983)originally from the city of Szeged (near by Serbain part of Yugoslavian border) , and the Közellenség ( Public Enemy in English) (next year the orwellian 1984) from city of Veszprém (near by lake Balaton). The second band hadn't too much gigs, and recognizable lyrics by the way so that was clearly communist style conceptional lawsuit against them. CPg openly had critize the one party system style dictatorship, yes youngsters that was real dictatorship. Also the singer of CPg called Güzü was in a mental hospital when he come out the jail. Unfortunatly I had not finished our punk documentary, but very similar story of his life was in a 2021 Hungarian movie called 'Erase Frank'. That was watchable on Netflix too. The CPg did not got nothing financial recognition for those interesting similarities.
The CPg had an old documetary from 1999 and the Közellenség too a few years later.
Based. Hi from Novosibirsk
так он в тайге живет все еще, вы че
да, с Цоем
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I've seen other vids on this guy he's the definition of punk
Thank you for making such a video! Letov's music and story surely deserves much more attention. His heritage tends to be underappreciated in Russia, which is not surprising because of his rebelous nature.
Regime mainly promotes propaganda music and control/censor everything else in nowadays Russia. Therefore there are many great musicians being claimed as 'foreign agents', which is not surprising as well.
Anyway, peace and love from Siberia!
Good documentary about a topic i'm interested in, neat
It's nice to know that some musicians from my country have made so much noise that even abroad they have become known
He's a real one
I can't tell if it's because of stupidity or bravery, but he's a real one regardless
Bro wrote a song about Lennin rotting in his coffin in the feckin USSR hahahaha what a megachad.
Funny enough those lyrics weren't actually poking fun at Lenin but criticising what the ussr had turned into, which was far different from what lenin had envisioned
L decomposed on a mold and honey
Тогда шла Перестройка и такие песни не были чем-то за гранью возможного
Thank you for this video. It also worth mentioning Egor I Opizdenevshie and Yanka Dyagileva's art.
this is a great channel. great voice. sounds like that top5 mystery guy that used to be around.
His voice, intonation, lyrics literally burn into memory
I love to see recognition for this guy, he deserves it. Greatest punk musician in my opinion
Crodie got nuked so many times that he became a punk
Happy birthday legend!
great video topic! Letov is one of the greats, fucking legend.
Please make the voice louder, can't hear a thing on my shitty laptop while munching biscuits. Great edits!
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Нихуя себе, смотрю тебя уже давно, не думал что об этом когда-нибудь напишешь, truly incredible work, thank you for spreading the culture, ngl, you are the best
im so glad ive learned of this guy
For a lot of Russian punks Letov became an icon.
Great video, privet from Siberia.
The gf briefly mentioned was Yanka and she had her own heavy sound and strange life...
Fav GROB track will always be poperek
Guys, you still don't know the truth about Tolyatti. Letov came to perform there with his GrOb. They came, got in, and then he went out to walk around the city, alone. He was walking down the street, and our local punks came towards him.
- Stop, they said. - What are you doing, pretending to be Letov?
- Guys, I am Letov, punks hoy!
- Oh, and you're also lying?!
Anyway, they beat up Yegorka. In the evening, he comes out on stage at the concert, his face all smashed. He takes the microphone and says:
- I'll never come to your shitty city again!
i want to add some fanfacts
his real name is Igor, but he takes scene name Egor because he think Egor is silly and stupid name. first his scene name was Egor Dokhliy (dokhliy is mean dead or deadlike. he was so skinny in young age). he also hated the fact that in one time his band was gaining popularity so the band decide to play with dirty sound that would be hard to listen to. Egor loved cats and cactuses.
I remember seeing my dad's GrOb records as a child and the covers were striking in their intricacy
I don’t know if this fits with the rest of your content, but I’d love it if you could cover Yuri Hoi and the band Sektor Gaza.
Your video editing is beautiful like a snot on the wall
Спасибо за видео! Было крайне приятно увидеть видео о нас, от вас, даже в такое время! Знаете как приятно осознавать, что тебя не всё ненавидят? Это многого стоит. ( + Здесь не совсем раскрывается контекст песней Летова, как например фразы "Ленин гниёт в своём мавзолее". )
Спасибо, что выслушали.
I'm very sorry, that i didn't write this on English. Thanks very much again for video:)
Small correction: in the end of the 70s-early 80s USSR there's much more prevalent not to make illegal copies of Western music, but illegal trading of originals, brought by foriengers, and Letov's brother made money out of this activity
X-ray copies were much more earlier. In the 50s and 60s in USSR.
I've been a fan of Letov's music for a while, glad people in the us start to appreciate him as well!
you should check out Gorki Águila, he’s basically this guy but for cuba! very cool punk rock musician
When I heard Letov in 1990, I realized that it was forever! For me, a Soviet schoolboy, it was a discovery that greatly influenced my life! I picked up the guitar. I learned to sing. Some aspects of my worldview were formed thanks to the songs and personality of Egor himself. His works carry a powerful message and will be eternally relevant in this looking-glass world! Thank you! A man named Igor Letov!
Cool vid! ty for spreading the a word of most punk of punks to Murican folks!!
Grew up listening to GO.
Truly unique and underrated.
So glad that there’s a video about him in English
Incredible guy with a great talent
magnificent and chilling lyrics btw
You have missed projects "Коммунизм" and "Егор и Опизденевшие". They are unique and important parts of Letov discography
0:55 very good band called : 'Zero' (Nol') that's one of my favourite bands on this moment, because of using accordion as one of the main instruments (then balaika too) mixed it in a appropriate way - it's sounds fantastic!
thanks for Egor.
important thing is what he came to in the end.
he was happy with his last album.