Vladimir Vysotsky songs
Jan. 14th, 2007 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieThis post is not about anything I posted about before. There are no jdramas, Bollywood, or Victorian lit anywhere.
But today, searching youtube, I discovered that it has a number of songs of my favorite singer, Vladimir Vysotsky (he is a very famous Russian bard).
I have no idea how he comes across to someone who doesn't understand Russian. He is not gorgeous. He has a rough, smoker's voice. What really makes his songs for me, and makes him my favorite singer are the lyrics (which are amazing and have been published separately as poems actually, justifiably so, IMO). Being a bard, he wrote all his own songs. Oh, and there is the almost terrifying level of conviction he sings them with.
But anyway, just for me, if for no one else.
My favorite song, and one of his most famous. Wolf Hunt. It makes me cry and ties my stomach into knots.
Ya Nelyublyu ('I do not like.' It's rather anti-government and got him in trouble as a number of his songs did):
"She was in Paris" (probably inspired by his wife, who was a French actress):
I love this song:
This is another performance of Wolf Hunt. This is his last taped performance. He died shortly after (he was in his 40s but was an alcoholic and died of heart failure):
Mne Sudba (It's my fate):
Fraternal graves:
A u delfina:
Picky horses:
Robin Hood song (from the movie on Robin Hood. The government ended dropping the entire soundtrack initially because of its Vysotsky issues. But eventually they recovered and redid the sountrack):
I love this song:
"He did not come back from the front:"
Morning Exercise:
But today, searching youtube, I discovered that it has a number of songs of my favorite singer, Vladimir Vysotsky (he is a very famous Russian bard).
I have no idea how he comes across to someone who doesn't understand Russian. He is not gorgeous. He has a rough, smoker's voice. What really makes his songs for me, and makes him my favorite singer are the lyrics (which are amazing and have been published separately as poems actually, justifiably so, IMO). Being a bard, he wrote all his own songs. Oh, and there is the almost terrifying level of conviction he sings them with.
But anyway, just for me, if for no one else.
My favorite song, and one of his most famous. Wolf Hunt. It makes me cry and ties my stomach into knots.
Ya Nelyublyu ('I do not like.' It's rather anti-government and got him in trouble as a number of his songs did):
"She was in Paris" (probably inspired by his wife, who was a French actress):
I love this song:
This is another performance of Wolf Hunt. This is his last taped performance. He died shortly after (he was in his 40s but was an alcoholic and died of heart failure):
Mne Sudba (It's my fate):
Fraternal graves:
A u delfina:
Picky horses:
Robin Hood song (from the movie on Robin Hood. The government ended dropping the entire soundtrack initially because of its Vysotsky issues. But eventually they recovered and redid the sountrack):
I love this song:
"He did not come back from the front:"
Morning Exercise:
