Йорш (Yorsh) 3x

We are punk rock, our lives are scars, the state is the main enemy: this is Йорш (or Yorsh) in three telling tracks. Ёрш is beer with vodka, and the old name of the band. Punk from Podolsk (= Подольск), since 2006.

 

Панк-рок – это мы (2018): Punk Rock is Us

From #Нетпутиназад (#NoWayBack, 2019). The same goes for Андерграунд (Underground), that also comes in piano version (2020). No complicated lyrics, but punk rock poetry all the more. In its purest form:

Punk rock, that’s me (Панк-рок – это я)
Punk rock, that’s you (Панк-рок – это ты)
Punk rock, that’s us (Панк-рок – это мы).

Lyrics
Lyrics with translation

 

Шрамы (2020): Scars

More poetry but much less punk rock in Шрамы. We lose hope (Мы теряем надежду) and grow up early (И взрослеем так рано). Our life (Наша жизнь) is scars (это шрамы).

Lyrics
From Счастье, Часть 2 (Happiness, Part 2, 2020).

Featuring Наконечный (Spotify, YouTube). See also Юра, мы всё проебали (2020), Наконечный & Йорш with ДМЦ.
Acoustic cover by A. Bukalo ft. A. Brylyov (2020).

 

Чёрный флаг (2010): Black Flag

We could have gone for newer music here. But we would have ended up with В сердце игрушки or Армия Жизни, and that would not have made matters any better. Or any punker.

So here’s a second punk poem, from Добро и зло (Good and Evil, 2010 – listen on Spotify, YouTube). Выше, выше, черный флаг, Higher, higher, black flag – государство главный враг, the state is the main enemy. In Russian, it rhymes.

Lyrics
Lyrics with translation

 

More Yorsh (Йорш)

• Особый резон (2020) covers Yanka Dyagileva; original here
• Нарисуй Мне Счастье (fan-video) (age-restricted) (2019)
• В рамках закона (fan-video) (2019)
• Против тебя (2019)
• 26 (Ножи остры и порох есть) (2016)
• За 50 (2014)

Watch Йорш – Реалити-шоу (film about the band) (2019, 60 m) and Documentary about the punk band Йорш (2018, 21 m).
Read Dima Sokol (Йорш) – «Punk is the dark mirror of society» (Rockcult, 2020).
More about Yorsh on Wikipedia, more from them on Instagram, VK, and their website.

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