It’s a Finnish band with a Russian name wearing Kool World haircuts doing a Lynyrd Skynyrd song in English with the Red Army choir singing behind them. We don’t understand it either, but if they don’t play halftime at Bryant-Denny Stadium with this exact instrumentation and military vocal support, Alabama fans you have been cheated of something truly awesome.
(HT: To the Point, via Kanu.)
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DirkDawggler says:
Sad thing is, that band is better than the current incarnation of Lynyrd Skynyrd. sVET hOMESki, Alabamrades!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
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Chips O'Toole says:
This is not surprising to anyone who has watched the spectacle that is the Eurovision contest.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
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Ulysses S. McGill says:
Does this mean the SEC won the Cold War?
S E C, S E C, SEC speed rulz!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
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CRW says:
I met the Leningrad Cowboys in Berlin about 12 years ago. Truly one of the more surreal moments of my life. And yes, their hair defied gravity.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
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Derrick says:
Those Russian soldiers could teach Alabamanians a thing or two about proper diction!
April 9th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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CardsFan922 says:
That is quite simply the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. The Red Army’s haunting “oohh-AAAH” at the end will stay with me for the rest of my natural life.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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Dave(not that one, the other one) says:
Is this the place to ask for everyone to go to NBC.com and vote for Roger as biggest loser?
http://www.nbc.com/The_Biggest_Loser_5/vote/register.shtml
April 9th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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beast in bama says:
I’ll be passing through Muscle Shoals tomorrow. I’ll stop and ask if they’ve still got “a Swamperz.”
April 9th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
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Peter(theGreat)Pumpkinhead says:
If these guys had been the GridIron Bash band, they’d have packed out B-D, NCAA or no NCAA.
I am so playing this video at the tailgate every saturday… for the rest of my life.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
I had just finnished (pun) my first Cabernet and started on the second when I watched this. I think I have ruptured a spleen or something from laughter.
Videos such as these are the reason I gave up “dank” years ago. My internal organs would not be able to take the abuse.
/visualizing Saban as Stalin, telling all to get with the “system” or be banished to a gulag.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
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Charlestownecock says:
THAT IS THE SHIT!!!!!
April 9th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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Chuck says:
Bass balalaika FTW!
April 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
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AUTIGER86 says:
This is a 70’s Redneck nightmare, just after Nixon and Carter done sold out to the Ruskies..
Perfect for Jordan Hare West (the UAT Stadium), a place lost in ancient history…
April 9th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
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Tom says:
Hey Derrick, no one cares to hear your asinine opinion.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
Glasnost, Mutherfuckers!
I actually think that the accordion, lute and tuba add something.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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Kanu says:
Without the actual Red Army Choir that video is marginally amusing.
With the actual Red Army Choir there aren’t really words to describe its awesomeness properly.
Even farther up the HT tree, a HT to my buddy DS who sent that to me this morning before I shared it with Swindle.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
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Anonymous IV says:
As a huge Russophile and Finnophile this is awesome. I am aware of the contradiction in that statement. Owning a few recordings of the Red Army Chorus they are just amazing. I really like the way the Red Army Chourus ends with the chorus section of Eh, Ukhnyem. Okay I am exposing my geekiness and nerdiness.
Spasibo EDSBS!!
May 1,000 Molotov cocktails be lauched against your enemies!!!
April 9th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Anon IV, if it’s any consolation I have a Red Army choir CD and I’m not a Russophile. It’s good listening if you want to drink brake fluid and damn the dissidents.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
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maskedavenger says:
There are enough Alabama fans that read this blog – Make this happen!
April 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
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BurritoBrosShits says:
I’m disgusted and intrigued at the same time. Its like watching an awful car wreck.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
A southern Kazakhtanian don’t need you around anyhow.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
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Allaha says:
This is why the internet was invented.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Awesome, awesome video dept:
I think those Finns are cooler (campy and all) than 78.4 percent of the population of the Great State of Alabama.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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TigerNacho says:
Putin doesn’t have time for this shit.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
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Sullivan says:
Please-Oh-Please-Oh-Please! Have this exact show for the 2008 Iron Bowl. Can’t think of better evidence that America really did win the Cold War.
I also think there must be at least one Bama fan who claims to have called this one back in ‘79 during the invasion of Afghanistan, when he stated in a drunken stupor that:
“if the Bear were in charge, we’d kick those commies so bad that…”
Well, you know.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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maskedavenger says:
Turns out this show was on the 1994 MTV music award show:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Cowboys
April 9th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
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Tom says:
23,
The Great State of Alabama don’t need you around, anyhow.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
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Brian says:
I’m moving to an eastern bloc country. All I gotta do is repackage western culture with an ironic twist and itd be a gold mine, GOLD! Garth Brooks won’t mind If I Dress like an elf and sing some of his classics while running around on a hobby horse goosing czech models, will he?
It’s settled then, Call Aeroflot and make the arrangements.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:26 am
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honeybunny says:
yeah, that one was in MTV but the original one was in 1993, more info here : http://www.leninimports.com/leningradtbs.html
I wuz there!!!!!!!
April 10th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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Fredegunde says:
Ehhh. Rather small beer. If you want to see the Cowboys REALLY blow your mind, get a copy of _Leningrad Cowboys Go America_. The poster alone was so marvelous that I have a huge copy hanging over my bed: “Do you know why the Americans do not like you? You are too pale.”
OK, you need to see the film to understand why that is screamingly funny, and why there is a frozen corpse sunning itself on the car…
April 10th, 2008 at 1:24 am
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911doc says:
well, i guess there is no god.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:54 am
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Sundawg says:
Fulmer Cup Update – Brandon Wright, backup QB and RB for BETHUNE-COOKMAN
April 10th, 2008 at 6:44 am
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Sundawg says:
[er, sorry, no coffee yet] Fulmer Cup Update – Brandon Wright, backup QB and RB for BETHUNE-COOKMAN, was arrested Monday night in his dorm room where police found cocaine, marijuana and a shotgun used in an attempted murder. Wright told police he was dealing drugs to make ends meet.
Eat that, D-1 bitches! Bethune-Cookman! Whooo-hooooo!
April 10th, 2008 at 6:49 am
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drogue says:
Da Da Da
April 10th, 2008 at 7:31 am
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Dave says:
Didn’t Avery Atkins transfer to B-CC? What’s going on in Daytona these days? I thought everyone there lived a perfect life of bliss thanks to the beach, the track, and Hog Heaven BBQ. It seems more like Baylor-style [Dave] Bliss.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:16 am
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sb says:
Awesome-ness; despite Skynyrd hailing from my fair city, I actually think I prefer the eastern euro-slav version…except for the elf shoes…put him in reef flipflops and we’re golden.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
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JohnInHuntsville says:
Cocktails to whomever dug that up.
Let’s see. Singers with phallic haircuts backed by Russians with jackboots and balalaika’s. Every queer in the Southeast paying $500 on Stubhub for an upper deck seat just to see the halftime show.
Just another afternoon at Circus Maximus.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:34 am
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Out of Conference says:
Perestroika works!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:39 am
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kt says:
…there’s good people in Tuscaloosa….let Comrade Lenin know that too….
Ronnie Van Zandt
One More From the Road, Fox Theatre, Atlanta 74
April 10th, 2008 at 10:55 am
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sb says:
drogue @ #34…what is it about eastern european/teutonic performances that seem to have the same vibrational chill? Your Trio reference brought it all home to me…thanks…I think.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
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MCab says:
Won’t you give me three steps, comrade, give me three steps comrade . . .
April 10th, 2008 at 6:02 pm