Naive - Tanks-Punks (Наив Танки Панки)

The video I posted a while back the Russian punk band Naive - Наив in Cyrillic - doing their song Tanks-Punks - seems to be down forever.

Here is a fan-made replacement, complete with:

- tanks

- punks

- Russian girls in Bikinis

- an SU-122 Assault Gun



This song never fails to make me smile.

Naive - Tanks-Punks / НАиВ - Танки-панки (live)

Just sharing this great live version of Tanks-Punks.

НАиВ - Танки-панки



Makes me wish I learned anything in that semester of Russian that I took. Maybe after Japanese and then Spanish, I'll go back to learning Russian.

More Naive / Наив

Here is my second favorite Naive / Наив song.

Fuck You (I'm Not Your Candy). Unlike Tanks-Punks, this is all in English, and while it lacks that Pretty Vacant-esque ending that Tanks-Punks has, it has a lot of early Pistols showing in it.

Naive - Tanks-Punks

I have to thank my friend for this. Way back in high school, we heard about this Russian punk band called "Naive" - with an upside-down A and two dots over the i like the o in Motorhead. He plunked down some money to buy it direct from Maximum Rock N Roll.

This is the standout track on an album full of good stuff:

Tanks-Punks
Танки-Панки


Thanks to studying Russian for a bit, learning way too much Nadsat (I too slooshy Sex Pistols real horrorshow), and the lyrics sheet, I could follow along to this.

I hear Naive (it's Наив in cyrillic) have a bunch of other albums that I haven't heard yet - that from here/ And there are (very good) live versions of Танки-Панки on Youtube. The rest of the album is worth it.

Good stuff.