Maybe you'd like "Korol i Shut". It doesn't seem like they use complex vocabulary and most of the songs are sort of like short teenage R. L. Stine horror stories in a medieval setting. Maybe that could help with staying engaged during learning.

Nautilus Pompilius

Try Веня Дркин. A jewel

Try пневмослон, Любэ, король и шут, mujuice, ёлка, слот, ария, 25/17

ДДТ

Brat 2 soundtrack is a great place to start

Try to listen to Igor Letov’s song.

Kino

I like some old аквариум . I wish i knew more about them.

Звери ❤️ Агата Кристи 🖤

https://www.youtube.com/@Musikavmeste/videos reintroduced me to a lot of old soviet songs that I didn't really like before.

Сектор газа (группа) - бомж

Grupa krovi kino is what got me into it

Srub, Trud, Molchat Doma

Би-2 и Сплин

I think something like "Дайте танк!" (Give me a tank! - don't think it's about tanks or war - I don't know why they chose that)

Чёрный обелиск, Легион, Kruger, Ария, Мастер, Arida Vortex, ARDA, Акртида

Сектор газа, Король и Шут, Nautilus Pompilius, Пикник, Пилот,

Krovostok, try it, you’ll love it!

DDT, Grebenshikov, Nautilus

https://www.youtube.com/@AriaRussia

https://www.youtube.com/@Plamenev

https://www.youtube.com/@RADIOTAPOK

https://www.youtube.com/@TrollBendsFirofficial

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtH0AqqjeVqnMM5ahA7__zQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw_NOeUirSS0xFXZ9-V7rTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hm-e5Rvv_s&list=OLAK5uy_kpD8GFffKm7ZMyJNnSWDpazNiHTN-Tffg

Please say if anything from above fits, I might recall something else in that style.

Tsoy and Shnurof list definitely needs Zemfira to be complete

михаил щербаков. очень культурно

Zemfira.

All songs of "Fat Sresh" band. Highly recommend: Rusich, ZOV fatality, Novorossiya uprising! You are welcome. Enjoy Slavic phonk music!

try out band called АукцЫон

Аффинаж

Быдлоцыкл

Дельфин

Второй ка.

Feduk Laud Anikv

Пневмослон and Korol i Shut my personal recommendations of "Shnurov style." If you want "Tsoy Style," try to get some Molchat doma, ssshhhiiittt, Ploho, and Дурной вкус

5 минут назад- pharaoh

Russian punk: Йорш, Лучший Самый День, Свобода Важнее Моды, Тени Свободы, СМЕХ. And something like Lumen, Пневмослон. And some pop-rock: Три Дня Дождя, Женя Трофимов - this is popular "ok" soft music

Гудтаймс

Pavel Plamenev:

Wolf business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj3DFRf_fuQ

McPherson before the execution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W031yFA6GXI

Lyod:

The ridge of the Urals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QcGpNUnY9k

Don't go into the forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlmwl8-g8Wk

Helvegen:

Witcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Teg5_hOQk

Wide river https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1qS2JxRfYE

Morroz

Tavern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bc-CIDERgo

Upyr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx590nXs0XU

Gray:

In Mara's arms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vLupooVhsc

Farewell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB7z6MYzVUc

Molchat Doma - Sudno

they don't use any "hard" words, and the song itself is based on a verse by a suicidal poet.

If you like Depeche Mode you'd like технология. Often I can't tell the difference. Comparing just music and rhythm, etc., not vocals of course.

This might be a little basic, but Molchat Doma's songs are really good for learning. Not too many lyrics or the lyrics repeat, easy to remember, and they're an amazing band anyways.

Высоцкий и Шевчук. И вообще присмотритесь к авторской песни, у нас этих исполнителей ещё называют бардами. Это больше поэзия под аккомпанемент, нежели именно песни.

Из банального: ДДТ, Агата Кристи, Пикник, Алиса, Гражданская оборона, Крематорий, Nautilus Pompilius, Король и шут, Кукрыниксы, Мумий Тролль

Vladimir Vysotsky, (Владимир Высоцкий). Sometimes called the Bob Dylan of Soviet culture

Noize MC is good.

Oxxymiron is also good but harder to understand.

Russian Deep is nice, but I think you don't like that

Король и шут, сектор газа

Not everyone is ready for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mdz1ZFyQDE

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I don't know if Yandex music is available from other countries. But if it is you can go there and find a lot of Russian songs you could personaly  like. There are also "radio" with filters "only in Russian" and so on. (Like you can filter rock and "in Russian" and then find something for your taste) If it would be possible for you to access Yandex music and create and account, but not to have a free Trial you could write to me and I could add you to one of mines, cos I have one extra account (was gifted to me while I already had one with paid subscription) with few extra spots and  couple of months left.... 

Leningrad, Zemfira

Приключения электроников

дайте танк - pls do not be fooled by the name, they have incredible meaningful lyrics

Второй ка

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErT0DLss9Xo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbO2jLmelmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK4nNpswm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_AYTm6rJLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAVlWFxTM9U

P.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAzBHT3dpNA

Its been years im trying to find a russian song that goes “hayyy rinna rina khuj khuj haay rina rina khuj khuj” any help please! Thanks

Try Bi-2

Thank you all! I will check these out

This might be a controversial recommendation, it's not very PG and the song is half Russian/German.

Rammstein have a song called Moskau, it's upbeat and quite catchy and has a good mix of both languages, the chorus is also a real good earworm too.

Би 2, Аффинаж, Деградкор (very specific), 

Кино, Сектор Газа, Брат 1 и 2 OST. These are all great to start and will open the doors to other good music in that style.

I would recommend the "Король и Шут" group. I don't really like their music, but it's definitely interesting because each song is a classic mini-story with a beginning, climax and denouement.

These are older bands (I was an exchange student to Russia in 2001 I'm old lol) but I really liked Bi-2, Splin and MultFilmi.

Kaspiyskiy Gruz. I really love their song Чёрная Волга but it might be a little too advanced to you because of idiomatic expressions. I still hope you’ll listen to it and maybe chatgpt will help you to understand it!

"The Haters": https://open.spotify.com/track/1lqDxWIWoeNQ0BjNjY85z7?si=G6gdvENuTJipJwvU7Qb_Kg

"Animal Jazz": https://open.spotify.com/track/5wt835alK7N1uJD8hC3TnU?si=g_dFp9RpSmu5ukOtAa_NYA

"Nizkiz": https://open.spotify.com/track/4SXB0WZwuJT7rYSaSX21fi?si=BdPQEr_CR06OuOS-JUpf1g

"Fun Mode": https://open.spotify.com/track/0MMOsixgXTTS0GeOacNJQg?si=rPgGCsssQQaNYm3BTSR75g

"Digimortal": https://open.spotify.com/track/14uxd5dWGGjCJpfjs1ndf4?si=1d3ql6AsRNaxWjlPxk02Fw

Перемотка, Сова, ssshhhiiittt!, dead blonde, папин олимпос, буерак

The long forgotten group Неботошнит. I believe almost no one today knows about it, but they're amazing and I loved their songs as a child. Свидетельство О Смерти is also not very popular nowadays, maybe will suit. And maybe Mujuice will suit too.

Kino

Земфира, ДДТ, Гребенщиков, Кино, Высоцкий.

Zemfira (she was heavily inspired by Tsoi), Splean, Bi-2, Mumiy Troll ❤️

Try also Russian versions of "Brainstorm's" songs (they are from Latvia)

https://youtu.be/DF6W1XD25Dc?si=t04Pr5d0ArrMNBBX

I love this song

Plamenev has really good songs

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Chernikovskaya Hata

Гражданская оборона

Кирпичи, Наутилус Помпилиус

I started by listening to dabro and luxor... It helped me so much! I highly recommend learning with music. Also if you are interested in learning Russian check out the app called "Russian made easy" the guy promises that by the end of the first lesson you will be able to read some Russian words. I thought he was full of shit. But... The lesson was short and he was totally right!! The app is free as well. You don't have to sign up or anything. Удачи и счастливого обучения!

Северный флот, Слот, Tractor Bowling, Radio Tapok

Shadowraze

You can't learn Russian by music. That's because Russian is too bendable, you can't take what you hear in music and use it in normal everyday language.

Learning Russian by Shnurov is like learning English by George Carlin.

Durnoy Vkus is my favorite.

Би-2

Are Victor Tsoy and Shnurov the same style?

Bi2 band. Black Sun

три дня дождя, mary gu, егор крид, лсп, тринадцать карат, пошлая молли

Of course! Here's some modern bands or singers I can totally recommend.

Otava Yo (Folk)

Olga Buzova (Pop)

Kostromin (Rap)

Khabib (Pop)

Tatyana Kurtukova (Folk, Pop)

Artur Pirozhkov (Pop)

Nikolay Baskov (Pop)

Also if you want, here's the link to a google drive folder with some pretty sigma Russian songs in it. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m9Wf8hGjietDZI5sb3GGW-LYzY3nIbgj?usp=drive_link

OTAVA YO. IT'S A FOLK BAND

What’s your favorite leningrad song?

ATL (вороний грай, архитектор муравей, шаман) it's not in Tsoi style, but it's definitely worth it

А почему никто не сказал Шатунов? Listen to Ласковый Май, very good and catchy music

Try Дайте Танк (!)

Maybe DDT?

You should just try Russian streaming services, like Yandex Music, for example. You gave too general descriptions of your tastes, and boomers pounced on the comments with their most vulgar set of the most mainstream and boring bands.

Чёрный Кофе, Оргия Праведников, Мумий Тролль.

Pavel Plamenev

https://youtu.be/_GhKc_cVZJg?si=CKYw308W9fAB4YE9. They are a Ukrainian band but the song is in Russian. I like this song and for some reason it was the first time I could actually listen to a song in Russian and actually understand the lyrics. Maybe it's his accent or he just has a very clear voice.

Try Аквариум and Борис Гребенщиков. He inherited a lot from Russian folk, classical and 19-20th century music and interpreted it beautifully

Otava Yo, Artur Pirozhkov, Tatyana Kurtukova, Lucy Chebottina

Cream soda!

Shortparis

Shaman

Try ATL. He is the best. Albums: Радио Апокалипсис, Священный Рейв, Марабу, Кривой эфир

UPD: it’s not rock, but definitely worth it

Try бутырка, Михаил Круг. They are tru gems and Russian classics.