Morgenstern's best songs

By now, everyone knows Alisher Morgensternas the most scandalous rapper on the Russian scene. But Morgenstern once aspired to a very different kind of fame. At the very beginning of his musical career, he wanted to become a popular punk rocker and even recorded his own songs. At that time, Morgenstern did not yet exist, and Alisher himself called himself a MAMAVIRGIN.

When he had already become a famous rapper, he released an album consisting entirely of his old songs. Some of them were quite good. These punk rock compositions are what we are going to talk about in this article.

Bratosyn

A song written by Morgenstern before he became famous. A meaningless composition about a very strange relationship between a son and his mother, but still quite interesting as a punk song.

In fact, Morgenstern himself wanted to be precisely punk–rocker. It's not hard to see that from his lifestyle and the material he performed until 2018. Later he decided to rap and it came out the way it did. Young people like it.

Beer and skateboarding

To this song. MAMAVIRGIN even made a music video. In all traditions of punk music: there is bacchanalia in the frame, young people with skateboards, young Alisher with electric guitar. There is a little more meaning here than in the previous song, but in general it is also a good punk song for young people:

Many fans are taking to this clip to compare what Morgenstern was like before and now. Someone wrote a comment like this:

"Then Morgenstern rode a skateboard, now he's riding a Cadillac."

An ambiguous hint that Alisher has long since moved away from his former image. Or maybe he was real then, but changed under the influence of money and unexpected fame. In any case, we will not hear such compositions performed by Morgenstern again.

BACK TO USSR

Now, this is something really unique: a Morgenstern song that doesn't have a not a single mat. A cheerful song with a very interesting video: the musician tried to stylise the video sequence to the times with his own efforts and minimal investment USSR. And he even succeeded. The clip reminds me of Kino's "We Saw the Night":

And it's not even a punk composition, there's a lot of sense here, and a lot of references to the band Kino and other Soviet musicians.

In the comments, listeners wrote with regret about losing MAMAVIRGIN:

"What he becomes is up to us. If we'd checked it out back then, he would have gone on like this"

BONUS: A track recorded by Morgenstern as a child

Alisher Morgenstern has been interested in music since childhood. As a teenager he tried to record his own songs. One of the most famous songs recorded at an early age was "We're above the clouds" recorded with a friend of his:

Even then Alisher could produce interesting rhymes:

"We ain't Goof, we ain't mangling letters. Writing rap music is the way to go."

What do you think of Morgenstern's work now and what do you think of his older songs? Share your opinions in the comments.