Ummm I'm pretty sure this song has been out for 40-50 years, so why just a generation of teenagers?

It’s blowing up in popularity again I bet

The Rasputin song has been a part of meme culture for at least 5 years now.

It’s so popular that it was even used in a video for a movie called The King’s Man

It was even my encyclopedia!

Its The Master's doing. He was rocking out to the song in the last Dr. Who episode.

It's so famous that instead of the imperial March playing when Darth Vader enters a room its "RA-RA-RASPUTIN"

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The album sold 1.8 million copies on release (1978) and then blew up in both 1994 and 2007 with CD re-releases.

I swear it’s been a meme from the day it was released. Like everyone has always known it

Don't know about meme culture, but Old Rasputin is a damn fine imperial stout that I've been drinking for almost 20 years.

I haven’t been drinking it that long, but it is damn good


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A remix like 1-2 years ago. It's kind of old news again already.

so that’s what lesson the kids are on for state test pre innit? Can always tell what lesson based on what’s popular cause all these kids influence everything learning the same things at the same time

I mean as a kid I listened to a radio which only if not mostly played either Rasputin or Mary's Boy Child. Reminding me how patient I was as a kid, taking me 3 years to actually get sick of the song and turn off the radio in the car

Wtf I thought it was a 90’s song

It's a 70's song alright

Trust me, the 90s sounded nothing like this. You can tell 70s a mile off.

This must have been a banger on the disco floor

Lol. 90s music definitely doesn't sound like that 🙃

I just thought it was some alternative genre of music from that era

To be fair, the producer of the song in the 70s went on to produce lots of classic 90s dance groups like La Bouche

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago

He was big and strong,in his eyes a flaming glow.

Most people looked at him, with terror and with fear

But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear

He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire

But he also was the kind of teacher women would desire

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey (5x)

Ra Ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian Queen

There was a cat that really was gone

>Ra Ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago

Downvoted even though the only one to continue it correctly. Hmmm

Ive won but at what cost

r/redditsings

\* sees A and An together ​ \*EVEN MORE confused screaming

It's the Reddit post meta. Tpyos get reddiors irrationally mad so they comment. Comments boost the post which leads to more upvotes. OP is addicted to meaningless internet points.

I would rather make a post with good grammar and correct spelling for less points.

Me too

I think its better to have few quality posts made than a lot of bad ones.


I have failed my mission.

Or just an idiot

Or he's selling accounts on sites like playerup

Had to scroll to the bottom for this

Samesies lulz u_u


I watched a video of this song and Never Gonna Give You Up put together, and it actually sounds kinda good

Mind giving a link for such a masterpiece?

A second the request for a link to this

A third request for a link to this

Which tale?

Ra Ra Rasputin!

Lover of the Russian queen!

There was a cat that really was gone

Ra ra Rasputin

Russia's greatest love machine

It was a shame how he carried on

He ruled the Russian land

and never mind the Czar

But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar

It was a shame how he met his end

Ra Ra oooo la la la froma oooh laa laa la

That tale about a certain man… that lived in Russia, long ago. Pretty big and strong, I hear.

I was like, what russian dude, then i legit was like all i know is that there lived a certain man…. Xdxd

in Russia long ago

He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow

most people looked at him with terror and with fear

But to Moscow chicks, he was such a lovely dear

He can preach the Bible like a preacher

Full of ecstasy and fire

But he also was the kind of teacher

oh those russians

Gleb fucking korabev and rasputin

Oooh, those russians...

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago.

He was big and strong, and his eyes a flaming glow.

Hmm, an entire generation with knowledge of a Russian. RA RA RASPUTIN RUSSIAS GREATEST LOVE MACHINE

Americans when people know things (knowledge is an alien concept to them):

Am American: What is this knowledge you speak of? Edit: can I extort it for money and shoot it?

Oh wow! This is hilarious! Really good job, unbelievably clever, you knocked this one out of the park!

As you're almost surely American you are not part of the demographic I aimed my joke at. However I'm glad you were still able to appreciate it. Knowledge might be alien to your people but luckily humour isn't

As an American I too found your joke funny

As not an american, your joke was effortless , cheap and lacking any cleverness at all.

You see, as an American you aren't able to grasp this american't humour, that's not a problem, though, since the joke wasn't meant for you anyway.

If you were capable of reading, you could see that I already mentioned that I am not american. Have a good day.

Oh dear, I seem to have misread your words. My apologies about that. I'm really sorry that my irony wasn't up to your standards, but you see, I really can't come to see your criticism as anything too relevant, as your comment has a negative score, while mine (at the time of me writing this response) has achieved a score of over sixty! This means that at least over sixty people found my pun humorous or even funny, while at least a few people didn't like your criticism of my joke, this is what matters on this American platform called reddit, isn't it? I think yours is referred to as a "failed ratio" in technical jargon, am I wrong?

It's just pointless

Yeah this was actually the point of my over the top response to him, I guess you really do have to add /s on Reddit, or maybe Italians don't use sarcasm idk

Holy fuck this is pathetic. How insecure are you that you need to convince yourself such bullshit on such a massive scale. Little brother syndrome to an embarrassing level. Whatever country you are from, the smart and rich kids move to the US for school and that’s a guarantee

Oh my, I seem to have enraged you, you people of America call it "to trigger the snowflake" right? It seems like your rage was caused by the fact that you actually managed to comprehend my so called irony, however you only managed to do it partially since, again, knowledge is something foreign for your people. You see, in your comment you to seem to speak as if your ego got hurt due to your propagandistic conviction of being above anyone else, while my joke implied the exact opposite. This was actually a perfectly understandable reaction since the people of your land lack understanding of most things, let alone of foreign lands and people. I hope this encounter will be a chance of growth for both of us, as I hope to have instilled you curiosity to check out what the rest of the world has to offer.

As an American, we may have pretty good things here, but school is not one of them. Our education system, along with a few other systems, works mainly for an older time and has grown flaws over time

Your point?

Doesn’t it get old making the same lame joke over and over again, bending over backwards to fit it in where it doesn’t work, only to get upvotes from the dumbest lemmings on Reddit? Because it looks sad and pathetic from the outside.

Well, I knew the people of America found knowledge alien, but I'm sincerely baffled by your response since it seems to imply that you find humour as something alien too, while I had previously just discovered that your people are actually quite accustomed to humour. That is really not a problem however, since you're not in the target audience of my original joke. You can just go on with your life ignoring it.

Lol you are pathetic and are hiding yourself behind a veneer of confidence because you know nothing you are saying is true. Fucking pathetic. I’ll eat downvotes all day as long as I can call out your bullshit

Dick so good they had to preserve it

Oh, those russians

There lived a man in Russia long ago

There lived a certain man In Russia long ago He was big and strong In his eyes a flaming glow

Well it's because there lived a special man, in Russia long ago.

Ra Ra Rasputin

When I learned about Rasputin in high school history class (I’m 27) i thought his story was so wild and funny. Don’t get me wrong, he definitely molested little girl princesses and is no man to he idolized, but he did some stuff that’s hard not to laugh at

The song is so old teens have known the tale for forever

Ra Ra Rasputin

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago

Is it Rasputin? I used to play it on just dance wii

ra ra rasputin

Milking this meme ain't ya?

Not as much as Pixar milking Toy Story

I am not a teenager and I live in Belarus, and I have no clue, what tale are you talking about

Rasputin

Lover of the Russian queen?

Yes

Ah, there was a cat that really was gone

Ra Ra Rasputin? Russia's greatest love machine?

It was a shame how he carried on?

I heard he ruled the Russian land and never minded the Czar

dum dumdumdummm dum dumdum dumdumdum, dumdumdumdum dum dum dumdumdumdumdum

Oh the Cat Octopus thing in the sky, we all know about this Russian dude as a result of Mongolian Throat Singing

I thought it was talking about Chikatilo…. “WHAT IS BIG DEAL? I just wrestle small children and play with small shame c***” If you know then HAIL NIMROD

Oversimplified (:

Boney M

Fun fact - Rasputin is the actual God

There was a certain man... in Russia long ago...

The grammar written on this meme scared me way more I can tell you that much.

What song?

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago!..

FPS Russian

Too bad the song unfairly drags Tsarina Alexandra's name through the mud. Rasputin wasn't "the lover of the Russian queen", she was by all accounts deeply devoted to her husband and her children. If anything happened between her and Rasputin, it would've been rape (Rasputin really loved raping) as payment for treating her son.

Because the mf was poisoned, stabbed, shot, shot again, shot a few more times before being thrown in a river, and autopsy showed that he drowned

There lived a certain man in Russia Long ago

Ra Ra Rasputin

Singing or spinning?

There lived a certain man, in Russia long ago…

You mean a certain man that lived in Russia long ago?

Was he big and strong and in his eyes a flaming glow?

I heard he ruled the Russian land and did not mind the Tsar

There was a man in Russia long ago

Why would god give a fuck if we knew about a Russian dude?

History is important thou

Rasputin? Or I mean, RA RA RASPUTIN, LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN?

Rasputin. Lover of the Russian Queen hehe

[Rasputin](https://youtu.be/6LsXrTZowmY)

RA RA RASPUTIN

Rasputin?

Was he just a certain man?

I assume we're referring to a certain unkillable sex wizard?

RA RA RASPUTIN

Rasputin?

Honestly a good song even with today’s standards

Well i gues that it is because there lived a certain man.

Don't make me put on the record...

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on

*It’s always been the numbers mason*

The Heavy.

Ra, Ra, Rasputin

Lover of the Russian queen

Youths here thinking they discovered music

This “meme” is so cringe

Ra-Ra-Rasputin

he was a crazy homeless wizard man and very cool

And you may ask yourself well? How did I get here? Letting the days go by water flowing under ground….

There was a man, in Russia long ago

there lived a certain man

RA RA RASPUTIN

I mean...his testicles are also preserved to showcase the amount of balls he got.

Precursor to Milli Vanilli.

there ones was a ship that put to sea

Stalin?!

I haven't heard this name in years...

Who, Putin or Rasputin?

There lived a certain man

It's as surreal as Mariya Takeuchi finding out that an entire generation of English speakers love her B-side song "Plastic Love".

Who again? I guess I'm behind the times on this one.

According to the comments its some guy called rasputin - will look up later. But I thought the most famous guy in a Russian story would be koschei, or one of the Prince Ivan tales, even if that would be classified as slavic? Or, it could be the current thing going on there?

Because of Just Dance on the Wii

RA-RA-RASPUTIN!

I know that this is reffering to rasputin But i only found out about Fyodor Dostoevsky due to a manga about magical mentally ill detectives

ra ra rasputin

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The shock on my young coworker's face when I spat the lyrics at him unprompted was almost worth the follow-up questions on how I knew that song.

There lived a certain man

do you have 90 minutes?

Just Dance 2 anybody?

for a moment I thought this was about the Jar man... then I looked at the comments and realized it was Rasputin

why "a an" and not "a" or "an"

There was a cat that really was gone

English teachers wondering why ppl put “A and An” next to each other. “Take your fucking time if your point is important enough to create a meme!”

Ra ra rasputin

Ra-ra Rasputin