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CCIP · 09-20-11, 01:23 PM

There was definitely no lack of Soviet pop music, which was not in any way related to socialist marches - most of it was definitely pretty 'sanitized' though, which is why by comparison the often downright reasonable and peaceful bands of the late 70s-early 80s underground movement look radical. In a lot of senses it was never a mainstream or widely-popular movement, and probably never would come to wide attention either in Russia or abroad if it weren't for radically changing politics and society that was starving for an alternative to stagnating Soviet values. Otherwise it was (and still is) largely a movement of bored intellectuals who wanted something more in their music than nice tunes and socially-acceptable rhymes.

One band whose work you might enjoy is "Duby-Kolduny" (bah lack of Cyrillic), which was basically a group of those same ex-underground musicians (chiefly from DDT and Alisa) playing 60s and 70s Soviet pop songs ironically in the 90s, because at that point things turned upside down and what was underground was now mainstream. Playing things that were at that point kitsch and uncool somehow appealed to them. When people started taking them seriously, they stopped. Luckily for them, by that point rock music was again forced underground, this time by commercial interests, so they went back to their real calling.

for example:

09-20-11, 01:23 PM	#11
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	There was definitely no lack of Soviet pop music, which was not in any way related to socialist marches - most of it was definitely pretty 'sanitized' though, which is why by comparison the often downright reasonable and peaceful bands of the late 70s-early 80s underground movement look radical. In a lot of senses it was never a mainstream or widely-popular movement, and probably never would come to wide attention either in Russia or abroad if it weren't for radically changing politics and society that was starving for an alternative to stagnating Soviet values. Otherwise it was (and still is) largely a movement of bored intellectuals who wanted something more in their music than nice tunes and socially-acceptable rhymes. One band whose work you might enjoy is "Duby-Kolduny" (bah lack of Cyrillic), which was basically a group of those same ex-underground musicians (chiefly from DDT and Alisa) playing 60s and 70s Soviet pop songs ironically in the 90s, because at that point things turned upside down and what was underground was now mainstream. Playing things that were at that point kitsch and uncool somehow appealed to them. When people started taking them seriously, they stopped. Luckily for them, by that point rock music was again forced underground, this time by commercial interests, so they went back to their real calling. for example: __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) Last edited by CCIP; 09-20-11 at 01:37 PM.