Music From the USSR...

[I-25]

I have a thing for Communist block 70's and 80's music like DDT, mashina vremeni, nautilus Pomp. kino, akvarium, etc

i have a lot of the bands i just mentioned but can you guys recommend me more

and a bit of everything not necessarily just rock

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by I-25

I have a thing for Communist block 70's and 80's music like ***1044;***1044;***1058;, ***1084;***1072;***1096;***1080;***1085;***1072; ***1074;***1088;***1077;***1085;***1077;***1085;** *1080;, ***1082;***1080;***1085;***1086;, ***1085;***1072;***1091;, ***1072;***1082;***1074;***1072;***1088;***1080;** *1091;***1084;, etc etc

What I should see here? I see a lot of numbers which do not make any sense... "***1074;***1088;***1085" as examples.

[I-25]

Ahh didn't even see that i tough the forums supported Crylic characters

will edit

[Hottentot]

I'd recommend getting familiar with the Soviet film scene as well: songs from films often became known on their own right. , for example. Search with that name from Youtube and you'll find plenty of versions from it, some old and some modern.

Originally Posted by I-25

Ahh didn't even see that i tough the forums supported Crylic characters

They used to, but it hasn't worked for a while now.

[nikimcbee]

In before CCIP. Soviet era music rules.

I love Kino and Igor Tal'kov. I'll post some videos later.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

In before CCIP. Soviet era music rules.

Actually, the original post covered a lot of what I listen to from the Soviet era, except possibly Alisa and Grazhdanskaya Oborona

Otherwise DDT and Akvarium are among my absolute favourite bands (probably my 2nd and 3rd most favourite bands ever, after the obviously-non-Russian King Crimson).

Most Russian music I listen to these days is post-Soviet-era though. Still, good stuff, I'm impressed you already have that list down. It's always awesome for people outside the former republics to be interested in that remarkable era in music

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by I-25

I have a thing for Communist block 70's and 80's music like DDT, mashina vremeni, nautilus Pomp. kino, akvarium, etc

i have a lot of the bands i just mentioned but can you guys recommend me more

and a bit of everything not necessarily just rock

If you'd like to try some real "oldies," I have a bunch of WWII era and before USSR music in my Radio Stations & Music mods thread. Use the link in my sig below.

You may also want to try this link:

http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php

It's where I got most of my music from, but it also has some post-war stuff too.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by fred8615

http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php

That's a great source (from a history major's point of view). If you can read Russian, use that version of the site instead, it's larger and has more information.

However, that site's ideological bias shows in selected songs. It has a large variety of certain kind of songs, but not that large variety of Soviet songs, as far as I've seen.

[I-25]

Keep em coming guys im loving this stuff!

However, that site's ideological bias shows in selected songs. It has a large variety of certain kind of songs, but not that large variety of Soviet songs, as far as I've seen.

you gotta admit most of the rock scene wasn't particular well looked upon by the Gov.
but then again we in the western world had the same thing in the 60s

all i know oldies are the best even in western. im not into anything new its all Pre-89' for me

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by I-25

you gotta admit most of the rock scene wasn't particular well looked upon by the Gov.

True. But if someone bases his/her opinion of the Soviet musical culture on that site alone, he/she inevitably arrives in the conclusion that an average Soviet citizen of any decade woke up with a joyous marching song, sung more joyous marching songs on the way to work, sung some more joyous marching songs on the way back home and went to sleep listening to political speeches.

That site rarely even mentions such composers as Shostakovich, and he definitely wasn't underground. It doesn't cover the Soviet jazz, nor folksongs that were (at least in the 1930s) far more popular than the "official" stuff.

In short, the site claims it tries to represent the Soviet culture, but in fact it represents a very narrow and some might even say insulting view of it.

[CCIP]

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: