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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnyone ever had the opportunity to listen to Soviet rock and roll?
Crude by Western standards; including and especially the sound reproduction.
But these guys shred. This song was recorded in 1983, and has a dark, guitar-heavy sound that wouldn't be popular in the West until the late eighties.
Kino and groups like them wouldn't have lasted long playing and recording songs with political themes. So they sang about daily life in the USSR. Not bad, all things considered.
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Anyone ever had the opportunity to listen to Soviet rock and roll? (Original Post)
Aristus
May 2013
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Aristus
(66,462 posts)1. Kick.
I wonder if some late-night Loungers might like this thread a little better...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. That really proles my tariat
But don't the lyrics strike you as derivative?
Aristus
(66,462 posts)3. Sure.
Lots of rockers sing about the people they meet on their daily streetcar commute. But how many roll their 'r's with such verve?
Aristus
(66,462 posts)4. Kick.
Because I keep hoping this thread will find an audience.
Tom Kitten
(7,350 posts)5. Yes
Have you visited the blog http://the-russian-rock.com ? Look through the archives and they offer "Russian Nuggets" which are the earliest recordings the've found of Soviet era rock and roll, truly underground, recorded in basements with casette recorders...