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[gnomygnomy.livejournal.com]

Hey, guys. Music issue here. For a weekend in November, the radio station I work at is having an 80's WEEKEND EXTRAVAGANZA! They're letting all the DJs create specialty shows on the 80's genre of their choice, and of course, I'm thinkin' RUSSIAN! Partly because I wasn't in Russia during the 80's (or ever, actually), I don't really know of any influential bands. Just one, Kino. If y'all could give me some leads, I could prepare the most awesomest 80's Russian Program in the States! How'bout it, huh? Please? Please?

Comments

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

DDT, Nautilus Pompilius... just do a google search.

[gnomygnomy.livejournal.com]

I... I'm embarrassed for not having thought of that first.

But thank you anyway! :)

[megazoid.livejournal.com]

http://www.zvuki.ru/
read a couple of articles about "Kino" for a start, they mention a lot of bands of the same era in there.

[gnomygnomy.livejournal.com]

This is excellent. Thank you!

[grajo-che.livejournal.com]

Don't need Gooooogle
Aquarium, Kino, DDT, Nautilus Pompilius, Zoopark, Alisa, Piknik, Mashina Vremeni, Nol', Chaif, Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Zvuki Mu, Televizor, Auktsion and many others.
They composed a real music and a real poetry (DDT & Piknik till now).
That's it what we call Russian Rock and we'll never forget it.
It was like an air for few generarions.
If you want to know something more about them, you can ask me :>

[yk4ever.livejournal.com]

"Real music"? doubtful

So-called "Russian rock" has always paid more attention to lyrics than to music quality. Sometimes more interesting sound could be found among pop-bands.

[ulfurinn.livejournal.com]

With Piknik being a notable exception. IMO.

[grajo-che.livejournal.com]

Oh, you think so, ok
But what did you listen if you talk like that?
Lyrics would have hardly create such effect without music - it's better to consider them both as a whole thing

[yk4ever.livejournal.com]

I didn't say music is totally absent. But it's definitely _secondary_ in RR.
RR is good to sing with guitar at a private party. But, with rare exceptions, no musical revelations can be found in it.

[mooze.livejournal.com]

Fully agree with you. Lyrics played a far more important role than the actual melody that was for the most part mediocre

[asturi.livejournal.com]

Aquarium, Alisa, Mashina Vremeni, Chaif, Auktsion till now too.
I mean, they exist
but compose great - I doubt mostly :(

[velocityb0y.livejournal.com]

Where is your station? Is there an internet feed so we can listen in? :-)

[tsoka.livejournal.com]

pop-bands:

Laskovyi May, Mirazh, Kar-Man.

[mooze.livejournal.com]

Laskovii Mai... Extremely crappy girly music.
Zhenya Belousov.. Same shit, different name (both are from late 80-s early 90-s)
Yalla (Ялла) - an ethnic Uzbek band, extremely popular, pretty good tunes
Alla Pugacheva, Sofiya Rotaru, Lev Leschenko, Iosif (Joseph) Kobzon, Lubov Zikina, Muslim Magomaev as solo singers. They started off earlier but were still very popular.
Igor Talkov

Man, that's hard, I almost hurt myself trying to recollect