Hey there, for those wondering - here is a list of songs I used (with timecodes!). Most of them are in cyrillic but fear not - just copy/paste them into RU-vid search and it will do the job. cultured-alder-a47.notion.site/List-of-songs-used-02322a467f674616aeaa82b0359d3fe2
Czechoslovak rock was similiar, but also different. We had this distinct, organised undergound movement in the 70s - The Second Culture. The founders and main figures was the group Plastic People Of The Universe, with very much hippie influence, as well as unconventional sound, wchich was inspired not as much by The Beatles or Rolling Stones, but rather by Frank Zappa and Velvet Underground. Other artists of 70s rock were The Naïve Extempore Band, R.U.R. Perpetuum Mobile, Bílé Světlo, Švehlík/MCH Band, Umělá Hmota, Dvouletá Fáma, Závodnička 5, Kloaka etc. After PPU were arrested in 1977, a Charter 77 was formed, wchich ultimately led to the politics behind the Velvet Revolution. Meanwhile the 80s saw the rise of punk, with bands such as Psí Vojáci, Hrdinové Nové Fronty, Svobodný Slovo, Zelení Kanibalové, NVÚ, IQ:60 etc. Also metal and hard rock bands like Arakain, Debustrol, Kabát, Törr, Sebastian etc.
I mean it was after the fall of the USSR but Metallica went to moscow in 91. they hadn't turned into a pile of pro corporate dicks yet so they were still cool. You don't get the audiances they did in a country that didn't know their music. Russia had metal either bootleg, smuggled, or home grown. Russia rocked.
I always thought it was so cool how some western Musicians such as David Bowie visited the USSR out of pure curiosity. Rock and the Soviet Union have a weird relationship lol.
I feel like that rock music was not there in the end of the country because lifting on the bans or things like that. Bans still existed well into the mid 80's when the end was very near and that very much would have hindered them already too much not to make them able to stand up. I believe these things were not pro perestroika or pro collapse, in fact, against it. Just look at Tsoi and his early to mid 80's songs. Not s single world for change or collapse. Those only came when perestroika has started to show its negative effects. Gorbachev's reforms caused the ussr to collapse and rock in the end of the 80's and very early 90's was against the chanes of the system, falling living standards and the collapse of the country. But this is only how i see it. What do you guys think?
Ochen' interesno ! For a music/rock lover like me. Of course, i know Viktor Tsoi. And later/current Russian bands. And sometimes i still watch that wild Metallica concert. One of their best. I should dive deeper. Poka !
To be honest I wish I lived in Soviet Union and lived in Russia. Why because I would be educated person now and would hade skills. I don’t have enything now. And I fell ashamed 😢
The Doors, as well as pretty much any highly promoted rock band, are controlled by spooks, i.e. Intelligence agencies. What is the best counter-culture, as far as your rulers are concerned? The one that they create themselves and thus control (or at least highly manipulate). Very wealthy people control who gets recording contracts, and who doesn't. You may not see their long term goal , but they have one. Mick Jagger was funded initially by the London School of Economics (spook nest), and Jim Morrison's dad was US Navy Admiral Morrison, the man in command of the Gulf of Tonkin false flag event that kicked off the Viet Nam war.
Thanks! I've seen plenty of mentions that rock was quite well developed in the Baltics in the 1960s. Unfortunately, there is very little information about any particular bands available in Russian.
If you wanna do a 60s ESSR rock scene special, I can connect you with the author who was among the musicians. Also there is a book (and author) about ESSR's invasion to Soviet mainstream music scene (Apelsin, Tõnis Mägi, Jaak Joala, Anne Veski etc)...
If anyone stumbled onto this video hoping to learn something about Soviet rock, don't bother watching - title is pure clickbait to (I presume) attract Sovietboos. The video is actually about Russian rock from the Soviet era and no one else.
I assume part of this has to do with Setarko being unable to understand the languages of the former republics and thus having a limit to his sources, though in general, while the other republics had their own rock scenes, Russian-language rock, and Russian-language anything in general, dominated the entire USSR. Also note that Setarko's content largely focuses on Russia - if the Soviet Union is discussed he discusses it from a Russian point of view. Maybe a channel focused on Soviet history would be more fit to discuss things like Kazakh or Latvian rock music.
@@parasatc8183 There were no popular non-Russian-language rock bands in the USSR. Mainly because the centers of rock music formation were in Russian cities
