Artist: (various)
Title: Истоки советского рока
Genre: Beat Rock, Rock'n'Roll, Surf, Rockabilly
Country: USSR
Release date: 1960-70s mostly
- Электрон - Лучший город земли (1965)
- Александр Градский - В полях под снегом и дождём (1971)
- Садко - Ты проходишь мимо (1967)
- Аргонавты - Домик надежд и грёз (late 1960s)
- Летучий Голландец - Love and the Rain
- Ариэль - Дом восходящего солнца (1968)
- Сокол - Солнце над нами (late 1960s)
- Скифы - Годы как птицы (1969)
- Марзаны - Апачи (1968)
- Москвичи - Roll Over Beethoven (1967)
- Кочевники - Посмотри в глаза (1969)
- Второе дыхание - [Неизвестно] (1996)
- Удачное приобретение - I've Got The Blues (1974)
- Юрий Морозов - Виновата сама (1971)
- Машина времени - This happen'd to me (late 1960s)
- Мозаика - Тяжесть первородного греха (1982)
- Окна - Посвящение Хендриксу (1971-1974)
- Санкт-Петербург - Приходит день (1971)
- Россияне - Инопланетянка (1977)
- Оловянные солдатики - То что нам твердили в детстве (1972)
- Пульсар - Осень (1971)
- Фобос - Окна (1969)
- Кентавры - Ямщик (1970)
- Пит Андерсон - Blue Suede Shoes (1989)
This sampler was compiled from many different sources, so the quality of recording is varied from track to track. Some tracks sound completely awful (mostly live recordings), some are pretty well recorded (mostly re-recordings of unreleased material). The most interesting thing about this compilation is that it doesn't differ much from the officially approved Soviet pop-rock of that time, in terms of both music and lyrical content, the only difference is that these tracks weren't released on vinyl and sold in stores. The real split between the "official" VIA scene and the underground rock culture started in the late 1970s with the rise of tape culture, and culminated in 1983-85 during the anti-rock campaign started by Chernenko's government. Most of the problems that Russian rock scene and its audiences are frequently criticised for (pretentious and elitist fanbase, high levels of plagiarism, putting too much effort into lyrics to the prejudice of music, etc.) are a result of that split, and can be also found in other highly ideologized genres of music (such as punk or black metal). For the sake of comparison, here's a song which was very popular in mid-1970s USSR:
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