New Wave Outpost Forum

Hi dont forget the russian new wawe proto and post perestroika
the have a great Punk and new wawe scene in russia since the end of the 70's and in the 80's

Some web sites and essentials bands of the russian new wawe called also tukowska


Kino certainly the russian soviet equivalent of joy division
a band with really dark an pessimistic lyrics

http://www.kinoman.net/

Ddt

http://www.ddtworld.spb.ru/

Mummy troll the veterans of vladivostok pop rock band
since 1981

http://www.mumiytroll.com/


neprikasemye another great russian band

http://www.neprikasaemye.ru/

Some other web site adress in this site

http://www.dharmafish.org/s1012/sources ... rib_id=102

Today i find an excellent russian new wawe band Lp from the perestroika era called Homeless

Of course russian new wawe is really strange especially for the europeans and americans ears when this bands singing in russian


bye

pilon

It's probly more on the disco dancing side but does CCCP count?

I remember picking up an LP in 1986 called "Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR", which included bands like Aquarium, etc.

A little digging found the following cover:

<img src="http://www.planetaquarium.com/discography/covers/images/redwave.

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Eastern records covers are in generally really strange and made on cheap papers

look a this web site

http://eerock.boom.ru/

And this links page whith many web sites from eastern new wawe story and bands

http://eerock.boom.ru/

Thanks!
This is really interesting for me. Do we have any Russian members here that were Wavers in the old Soviet Union?
I wonder what the whole scene was like?

Hello Everybody!

Sorry for my pour english. I hope than I'm the first member from Russia, Moscow. By the way, I'm a creator of Rock from Eastern Europe site [http://eerock.boom.ru]. I like western pop/rock too, but I hate Russian pop music. Why? Please

Ochen Preyetna!
Ya ne Ruski ya Americanyets.
Vi horosho govareet par ongleeske.

So please tell us what the music scene was like in Russia between 1979 and 1985.

Spiceba. [:)]

Hi Jimbo!
Thank you for comming. Your Russian is nishtiak (a rissian slang, it means Ok ).
Imho pop/rock scene of 1979-1985 is a golden era of Russian Music. I was born in 1959. At these moment (1979-1985) I liked to listen to russian outfits: Alexe

hey rinat,
what is your opinion of Tatu ? are they any good ? they seem to have a cool "look"--but looks aren't everything, ha ha.

i lived in Riga, Latvia (in the Peace Corps) from '92-'94. from what i gathered, it didn't seem like there was a lot o

Tatu? It's not for me: I'm too old to listen to their music. I have no words (imho two singing dolls ))). I'm from another generation of music fans.
During the sovet period the Baltic countries had a "special status". They were our "Soviet West". The

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Yes baltic eras are really active and more near of western world


this nordic lands [ estonia , lithuania , lettonia ]and aeras have really good scenes in the 80's for some reasons , one of this reasons is because their western ge

thanks guys,
those were helpful.
Rinat,
i do understand what you mean when you say the Baltic youth had a different mentality than their peers in the USSR. their exposure to some Western radio stations, for example, was part of that.

if anyone is i

I have a compilation of Latvian language 'alternative' music from 1997 entitled "Singlu Kolekcija ,, Tudalin Tagadin". It is a fairly good album that I just accidentally happened upon in a second-hand music shop. Some of the standout bands and tracks are:

Hello Dear Friends,

To KYYX4ever. Thank you for information. During the Soviet period Baltic counries had own division of Melodia (soviet recording company) and the record plant in Riga. It was very difficulty to bay LP's from this area.

To Ex

I was kind of curious what the official Soviet view was of some of these New Wave Russian bands. Did they barely tolerate them or did they just not care as long as it was not overtly subversive?

Also, how hard was it to get Western records in Moscow ba