Wow! I'm a musician, hi!)) Yes, Russian taste looks strange. But explanation is simple. Rock records slips through Iron Curtain mostly thanks to merchant sailors, with average price about month salaries per vynil. So who could afford it? Golden kids of Party elite. But this kind of people don't want anything "dirty". So average Soviet rock fan was pressed to listen Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Yes, ABBA, and other more pleasant - sounding groups. Even Zeppelins was a kind of "guilty pleasure" and very rare. Also our folk music have very different roots. Unlike Europe, where music was mainly for dancing and celebrations and performed by men, in Russia folk songs are strictly for women, who gathered together in someone house, for knitting. They singing while sitting, without any instruments, so Russians are very into simple, choir-like melodies, but deaf to rhytmic things or musician work. So no wonder - only one Prince song more or less known here is "Most Beautiful Girl In The World". P.S. Still wonder why you visit us so often. Is it a kind of challenge for you? Russia is extreme, very different and of enormous complexity. Maybe one of most complex societies in the world. Sometimes I think you are just a butterfly... but very brave one))
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Date: 2016-04-25 05:44 pm (UTC)Yes, Russian taste looks strange. But explanation is simple.
Rock records slips through Iron Curtain mostly thanks to merchant sailors, with average price about month salaries per vynil. So who could afford it? Golden kids of Party elite. But this kind of people don't want anything "dirty". So average Soviet rock fan was pressed to listen Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Yes, ABBA, and other more pleasant - sounding groups. Even Zeppelins was a kind of "guilty pleasure" and very rare.
Also our folk music have very different roots. Unlike Europe, where music was mainly for dancing and celebrations and performed by men, in Russia folk songs are strictly for women, who gathered together in someone house, for knitting. They singing while sitting, without any instruments, so Russians are very into simple, choir-like melodies, but deaf to rhytmic things or musician work. So no wonder - only one Prince song more or less known here is "Most Beautiful Girl In The World".
P.S. Still wonder why you visit us so often. Is it a kind of challenge for you? Russia is extreme, very different and of enormous complexity. Maybe one of most complex societies in the world. Sometimes I think you are just a butterfly... but very brave one))