Comments on: No Gorky Park?

No Gorky Park?

drezdn — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:48:02 -0800

You heard it here first, ex-soviet, a blog for all the soviet music fan in us all.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:54:12 -0800

I type english good.

By: Swampjazz!

Swampjazz! — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:54:36 -0800

in soviet union, blog downloads you

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:01:45 -0800

Damn. I thought it was going to be a blog from one of the (former) members of the NYC band, Soviet.

By: andrewmlin

andrewmlin — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:09:34 -0800

Just what I needed!

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:20:56 -0800

Where is Gorky Park, anyway? : )

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:48:23 -0800

Just follow the Moskva.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:22:21 -0800

I like this one. Good work, Tatyana.

By: indiebass

indiebass — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:45:12 -0800

"You arrogant ass! You've blogged us!" *BOOM*

By: loquax

loquax — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:35:54 -0800

No discussion of Soviet music is complete without a nod to Vladimir Vysotsky.

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:40:44 -0800

Great find, drezdn! Oh does this brings me back. I haven't heard Anna German for years. I thought it would just be a lot of Ukrainian covers of Soviet classics. Liza Umarova's an odd one. Her songs are so derivative of Soviet hits about the 'Great Patriot War' one almost suspects parody. But she's pretty humorless. She sounds a lot like Zhanna Bichevskaja would, if Zhanna smoked papirosy.

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:39:00 -0800

If anyone is interested in downloading Russian music you can find a bunch of sites here. If you'll excuse me, I am going to go listen to the Internationale in Armenian, Turkish and Korean.

By: Venadium

Venadium — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:30:02 -0800

shoepal, I was thinking (and hoping) the same.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:15:07 -0800

Heh. Funny. When I do marathon coding sessions, I find I like to play -- over and over, without respite -- various covers of the The Internationale and later versions of Soviet national anthems. Indeed, I've been playing them for the last three days or so. The' 44 Soviet Anthem (the one Stalin commissioned), as sung in English by Paul Robison, always thrills when that baritone rumbles out "...and Stalin our Leader..." Ironically it's off the album Songs for Free Men. But the Red Army mass chorus version is the best. It just rolls over you like a human wave attack. There's something about totalitarian music. Though I don't really enjoy, so and so much less frequently listen to, Der Fahne Hoch a.k.a. Horst Wessellied which memorializes the murder of socialists by the eponymous Nazi "martyr". But the national anthem of the former East Germany is a pretty tune. You can find lots of songs for your Cold War nostalgia here.

By: c13

c13 — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:36:38 -0800

No discussion of Soviet music is complete without a nod to Vladimir Vysotsky. Well, you can listen to him as well.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:30:46 -0800

Best. Use. of No. 897. EVAR.

By: jba

jba — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:12:36 -0800

shoepal and Venadium, Amanda B from soviet is now in a new band, Fiasco, that has put on some fun shows and a couple of great tunes. She last told me they would be putting some songs on itunes shortly. Dunno the status, but watchout! :-) Soviet is supposedly re-tooling at the moment, but i haven't seen much from them for a while.

By: cindileper

cindileper — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:15:34 -0800

Never forget Kino. They were amazing. They carried the torch after Vysotsky died.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:09:54 -0800

Thanks JBA! You rock!