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> Also seems like Gen X has pretty good musical knowledge overall! It's the generation defined by having watched MTV from the first broadcast to when it stoppe
by usrusr 6y ago
> Also seems like Gen X has pretty good musical knowledge overall!
It's the generation defined by having watched MTV from the first broadcast to when it stopped showing music videos.
- 082349872349872 6y agoI once tried to figure out the soviet equivalent to Video Killed the Radio Star. At the time I thought it had a definite answer (involving people in golden lamé bouncing on trampolines?), but can't seem to re-search it now. Taking "music video" to be an edited video with footage distinct from a studio performance, and not part of a larger work (to avoid musicals), I find 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJApqjVuGb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJApqjVuGb4 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEPghBgTXA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEPghBgTXA Anyone have 1982 or earlier?
- aasasd 6y agoAfaik Soviet ‘estrada’ had lots of videos filmed like they're concert performances but made specifically for TV. With characteristic mannequin stage presence of the artists, the ‘singing hand’, and backing ‘bands’ wriggling incoherently, hands flopping around on the instruments. And no audience shown. The only thing this mess could kill is my will to listen to anything until Western electronic and grunge stuff finally became widely available.
- 082349872349872 6y agoTalk about staying power, a search on "Естрада музика" led me straight to Piekha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYChcUNYy7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYChcUNYy7U Even better because I collect clips involving libraries, and so it goes on a very short list including: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6QDNC4jPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6QDNC4jPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9C2JS9mWc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9C2JS9mWc (singing hand? I'm getting some cool ionophone stuff, as well as a seductive western agent with wardrobe malfunction, but I doubt either of those were the reference... In other news, TIL the russian sign language for "officer" mimes epaulettes. I wonder how the plural is conveyed, maybe duplication?)
- aasasd 6y agoApparently the Piekha's video is part of a film called ‘Moscow In Sounds’, from '69: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XWqhJhvRpmw https://youtube.com/watch?v=XWqhJhvRpmw So I guess it doesn't conform to the criteria for your previous search. But the film supplies material if you have similar collections for other architecture. However, you can easily count e.g. this clip from '60, though the production value is probably not what you expect: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FeK62wesICk https://youtube.com/watch?v=FeK62wesICk The ‘singing hand’ is a term for how the microphone-free hand often was the most animated part of a Soviet singer, being waved around while the rest stays in place. BTW, the Russian spelling is “эстрада” (you won't need “музыка” since that's the primary meaning). Unless you had some other Cyrillic spelling in mind. The videos in your previous search have “эстрада80” as a hashtag. P.S. The real impressive part in ‘Marian the Librarian’ is whatever the hell is going on with everyone's hair.
- 082349872349872 6y agoThanks for the clarifications[1], and sorry I'm not counting that clip[2] in my head-canon, otherwise I'd have to count just about every number from every Blue Light special. Москва в нотах still has its echoes to this day, even if the music[3] has to be imported from the west: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGfuorTdEZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGfuorTdEZg Is the hair much different from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6bRxLzFLv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6bRxLzFLv0 ? (it appears that costume musical comedy often tells us almost as much as the era in which it was filmed as the era which it depicts) [1] especially the singing hand. I see from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dExwT_pEr9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dExwT_pEr9w how soviets (even young athletic komsomolka!) were allowed to either sing xor dance, but never both at the same time. [2] very slightly related: "Над Москвою дожди моросили" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKxd6HJW8sQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKxd6HJW8sQ [3] somewhere there is an excellent Lolita/Gazmanov interpretation of Felicita which I can no longer find.
- aasasd 6y agoEh, that hair is realistic. Whereas in '62 somebody spent a ton of gel and time combing all those smooth waves. Can't find a higher-res vid aside from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYdwyiO0Zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYdwyiO0Zg