Song stories. Popular songs

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

During the 80s, rock songs became popular. They sounded from the stage, from TV screens, in your favorite films, in the subway, but most often in small apartment houses. Song stories are events that inspired the creation of a text about the meaning of life, about love, about great deeds.

“Blood type…”

The well-known song "Blood Type" appeared in 1987. It was first performed by the Kino group at the fifth festival in the Leningrad Rock Club. Later, this hit sounded in the popular film "The Needle", directed by Richard Naumanov, starring Viktor Tsoi himself. Thanks to this picture, the composition gained popularity for many years.

The stories of the songs of the young band have always been overgrown with legends and intricate inventions. Some believed that the "Blood Type" appeared in the same 1987. Others were convinced that it appeared much earlier. But those and other listeners were united by one thing - a love for strong lyrics and a combination of upcoming changes with time.

Nautilus

After Tsoi's popular songs, including this song, the group covered"Nautilus". And new waves of speculation enveloped her story. It was said that the singer Butusov confesses in the plot “I want to be with you” that is connected with him personally. For example, that this is a story about a girl who wrote letters to Vyacheslav for a long time when he was in the army, and, having not received a single response message, the lover hanged herself. But in fact, this is not true, because Vyacheslav himself never served in the army. Although this became known a few years after the release of "Blood Type", and only thanks to articles from reputable newspapers of that time.

Other fans said the song was about the singer's wife who died in a fire. At that time, it was difficult to distinguish plausible facts from rumors.

In fact, the history of the appearance of this text is much simpler. The creation of songs and poems for the author Ilya Kormiltsev was the stage of a dispute with friends. Once he said that he was able to compose a verse with a chorus in 10 minutes while he was waiting for a meeting with his girlfriend, although the first line of the song - “In a room with a white ceiling …” - Butusov borrowed from another poem. Ilya's participation was limited to writing the text, despite the fact that the cover of the released album indicated the co-authorship of the "Prince of Silence".

I want to be with you

But when Butusov first sang the song "I want to be with you" to his acquaintances and friends, they did not accept it. Many considered it too "pop". The performer himself perceived the song as a personal revelation. This is a story about a man who comes to the knowledge of love as part of the world. Why was this song my favorite?courageous "tramp", fans understand only with time. Similar emotions need to be experienced on your own in order to appreciate the depth of meaning and the peculiar poetry of the text.

Ugly Elsa, Crematorium

The stories of the songs of the Crematorium group are especially interesting. For example, "Ugly Elsa", released with the album "Coma" in 1988.

The prototype of the main character is a real person from the Pit beer shop, where Grigoryan always spent his free time. The woman gained fame because she could willingly run to a nearby stall for a drink. For this, she was often rewarded with a free glass of firewater.

Despite such a negative image, Elsa is a woman who has always loved the truth, was honest. She never deceived a single visitor. That is, she always returned with a drink to those who sent for her. Grigoryan himself remembered that he once had to drink with a local authority, who sent Elsa for vodka. But the shop across the street has already closed. This did not stop the woman. Everyone believed that she would not return, that she took the money and disappeared. But suddenly Elsa appeared at the door, and in her hands she had a jar of pure medical alcohol.

The heroine won the respect of all the visitors of the Pit who were present at that time. Grigoryan had always considered her a colorful lady before, but now the image was complemented by honesty. The epithet "ugly" comes from a very different story that happened much later.

Crematorium

Songs of the 80s haveunexpected roots. Once Armen and his comrades were visiting a friend, but suddenly the writer Venedikt Erofeev suddenly came. And then the plot developed as planned. All the guests, as expected, drank wine, and with them the hostess sipped a glass and went to rest.

When the food on the table was over, Erofeev, being in a state of intoxication, looked around and saw an aquarium full of exotic fish. On this day, the fish were not lucky - they got into the pan. Despite the fact that the fish were very expensive, Japanese, this did not stop the hungry man. When the hostess woke up, she was in shock. In a rage, she kicked everyone out. Armen remembers how that evening the hostess in an old rumpled dressing gown was sitting in an embrace with an aquarium, scratching something on its glass with thin nails slightly chipped from varnish. The author immortalized this picture with the line “Like an animal, you scrape the glass with your claws.”

This is how the unforgettable text (song about Elsa) of the rock band Crematorium appeared, which proves once again that excessive drinking always ends badly.

As for the song "Ugly Elsa", she got into the list of the most beautiful, best songs of rock music. For several years, listeners on the radio ordered it. It sounded several times a day, which once again proved its popularity among the youth of the 80s.

Sunday

But the stories of the songs of the group "Sunday" have less speculation. "Night Bird", included in the repertoire, was dedicated to the drummer Fokin, whose fate brought him to live inAmerica. Therefore, her first title was "Farewell to a Friend."

Nikolsky himself said in his memoirs that the song appeared because of the longing of the failed group, which broke up before becoming firmly on the stage of popularity. The collapse of all hopes led to the creation of such hits as "When you understand with your mind" and "I myself am one of those who hid."

All popular songs were performed in the same 1979 by the soloists of the new group "Sunday". For lovers of Russian rock, this is the beginning of a new life, a taste of freedom and male logic.

In addition to the above groups, the elite of the "kvartirniks" can be called "Alisa", "Time Machine", "Picnic", "Kalinov Bridge" and other groups that live a more real and sincere life.