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In our difficult time, when a large percentage of young people spend their free time on social networks, it is almost impossible to see companies of people who spend the evening listening to songs with a guitar.
But even some 20-30 years ago, many fans of domestic rock wanted by all means to learn how to independently perform their favorite compositions on the guitar, striking their friends and acquaintances with their talent.
And of course, there were the most popular songs that almost every self-taught aspiring guitarist learned. We present the top 10 modern most popular guitar songs.
10 Beetles – Battery
In 1998, the leader of the group “Beetles” was going through a difficult breakup with his first love. For a whole year, he was tormented by loneliness and craving for his beloved, who agreed to try to build a relationship again.
Unfortunately or fortunately, this story never ended. The main thing is that thanks to the unrequited love for the girl, a wonderful song was born.
Legend has it that at the end of 1998, the ex-lover of the lead singer of the group agreed to meet him. The meeting took place at her home.
To the surprise of the author, the girl met him in a benevolent mood, and as the author of the song later admitted, at some point it began to seem to him that she was not against restoring relations.
What they talked about that evening is unknown. However, at the moment of the conversation, Zhukov picked up a battery pulled out of the TV remote control and said: “My battery is almost done“. At that moment, inspiration hit him and words for a future hit were born in his head.
9. King and Jester – Forester
This song was written in 1991. So to say, the draft version of the composition was very different from the one we know now.
For the first time the hit was presented to the audience in the album “True Killer”, released in 1993. In 1994, she entered the album
This song “King and Jesterperformed at almost every concert. The composition, to a certain extent, became the hallmark of the musical group and was always performed by them with the choral singing of the auditorium.
Interestinglythat today it is included in the repertoire of the KnyaZz group, whose leader is Andrey Knyazev.
8. Brainstorm – Wind
In 2005, the members of this well-known Latvian musical group released the album “Four Shores”, which had two editions – for the Russian Federation and the countries of the post-Soviet space, and for the European public.
The album’s lead singleLonely Feeling“, was translated into Russian and became known as the song”Wind».
The song very quickly gained wide popularity: novice guitarists began to learn chords in order to perfectly perform “Wind”.
Despite the fact that the band members themselves perform their hits in three languages, as they themselves admit, “Wind” sounds much more heartfelt precisely in the language of Pushkin.
7. Dancing Minus – Half
This is a well-known hit of the popular domestic rock band “Dancing Minus“, which was created by Vyacheslav Petkun in 1995.
This musical group has released five studio albums, and several times became the winner of the prestigious Golden Gramophone award in our country.
6. Aria – Shard of Ice
«Ice shard“became one of the six songs on the album “Chimera” by the legendary rock band”Aria“, which were added to the rotation of the most popular radio stations in Russia.
During the creation of this hit, Margarita Pushkina offered 11 very different versions of the text. She wanted to make this composition a kind of continuation of the equally famous songs “Rose Street” or “Careless Angel”. However, as a result, an absolutely independent piece of music came out.
The video for the song “Shard of Ice” was filmed in 2002 after Valery Kipelov had already announced his intention to leave the group.
The video was filmed in the Czech Republic. According to its plot, the members of the group revived the girl with the help of a magical ritual.
5. Mill – Roads
The song is written in country style, which is expressed in the composition by the sound of the accordion.
The lyrics for this hit were written in 2010 in the USA, and the soloist of the group “Mill”- Helavisa composed only the chorus, entrusting the creation of the text of the verses to her co-author.
The song also contains some events that shocked the whole world at that time, for example, the sudden manifestation of the activity of the Eyyafjallajokull volcano, as a result of which air travel was stopped in a number of European countries.
“Roads” for 13 weeks he was in the charts of Our Radio. The hit has repeatedly risen to leadership positions in popularity, and in the final standings took 9th place, which is a fairly good result.
4. Cinema – A Star Called the Sun
This composition sounds in the film “Needle” and was written by the soloist of the group “Cinema” Viktor Tsoi in Kazakhstan just during the filming of the film.
The author of poetry and music is Viktor Tsoi himself. He is the first performer of the composition.
«A star named Sun”is considered one of the most famous songs of the group (this is even the name of Tsoi’s last lifetime album).
This composition is often learned by people who have decided to master the art of playing the guitar. It is no less popular among professional musicians who want to create their own cover version.
The song is still very often heard on the air of leading radio stations.
3. Bi-2 – Prayer
The authors of this composition were the soloists of the group “Bi-2”- Lyova and Shura, as well as Yan Nikolenko.
The song is not only an independent piece of music, but also a soundtrack to the domestic art film “Metro”.
“Prayer” became the basis for the trailer of the film, which was also presented as a video clip of the band.
This song became the final single in the album “Spirit”. She got on the radio only a year after the release of the record. According to the soloist of the group, the composition is a personal prayer of the band members for simple things: the well-being of the group, the health of relatives and friends, and happiness in their personal lives.
Lyova Bi-2 himself describes the song as calm. On the record, it’s such a relaxing touch compared to other harder tracks.
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The creator of the song is the leader of the group “DDT” Yuri Shevchuk. The composition is considered one of the band’s iconic hits. Although, the author himself says that it is nothing more than an ordinary village song.
First “Snowstorm” was performed by Shevchuk at acoustic concerts. It was in this “guitar” form that she was included in the television version of the DDT leader’s evenings held in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the fall of 1997.
1. Chaif - No one will hear (Oh-Yo)
The composition is one of the main ones in all the work of the musical group, along with such hits as “Argentina-Jamaica” and “Let everything be as you want.”
The song appeared in the repertoire of the famous musical group in a very difficult period for its members. Shakhrin later recalled how, during perestroika, the old value systems collapsed, while the new ones were still very vague, and youth slowly began to fade away.
Muse visited Shakhrin while fishing, where he went with his father to escape from the bustle of the city.
The air not poisoned by civilization and picturesque views had a beneficial effect on the inspiration of the musician, who, under their influence, managed to write one of the most famous Russian songs.Nobody will hear.”