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Songs of the 80s and 90s are still listened to, especially foreign ones – they are easy to sing, they are quickly remembered, many people sing them even in the 2000s.
Music of the 80s and 90s seems more attractive than modern music for a reason, because to a greater extent it was made by people on musical instruments. Now the basis of the Russian musical composition is recruited on computerized electronics, verses, measures, choruses are looped. As a result, the music is somehow inanimate.
In theory, it is designed to cheer up, but for some reason many people want to include old, soulful, creative music videos, and not those that are offered now.
And you have such an opportunity! From the article you will learn the top 10 most popular Russian and foreign songs of the 80-90s – perhaps from this list there is something that you want to listen to.
10 Alexander Barykin — Bouquet
Alexander Alexandrovich Barykin – guitarist, composer and singer. Together with Vladimir Kuzmin, he released a mini-album in 1981, which became a success.
But fame came to him a little later – in 1987, when the singer sang a soulful song about love «Bouquet». It was created very easily, according to Alexander Barykin, at that time he was interested in poetry, and one day he bought himself a collection of a poet about whom he knew nothing – Nikolai Rubtsov. It was in this collection that he saw and read the poem “Bouquet”. Alexander decided that it was necessary to write a song without delay, and after 15 minutes it was ready.
9. Boney M.— Ma baker
Group «Boney M.» was created in 1975 in Germany by producer Frank Farian. For the first time the group performed in Moscow in 1978, since that time the group “Boney M.” gave 10 concerts in Russia and received permission to film on Red Square.
Interesting fact: the basis of the song “Ma baker” lay down a real story about a gangster group, led by a woman named Mother Barker. During the Great Depression, she terrorized banks in the company of her 4 sons. Frank Farian, having read about the gang in a book about organized crime in the United States, was inspired and created a song in collaboration with Hans Meyer.
8. Ladybug – Granite pebble
“Granite stone” – the famous song of the group “Ladybug”. Without it, it was hard to imagine the discos of the 80s.
The listeners were attracted not only by the music, but also by the text with instructive content: “Don’t go to meet him, don’t go – he has a granite stone in his chest”. Now the words from the song still do not lose their relevance – young girls should listen to the group’s instructions and avoid people who have a cold, stone heart …
Interesting fact: “Ladybug” overdubbed her song on the film “Faustin and the Beautiful Summer”, France, 1971.
7. Kar-Man – Chao, bambino
«Bye Bombino» – a real hit of the 90s. group founded in 1989 car man, which began to gain popularity so quickly that the whole country became aware of it in a couple of months.
During Soviet times, it was the first duet consisting of two men who performed songs of their own composition. For the beginning of the 1990s, the clip “Chao, Bambino” was very stylish, but even after a while it looks with interest.
In the video, you can see the beautiful choreography, the chorus consists of these words: “Ciao, bambino, signorina is crying, Fortune, give me a chance, please. Everybody dance with me and you.
6. C. C. Catch — Strangers by night
CC Catch – German singer Carolina Katharina Müller, who became widely known thanks to the stage name C.C. Ketch, under which she worked. Performs pop and disco songs.
In the clip «Strangers by night» typical atmosphere of the 80s, the song creates a state of love, creates a mood of novelty and an upsurge of energy.
Interesting fact: in the 80s it was fashionable to “draw” almond-shaped cat’s eyes and make high, lush hairstyles (bouffant), which are just an integral part of the image of the group’s soloist. In addition, her favorite color was black, and the singer preferred leather clothes (in the 80s, grunge was just emerging – leather pants with studs, denim jackets were very fashionable).
5. Savage — Goodbye
Savage is the pseudonym of the legendary Italian singer and producer Roberto Zanetti. He is a characteristic representative of the Italo disco of the 1980s.
Roberto began his career with an ordinary hobby – at the age of 14 he enrolled in piano courses, and at the same time he got his first experience in musical groups: L’inchiesta, Fathima EI Pronipoti, I Sangria.
Zanetti presented his first debut album to the public in 1984, it was called “Tonight”, the singles became real super hits.
Interesting fact: Savage concerts still draw crowds of fans. song «Goodbye» you can listen to endlessly, it sings about what is familiar to many of us: “Goodbye, just words in your mind, your eyes can’t hide the fact that love has died, tonight you hug someone else…”
4. Natalie – The wind blew from the sea
The song was included in the Afisha magazine as one of the brightest and most memorable Russian pop hits of 1991-2000. According to Natalie, “yard-folk songs on three chords” liked her since childhood.
Starting from the age of 11, the singer went to the camp every summer, where she learned to play the guitar, where she also performed on stage. It was then that Natalie first met the song “Wind was blowing from sea”, and began to perform it from the age of 13. But she doesn’t remember exactly where she heard it – in a pioneer camp or in the yard.
3. Mirage – Music connected us
In the song “Music has tied us” very memorable words are sung: “Music has connected us, it has become our secret, I tell all persuasions in response: we will not be separated, no”, not a single themed disco can do without this hit of the 80s.
The song is cheerful, dancing, reminiscent of a carefree student life, when you wanted to run away from home to friends, and relax, dance, have fun, not thinking about anything … “Music connected us” of the group “Mirage” – this is a kind of anthem for the youth of the 80s.
2. Tender May – White roses
“Tender May” – the first group in the USSR, focused on youth. In the late 80s, it gained great fame not only among young people, but also among the older generation, largely due to the fact that its participants were teenagers from orphanages.
To the song “White roses”, which is performed by Yuri Shatunov, all the girls cried at concerts, as it tells about the experiences of a teenager. The song is very touching, sweet and simple.
The sad song can still be heard on the radio, and it is ordered in various establishments: cafes, restaurants.
1. Evgeny Belousov – My blue-eyed girl
Evgeny Belousov died at a young age – he was only 32 years old. It is known that all the time he struggled with his stage image, saying that he loved completely different music – rock, but he did not like his stage image.
Zhenya Belousov has repeatedly said that he became a hostage of a stage image that contradicted his nature. Colleagues insisted that Zhenya was much smarter than that sugary guy on stage, performing simple songs.
Millions of girls loved exactly the romantic image, but in life Eugene was different – he could stand up for himself, knew how to handle weapons, loved cars.
But despite this, the song “My blue-eyed girl” so sincerely and sincerely only he could fulfill.