The subject matter, mostly. I mean, it's only three songs, so it's not a proper sample, and if a person were given "Junior's Farm," "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," and "Bungalow Bill" (first three really weird songs that come to mind) they would have a skewed view of anglophone popular music in the sixties to today. I also know the fact that it is a foreign language to me makes it sound that much more strange...and even though I can hear that Russian is Indo-European if I pay close attention, it is not easy to year, as it would be if I were hearing German or Italian.
That being said. What strange subject matter?!?! What is the intended audience of the two you posted? Also, when were they made? Ever since I bumped into the Russien Sherlock Holmes I've been quite interested in Soviet art/culture. I don't know much about it, but...yeah...it's interesting to me. Honestly, the Eduard Khil thing made me think of the prole woman singing in 1984, which was just bizarre, but the two you posted are more just weird and funny...and possibly not from the USSR anyway (I'm bad with identifying hairstyles, etc.)
Anyway, if you can shed any light, I'd appreciate it. Like I said, this is only one short step beyond idle curiosity at this point, but my curiosity is definitely piqued. And the articles you translated about the Russian Holmes were very enlightening. :-)
These songs are from the USSR. The First grader's song and the black cat song are children's songs...click on the "song" tag in my LJ and scroll through...or click on tags for "edita piekha" and "andrei mironov"--you'll find more grown-up songs there.
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That being said. What strange subject matter?!?! What is the intended audience of the two you posted? Also, when were they made? Ever since I bumped into the Russien Sherlock Holmes I've been quite interested in Soviet art/culture. I don't know much about it, but...yeah...it's interesting to me. Honestly, the Eduard Khil thing made me think of the prole woman singing in 1984, which was just bizarre, but the two you posted are more just weird and funny...and possibly not from the USSR anyway (I'm bad with identifying hairstyles, etc.)
Anyway, if you can shed any light, I'd appreciate it. Like I said, this is only one short step beyond idle curiosity at this point, but my curiosity is definitely piqued. And the articles you translated about the Russian Holmes were very enlightening. :-)
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Does that explain anything?
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Now I am no longer weirded out.
(Well..acutally...I find children songs in any language to be frighteningly weird...but yeah...you know what I mean.)
perhaps you might find these two more to your taste? ;)
http://med-cat.livejournal.com/128704.html
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It sounds very different than Russian when sung in opera... (which is only to be expected...but it's cool to hear the difference)
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Mironov was a great actor!
Давайте жить... припеваючи!:)
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