The concept of the best for music groups is relatively relative. For fans, their favorite performers are unconditionally the favorites, deserving only the first places in the ratings. We offer Russian rock groups a list of the best performers who made a significant contribution to the development of Russian rock.
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Chaif
Tenth place in the list of the best Russian rock bands is " Chaif ".
1985, Sverdlovsk. Three recent school graduates create the group "Chai-F".The recording of the first amateur album falls into the hands of a local journalist and connoisseur of contemporary music, who dubbed the vocalist of the band Vladimir Shakhrin "the Ural Bob Dylan".In September 1985, "Chai-F" gives its first official concert in the Sverdlovsk culture house. So the legendary rock band "Chaif" appeared now( the hyphen in the title was later removed).In 2015, there will be a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the rock band. To prepare for this date, the group stopped for a year of performances, with the exception of four concerts.
An interesting fact: orange - the corporate color of the group "Chaif".
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Time Machine
" Time Machine " - on the 9th place in the list of the best Russian rock bands. Almost every song of this legendary musical band becomes a hit. The birth of "dinosaurs" of Russian rock took place in 1969.The band had a huge impact on the development of Russian rock, blues and bard songs. On the hits of the "Time Machine" has grown more than one generation and their songs remain relevant and popular now. This year the band turns 47 years old.
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Bi-2
" Bi-2 ", ranked 8th in the list of the best Russian rock bands, is relatively young compared to the other participants in our rating. She appeared in 1988 in the city of Bobruisk. The creators and permanent vocalists of the group are Lyova and Shura. Success in musicians came in 1999 after moving to Russia. Today Bi-2 is one of the most successful groups in Russia. In 2000, several "Bi-2" songs were included in the movie "Brother-2".One of them - "Nobody writes to the Colonel", became incredibly popular and turned into a kind of business card of the group. Now the musicians are working on a new, eleventh album.
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Crematorium
The Crematorium is on the 7th place in the rating of the best Russian rock bands , which had a big impact on the development of domestic rock. The permanent leader of the musical collective and the author of almost all the songs is Armen Grigoryan. There was a group in Moscow in 1983.At first, her performances were limited to apartments, but the rapidly growing popularity among rock parties leads to the fact that the band begins to invite people to perform in other cities. The best album of the band is "Coma", released in 1988."Crematorium" continues to exist and perform in our days.
Interesting fact: the name "Crematorium" appeared quite accidentally and was temporary. The group decided to call provocatively the peak of numerous VIA.When the band became widely known, the name was decided not to be changed.
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Aquarium
The oldest rock band " Aquarium " - in 6th place in our rating. In 2012, the team celebrated its 40th anniversary. The birth of the legendary group took place in 1972 in Leningrad. In occasion of the title Boris Grebenshchikov and the second founder of the "Aquarium", Anatoly Gunitsky, they tell different versions. A year after the founding, the band begins recording the first short albums. Success to the "Aquarium" came in the 1980s. In 1987, the film "Assa" was released, in which several songs of the group were played. One of them, "The City", after the premiere of the film became a hit.
"Aquarium" and Boris Grebenshchikov became cult figures of Russian rock and had invaluable influence on several generations of listeners.
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Agatha Christie
Appearing in 1985 in Sverdlovsk, " Agatha Christie " flared up to the musical sky with a bright meteor and for several years turned into a cult rock band. Its distinctive feature is the depressive nature of songs with deep philosophical content. Over the years, the composition of the group has changed significantly, except for its creators and vocalists - Vadim Samoilov, Alexander Kozlov, and later joined Gleb Samoilov. In 2010, "Agatha Christie" officially ceased to exist. The leaders of the group explained its disintegration by the fact that they have long become people with different life positions. Legendary "Agatha Christie" - in the fifth place in the list of the best Russian rock bands.
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Alisa
" Alice " takes the fourth place in the list of the best Russian rock bands. Appearing in Leningrad in 1983, the band gained wide popularity with a new vocalist and songwriter Konstantin Kinchev.
Now "Alisa" actively performs and prepares for the release of a new album, the draft version of which has already been recorded.
An interesting fact: the fans of the group on the proposal of Kinchev teamed up in the fan club "Army of Alice".
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Nautilus Pompilius
Nautilus Pompilius is another legendary Russian rock band, the beginning of whose creativity falls on the 1980s. The leader of the "Nautilus Pompilius" - Vyacheslav Butusov, a cult figure of Russian rock. The name of the musical collective is dedicated to the shellfish, "which by nature is beautiful and charming" - as the musicians explained in their accompanying note to the second album of the group. The end of the 1980s - the peak of the popularity of the Nautilus. But frequent tours and the change of composition had a negative impact on creativity and tired of constant problems Butusov in 1997 takes a difficult decision for him - to dissolve the group. After the dissolution, the musicians gathered several times in the same composition to participate in festivals and a concert dedicated to the jubilee of the band. Nautilus Pompilius - in third place in the list of the best Russian rock bands.
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DDT
The legend of Russian rock group " DDT " is the second line of our rating. Most of Yury Shevchuk's songs became hits. For the group "DDT" is characterized by a diverse theme of the songs: philosophical questions, love, social and social problems.
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Movies
Victor Tsoi became a legend during his lifetime. His early departure was one of the most tragic events of 1990.The songs " Cinema " do not lose popularity even today, and the places associated with Viktor Tsoi became the object of a kind of pilgrimage of the band's fans.
Victor Tsoi and "Cinema" - in the first place among the best Russian rock bands.
