Musings of the Obsessive Kind

Youtube is the best thing ever! I just found the title song of Phantom of the Opera in Russian! Performed at a concert by two Russian pop singers (I guess that would be the term) at a concert. And one of them is Alexandr Malinin, who I am unhip enough to really really love.

( The phaaaaantom of the opera is here...in Russian )

OMG! Further cross-culture shock. Muslim Magomayev singing 'Love Story' in English! (His 60s song 'Beauty Queen' is one my faves):

( Song here )

In case you are wondering, I found Malinin singing his normal stuff on youtube. It's awesome.

( Alexandr Malinin )

And since I am on a Russian song kick, here are some more songs, sung by Lev Leshenko, 1970s (???) singer. I am old-fashioned so I really like them as I grew up around them. Plus, I have a huge thing for WWII songs and some of them are.

( Songs here )

Oh God, I love Soviet songs. I can't help it. I just got a whole bunch of burned CDs of them.

( More here, I'll be ETAing them for a while )

One of my favorite songs 'Prekrasnoye dalyoko' from the movie 'Visitoress (yeah, it's the feminine of visitor' from the future' based on a novel by a famous Russian YY and adul scifi author Kir Bulyichev. Gosh, I still love him, and I loved the movie and the song (the boy lead in this one gets tortured to protect the girl. Are we sensing a pattern in my fictional boyfriends from childhood.) I still sing this song all the time, and I remember singing it from childhood. I have so many associations with it and even my husband recognizes it. And they played it at our wedding.

( Song here )

Not a Soviet but a modern MV. I really like it.

( here it is )

OMG! Songs sung by Muslim Magomaev:

( Songs here )

Youtube is the best thing ever! I just found the title song of Phantom of the Opera in Russian! Performed at a concert by two Russian pop singers (I guess that would be the term) at a concert. And one of them is Alexandr Malinin, who I am unhip enough to really really love.

( The phaaaaantom of the opera is here...in Russian )

OMG! Further cross-culture shock. Muslim Magomayev singing 'Love Story' in English! (His 60s song 'Beauty Queen' is one my faves):

( Song here )

In case you are wondering, I found Malinin singing his normal stuff on youtube. It's awesome.

( Alexandr Malinin )

And since I am on a Russian song kick, here are some more songs, sung by Lev Leshenko, 1970s (???) singer. I am old-fashioned so I really like them as I grew up around them. Plus, I have a huge thing for WWII songs and some of them are.

( Songs here )

Oh God, I love Soviet songs. I can't help it. I just got a whole bunch of burned CDs of them.

( More here, I'll be ETAing them for a while )

One of my favorite songs 'Prekrasnoye dalyoko' from the movie 'Visitoress (yeah, it's the feminine of visitor' from the future' based on a novel by a famous Russian YY and adul scifi author Kir Bulyichev. Gosh, I still love him, and I loved the movie and the song (the boy lead in this one gets tortured to protect the girl. Are we sensing a pattern in my fictional boyfriends from childhood.) I still sing this song all the time, and I remember singing it from childhood. I have so many associations with it and even my husband recognizes it. And they played it at our wedding.

( Song here )

Not a Soviet but a modern MV. I really like it.

( here it is )

OMG! Songs sung by Muslim Magomaev:

( Songs here )