In our difficult time, when a large percentage of young people spend their free time on social networks, it is almost impossible to see the company of people spending the evening listening to songs with the guitar.
But still some 20-30 years ago, many fans of domestic rock wanted at all costs to learn how to independently perform their favorite songs on the guitar, amazing friends and acquaintances with their talent.
And of course, there were the most popular songs that almost every novice self-taught guitarist was learning.
Introducing the Top 10 Most Popular Modern Guitar Songs.
10. Beetles - Battery
In 1998, the leader of the group “Beetles”Was experiencing a difficult breakup with his first love. Throughout the whole year, he was tormented by loneliness and craving for a lover, who agreed to try to build a relationship again.
Unfortunately or fortunately, this story did not end in any way. 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 with him. The meeting took place at her home.
To the author’s surprise, the girl met him in a benevolent mood, and as the songwriter later admitted, he at some point began to think that she did not mind restoring relations.
What they talked about that evening is unknown. However, at the time of the conversation, Zhukov picked up a battery pulled out of the TV remote control and said: “The battery discharged“. At that moment, he was inspired and in his head words were born for a future hit.
9. The King and the 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.
The hit was first presented to the audience in the True Killer album, released in 1993. In 1994, she entered the album
This song "King and the Clown»Performed at almost every concert. The composition to a certain extent has become the hallmark of the musical collective and has always been performed by them with choral singing in the auditorium.
Interestingthat today it is included in the repertoire of the KnyaZz group, whose leader is Andrey Knyazev.
8. Brainstorm - Wind
In 2005, the participants of this famous Latvian musical group released the album “Four Shores”, which had two versions of publication - for the Russian Federation and the countries of the former Soviet Union, and the European public.
The main single of the album "Lonely feeling", Was translated into Russian and became known as the song"Wind».
The song quickly gained widespread popularity: beginner guitarists began to learn chords in order to perfectly perform “Wind”.
Despite the fact that the members of the group themselves perform their hits in three languages, as they themselves admit, “Wind” sounds much more penetrating precisely in the language of Pushkin.
7. Dancing Minus - Half
This is a famous hit of the popular Russian rock band “Dancing minus“Which was created by Vyacheslav Petkun in 1995.
This musical group released five studio albums, and also several times became the laureate of the prestigious Golden Gramophone award in our country.
6. Aria - Ice Shard
«Ice shard"Became one of the six songs of the album" Chimera "of 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 proposed 11 very different versions of the text. She wanted to make this composition a peculiar continuation of the equally famous songs “Street of Roses” or “Carefree Angel”. However, the result was a completely independent piece of music.
The video for the song “Ice Shard” was filmed in 2002 after Valery Kipelov had already announced his intention to leave the group.
The clip was shot in the Czech Republic. In his story, the band members revived the girl with the help of a magic ritual.
5. Mill - Roads
Song written in country style, which is expressed in the composition by the sound of the accordion.
Poems for this hit were written in 2010 in the USA, and the soloist of the group “Mill”- Khelavisa composed only the refrain, entrusting the creation of the text of verses to her co-author.
The song also contains some events that shocked the whole world, for example, the sudden manifestation of the activity of Eyyafyadlayokyudl volcano, as a result of which air traffic in several European countries was stopped.
"Roads" for 13 weeks kept in the hit parade of Our Radio. The hit more than once rose to leadership positions in popularity, and in the final standings took 9th place, which is a pretty good result.
4. Cinema - A Star Named the Sun
This composition sounds in the painting “The Needle” and was written by the lead singer of the group “Movie”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 the sun"Is considered one of the most famous songs of the group (this is the name of Tsoi’s last lifetime album).
This composition is often learned by people who decide to possess the art of playing the guitar. It enjoys no less popularity among professional musicians who want to create their own cover version.
The song to this day very often sounds on the air of leading radio stations.
3. Bi-2 - Prayer
The authors of this composition were the soloists of the group “B2”- Lyova and Shura, as well as Yan Nikolenko.
The song is not only an independent musical work, but also the soundtrack to the national art picture "Metro".
“Prayer”Became the basis for the trailer for the film, which in addition was presented as a video clip of the team.
This song was the final single on the Spirit album. She got to the radio only a year after the release of the record. According to the lead singer of the group, the composition is a personal prayer of the team members for simple things: the well-being of the group, the health of loved ones, and happiness in their personal lives.
Leva Bi-2 himself describes the song as calm. On the record, it is such a relaxing touch in comparison with other harder tracks.
2. DDT - Snowstorm
The creator of the song is the leader of the group “DDT”Yuri Shevchuk. The composition is considered one of the iconic hits of the collective. Although, the author himself says that it is nothing more than an ordinary village song.
First "Blizzard”Was performed by Shevchuk at acoustic concerts. It was in this “sub-guitar” form that she was included in the television version of the evenings of the DDT leader, held in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the fall of 1997.
1. Chayf - No one will hear (Oi-Yo)
The composition is one of the main in the entire 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 collective in a very difficult period for its members. Shakhrin later recalled how during the perestroika, the old value systems collapsed, and the new ones were still very foggy and the youth began to slowly leave.
The muse visited Shakhrin while fishing, where he went with his father to escape from the bustle of the city.
The air and picturesque views, not poisoned by civilization, had a beneficial effect on the inspiration of the musician, who under their influence managed to write one of the most famous Russian songs “No one will hear. ”