Always second. Otpetye moshenniki.


What is it to be always second. Of cause somebody is needed to be second. But to be always second, to be done as a second. That is great too. Then the wave`s high, second means far beyond mediocrity. Otpetye moshenniki were in a shadow. You are just the next to the top, but nobody knows your name as if you were twenty second. So their style was an average next door boys gang, one was the pretty cute lad, with whom you may want to have funny business, one was the funny big dude, and one was slim weasel type of guy, so average crush, destroy, and sleazy. In other words one team, they perfectly dovetailed each other.

Music was average as well, there were hits, but not masterpiece. They were fillings, not the main course. And they honestly did what was needed. It is impossible for radio or television to air the best of the best emotionally charged megehits all hour long. There is necessity for a breake, a pause, a backdrop between heaps. It was good pop fodder for stuffing any longevity. It would be mistake to think about them as not good pop, they were very good but for another purpose.

Indispensable listening is all that would pop-up at search or request.

So what`s the point. The matter of fact is that intense, emotionally involved listening of music may last for forty minutes, in some occasion for an hour, but no more than an hour and a half in any case. By the way it`s a standard for various classical music`s forms and genres. But situations where the music must sound longer is in an abundance. Above mentioned radio and television for example. Is their music was good enough for party or dancing, absolutely.

Local dance clubs began to appear in the country at the same period as the big wave had come. They were the new places. Where the saturday`s night fever had happened before. In soviet union it was houses that was ruled by local government officials that hosted the dancing evenings for young workers, clerks and others. There young men and women could meet each other in a pleasant, joyful atmosphere of the weekend`s evening. Then union had gone it system fell apart as well. There were ten or more years then there weren`t an entertainment of such kind at all. School dances existed at school, parties has been thrown at dorm halls, but all this wasn`t a dance club to meet someone new.

So the local dance club as it represents itself in ideal. It locates in a basement, there is no windows, there is no doors, one space combines all, first of all the dance floor, then the bar with bartenders men or women, then the tables where the companies may sit, then a play zone with billiards. That is really enough for the perfect evening.

Head toward the club not long before the midnight, take a nap and supper before and be well groomed. To entrance you buy tickets, its cost ranges from one to three beers. You leave your coats and enter the club. Take a shot (fifty milliliters) or two of vodka, order a beer (half liter), then be sitting at the bar while drinking your beer and embracing the mood of the evening. After your spirits has raised go and dance, it will three to five fast song followed by one or two slow one. During the slow you should dance in pair or go to the bar to raise your confidence, usually guys invite girls to dance but you also may be so cute or stupid so a girl would take the rein. Then take the table to make new company or join the existing one. Order snacks and jugs. Repeat in it any sequences and enjoy it. You should leave the club short after three a.m. So good luck.

Well can you endure three hour of divine perfect music. No way. Should music be bad, why if russian pop can easily deliver you thirty three our of very good music. The music should be decent, not disturbing, even if it`s disturbingly elevating, rather entertaining. No need to cast out the first range groups or compositions, but between them should sounds the seconds. And it brings the harmony to the music experience. The big wave of russian pop music we are talking about was a finely balanced, with its firsts, seconds, and as we see later even with tertiary groups.