Vocabulary of rock communication. A short course in rock music slang xx

07.03.2019

rock

m. app. year, summer.

Star. time, fixed, time, time, doba. Priiti .... to the doomed rock. And the Jews did not become that rock.

Now, fate, predestination, fate, inevitable, narrowed. Muslims believe in rock, Christians in providence. Do not miss rock. You can't go against rock. He is killed, oppressed by fate. No one will leave their fate. Rock heads looking. The fate of the guilty (the fate of the doomed) will find. Fast marriage visible rock. Be afraid, don't be afraid, and without fate there is no death. The fateful day, the anniversary of the fateful affair; urgent, urgent, when something should be done, decided; when fate decides, fate decided, or an important event. Happy for dinner, fatal under the butt.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov

rock

rock, pl. no, m. (book). Fate (obsolete poet.). Rock envious misfortune threatens me again. Pushkin. And what is taken once in life, fate cannot take away from us. Nekrasov. And on the brow left fate in the midst of young days the seal of passions. Lermontov.

In Greek mythology and mystical ideas - the otherworldly power or the will of a deity, which predetermines the events of human and earthly life in general.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova.

rock

A, m, (high). Unfortunate fate (in 1 value). By the will of fate. Evil r. gravitates over kvm-n.

rock

    A, m. Usually eccentric pop music, saturated with socio-dramatic expression, performed in fast rhythms, more often on electronic instruments, with voice(s). Electronic r. Heavy r. (with amplified sound, especially energetic, hard and dynamic, causing aggressive excitement of the listeners).

    Ah, m. The same as rock and roll (colloquial).

    unchangeable Related to rock music. Dance in the style of r. Jazz-r.

    adj. also rbkovy, -th, -th. Rock music.

New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova.

Rock (Calvados)

Rock- a commune in France, located in the Lower Normandy region. Department of the commune - Calvados. It is part of the canton of Lisieux 1st canton. District of the commune - Lisieux.

The INSEE code of the commune is 14540.

Rock (album)

"Rock"- the sixth album of the group "Naive". Also, this disc is the first live CD, recorded on the 12th anniversary of the band at the SDK MAI on December 2, 2000. The album was re-released in 2004 new version album, instead of a live recording of the song "Rock", a studio recording appeared.

Rock (lake)

Lake Rock- a lake in southeastern Wisconsin, USA. The lake lies 20 miles east of Madison, Wisconsin.

Rock (county, Minnesota)

Rock is a county in the state of Minnesota, USA. Capital and The largest city- Luverne. As of the 2009 census estimate, the county has a population of 9,483. The area is 1251 km², of which 1250.4 km² is land and 0.63 km² is water. The population density is 8 people/km².

Rock (county, Nebraska)

Rock County- a county located in the state of Nebraska, USA with a population of 1526 people according to the 2010 census. There are two communities in the county - the city of Basset, which is the county seat of the county, and the village of Newport.

Rock (county seat)

There are three counties in the United States of America named Rock :

  • Rock is a county in the state of Wisconsin.
  • Rock is a county in the state of Minnesota.
  • Rock is a county in the state of Nebraska.

Rock (film)

« Rock”- a documentary film by Alexei Uchitel dedicated to Soviet rock in the 1980s. According to critics, this was the first film covering the theme of Russian rock, shot by domestic experts. The filming took place in the places of work of rock musicians, including in "Kamchatka", which is now the place of memory of Viktor Tsoi, and on the street. Rubinstein, 13, in the Leningrad rock club (V rock festival). A bonus to the DVD, released in the late 1990s, was a report on the funeral of the poet A. Bashlachev, one of the most prominent figures in rock culture of those years.

Rock (studio)

Creative and production association "Rock" is a Russian film company engaged in the production of feature and documentaries. CEO- Alexey Uchitel. Producer - Kira Saksaganskaya.

Rock (Big Su tributary)

Rock- a river in the United States, in southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa.

It originates in the territory of Pipestone County, Minnesota, 21 km northeast of the city of Pipestone. It flows predominantly in a southerly direction, flowing through the territory of Rock County and Lyon County. It then turns southwest and flows through Su County. It flows into the Big Su River about 10 km north of the city of Howarden. The length of the river is about 232 km.

In the lower reaches, it receives a large tributary, Little Rock (about 120 km). The following settlements are located on the banks of the river: Holland, Egerton, Luverne, Rock Rapids, Doon and Rock Valley.

Rock (county, Wisconsin)

Rock County is located in Wisconsin, USA. Officially formed in 1836. As of 2010, the population was 160,331.

Rock (Haute Garonne)

Rock(, Also Roque-sur-Garon listen)) is a commune in France, located in the Midi-Pyrenees region. Department - Upper Garonne. It is part of the canton of Porte-sur-Garon. District of the commune - Muret.

The INSEE code for the commune is 31458.

Examples of the use of the word rock in the literature.

It was this morning that her childhood friend, Helen de Rock, abbess of Montglan.

As paradoxical as it may seem, rock more willingly accepted the ideas of fret-modal and avant-garde jazz, ignoring earlier harmonic traditions.

It included Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy and Planning, one of the authors of the Cuban reforms, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Deputy Foreign Minister Isabel Allende and members of the State Council Felipe Perez Roque and Jose R.

most shi rock about mid 80s domestic rock was presented at the underground level, where many interesting and highly professional bands were formed, which did not set themselves the task of entering the official stage.

It's just yours rock brought his father to Holland where he met the woman, Anneke van Drost, who became his wife, and he saw Spanish Catholics, priests and the Inquisition for the first time.

Nobody changed the story rock in just one year the way the Beatles did in 1963.

The hero fights rock, the hero struggles with fate, the hero struggles with chance: here are three parallel formulations of the struggle with death in three genres, varying the same thing depending on the nature of the comprehension that creates them.

To heighten the effect, he could calmly withstand any blow with a pole, but jokes are bad with a mace: a blow to the head, heartily slapped Rock, could easily deprive him of his feelings.

A minivan with a running engine is standing on the side of the road, the driver's door is open, blue smoke flies out of the exhaust pipe, rock comes from the cockpit.

That way I could end up in Castle Roque, kill Homer Gamache and print your fingers all over his car.

You are beautiful, like a miracle, you are fate, eternal rock

For your wondrous gaze, all people - all in a row - are ready to fall, Even all the steppe deer are ready to fall for your look, All for your single lock, they say, they are ready to fall, For the outfit you put on, Rum, Baghdad are ready to fall, And confusion before you I am embraced, ready to fall - You are beautiful, like a miracle, you are fate, eternal rock: No matter how you torment me with anger, I have neither grief nor anxiety.

endure anger rock And we will wait for change: Fate, cruel goddess, Yesterday a flower, today a corpse, Changing, our destiny will change With a smile of capricious lips.

It seemed to her that she was far from Mr. Gaunt, from Necessary Things, from Castle Rock, even from.

If you have recently discovered this huge world rock music, then this article is for you. Here you will learn a lot of new words that rockers like to use in communication with like-minded people.

Underground - underground music. Until 1980, the underground was virtually all rock. Now the most radical punk and avant-garde groups are called the underground.

Blank is the basic version of multi-channel sound recording. Usually percussion instruments are recorded on it.

Bootleg - cassettes or records, replicated without the knowledge and consent of the musicians. As a rule, the bootleg includes unauthorized recordings from concerts.

Knitting - an unscheduled termination of the concert, accompanied by the detention of musicians, organizers and part of the public.

Jam - joint informal music making of performers from different groups.

Drive - intensity.

Drams - percussion instruments.

Factory is synonymous with drive, but in a slightly wider sense. This is the ability of musicians to turn on and warm up the listeners.

Image - stage image of a musician. It is created with the help of clothes, makeup, hairstyles, a special manner of holding on stage, facial expressions.

Kabak is a relatively cheap restaurant.

Kantsik is a shortened version of the word "concert".

Kvartirnik - a home concert, a performance by a rock band at someone's flat, accompanied by the use of alcoholic beverages.

Carpet - a cover for a CD or DVD disc.

Cyboard - keyboard instrument.

Labukh is a disparaging nickname for restaurant musicians or musicians who play in a tavern style.

Crap - false note or non-rhythmic playing, etc.

Master - original tape with studio sound recording.

Manager - in the practice of the underground, a person who arranges concerts for the group.

Mouzon is music.

Mainstream - the main direction of any music, the totality of its most popular characteristics at the moment.

Decoupling - behavior on stage in the most relaxed manner.

Gadgets - a generalized name for all kinds of sound effects and processors.

Promotion - an active propaganda campaign to introduce into the minds of the audience new song, album or group.

A riff is a short, repetitive musical phrase played in unison by the guitar and bass guitar.

Rocker is a rock musician.

Samopal - homemade musical instrument.

Sound - sound, the sound of the band both at the concert and on the record. It consists of several components: arrangement, sound balance, playing style, manner of sound production, quality of equipment. Along with the composition, text and skill of the performers, it is the most important characteristic of any rock work.

Single - a small disc (45 rpm), contains, most often, two songs.

Session is the name of a rock concert.

Shoot - copy. Shooting "zero" or "one to one" means close enough to the original.

A scoop is something close, of low quality.

Banter - to fool, ironically, mock, while maintaining an innocent look. During the years of stagnation, banter was the safest way for rock authors to express their attitude towards reality.

Strom - risky, on the verge of what is permitted. As a rule, lyrics that are dubious in ideological and artistic terms are considered the dumbest.

Sampling - bringing sounds through digital recording into the timbre memory of the musical computer. The tool that allows you to do this is called a sampler.

Top - top, elite.

Fenka is a highlight, a good find in music or image.

Firm - foreign. The stress in a word can be placed on any syllable.

Freebie - for free.

Hit - very popular song. Sometimes the whole group is also called a hit, meaning that it is guaranteed great success.

Happening - an eccentric theatrical performance. Most often unfolds spontaneously and covers part of the audience.

Ches - hacky tours of provincial cities when up to three concerts are given per day. Once this word existed only among the musicians of the philharmonic.

Knowing and appropriately using all these words, you can easily become "their own" in any rock company.

Underground (English) - literally, underground music. Until 1980, virtually all of our rock was underground. Until 1985 - all "non-philharmonic" rock. Since all bands got the right to legal performances, underground rock, in the strict sense of the word, does not exist with us. Now the most radical punk and avant-garde groups are called the underground - which, in general, corresponds to the international understanding of this term.

A blank is a preliminary, basic version of a multi-channel sound recording. As a rule, percussion instruments, bass and rhythm guitar are recorded on the disc. Then the overlay of vocal parts and instrumental solos is carried out, and at the end - the final mixing (or "mix") of all recorded sound tracks.

Bootleg (English) - cassettes or records, replicated without the knowledge and consent of the musicians. As a rule, the bootleg includes unauthorized recordings from concerts.

Knitting (screwing), knitting - a frequent finale of underground events: a ban or forced termination of a concert, accompanied by the detention of musicians, organizers and part of the public.

Jam (English) - joint informal music-making of performers from different groups. Occurs sometimes after big concerts and festivals. Almost exclusively traditional rock and roll and blues sound.

Drive (English) - intensity, the degree of energy return in the game.

Drams (drams), drumsist (English) - percussion instruments, drummer.

Plant is about the same as drive, but in a somewhat broader sense: the ability of musicians to stir up, turn on listeners.

Image (English) - the stage image of the soloist or the whole group. It is created with the help of clothes, makeup, hairstyles, a special manner of holding on stage, facial expressions.

Kabak - in the narrow musical sense - cheap, restaurant style, manner of performance.

Kantsik, - a, m. (music) concert.

Apartment, - -a, m. (informal) meaning: a home concert, a performance by a rock band at someone's flat, accompanied by the use of alcoholic beverages.

Carpet - -ra, m. (music) cover for a CD or DVD disc.

Cyboard (English) - a keyboard instrument, usually electronic.

Labukh is a disparaging nickname for restaurant musicians or musicians who play in a tavern style.

Crap, crap - in a broad sense: a mistake, a nuisance; do something wrong. In musical practice, respectively, - a false note, an unrhythmic game, an incorrect text, etc.

Master (abbreviated from the English "master tape") - the original, "zero copy" of the tape with studio sound recording.

Manager (English) - in the practice of the underground, the organizers of concerts. Now it is increasingly used in its true meaning - "managing director" of an artist, ensemble.

Mouzon is music. The word has a rough-handicraft connotation and is used mainly by professional musicians.

Mainstream (English) - literally, the "mainstream" of any musical direction(rock, jazz, pop), the totality of its most popular characteristics at the moment.

Detachment, untie - behave on stage in the most relaxed manner, give heat, no matter what. Particularly outrageous concerts often end in scandals.

Gadgets - a generalized name for all kinds of sound effects and processors - "fuzz", "crossover", "chorus", etc.

Unwind, promotion - an active propaganda campaign to introduce a new song, album or group into the minds of the audience. As a rule, "their" channels on TV, radio and in the press are used for this.

Riff (English) - a short repetitive musical phrase played in unison by a guitar and bass guitar. Very often - especially in hard and heavy - whole songs are built on one riff.

Rocker (from the word "rock") - the same as a rock musician. True, recently they have been confused with "informal" motorcyclists.

Rap (English) - literally, "chatter". A style that has become popular since the mid-1980s is to quickly pronounce the lyrics rhythmically instead of singing them. It is practiced not only by rock singers, but also by some disc jockeys.

Saigon is the legendary cafeteria at the Moskva restaurant, the habitat of the heroes of the Soviet underground.

Samopal - a home-made musical instrument, a piece of sound equipment.

Sound (eng.) - sound, the sound of the group both in concert and on the record. It consists of several components: arrangement, sound balance, playing style, manner of sound production, quality of equipment (or recording). Along with the composition, text and skill of the performers, it is the most important characteristic of any rock work.

Single (English) - a small disc (45 rpm), usually contains two songs.

Session (English) - the "old-hippy" name of a rock concert that still exists today.

Shoot - copy, reproduce famous (usually Western) samples. Shooting "zero" or "one to one" means close enough to the original. Previously, entire songs were filmed, including the vocal part in the original language. Now they shoot separate favorite fragments (an instrumental solo, an arrangement technique, a piece of a melody) and organically use them.

Scoop, soviet - something close, of low quality and reeking of officialdom. For example, the characteristic "Soviet festival" would, apparently, mean that the rock festival was poorly organized or took place in a formal setting. The title "scoop" can also be awarded to people.

Banter, banter (leningr.) - to fool, sneer, mock, while maintaining an innocent look. During the years of stagnation (they are also the heyday of the Aesopian language), banter was the safest way for rock authors to express their attitude to reality. Now it is gradually going out of fashion.

Stryom, dumb - risky, on the verge of what is permitted. As a rule, lyrics that are dubious in ideological and artistic terms are considered the dumbest. However, there is also a dark image, dark music. As a matter of fact, all soviet rock until some time it was a solid stream.

Sampling (eng.) - entering sounds by digital recording into the timbre memory of a musical computer. The tool that allows you to do this is called a sampler.

Top (English) - top, elite. To get to the top, to be in the top - to be successful, to be popular.

Fenka (less often - a chip) - a highlight, a successful find in music, image.

Firm, firm - foreign. A self-propelled gun for a company is a locally made tool, but with all foreign labels. The stress in the word "firm" can be placed on any syllable.

Freebie (for free, freebie) - for free. In a figurative sense - hacky, cheap, small. For example, the expression "free concert" can be understood in two ways: a concert for which the musicians were not paid anything, or, on the contrary, a light hack that they themselves "gave for free". Very often, however, these two meanings coincide.

Hit, hit (English) - a particularly popular song. There may be one or two of these in the current repertoire of the ensemble. As a rule, there are also old hits, beloved by the public, performed as an encore. Sometimes the whole group is also called a hit, meaning that it is guaranteed great success.

Happening (English) - an eccentric theatrical performance. Most often unfolds spontaneously and covers part of the audience.

Ches - hacky tours (usually in the provinces), when up to three concerts are given per day. Once this word existed only among the musicians of the philharmonic.

About 3 years ago our studio decided to collect all interesting expressions(slang) musicians associated with creativity, music, studio, recording, etc.

For today - such a collection of expressions has turned out (see below) It would be interesting to replenish the dictionary with knowledge of such folklore of forum users. Wish Have a good mood. Join plz!!!

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KACHUM - pause, i.e. a place in a musical work where a musician can and even needs to rock; (musicians of the Arsenal group, Noyabrsk).
SHMURDYAK - 1. Very a sad song, 2. Bad, unprofessional song; (Group "Arsenal").
PATCH - make a soundtrack from pieces in a computer; (musicians of the quartet "Phoenix", Yekaterinburg).
DO GUITARISM - play the guitar; (guitarist Alexander Kulaev, Yekaterinburg).
COMB - 1. Mismatch of voices on parallel audio tracks in the sequencer; (singer Lilya Saetgaleeva, Yekaterinburg). 2. Hanging (on a belt) keyboard instrument; (A.Kulaev).
BARDIE - the same as bards, songwriters with a guitar; (singer Evgeny Buntov, Yekaterinburg).
BARDOVETS - a northern version of a bard, usually a native of Timur, Gaidar, Budyonov and other "tsa"); (bard Margarita Tkach, p. Pangody).
AUTUMNIZM - a moment of insight for some musicians, poets and individual bards (not associated with autumn and other seasons); (M. Tkach).
SHUSHLAIKA - a simple synthesizer with auto accompaniment; (Honored Artist of Tatarstan Khaidar Gilfanov, Yekaterinburg).
VOLUME - piano-piano; ((author-performer Alexander Damaskin, Yekaterinburg)
LAUGHTER - a place where some people's voice should pour out; (A. Gazaliev).
BERLAT - take food from the musicians; (Group "Arsenal").
SURLY - to walk "small" with the musicians; (Alexander Damaskin).
VIRZAT - walk "in a big way" with musicians; (Alexander Damaskin).
DRUSHLYAT - sleep; (Alexander Damaskin).
SHOVEL - electric guitar of the company "Ural" and the like; (A. Gazaliev).
SAVE (derived from "beka'r" - cancel) - a bad action, which consists in refusing the musicians to perform; (guitarist Volodya Kovalev, Omsk).
BOBZiLA - long unreceived song; (Author-performer Alexander Zakharenko, Yekaterinburg).
DRAMATIZE (derived from the English "drum" - drum) - "hammer" the party in the arrangement percussion instruments(not to be confused with slaughtering a goat); (sound engineer KC Alexander Kulaev).
SANDUGACHIT (derived from the Tatar "sandugach" - nightingale) - to sing a song in the Tatar language; (producer of the KC studio Evgeny Buntov).
ZASANDUGACHIT - the same as rattling, zafigachit (in Russian);
to bard (not to be confused with "bard") - try to survive by the bard's craft, act as a bard; (E. Buntov).

SINGING BETWEEN CHAIRS - it is wrong to form a sound (a mistake of a novice vocalist); (Honored Artist of Russia Irina Naumova, Yekaterinburg).
BREAD CUTTER - the mouth of the vocalist. "Don't open the bread slicer!" - good wishes expressive diligent singer; (I. Naumova).
TRY - try to record a double in the studio (and at the same time sing, play out, etc.); (soloist Olga Naumova, duet "Kamerton", Yekaterinburg).
BORMOTOGRAPH - a portable cassette tape recorder; (music lover Mikhail Yurin).
PINALKA - barrel of a drum kit; (musician, arranger, composer Rafil Mineev, Nizhnyaya Salda).
SAPOG - button accordion (musical instrument); (Rafil Mineev).
VACUUM CLEANER - the same button accordion, only from the other side; (guitarist Leonid Marakov, Moscow).
PIN - the work of a musician on the street, resp. to pin - to earn a street game; (Music worker Svetlana Mineeva, Nizhnyaya Salda - Murlyndiya).
ROLL VATU - play not on business, without thought, without soul, without understanding a piece of music (the same applies to any other business); (guitarist Alexander Chinenov, Yekaterinburg).
DANDRUFF - an unpleasant, untimely feeling of sore throat when you need to sing (dandruff shampoo is useless); (soloist of folk ans. "Sylyshki" Yura Zhbankov, Yekaterinburg).
HARCHEVNYA - a device for protecting a studio microphone from spitting (grubs) and gusts of voice (wind protection, usually in the form of a round screen with a stretched black female stocking); (Singer-songwriter Sergei Dolgopolov, V. Pyshma).
MAKE MODULATION - change the location of your body in the space of the tone studio; (Rafil Mineev).
MANGAL (aka vibromangal) - vibraphone, (pedal - for blowing);
CRUSH SLEEPERS - play keyboard instruments (sound engineer A. Kulaev).
SPALTER - pianist-arranger.
PODOKONNIK - keyboard instrument (musician S. Burundukov).
A DISABLED BY IMPROVISATION (not to be confused "by sight") - a musician who is not able to play anything but notes (A. Kulaev).

FROM TEACHER'S TERMINOLOGY
BY THE CLASS OF GUITAR AND MUSIC. MASTERS

CHEREN - guitar neck; (master folk instruments Eduard Sokolov, Yekaterinburg).
HILO - voice box (sound window) string instruments; (E. Sokolov).
zapriduh - capo; (E. Sokolov).
TCHEKOTUN - mediator (plectrum); (E. Sokolov).

ALMOST FOLK WISDOM

“If you are not a master at playing, you buy a capo.
If you’re still not a master, buy a Stratocaster!”

"When good man bad is the blues.
When it’s good for the bad, it’s pop!”

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dictionary set. The same thing, only more colorful!

The surnames given in brackets of the dictionary do not necessarily mean that these people are the authors of the expressions. Sometimes it is just the surname of the person who remembered this or that phrase, word. But there are, of course, pioneers as well.

Talk Dirty To Me
OR A SHORT COURSE OF ROCK MUSIC SLANG XX �

The history of slang in the musical works of the last century, in particular, in the works of rock music, is probably as old as rock music itself. It seems that the main semantic load rock has always been and probably always will be a certain rebellious overtones, the desire to shock the respectable audience and shake the foundations of a civilized society. Therefore, slang, being mainly the language of the "lower stratum" of this very society, very organically fit into the arsenal of rebellious music and everything that surrounds it. As a fusion of underworld jargon and youth jargon, musical slang "poetically" describes such characteristic forbidden topics as sex, drugs and alcohol.



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You ain't nothing but a Hound dog. The birth of rock music

In general, if you make a short digression into history, then the very concept of rock and roll (rock and roll) is a product of the same slang.
The name of the genre comes from the old Negro blues, in the text of which a man addresses his woman: "I wanna rock and roll you all night long", which can roughly be translated as "I want to rock and roll you all night long."
Later, the three components of rock - and - roll merged into an independent unit of speech and even acquired the function of a verb. At the beginning, the words “to pump” and “roll” had a very definite sexual connotation. Adjusted for morality and commerce, over time, the original version of the “black” meaning of the words “rock” and “roll” smoothed out, and they were quite successfully tied to the dance steps that both the performers of this music and the audience dancing to it made. .


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In general, rock music was a very fertile soil for slang, falling into which, the seeds of a non-literary language grew in a stormy color, giving rise in turn to new bizarre species. If pop music has already tried to please everyone with its name alone (pop is short for popular - popular) and has always been too sleek, then rock, which was, again, rebellious in nature, had to keep the brand of a sort of bad guy. And, accordingly, defiantly look, behave and talk.

You got another thing coming. Features of musical slang

Of course, absolutely every verbal work can be expressed both in classical literature and in everyday life. spoken language- but sometimes it means a complete loss of expression of the written. And in rock music, which in itself is extremely (sometimes even too) expressive, this would be simply unacceptable. The use of slang gives musical lyrics weighty images and concepts, partly cutting the ear, and partly having subtext or double meaning, which is not immediately visible. (And some don't even.)
Most often, slang words and expressions in the lyrics of songs do not have any offensive or hooligan character, but are used to brighten artistic expression. Often this role is played by stable idioms: "Another One Bites The Dust", "Dog Eat Dog", "Shoot From The Hip", "Alive And Kicking", "Be All, End All", "Between A Rock And A Hard Place" ” and the like, most of which are rooted in vernacular, and are currently no longer slang as such.
It happened that units of slang even characterized entire trends in rock music, as, for example, was the case with acid-Rock - the very concept of "acid" appeared in the 60s and referred to the chemical drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
Another "talking" name was the term sleaze-rock, born 20 years later - in the mid-80s.
It is worth noting that, according to the division of slang into varieties, certain musical movements emphasized one or another of its types. And if the prerogative of the same sleaze-rock were words and expressions associated mainly with booze, drugs and girls, then the pillars of other genres tried to go beyond this.

So in the style of death-metal, the professional slang of pathologists prevailed, and in order to understand what is being sung (and actually growled) in the songs, one should stock up at least a specialized medical dictionary.

Lost in limbo. Alcoholic slang in rock music

Alcohol marches side by side with rock musicians. And although it cost many artists not only health and career, but even life, it has not lost its relevance to this day. Some of the alcoholic slang was inherited by the musicians from their drinking predecessors.
For example, the word “booze”, widely used in songs, has been known in Britain since the 16th century and means drinking in a slang sense - like our non-literary word “booze”. This is perhaps the most commonly used term for alcoholic drink. (Out with the boys testing my virility, the booze and the music arousing my curiosity)
The person in drunkenness most often characterized by the adjective "loaded" - that is, accumulated. Sometimes the preposition on and the name of the drink being consumed are added. (Loaded on beer. Loaded on whiskey.)
Well, after heavy drinking on the eve of many, an extremely unpleasant feeling called “hangover” burdens.
Rockers are people too, and sometimes they describe what they experienced in their creations. And some even carried this state into the titles of the albums. So the Scottish team NAZARETH back in 1975 called their record “Hair Of The Dog”,


which is an abbreviation for the old proverb “To take a hair of the dog that bit you” (in the sense of “The wedge is knocked out with a wedge”) and characterizes the process of getting drunk.

Done with mirrors. Drug slang in rock music

In the mid-60s of the last century, a threat even more terrible than the notorious sexual revolution appeared - the drug revolution in art. Naturally, this was reflected in literature, and in painting, and in cinema, but rock musicians, as usual, took the new fashionable hobby to the extreme. And at the same time, drug addict slang poured into the lyrics, saturating them with new allegories and images.
One of the most terrible words on the agenda was the notorious "high", which was used - like a common homonym - both in the form of an adverb and in the form of a noun. And in some ways it even echoed with him in meaning. In the first case, as an adverb, high could be translated as flying away, getting high - that is, feeling the effect of this or that drug on yourself. (To get high. To be high. To feel high.) As a noun, high meant the drug itself, and if we draw a parallel with our jargon, then dope or high are very close in meaning. (to be on high).
In some cases, allusions to hallucinogenic substances in the lyrics were sucked out of the finger, as was the case, for example, with THE BEATLES' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (the abbreviation of the song's title supposedly adds up to LSD).

Somewhere they were obvious (like, say, “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix - a big, it should be noted, fan of expanding consciousness). But some shamelessly created monumental hymns to their passions. For example, BLACK SABBATH has at least two of them: “Sweet Leaf”, which begins with a characteristic cough, and “Snowblind”, in the chorus of which “cocaine” is pronounced in a whisper, to make it very clear what kind of “snowball” it is.
By the end of the 70s, the LSD culture, along with its apologists like Timothy Leary,

and the group GREATFUL DEAD lost

relevance, but consciousness " creative intelligentsia” in the literal and figurative sense, more powerful means have mastered. Their own special words were also used, one of which was the noun “shot”.
It meant a portion of the drug, injected through a syringe - the equivalent of our concept of "dose". In some cases, this noun has also been used in figurative meaning like "Shot Full Of Rock".
Like alcohol slang, narcotic slang also had its own units that characterize the state of a drug hangover - withdrawal or withdrawal. After being treated for a characteristic addiction, John Lennon wrote "Cold Turkey", describing the sensations he experienced (it is assumed that the term "cold turkey" came from the bluish goose skin that accompanies withdrawal): "... My body is aching, goose -pimple bone, can "t see no body, leave me alone.../ Thirty-six hours rolling in pain, praying to someone, free me again..."
(My body hurts, covered with "goose bumps", I don't want to see anyone, leave me alone; 36 hours I twist in pain, crying out for someone to free me from this).


Bang bang you. Sexual slang in rock music

Love lyrics in the interpretation of rock musicians also experienced its evolution: from sweet songs about mental turmoil to frankly vulgar and defiant calls for immediate and dirty copulation. Or it can be called rather degradation - given that it was from the lustful black blues that rock and roll got its development and term.
In addition to a huge number of allegories, such as: "Let me put my log in your fireplace", "Let me cut your cake with my knife", "Said you wanna get your order filled, made me shiver when I put it in” and similar “masterpieces” of figurative thinking, there were quite definite concepts of this or that action, organ or object. Many of them were inherited from their predecessors.
So, for example, the expression “to get down” (“surrender”) was found, even among more or less decent QUEEN
as far back as 1977 in the play "Get Down, Make Love".
IN general concepts, characterizing sexual arousal, applicable to both sexes, includes the adjectives hot and horny, as well as the verb to turn (somebody) on.

You boyz make big noise. Written slang in rock music (mis-spell)

Simultaneously with the wide development of rock music, a phenomenon spread that took the term "mis-spell", - deliberately incorrect spelling in the names of songs, records, and even the bands themselves. At times it was like a play on words. Most famous example, of course, THE BEATLES: on the one hand, it's kind of like "bugs", but the word "beat" is also played on, which was often used at that time as the name of the then fashionable music.
In general, oddly enough, the fashion for mangling words first took root in the UK - the birthplace of literary English. A unsurpassed masters in this area have always been SLADE:

the name itself is already pure water mis-spell. It can be said that spelling "with errors" has become their strong point throughout their career, and here are just a few options for the names of their songs (in the original interpretation): "Look At Last Nite", "Gudbuy T" Jane "," Mama Weer All Crazee Now", "Cum On Feel The Noize", "Look Wot You Dun", "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me", "Coz I Luv You"...

The next surge of deliberately illiterately written words happened already in the 80s in America, where, in fact, there was always a process of simplifying them. graphic image. And in this, musicians of glam and sleaze-rock types especially distinguished themselves. It has become practically the norm to write nite instead of night or boyz instead of boys.
The widespread use of mis-spell is also reflected in the very names of this style of teams - MOTLEY CRUE, RATT, TIGERTAILZ, ENUFF Z'NUFF, NOIZE TOYS, SLEEZE BEEZ, etc.

And already at the rockers, the baton, in turn, was picked up by black performers gaining fashion rap styles and hip-hop. It was assumed that street boys from the African-American ghettos in general, in fact, cannot be literate, and therefore the simplifications in spelling also struck with their minimalism. For example, the phrase " you are for me" could well look like "U R 4 M" on the sleeve of the record, and the preposition the completely transformed into the letter D.
But this is a topic for another study.



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