The Strange History of Soviet X-Ray Records

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @AnneMayfair
    @AnneMayfair 5 лет назад +244

    Fun fact: for a while music recorded on those XRay sheets was called 'bone boogie' regardless of the actual genre :D

    • @luiluilui9638
      @luiluilui9638 5 лет назад +4

      Imagine going to the black market saying, “I want some bone boogie”

    • @Surya_Virya
      @Surya_Virya 4 года назад +1

      @@luiluilui9638 ya want me to boogie you're what?

  • @jasckon7994
    @jasckon7994 5 лет назад +94

    There's a great book called "X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone" that I highly recommend if you want to learn more.

  • @angelvalencia6782
    @angelvalencia6782 5 лет назад +67

    Imagine bogeying down to grandmas broken hip

  • @rosemarytea3878
    @rosemarytea3878 5 лет назад +45

    My grandpa actually has one of those! He really liked radio and tech

  • @FireWaia
    @FireWaia 5 лет назад +8

    I'm amazed i'm so late to finding this channel, it is absolute solid gold.

  • @robertstoppel1837
    @robertstoppel1837 10 месяцев назад +4

    Imagine a gang of young men fracturing a bone just to call an ambulance, then months later inviting you to a party where the xray film of your break plays to make up for the trauma... Would make a surreal movie to watch

  • @jefkoele-wijn8872
    @jefkoele-wijn8872 5 лет назад +16

    I think that was very dangerous to listen to in the Soviet Union without a headphone.

  • @muhammadakmal2413
    @muhammadakmal2413 5 лет назад +43

    So this is the hardbass before hardbass

  • @tes_la
    @tes_la 5 лет назад +24

    It was in almost every soviet family. People listened the Beatles and other forbidden music like rock.
    It was such a great time!

    • @squidny8920
      @squidny8920 5 лет назад +2

      b_dope very interesting, but at the end you said "it was such a great time!" Made me laugh very hard, yes indeed it was a great time

  • @samopalvampirenvonbutlegin8603
    @samopalvampirenvonbutlegin8603 5 месяцев назад +1

    There was no ban on rock music at all. Bringing vinyl records from abroad wasn't prohibited either. It's just the fact that the Soviet government didn't want to spend money on buying licenses. Everyone who wanted to have a collection of rock music could do that relatively easy: buy a magnetic tape recorder and a turntable, and become a member of an informal "exchange club" where you borrow a vinyl record for a day/night and make a copy for yourself on magnetic tape.

  • @ivannovotny4552
    @ivannovotny4552 5 лет назад +7

    Necessity is mother of a invention.

  • @beatsbykana
    @beatsbykana 4 года назад +2

    some people just think of the weirdest, most ingenious stuff man

  • @johnjumainetanig3543
    @johnjumainetanig3543 5 лет назад +26

    That soviet music got me into our bones.

  • @Doc-Holliday1851
    @Doc-Holliday1851 5 лет назад +61

    "many great things about the Soviet Union"

    • @pathosofmine
      @pathosofmine 5 лет назад +17

      And many more worse parts of it

    • @JH-hb5cc
      @JH-hb5cc 5 лет назад +18

      There were though. There’s a reason why in a lot of the former Eastern bloc more than 50% miss communist times. And you are also forgetting the inspiration that the USSR provided to third world nations, post colonial movements, and developing socialist countries. We in the developed West have trouble truly understanding how ground breaking the USSR is.

    • @dr.apollo4226
      @dr.apollo4226 5 лет назад +8

      BatJJ 9088 it was a large-scale prison.

    • @maybe3xcesive742
      @maybe3xcesive742 5 лет назад +8

      BatJJ 9088 lol. Nice satire.
      I like the Soviet Union because I’m suicidal and in Soviet Russia communism kills you

    • @Amateur0Visionary
      @Amateur0Visionary 5 лет назад

      Citation needed

  • @HarbindBrar
    @HarbindBrar 5 лет назад +6

    As a medical student, this is so damn cool.

  • @hautakleightontam771
    @hautakleightontam771 5 лет назад +14

    Imagine listening to Boney M.'s 'Rasputin' recorded in this format.

  • @iggyterino9864
    @iggyterino9864 5 лет назад +3

    As someone who's learning Russian, Я надеюсь, что я могу переехать в Россию сам, так что я могу изучать о его истории. Отличное видео.

    • @mirisch64
      @mirisch64 5 лет назад +1

      Ох, не надо, мужик, мы сейчас в огромной заднице.

  • @oeao2841
    @oeao2841 Год назад +1

    How many of those exist?

  • @ttandaric
    @ttandaric 5 лет назад +5

    Great video, great story but you could use footage from USSR not from Yugoslavia, you got Yugoslavian flag in every shot that supposed to be from Russia.

  • @michaelmole5435
    @michaelmole5435 5 лет назад

    Was this the inspiration for pretty hate machines cover?

  • @Justin-Hill-1987
    @Justin-Hill-1987 3 года назад +1

    I bet they listened to Elvis on a pelvis! 😂

  • @jennifer9084
    @jennifer9084 5 лет назад +8

    Didnt know this existed. Woah.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 5 лет назад +13

    Ribs? Playing music? HAH! I find that quite humerus.

    • @nihal2055
      @nihal2055 5 лет назад

      Your account is definitely managed by more than one person . If not , you're rich as fuck so that yer 24/7 free .either way noice job m8

    • @Ryan-bk3ig
      @Ryan-bk3ig 5 лет назад

      You again

  • @scoutdy6547
    @scoutdy6547 5 месяцев назад

    "mishka, i had a bunch of xrays here's, what happened to them"
    "Well let's just say, *pulls out beetles xray record* we had a british invasion"

  • @thanoscube8573
    @thanoscube8573 5 лет назад +6

    Spooky scary skeletons indeed

  • @youngmasterzhi
    @youngmasterzhi 5 лет назад +4

    Unfun fact: When the Soviet government caught wind of these bootleg records, they try to flood the market with their own X-Ray records, with their message cutting off near the end of the song with a dissing message, kinda like "Oh, you wanna listen to Western music?! Well, f&&k you!!"

    • @gab2876
      @gab2876 5 лет назад

      064678543 Honestly I can see that being true in some way

    • @bushratbeachbum
      @bushratbeachbum 3 года назад +1

      Evidence?
      Or it didn't happen.

    • @РусланЗаурбеков-з6е
      @РусланЗаурбеков-з6е 3 года назад +1

      More like unfun fantasy.

    • @youngmasterzhi
      @youngmasterzhi 3 года назад

      @@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е Okay, the fake bone records didn't say ""Oh, you wanna listen to Western music?! Well, f&&k you!!"...
      They would actually post this message near the abrupt start of the song:
      "You want rock and roll? F*** you, you anti-Soviet slime!".
      In 1958, the government set up "music patrols" to keep an eye out for illegal distributors and had sentenced 10 of the ringleaders behind those bone records to prison work camps as punishment.

    • @re-openedmusic
      @re-openedmusic 2 года назад

      Wrong!

  • @nutsandbolts1264
    @nutsandbolts1264 5 лет назад

    I remember seeing one sell in the gold and silver pawn shop

  • @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun
    @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun 5 лет назад +4

    This music sure is *rib tickling*

  • @sictransit4ia788
    @sictransit4ia788 5 лет назад +1

    Metal AF

  • @doublezeta4s
    @doublezeta4s 5 лет назад +1

    *[One Night in a dark shady corner, Russia 1959]*
    A guy goes "Psst, want some of the good stuff?" pulls out a godamn Xray record. Kinda funny tho.

  • @AzlianaLyana
    @AzlianaLyana 5 лет назад +3

    Sentimental value :)

  • @hystericalstares7507
    @hystericalstares7507 5 лет назад

    When he moves the arm by hand instead of using the lift lever

  • @ShogunMongol
    @ShogunMongol 5 лет назад +7

    > There were many great things about the Soviet Union
    Uhhh... sure... sure thing...

    • @ShogunMongol
      @ShogunMongol 5 лет назад

      @Empire Entertainment I think the negatives of millions of deaths out weigh the positives, the few they had.

    • @ShogunMongol
      @ShogunMongol 5 лет назад +1

      @Empire Entertainment I wouldn't call "many great things" unbiased, that sounds a bit too positive. Also, fuck off with your "you Yanks wouldn't understand" bullshit, you live in a country that's politically in shambles, way worse than what we have here.

  • @dankthegank1742
    @dankthegank1742 5 лет назад

    Anyone doing an illegal deal isn't going to take 10 coins lol... Unless they're a good plug and know that money is Money!

  • @emiliobello2538
    @emiliobello2538 3 года назад

    Records like in music)

  • @el.k9776
    @el.k9776 5 лет назад +9

    Yup, the "records on the bones"
    Опа, пластинки на костях

  • @kairinase
    @kairinase 5 лет назад +4

    You can fold this one, and it still plays... perfect for small mailboxes!

  • @shoulders-of-giants
    @shoulders-of-giants 5 лет назад +1

    "WAS"

  • @Mark-vf8op
    @Mark-vf8op Месяц назад

    Breaking the record….

  • @БутерБрод-ы8ш
    @БутерБрод-ы8ш 5 лет назад

    Illegal music? Why didn't you just tell the more common story of copying your favorite songs... That's the main reason for using this technique

  • @RAMBO14001
    @RAMBO14001 5 лет назад +5

    No body chants and dances on miseries like the Soviet do~ i love them.

  • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228
    @axelpatrickb.pingol3228 5 лет назад +2

    Bootlegging music is a universal activity of the youth. Techmoan has some videos that has this fun fact ...

  • @Zeytrixx
    @Zeytrixx 5 лет назад +12

    *Soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnvkh*

    • @AN-ou6qu
      @AN-ou6qu 5 лет назад +1

      Zeytrixx jeez just use cyrillic

  • @morzik12345
    @morzik12345 5 лет назад +5

    *The soviet state censored foreign entertainment* Laughs in Russian while watching Louis de Funès
    and listening to Joe Dassin

  • @jessegirard8011
    @jessegirard8011 5 лет назад

    Neat

  • @brandonisthetrivium1
    @brandonisthetrivium1 5 лет назад +15

    "Many great thing about soviet union"
    Ya and also the 10 million people that died too

    • @el.k9776
      @el.k9776 5 лет назад

      Russian ppl r creative in many ways

    • @brandonisthetrivium1
      @brandonisthetrivium1 5 лет назад +1

      @@el.k9776 yes russians are. but dont say its from soviet russia. soviet union to nothing for their people

    • @Ccnsword
      @Ccnsword 5 лет назад

      Nevir202 israel is like the start of the nazi state rn with zionist policy

  • @thawme66
    @thawme66 5 лет назад

    99 percent invisible did it first

  • @rosagapi
    @rosagapi 5 лет назад

    Seems legit

  • @maniesh
    @maniesh 5 лет назад +1

    Underground Soviet bootleg records must cost an arm and a leg, or at the very least an x-ray of an arm and a leg

  • @radio00head
    @radio00head 5 лет назад

    Wonder if this is what sans recorded on. It is BONE music

  • @zeromusreal
    @zeromusreal 5 лет назад

    This doesnt explain anything

  • @yourcommentmightnotworksop9987
    @yourcommentmightnotworksop9987 4 года назад +1

    Well people dont realize the impact music can have on human BRAIN.

  • @apurplez1048
    @apurplez1048 5 лет назад +2

    :o-

  • @crucial5024
    @crucial5024 5 лет назад

    Whoa

  • @klaasbruinsma6405
    @klaasbruinsma6405 5 лет назад +1

    It would be nice if you let us listen to it aswell next time.. i kept on waiting for jack shit.

  • @RandomPerson-go5sn
    @RandomPerson-go5sn 5 лет назад +2

    Many great things about the Soviet Union... hum.
    I’m finding it hard to find people who fled to eastern Germany or fled to Russia during the Cold War.

    • @carmelopearman5721
      @carmelopearman5721 5 лет назад

      It’s all a matter of preference for people. There are people who hated the union with everything they had and would do anything to escape it, and there are also people who miss the days of the Soviet Union. All depends on what the person values most in life

  • @agnieszkagoch8704
    @agnieszkagoch8704 5 лет назад +1

    First comment!

  • @BothHands1
    @BothHands1 5 лет назад

    that's pretty freakin cool

  • @roblox_yt2760
    @roblox_yt2760 5 лет назад

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • @cosmic_cloud1326
    @cosmic_cloud1326 5 лет назад +1

    Hoit 😀

  • @Lumberjack_king
    @Lumberjack_king 5 лет назад

    In Soviet Union/ Soviet Russia insert meme or good comment here

  • @drspastic
    @drspastic 4 года назад

    good for them trying to stop degenerate music. we should ban ganster rap

  • @atmoosed7318
    @atmoosed7318 5 лет назад

    epic

  • @adlibby6448
    @adlibby6448 5 лет назад

    How clever they were!

  • @aroma7
    @aroma7 5 лет назад

    Pin this comment
    *Hips* don't lie