''Abo abo'' (; ) is a live album by Ukrainian rock band

Vopli Vidopliassova Vopli Vidopliassova ( , ), also shortened to VV (), is a Ukrainian rock band. It was created in 1986 in Kyiv, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine). The leader of the band is singer Oleh Skrypka. Vopli Vidopliasova are the founde ...

and the band's first official release. It was released in 1992 and is taken from a concert at the Eurockéennes festival in France in 1991. The concert was recorded by an unknown Frenchman with a Maxell cassette and was given to the band.

Track list

The vinyl version of ''Abo abo'' has the first 7 tracks plus the first 18 seconds of Rassvet on side A and the rest of Rassvet plus tracks 8 through 14 on side B. Track 1 has never been officially released anywhere else. Tracks 2-5, 9, 11 and 12 were released on

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. Track 6 was released on Fayno. Tracks 10 and 13 were released on Hvyli Amura and tracks 7 and 14 were released on Buly denky. Track 8 later was recorded by Borshch as "Konforka" and released on their self-titled single "/bɔːʃ/" in 2002. In 1993, the album was reissued on vinyl. A gig with a similar setlist, performed in

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in 1991, was released on the bootleg cassette Zhittya v Bordo in 1995. On the Australian iTunes Store, the name of the album is censored due to the word ''

abo The ABO blood group system is used to denote the presence of one, both, or neither of the A and B antigens on erythrocytes (red blood cells). For human blood transfusions, it is the most important of the 47 different blood type (or group) cla ...

'' coincidentally being an ethnic slur in Australian English referring to

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. The Ukrainian word is pronounced and the Australian one is pronounced .

Personnel

* Oleg Skripka - vocals, accordion, rhythm guitar * Yuri Zdorenko - vocals, lead guitar * Alexander Pipa - bass * Sergei Sakhno - drums

External links

Abo abo on Discogs (list of versions)
1992 live albums Vopli Vidopliassova albums {{1990s-punk-album-stub