The band was formed by Tsoi, Aleksei Rybin, and Oleg Valinskiy in the summer of 1981 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg) as a punk rock band Garin i giperboloidy (Гарин и гиперболоиды) (after a novel by Aleksey Tolstoy, Giperboloid inzhenera Garina, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin). A year later the name of the band was changed to Кино (often stylized in uppercase: "КИНО"), as Tsoi wanted their name to be able to be pronounced by people all over the world easily.
In the summer 1982, Кино's first album 45 (according to its length in minutes) was recorded together with the musicians of the band Аквариум. The album was slowly distributed and brought them fame in the Leningrad rock scene.
Their first real hit was the album Ночь (Noch, or Russian for "night") released in 1986, originally released on audio reels and cassette tapes via their producer at the time, Andrei Tropillo. However, Melodiya asked Tropillo to help release it on their label, which he did without the band's consent. It ended up selling two million copies around the Soviet Union, but the band, especially Tsoi himself was furious as Tropillo did not ask him or his band to release it. It is also the album they dislike the most.
Their first tour outside of the Russian SFSR was in the Estonian SSR (Soviet-era Estonia) in 1987.
Their 1988 album Группа крови (Gruppa krovi, Russian for "blood type"). together with the movie The Needle in which Tsoi starred, brought the band to the pinnacle of its populatity.
During the next two years the band released another album and did shows in the USSR, attracting enormous audiences, until August 15, 1990, when Tsoi died tragically in a car accident near Riga. Found in his car was a cassette tape demo for a new album they had been producing, even though it's front was destroyed. However, that tape was a copy of another demo tape, which Kasparyan had brought back to Leningrad before the crash. The album was completed by the rest of the band with the help of producer Yuri Aizenshpis and released on 12 January 1991 after a preview in December 1990, without a title, though it is always referred as Chornyy albom (Russian for "Black Album") since it had a completely black cover with the band's logo, as well as a reference to the Beatles' White Album from 1967. The demo version of the album was released in 2002 under the name Последние записи (The Last Recordings).
The band's popularity in the Soviet Union was so extraordinarily high that after Tsoi's death many fences, rocks and walls in the whole country were covered with the words "Цой жив!" ("Tsoi is alive!") and "КИНО". Writing these words became a kind of a memorial ritual among the fans of the band and even now new writings appear from time to time.
Кино's musical style is reminiscent of Joy Division, The Smiths, with a heavy guitar sound and drony, dark vocals. Other popular musician from the USSR with a similar style was ,Янка Дягилева (Yanka Dyaigleva), a late musician from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, who was a frequent collaborator with Egor Letov
Невеселая песня
Кино Lyrics
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В наших окнах не видно дня,
Наше утро похоже на ночь,
Ну, а ночь - для меня...
Глядя в жидкое зеркало луж,
На часы, что полвека стоят,
На до дыр зацелованный флаг,
Я полцарства отдам за коня.
Играй, невесёлая песня моя.
Играй... Играй...
Командиры Армии Лет,
Мы теряли в бою день за днём,
А когда мы разжигали огонь,
Наш огонь тушили дождём.
Мы сидим у разбитых корыт
И гадаем на розе ветров,
А когда приходит время вставать,
Мы сидим, мы ждём.
Играй, невесёлая песня моя.
Играй... Играй...
The lyrics to Кино's song Невеселая песня (Sad Song) describe a sense of hopelessness and despair in a bleak, desolate environment. The first verse speaks of the poverty of the rivers, the lack of daylight, and the morning that looks like night. The singer then laments their own situation, gazing into a puddle and seeing a flag that has been kissed to tatters, willing to give up half of their kingdom for a horse to escape their current predicament. The second verse talks about the losses suffered in battle, the futility of trying to start fires in the rain, and the idle waiting that consumes their days.
The repeated plea to "play, my sad song" suggests an attempt to find solace in music, even as it reflects the melancholy mood. The song paints a picture of a world where everything is stacked against the singer, where nature, fate, and other people conspire to rob them of hope or happiness. The song taps into a common human emotion of feeling stuck in an undesirable situation, and the sense that one's efforts at improvement are futile.
Line by Line Meaning
Наши реки бедны водой,
Our rivers are poor in water,
В наших окнах не видно дня,
Daylight is not visible through our windows,
Наше утро похоже на ночь,
Our morning resembles night,
Ну, а ночь - для меня...
Well, night - is for me...
Глядя в жидкое зеркало луж,
Looking at the liquid mirror of a puddle,
На часы, что полвека стоят,
At the clocks that have stood still for half a century,
На до дыр зацелованный флаг,
At the flag with kisses until the fabric wore thin,
Я полцарства отдам за коня.
I would give half a kingdom for a horse.
Играй, невесёлая песня моя.
Play, my sad song.
Играй... Играй...
Play... Play...
Командиры Армии Лет,
Commanders of the Army of Summer,
Мы теряли в бою день за днём,
We lost day after day in battle,
А когда мы разжигали огонь,
And when we lit a fire,
Наш огонь тушили дождём.
Our fire was extinguished by rain.
Мы сидим у разбитых корыт
We sit by broken troughs
И гадаем на розе ветров,
And forecast the winds of fate,
А когда приходит время вставать,
And when it's time to rise,
Мы сидим, мы ждём.
We sit, we wait.
Contributed by Ellie A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@Miskerule
Наши реки бедны водой,
В наших окнах не видно дня,
Наше утро похоже на ночь,
Ну, а ночь – для меня!
Глядя в жидкое зеркало луж,
На часы, что полвека стоят,
На до дыр зацелованный флаг,
Я полцарства отдам за коня.
Играй, невеселая песня моя.
Играй… Играй…
Командиры Армии Лет,
Мы теряли в бою день за днем,
А когда мы разжигали огонь,
Наш огонь тушили дождем.
Мы сидим у разбитых корыт
И гадаем на розе ветров,
А когда приходит время вставать,
Мы сидим, мы ждем.
Играй, невеселая песня моя.
Играй… Играй…
@hellsburper
Эта музыка не знает ни времени,ни национальности,ни политических взглядов. Она выше этого. Она вечна.
@ivanpetrenka
Твой слова да им в душу
@cabelinho76
збезда по имени cлонце ;-)
@treydervad
Согласен. :)
@unclekrestoff-2499
Благодарю. От души сказал.
@maximkroup3901
не сравнивай
@midnitehighways8
"Мы сидим у разбитых корыт и гадаем на розе ветров. А когда приходит время вставать - мы сидим, мы ждем..." (С) Как все точно сказано...
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