“We came from the underground and became popular with our pop-culture parodies. One day to my horror I realized that our group has become similar to the objects of our parodies and mockery. We were starting to merge with all those pop-star crowd, but I’m not one of them and never wanted to be,” - Sergey Mikhalok, the band’s leader says. He admits that it wasn’t so easy to give up the show business game and become independent once again.
According to him, “it was very difficult to get our true essence back on top. And the thing wasn’t about any contracts. We had to overcome public opinion and, most importantly, set our own minds free. At first, my internal discomfort from the gap between the authentic “Lyapis Trubetskoy” and its public image was relieved by hard drinking and other stuff, but when my weight peaked at 110 kilograms and my mind was about to collapse, I gave up everything, lost 25 kilograms and started to play the music I like.”
“Capital” is the second independent album by “Lyapis Trubetskoy” after the “Zoloty’ye yaytsy” (“Golden Balls”) created in 2004 under heavy reggae and ska influence. “While working on “Zoloty’ye yaytsy” we didn’t understand what to do with our independence. As a result there were some reflex attempts to score a radio hit with “Rain’ka” or “Pochtal’iony” (“Postmen”), - Sergey Mikhalok says. – But this wasn’t the biggest problem. The whole album was overproduced, we tried to mix too many styles, musical instruments and sounds in it. So, we paid too much attention to the form instead of the essence. We were in need of a real professional who could tell us what was good and what was too much.”
That is why searching for a sound producer was one of the main tasks while working on “Capital”. At some point the band wanted to record their album in London, in the hometown the legendary British ska-band “Madness” (one of Mihalok’s favourites). When almost everything was ready for that, a chance interfered. At a concert in Kiev “Lyapis Trubetskoy” met a famous Ukrainian sound producer Vitaliy Telezin. He worked with “Okean El’zi”, “Brat’ia Grim” and other top Ukrainian/Russian artists. But it wasn’t the thing that attracted Mikhalok and his friends.
“We are from the same generation with him, we had common world outlook, we liked the same music. And it was the music we wanted to record on our new album. I don’t want to offend anyone, but, roughly speaking, for our band he is the first studio guy who didn’t need explanations about what is California wave or how “Green Day” and “Offspring” make their sound,” - Mikhalok says.
And this combination has worked perfectly well. Now it’s already clear that the new album will mean to the band and its fans no less than the legendary “Ty kinula” (“You Gave Me Up”) in 1998 and will give a rise to the new popularity wave for “Lyapis Trubetskoy”. Still, according to Sergey Mikhalok, the ideology of both the new album and the present group is different from what used to be in the years between these two landmarks. He says: “When I started my career I used to write songs that changed me and the world around me, but later I began to create stuff, that didn’t have influence either on me or the world around. At best those songs could be a soundtrack for some wedding or birthday. And what is horrible at some point I even used to be proud of that. But now I have come back to what everything started from – to a mix of biting satire and powerful chords.”
Video clips have played an important role in the album presentation. The first clip for the song “Hare” (“Enough”), a cheerful wedding trash-video, was filmed by a famous actor and new wave director Vladimir Epifantsev. The second clip, animation video “Capital”, which has become a real Internet sensation, was made by Aleksey Terekhov, co-author of the legendary “Au” (1998) and “Rozochka” (1999) videos. "Capital" has hardly appeared on TV, but has already won several prizes and got a lot of nominations on the different video & music festivals in Russia, Belarus, Portugal and so on.
Frontman Siarhei Mikhalok anounced mid-March 2014 that the group would ceased to exist the next 1 September.
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Болт
Ляпис Трубецкой Lyrics
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Над Кремлем гордый флаг.
Я пытаюсь понять,
Почему я для общества враг.
Почему меня нет в хороводе
Славных героев труда?
Без меня коллектив на заводе.
Социальная защищенность,
Пенсионный фонд,
Я ложил на вас свой огромный
Железобетонный болт!
Социальная защищенность,
Пенсионный фонд,
Я ложил на вас свой огромный
Железобетонный болт!
В медицинских учрежденьях
Меня в картотеке нет,
Меня нет на военных ученьях,
Я порвал социальный пакет.
Я летаю по миру как птица,
Ем огрызки и крошки клюю.
И не надо, товарищи, злиться —
Я на злость эту вашу плюю!
Социальная защищенность,
Пенсионный фонд,
Я ложил на вас свой огромный
Железобетонный болт!
Социальная защищенность,
Пенсионный фонд,
Я ложил на вас свой огромный
Железобетонный болт!
The song "Болт" by Ляпис Трубецкой talks about the frustrations and disillusionment felt by the singer towards society and its expectations of him. The first verse starts by mentioning the clock striking five and the proud flag over the Kremlin. The singer then questions why he is viewed as an enemy by society and wonders why he's not included in the group of celebrated heroes of labor.
The second verse continues with the singer's frustration towards society and its expectations of him. He expresses how he's seen as lazy and worthless by society, despite his contributions to the social welfare system and pension fund. He then ends the verse by saying that he's given up on society's expectations and has cut himself off from its social safety nets.
The chorus repeats the frustration towards social safety nets, with the singer comparing his contributions to them as a metaphorical "bolt" that he has thrown onto society. The entire song touches on the themes of disillusionment, frustration, and non-conformity.
Line by Line Meaning
Куранты пробили пять.
It's five o'clock, marked by the striking of the clock tower bells.
Над Кремлем гордый флаг.
Above the Kremlin flies the proud flag of the state.
Я пытаюсь понять, Почему я для общества враг.
I am trying to understand why society sees me as an enemy.
Почему меня нет в хороводе Славных героев труда?
Why am I not included in the circle of the great heroes of labor?
Без меня коллектив на заводе. Тунеядец я, господа.
The collective is incomplete without me. I am a lazy bum.
Социальная защищенность, Пенсионный фонд, Я ложил на вас свой огромный Железобетонный болт!
I placed a huge, concrete bolt on the social security and pension fund systems.
В медицинских учрежденьях Меня в картотеке нет, Меня нет на военных ученьях, Я порвал социальный пакет.
I am not listed in medical records, nor do I participate in military training. I have torn apart the social contract.
Я летаю по миру как птица, Ем огрызки и крошки клюю. И не надо, товарищи, злиться — Я на злость эту вашу плюю!
I fly around the world like a bird, scavenging for scraps. And don't be angry, comrades - I spit at your anger!
Социальная защищенность, Пенсионный фонд, Я ложил на вас свой огромный Железобетонный болт!
I placed a huge, concrete bolt on the social security and pension fund systems.
Contributed by Blake J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@girlwithpenis
Надеюсь настанет тот день, когда можно будет зайти сюда и написать: "это уже не актуально и больше не будет актуальным, мы об этом позаботимся, мы всё помним"
@gomonets
в разные периоды времени всё будет по разному. История уже не раз доказывала, что она стоит на репите, так что песня эта - вечна
@user-vc5ft5ok7z
@@gomonets историю делаем мы - люди. Не история стоит на репите , а мы не меняемся, до тех пор пока люди кардинально не поменяются , история будет повторятся раз за разом и новые технологии тут не помогут
@user-qn7rc9ii7i
Мдэ...
@adskazadnica9141
Сегодня этот день
@user-qn7rc9ii7i
@@adskazadnica9141 хаха
@user-tt6li7tb3b
На дворе 21-ый год,
Но до сих пор актуален,
Железобетонный болт.
@user-jg2kv9is1x
2020, ничего не изменилось, эта песня актуальна все еще...
@user-zt2ko6jl5r
Дима Вексель пока жив Капитализм, песня не может потерять актуальности.
@vitelvi5034
ой, ли? Нойза давно купили либерасты и он по поводу революции своё мнение давно сменил)))