Кино. История этого мира

New Albums. Really the Main

It’s very hard to select the truly best songs of a band to create a good collection “The Best of ...”. This time I won’t speak about such collections created by the bands themselves. Sometimes a record company ventures to evaluate the songs of a band. Usually the results of such an attempt are much below average. Until the very end of 1999 the only pleasant exception was the “Russian Rock Legends” series by the Moroz Records Company. But at the end of 1998 appeared the Real Records Company, that tried to compete with Moroz Records. It founded “The Main Songs” series, in which the collections of ДДТ, Linda, Калинов мост were issued. On May 12, 2000, the albums of Сплин, Крематорий and Кино appeared.

It’s a tradition: all collections of “The Main Songs” series include at least one previously unpublished song. Usually it is a new song from an upcoming album. For the “История этого мира” collection Real Records found the song “Вопрос”, written in 1989 for the album “Звезда по имени Солнце”, but not included in that album. Later it had been lost and remained unknown for eleven years.

As for the other 15 songs on the album – it’s strange, but I have no suggestion to replace any of the songs. The selection is almost perfect. This collection doesn’t contain ‘ballast’ – not very well-known and not very good songs included mostly to prove that the record company knows them. For example, the “Russian Rock Legends – Кино” collection includes such songs as “Солнечные дни”, “Бездельник”, “Мои друзья”, “Транквилизатор”, “Прогулка романтика”, but does not include the songs “Ночь”, “В наших глазах”, “Песня без слов”, “Кончится лето”, which you can find on the album “История этого мира”. Of course, if we start to think hard, we will remember the songs “Мама анархия” and “Легенда”, which weren’t included in this album. But it’s impossible to point to songs which should be replaced by them.

The Real Records Company did the impossible. The albums from the series “The Main Songs” fully match their name. The “История этого мира” album isn’t an exception. Probably, if it hadn’t included the song “Вопрос”, I couldn’t have recommended it to those who have all the songs by Кино on other albums. But as it’s included, I can say to everybody: buy this album and listen to it. You’ll get great pleasure.

By Yusup, 3rd year MSU student