Thanks to Beck for correcting the subtitlesFootage is mostly from from 1989-1993. This song from 1990, published posthumously in the "Black Album" after Vikt...

Someone on Mastodon was posting about Kino being the biggest soviet rock band so I decided to check them out and I found this song particularly moving.

I can't claim to know the entire context behind the song, but it was written near the end of the Soviet Union and one of the lines is "there is no hope", so I'm choosing to believe this song is about the collapse of the soviet union and it's so sad from that angle. Even the title (given posthumously, the songwriter tragically died before release) "Summer is ending" seems to indicate that it's about the end of something great.

Also jesus what a sick guitar hook.

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      That last line is heartbreaking. I read up a ton on the band and Tsoi while listening to them and it's wild how little I knew about any of this in the west. They were enourmous.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Interestingly enough, the greatest rockstar of China, Cui Jian, is also ethnic Korean, and his family name Cui 崔 is Choi 최 in Korean, and the name Tsoi also corresponds to Choi 최.

      So two of the greatest rockstars in the 2 biggest socialist countries in the world were Koreans with the family name Choi.