Nesoglasie – The Meaning of Life
Несогласие (Saint Petersburg) translates to disagreement. Linguistically related to соглашаться / согласиться (the verbs for agreeing, being in agreement); also, the word for consonant (согласная) is easy to recognize in the band name. You could even call it Counter-Consonant.
Question and Answer
Смысл means meaning, жизни (from жизнь) means of life. So, The Meaning of Life is just two words. And it’s the title of this song. It begins (after the guitar) with
И я не знаю, что будет завтра
Может, завтра я умру.
А может быть, всё будет круто
Смысл жизни я найду.
And I don’t know what tomorrow will bring
Maybe I’ll die tomorrow.
Or maybe everything will be cool
I’ll find the meaning of life.
For now, the outlook seems bleak:
Я пью дешевый алкоголь
– на другое денег больше нет,
Поглощая вина литры
я хочу найти ответ.
I drink cheap alcohol
– there’s no more money for anything else,
Consuming liters of wine
I want to find the answer.
That might be hard, though, because the questions aren’t simple. Like почему солнце надо мною (why the sun above me) and почему боимся смерти (why we fear death) но желания жить нет (but there’s no desire to live). Everything will only change (всё измениться тогда лишь) when I find the answer (когда я найду ответ).
There’s not much to see in the video, but there’s also a live version with poor sound (2019, 3 min) and a full Concert in Moscow (2019, 101 min). For fans, there’s also a cover version by Mikhail Trepkov (with a hat on his head). Ajay Joshi (in his socks) is still practicing.
Everything’s Fine
Смысл жизни is from Всё в порядке, всё пройдёт (Everything’s fine, everything will pass, 2017). Title track here, and also a live version (2019). Plus a cover (2020) that’s visually в порядке (fine), by Maxim Pich.
More Несогласие (Nesoglasie) on
Bandcamp,
Spotify,
VK, and
YouTube.
Interview (RU) on
Muzstorona (2017).
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (from recent to old).
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