Zachem snyatsya sny?

Zachem snyatsya sny?
Studio album by Grazhdanskaya Oborona
Released	9 May 2007
Recorded	GrOb Studio, 28 July-18 September 2006
Genre	Psychedelic rock, post-punk, shoegaze, garage rock
Length	69:52
Label	Wyrgorod
Producer	Egor Letov
Grazhdanskaya Oborona chronology
Reanimatsiya (2005)Reanimatsiya2005 Zachem snyatsya sny? (2007)

Zachem snyatsya sny (Russian: Зачем снятся сны?, Why Do We Have Dreams?) is the 23rd and final album by the Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona. It was released on 9 May 2007.

History

The album is inspired by a bad LSD trip taken by Letov. The album was influenced by Egor i Opizdenevshie, whose name appears on the album. In an interview shortly after the release, he stated he had used up all his creative energies and that there would be no more GrOb albums - a statement which would turn out to be true when Letov died.

The song "Nochyu" was originally titled "Pryg-skok II". It was written during the aforementioned LSD trip and included many fragments of Letov's poetry from 1992 to 1994 in the lyrics. The original song was much longer than the final cut. The album was originally issued on CD. The Russian release came in a digipack with a booklet containing full lyrics, while the Ukrainian one came in a standard jewel case with only a four-page booklet containing a picture of the band. The album was reissued in 2012 on vinyl with new dynamic mastering compared to the loud one of the CD.

The title comes from a song written by Robert Rozhdestvensky. The song doesn't appear on this album, however it was recorded in 1993 by Egor i Opizdenevshie and in 2000 by Natalia Chumakova.

The album artwork is a famous painting of Noah's Ark by Edward Hicks. The painting was previously used on Bijelo Dugme's Ćiribiribela (1989).

Tracklist

All songs written and composed by Egor Letov except 13 by Oleg Lishchenko. 

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Слава психонавтам (Slava psikhonavtam)"	3:48
2.	"Кто-то другой (Kto-to drugoi)"	2:53
3.	"Фейерверк (Feyerverk)"	3:44
4.	"Значит, ураган (Znachit, uragan)"	3:52
5.	"Сияние (Siyanie)"	2:31

Side B
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Танец для мёртвых (Tanets dlya myortvykh)"	4:09
7.	"Куда мы есть (Kuda my yest)"	3:09
8.	"Упадок (Upadok)"	0:47
9.	"Где (Gde)"	3:53
10.	"Потрясающий вид из окна (Potryasayushchiy vid iz okna)"	3:01

Side C
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Калейдоскоп (Kaleydoskop)"	4:40
12.	"К тебе (K tebe)"	3:04
13.	"Я чувствую себя не в своих штанах (Ya chuvstvuyu sebya ne v svoikh shtanakh)"	1:45
14.	"Всё это с тобой (Vsyo eto s toboy)"	4:55
15.	"Резвые (Rezvye)"	2:17

Side D
No.	Title	Length
16.	"Снаружи всех измерений (Snaruzhi vsekh izmereniy)"	4:53
17.	"Кролики (Kroliki)"	2:28
18.	"Ночью (Nochyu)"	7:29
19.	"Осень (Osen)"	4:31

External links

• Zachem snyatsya sny? at Discogs (list of versions)