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Riblja Čorba is a Serbia
n and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević. Known for their provocative political- and social-related lyrics, Riblja Čorba were one of the top acts of the former Yugoslav rock scene.
Šumatovac in Belgrade
by Bora Đorđević (vocals, acoustic guitar
, songwriter
), and SOS members Miša Aleksić
(bass guitar
), Miroslav "Vicko" Milatović
(drums
) and Rajko Kojić
(guitar
). Đorđević was previously a member of the acoustic rock bands Zajedno and Suncokret
and the pop rock
band Rani Mraz
. The band SOS previously released three 7" singles and recorded a studio album Prvi poziv (The First Call) which featured Đorđević on vocals as guest, however, it remained unreleased until the present day. The four intended to name the band Bora i Ratnici (Bora and the Warriors), Popokatepetl (Popocatépetl
) or Riblja Čorba (Fish Stew, at the time the Belgrade slang
for menstruation
), but as the magazine Radio TV revija published a poster of the band with the name Riblja Čorba, the band decided to continue performing under that name.
Riblja Čorba had its first concert in Elemir
on September 8, 1978. In the first part of the concert Aleksić, Kojić and Milatović performed Humble Pie
, ZZ Top
, Johnny Winter
and Deep Purple
covers, and in the second part they were joined by Đorđević, with whom they performed their songs and The Rolling Stones
and Joe Cocker
covers. In November, Radio Belgrade
show Veče uz radio (Evening by the Radio) celebrated its birthday in Subotica
sport hall. Riblja Čorba played only two songs but managed to win the audiences attention. They won new fans at a fund raising concert in Sarajevo
and the 1978 BOOM festival
in Novi Sad
. On December 22, they released their first single, "Lutka sa naslovne strane
" ("Doll from the Front Cover"), a hard rock
ballad about a fame-hungry model, which became an immediate hit. The song featured jazz
trumpeter Stjepko Gut
on piano
. At the time, Đorđević decided to leave acoustic guitar and dedicate himself to singing. Soon, Riblja Čorba was joined by a rhythm guitarist, Momčilo Bajagić
, on the recommendation of Kojić, who previously played with Bajagić in the band Glogov Kolac. This lineup held its first concert on January 7, 1979 in Jarkovac
. On February 28 they held a long promoted concert in Belgrade
's Dom omladine, which was the band's first concert in Belgrade. Minka Kamberović's ballerinas took part in the concert, and while the band performed "Lutka sa naslovne strane" Đorđević broke a fashion doll
. During that concert Riblja Čorba played most of the songs that would be released on their first album. At the beginning of March, the band held several concerts in Macedonia
. On their concert in Dolovo
Aleksić fell from the stage and broke his leg, so until the end of the tour he was replaced by Miroslav Cvetković (who would later become a member of Bajagić's band Bajaga i Instruktori
). On March 19, they released their second single with songs "Rock 'n' Roll za kućni savet
" ("Rock 'n' Roll for Residents' Committee") and "Valentino iz restorana"
("Restaurant Valentino
"). Marina Tucaković
wrote part of "Valentino iz restorana" lyrics, which was the only time in the history of the band that the author of the lyrics was someone outside the band. Riblja Čorba spent the summer in Makarska
, where they practiced for the upcoming debut album promotion. The concert was held on September 1 in Tašmajdan Stadium. Although the album was released ten days after the concert, the stadium was sold out. Bulevar
, Formula 4 and Meri Cakić's "anti-ballet" group Ribetine also performed at the concert (Meri Cakić, who appeared on the concert wearing garter belts, has, by some, inspired Đorđević to write "Lutka sa naslovne strane", although he denied the claims). At this concert Đorđević got his concert nickname Bora Majstor (Bora the Master). On the concert the band played all the songs that would be released on their debut album, the songs released on their 7" singles, and the covers of Joe Cocker
's version of "The Letter" and The Rolling Stones
' "Jumpin' Jack Flash
". Several days later Đorđević went to Doboj
and Kojić went to Sarajevo
, to serve the Yugoslav People's Army
. On November 28, the band, without Đorđević and Kojić performed at the marathon concert in Sarajevo with Aleksić on vocals, which was the only time that Riblja Čorba performed without Đorđević.
Riblja Čorba's debut album, Kost u grlu
(Bone in the Throat) was soon released and well received by both fans and critics. It brought a large number of hits: "Zvezda potkrovlja i suterena" ("Star of Attics and Basements"), "Egoista" ("Egoist"), "Ja sam još ona ista budala" ("I'm Still the Same Old Fool"), and "Ostani đubre do kraja" ("Remain Garbage to the End"). The songs "Mirno spavaj" ("Sleep Peacefully") was written by Đorđević and Nenad Božić during Đorđević's days in Suncokret
, and was previously recorded for the SOS' never released album. The PGP-RTB
editors believed that the verse "Popij svoje sedative" ("Take your sedative
s") from this song might have reminded of drug abuse
, and the first number of copies of the album with the version of the song containing this verse were soon retrieved from the stores. The album cover was designed by the cartoonist
and a former Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
member Jugoslav Vlahović
, who would later design covers for all Riblja Čorba albums released until the present day, except Osmi nervni slom
and Koza nostra
covers. Kost u grlu was sold in more than 120,000 copies, Đorđević was proclaimed the rock musician of the year by some music magazines, and Riblja Čorba's hard rock sound with blues
and heavy metal
elements achieved success, although the age of New Wave in Yugoslavia was about to begin.
" ("Back to the Big Dirty City") with Bajagić, Milatović and Kojić. The B-side featured the uncensored version of "Mirno spavaj". On December 31 and January 1, 1981 Riblja Čorba held two concerts with the hard rock band Atomsko Sklonište
. The concerts were held in Belgrade's Pionir Hall
and were advertised as 'Atomska Čorba' (Atomic Stew). In February 1981 Riblja Čorba released its second album Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti
(Perverted Imagination and Sordid Passions). The album was produced by Enco Lesić, who also played keyboards
on the album recording and wrote the music for the song "Rekla je" ("She Said"). The album brought a large number of hits: "Ostaću slobodan" ("I'll Stay Free"), "Lak muškarac" ("Easy Man"), ballads "Neke su žene pratile vojnike" ("Some Women Escorted Soldiers"), "Nemoj srećo, nemoj danas" ("Don't, Honey, Don't do It Today"), "Dva dinara druže" ("Two Dinars
, Comrade"), and "Rekla je" ("She Said"). The band promoted the album on their Yugoslav tour. After their return to Belgrade, they held a concert in Kalemegdan
's Rockoteka. The band's special guest on the concert, on the cover of the ZZ Top
song "Tush
", was Ian Gillan Band
bass guitarist John McCoy
, who would produce the band's third album Mrtva priroda
(Still Life). Mrtva priroda, also released in 1981, brought Riblja Čorba's first song with political-related lyrics, "Na zapadu ništa novo" ("All Quiet on the Western Front
"). The album was sold in more than 450,000 copies.
In January 1982, Riblja Čorba started their Yugoslav tour with a concert in Čačak
. Ironically, the tour's slogan was "Ko preživi - pričaće" (The One Who Survives Will Tell about It). On their concert in Ledena dvorana in Zagreb
, due to bad organization, there were 15,000 people in the hall with only 10,500 seats as well as only two exit doors being open. In the rush at the end of the concert a fourteen-year old girl Željka Marković was trampled and died. This was a reason for some politicians to publicly attack Riblja Čorba and rock music in general. After the concert in Zagreb some of the concerts on the tour were cancelled.
This was also the time of the first political scandal that followed Riblja Čorba. League of Communist Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina demanded Mrtva priroda to be banned because of the lyrics "Za ideale ginu budale" ("Fools get killed for their ideas") and "Kreteni dižu bune i ginu" ("Jerks organize uprisings and get killed") from the song "Na zapadu ništa novo". Before the concert in Sarajevo, Đorđević had to write an explanation for this problematic lyrics and sign a statement that he would sing the song "Na zapadu ništa novo" on his own risk.
Riblja Čorba finished the tour with four concerts in Pionir Hall
. Live album U ime naroda
(In the Name of the People, the title referring to the political scandal around "Na zapadu ništa novo") was recorded on their concert on April 11. On the Youth Day the band was unexpectedly awarded with Majska nagrada award by the Belgrade Committee of the League of Socialist Youth as the band which "sings about the life and the problems of the young people" and which "has become a symbol of the large part of the youth"
Their next album, Buvlja pijaca
(Flea Market), was released at the end of 1982. The producer was once again John McCoy. The album featured softer sound than the previous Riblja Čorba albums, as some of the songs featured string instruments. This album brought a large number of successful songs: ironic love songs "Draga ne budi peder" ("Darling, Don't be a Faggot"), "U dva će čistači odneti đubre" ("At Two Garbage Collectors Will Take away the Trash"), "Dobro jutro" ("Good Morning"), and political songs "Ja ratujem sam" ("I'm at War by Myself"), "Pravila, pravila" ("Rules, Rules"), "Kako je lepo biti glup" ("How Nice It Is to be Stupid"). However, the final number of copies sold was 250,000, which was less than expected. The album was followed by a tour, which ended with a concert in Belgrade's Sajmište
. The opening bands on the concert were Dʼ Boys and Siluete
, the latter performing with guitarist Nikola Čuturilo
, who would later become a member of Riblja Čorba. As Milatović had to leave the band after the concert due to his army obligations, a barber
cut his hair off on stage. After the concert, Milatović left the band and was temporarily replaced by a former Tilt and Suncokret
member Vladimir Golubović (who would later join Bajagić's band Bajaga i Instruktori
).
Prior to leaving to serve the army, Milatović started a side project: he formed the heavy metal band Ratnici (later known as Warriors) with the vocalist Dušan Nikolić, but recorded only an EP with them. After he went to serve the army, the band recorded their first self-titled album without Milatović, moving to Canada
after its release. A short break after the Buvlja pijaca tour was used by another two Riblja Čorba members for their side projects: Kojić released his solo EP
Ne budi me bez razloga
(Don't Wake Me Up Without a Good Reason), with lyrics written by Đorđević and Bajagić and featuring Đorđević and Golubović as guests, and Bajagić worked on songs for his solo album Pozitivna geografija
(Positive Geography). Although working on his solo album, Bajagić also found time to write the songs for Riblja Čorba's next album.
Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju
(Tonight You Will Be Entertained by Musicians Who Drink) was released in 1984. As Riblja Čorba's record label PGP-RTB
refused to pay for the recording in London
, the band signed a contract with PGP-RTB's main competitor Jugoton
. The album was produced by Kornelije Kovač
. Immediately after the album was released, state's censors declared songs "Mangupi vam kvare dete" and "Besni psi" ethically unacceptable. "Besni psi" caused an international scandal. Because of the lyrics "Grčki sverceri, arapski studenti, negativni elementi, maloletni delikventi i besni psi". ("Greek
smugglers, Arab
students, negative elements, juvenile hooligans and mad dogs") from the song "Besni psi" (Mad Dogs") embassys of three Arab countries and Zaire
protested because, in their words: "Đorđević equated foreign students and mad dogs", and the Yugoslav Ministry of culture ordered an analysis of the song by the experts. With dark, depressive atmosphere, album was not as nearly successful as Riblja Čorba's previous albums, bringing only one hit, Bajagić's gentle ballad "Kad hodaš
" ("When You Walk"). In the spring of 1984, Bajagić's Pozitivna geografija was released and very well received by fans and critics alike. However, Riblja Čorba spring tour was unsuccessful, bringing conflicts inside the band. Kojić did not appear on two television appearances and one press conference, and left the band on tour several times. Although Đorđević and Aleksić wanted to exclude Kojić from the band, Bajagić insisted that Kojić remains a member. However, after both Kojić and Bajagić refused to perform in Greece
during the summer, Đorđević and Aleksić excluded them from the band. Shortly after Bajagić started a successful career as a frontman of the pop rock
band Bajaga i Instruktori
.
Vidoja "Džindžer" Božinović
, a former Pop Mašina
, Dah
, Opus
and Rok Mašina
member, and Zoran Dašić became the band's new guitarists. After only couple of rehearsals Dašić left the band (he would later form the starogradska muzika
band Legende, and Đorđević would write lyrics for seven and music for two songs released on their debut album Dođi druže do Srbije uže) and was replaced by a former Kredit, Bicikl, Zamba, Siluete
and Električni Orgazam
member Nikola Čuturilo
. During this period the band performed mostly at the clubs. At this time, Đorđević made a guest appearance on Bijelo Dugme
's self-titled album Bijelo Dugme
, on the song "Pediculis Pubis", having co-written it with his main rival at the time, Bijelo Dugme leader Goran Bregović
. This guest appearance helped Riblja Čorba's shattered status. During the winter the band entered the studio to record their next album.
(The Truth) was released in 1985. As Jugoton refused to release songs "Snage opozicije" ("Opposition Forces"), "Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele" ("Look Homeward, Angel
"), "'Alo" ("Hello") and "Dvorska budala" ("Jester") because of their political-related lyrics, the band signed back with PGP-RTB, which refused to release only "Snage opozicije". (The song remained unreleased until 1997, when it appeared on the compilation album Treći srpski ustanak
.) Although after Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju was released many critics claimed that Riblja Čorba belongs to the past, Istina was praised by both fans and critics. Produced by McCoy and more heavy metal-oriented than any of the band's previous works, album is often considered Riblja Čorba's magnum opus
. Album is perhaps most memorable for the song "Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele", which went on to become one of Riblja Čorba's signature song
s. However, Istina is also the album after which the band, although still generally fitting into hard rock
sound, started turning towards more commercial sound. On the Bosnian tour that followed the album release the former YU grupa
bass guitarist Žika Jelić replaced Aleksić, who was not able to perform due to illness. In May the band performed in Belgrade Sports Hall, and Đorđević released his first book of poems entitled Ravnodušan prema plaču (Apathetic towards Crying).
(Eighth Nervous Breakdown). The album featured British
reggae
musician Eddy Grant
on vocals in the song "Amsterdam". Other hits included "Nemoj da ideš mojom ulicom" ("Don't Walk Along My Street"), "Tu nema Boga, nema pravde" ("There's no God, There's no Justice"), "Južna Afrika '85. (Ja ću da pevam)" ("South Africa
'85 (". At the beginning of 1986, Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
discussed Riblja Čorba's lyrics, but that did not affect the audience. On March 8, in front of 10,000 people in Sarajevo's Skenderija
Riblja Čorba started their most successful tour since the Mrtva priroda tour. During the year, Milatović released his first solo album U ritmu srca malog dobošara
(In the Rhythm of the Little Drummer's Heart). At the 1986 MESAM Festival, the band was awarded with the Rock Band of the Year Award, Đorđević was proclaimed Composer of the Year, and "Amsterdam" was proclaimed Hit of the Year.
In February 1987, they released their ninth studio album Ujed za dušu
(Soul Bite), which featured their first cover
, "Zadnji voz za Čačak" ("Last Train to Čačak
", cover of The Monkees
' "Last Train to Clarksville
"). Surprisingly, "Član mafije" ("Mafia Member") was the album's only political song. Songs "Nesrećnice nije te sramota
" ("Miserable Woman, Aren't You Ashamed") and "Zašto kuče arlauče"
("Why the Dog Howles") were released on a gift 7" single.
Đorđević's 1987 unplugged
performance with singer-songwriter
Arsen Dedić
in Terazije Theatre
resulted in a famous bootleg album
Arsen & Bora Čorba Unplugged '87, which is included in the official Bora Đorđević discography. The performenace feaured Stjepan Mihaljinec on piano and Božinović and Čuturilo on guitars. In 1987, Đorđević was indicted for "disturbing the public", when he red his poems in Sava Centar, but because he was reading poems already published in his books and in various magazines, the charges were dropped. In 1988, after reading his poems in Bar
, he was indicted for "insulting the working people of Yugoslavia", but these charges were also dropped. In 1988, he released Bora priča gluposti
(Bora's Talking Rubish), which featured a recording of his poetry evening
held in Belgrade's KST.
In 1988, Riblja Čorba celebrated ten years of existence by releasing Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi
(Talking about Love Is Usually Annoying) and the compilation album Riblja Čorba 10
, which was released in a limited number of 1,000 copies only, and was given to the friends of the band and the media. The band planned to hold a fund raising concert in front of the Cathedral of Saint Sava, with all the funds raised dedicated to the construction of the Cathedral, and with Đorđe Balašević, Ekatarina Velika
and Piloti
as special guests, but did not manage to get the permission to organize it. In 1988, Čuturilo released his first solo album 9 lakih komada (9 Easy Steps). The band held their last concert with Čuturilo on October 14, 1989 in Sarajevo. After releasing his second studio album Raskršće (Crossroads) in 1989, he decided to leave the band. He was replaced by Zoran Ilić, a former Bezobrazno Zeleno
member. In 1990, the band released Koza nostra
(Cosa Nostra, also a word play
, with "Koza" meaning "goat
" in Serbian). Album featured Branimir Štulić
and Azra
members on backing vocals on the track "Al Kapone" ("Al Capone
"), former Suncokret
members Bilja Krstić
, Gorica Popović
and Snežana Jandrlić on backing vocals, and Saša Lokner on keyboards. After the album release the band performed in Sweden
, Romania
and Australia
.
, Riblja Čorba members decided to record their farewell album. Labudova pesma
(Swan Song
), recorded in Vienna
, featured several anti-war songs and only one hit, "Kad sam bio mlad" ("When I Was Young", cover of Eric Burdon
's "When I Was Young
"), However, it did not turn out to be Riblja Čorba's last album, as they eventually changed their decision to disband. Oliver Mandić
, who was approached to join the band as a keyboard player, eventually did not become a Riblja Čorba member, and songs recorded with him were not released on the album. During the same year Zoran Ilić formed the comedy rock
supergroup
Babe with Bajaga i Instruktori
member Žika Milenković, Električni Orgazam
member Goran Čavajda and a former Bezobrazno Zeleno
member Zoran Vasić. The next Riblja Čorba album Zbogom, Srbijo
(Farewell, Serbia) was not very successful either. It featured "Zelena trava doma mog" ("Green Grass of My Home", cover of Tom Jones
' "Green Green Grass of Home
"), "Danas nema mleka" ("No Milk Today", a heavy metal cover of Herman's Hermits
' "No Milk Today
") and "Tamna je noć" ("Dark Is the Night", cover of Mark Bernes
' "The Dark Night") as the album's only hits. At this period, Vlada Barjaktarević, a former Van Gogh
member, became the band's first official keyboard player.
At this time, Đorđević became an active supporter of the Serbian troops in Republika Srpska
and Republika Srpska Krajina. With Knin
band Minđušari he recorded controversial songs "E moj druže zagrebački" ("Oh, my Zagreb
Comrade"), as a response to Jura Stublić
's song "E moj druže beogradski" ("Oh, my Belgrade
Comrade"), and "Ljetovanje" ("Summer Vacation"). This has, alongside with the unsuccessful Riblja Čorba albums, made Riblja Čorba lose a part of their fans in Croatia
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
Đorđević's support for Serbian nationalism did not, however, imply support for the government of Slobodan Milošević
, and he would express his attitude in Riblja Čorba political songs recorded on albums Ostalo je ćutanje
and Nojeva barka
, as well as on his 1996 solo album Njihovi dani
(Their Days) which he released in his own name rather than that of his band. Nevertheless, the songs from Njihovi dani were performed at Riblja Čorba concerts and "Baba Jula" ("Grandma Jula", the song that innuends to Mirjana Marković
) became an anthem on 1990s protests in Serbia. During the same year, Milatović formed the hard rock band Indijanci, infamous for their pornographic
lyrics.
In the summer of 1996, Ilić left Riblja Čorba. He was not replaced, and the band continued with only Božinović on guitar. The album Ostalo je ćutanje
(The Rest Is Silence), released in 1996, featured a cover of John Lennon
's song "Jealous Guy
", Riblja Čorba version titled "Ljubomorko" ("Jealous Guy"). At the beginning of 1997, a compilation album Treći srpski ustanak
(Third Serbian Uprising
), with a choice of Riblja Čorba political songs, previously unreleased "Snage opozicije" and the new song "Volim i ja vas" ("I Love You, Too"), was released. In 1997, the band held a tour named Po slobodnim gradovima Srbije (Around the Free Cities of Serbia) which ended with two concerts in Tašmajdan, with Rambo Amadeus
, Babe, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi
, Direktori
, Indijanci, Aleluja, and Kraljevski Apartman
as the opening acts. On these two concerts Riblja Čorba recorded live albums Beograd, uživo '97 - 1
and Beograd, uživo '97 - 2
. (Belgrade, Live 97 - 1 and 2). Đorđević's political involvement caused Riblja Čorba concert in Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana
to be banned.
In 1999, Riblja Čorba released Nojeva barka
(Noah's Ark
), produced by Aleksić and Miša Popović. Album featured a cover of Merle Travis
' "Sixteen Tons
" (Riblja Čorba version titled "16 noći" ("16 Nights"). The former band member Momčilo Bajagić made a guest appearance on the song "Gde si" ("Where Are You"). At the beginning of 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Riblja Čorba recorded the patriotic tune "Samo Sloga Srbina Spašava" ("Only Unity Saves the Serbs
") with Bajagić, Dejan Cukić
, Van Gogh
frontman Zvonimir Đukić, and Generacija 5
frontman Đorđe David.
(Pissing Against the Wind), released in 2001, on which Riblja Čorba experimented with different musical genres. "Crno-beli svet" ("Black and White World") featured Eyesburn
frontman Hornsman Coyote
on vocals. In 2002, after the tour following the album release, Barjaktarević left the band and was replaced by Nikola Zorić
. In 2003, Milatović released a children's music
album entitled Dečaci o devojčicama (Boys about Girls). In 2003, Riblja Čorba released Ovde
(Here), with songs "Zašto uvek kurcu sviram" and "Pičkin dim" released on the bonus CD. The album saw little success, with the ballad "Poslednja pesma o tebi" ("The Last Song About You") becoming the album's only hit. On December 20, Riblja Čorba, alongside Orthodox Celts
, performed in Belgrade's KST. The Riblja Čorba performance was interrupted due to a bomb threat
. On July 3, 2004 Riblja Čorba, alongside the Belgrade faction of the band Zabranjeno Pušenje, held a concert at the Belgrade Ušće
, in order to celebrate Riblja Čorba's twenty-five and Zabranjeno Pušenje
's twenty years on the scene. However, the concert is best remembered by the fact that Zabranjeno Pušenje performance was ended after about half an hour, as the band performed the world music
songs they recorded as The No Smoking Orchestra, and the angry fans threw various objects on stage. The other acts that performed on the concert included Negative, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi
, Bjesovi
, Alogia
, Roze Poze, Abonos
, Kraljevski Apartman
, Đorđe David, and others.
In 2005, the band released Trilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštite
(Trilogy 1: Virginity without Protection), the first part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy
. Two other parts of the trilogy, Trilogija 2: Devičanska ostrva
(Trilogy 2: Virgin Islands
) and Trilogija 3: Ambasadori loše volje
(Trilogy 3: Badwill Ambassadors) were released in 2006. Although imagined as Riblja Čorba's comeback to the top of the Serbian rock scene
, trilogy did not manage to recover Riblja Čorba's popularity in Serbia, partly decreased because of Đorđević's political involvement as a Democratic Party of Serbia
member. After releasing the live album Gladijatori u BG Areni
(Gladiators in Belgrade Arena
) in 2008, the band, at the beginning of 2009, released the studio album Minut sa njom
(A Minute with Her). Minut sa njom was the first Riblja Čorba album since Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti which did not feature any political song. The band celebrated thirty years since the 1979 concert at Tašmajdan Stadium and the release of their debut album Kost u grlu with a concert in Belgrade Arena held on October 31, 2009.
(No One Has This Kind of People!) with a recording of their concert held in Belgrade Arena on October 31, 2009. In January 2011, film director Dušan Vesić announced that he is working on a documentary about Riblja Čorba. In July 2011, Đorđević stated that the band is working on the new studio album, which is expected to be released during the autumn.
In August 2011, PGP-RTS
released Riblja Čorba box set, which features twelve CDs: the first ten studio albums, the first live album, and the singles released in the 1978—1990 period and rarities on the twelfth CD.
. However, Bora Đorđević's support for Serbian nationalism during Yugoslav wars
has caused Riblja Čorba's absence from mainstream media in Croatia
and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
Riblja Čorba songs were covered by acts such are Zaklonišče Prepeva
, Sick Mother Fakers
, Six Pack
, Alogia
, Lude Krawe, and others.
The song "Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele" was voted Hit of the Year in 1985 by the listeners of Radio Beograd 202
and Song of the Decade in 1990. In 2009, the song was voted the Greatest Domestic Song by the readers of the Standard magazine.
The book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music) features eight Riblja Čorba albums: Kost u grlu
(ranked #16), Mrtva priroda
(ranked #19), Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti
(ranked #23), Istina
(ranked #43), Buvlja pijaca
(ranked #64), Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju
(ranked #80), Osmi nervni slom
(ranked #83), and U ime naroda
(ranked #85).
The B92 Top 100 Yugoslav songs list fetaures two songs by Riblja Čorba: "Kad hodaš
" (ranked #4) and "Lutka sa naslovne strane
" (ranked #12).
In 2009, Pošta Slovenije
released the postage stamp
that features Riblja Čorba logo.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević. Known for their provocative political- and social-related lyrics, Riblja Čorba were one of the top acts of the former Yugoslav rock scene.
1970s: The beginning and rise to fame
Riblja Čorba was officially formed on August 15, 1978 in the kafanaKafana
Kafana , kafeana , kavana are terms used in the former Yugoslav countries for a distinct type of local bistro which primarily serves alcoholic beverages and coffee , and which sometimes also has a live band.The concept of a social gathering place for men to drink...
Šumatovac in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
by Bora Đorđević (vocals, acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
, songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
), and SOS members Miša Aleksić
Miša Aleksic
Miroslav "Miša" Aleksić is a Serbian musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
(bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
), Miroslav "Vicko" Milatović
Vicko Milatovic
Miroslav "Vicko" Milatović is a Serbian musician best known as the drummer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Early career:...
(drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
) and Rajko Kojić
Rajko Kojic
Radislav "Rajko" Kojić was a Serbian and former Yugoslav guitarist best known for his work with band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
(guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
). Đorđević was previously a member of the acoustic rock bands Zajedno and Suncokret
Suncokret
Suncokret was a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1975 by former Zajedno member Bora Đorđević , a former U Cvetu Mladosti member Nenad Božić and female singers Snežana Jandrlić and Vesna Rakočević...
and the pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...
band Rani Mraz
Rani Mraz
Rani Mraz were a former Yugoslav rock band from Novi Sad, formed in 1977 by former Žetva member Đorđe Balašević. During the initial period, the band went through several lineup changes, until Balašević and female singer Biljana Krstić remained the only official members of the band...
. The band SOS previously released three 7" singles and recorded a studio album Prvi poziv (The First Call) which featured Đorđević on vocals as guest, however, it remained unreleased until the present day. The four intended to name the band Bora i Ratnici (Bora and the Warriors), Popokatepetl (Popocatépetl
Popocatépetl
Popocatépetl also known as "Popochowa" by the local population is an active volcano and, at , the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba...
) or Riblja Čorba (Fish Stew, at the time the Belgrade slang
Slang
Slang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered more acceptable when used socially. Slang is often to be found in areas of the lexicon that refer to things considered taboo...
for menstruation
Menstruation
Menstruation is the shedding of the uterine lining . It occurs on a regular basis in sexually reproductive-age females of certain mammal species. This article focuses on human menstruation.-Overview:...
), but as the magazine Radio TV revija published a poster of the band with the name Riblja Čorba, the band decided to continue performing under that name.
Riblja Čorba had its first concert in Elemir
Elemir
Elemir is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the province of Vojvodina...
on September 8, 1978. In the first part of the concert Aleksić, Kojić and Milatović performed Humble Pie
Humble Pie (band)
Humble Pie was a rock band from England, finding success both in the UK and the US. They are remembered for songs such as "Black Coffee" "30 Days in the Hole", "I Don't Need No Doctor", and "Natural Born Bugie"...
, ZZ Top
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
, Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters...
and Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
covers, and in the second part they were joined by Đorđević, with whom they performed their songs and The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
and Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
covers. In November, Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade is a state-owned and operated radio station in Belgrade, Serbia.The predecessor of Radio Beograd, Radio Beograd-Rakovica, started its program in 1924 and was a part of a state wireless telegraph station. Radio Beograd, AD started in March 1929...
show Veče uz radio (Evening by the Radio) celebrated its birthday in Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
sport hall. Riblja Čorba played only two songs but managed to win the audiences attention. They won new fans at a fund raising concert in Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
and the 1978 BOOM festival
Boom Festival
The Boom Festival is a biennial festival which takes place in Portugal.The festival features music, paint, sculpture, video art, installations cinema, theater and a concept of crosspollination of different art forms....
in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
. On December 22, they released their first single, "Lutka sa naslovne strane
Lutka sa naslovne strane
"Lutka sa naslovne strane" is the debut single from the influential Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
" ("Doll from the Front Cover"), a hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
ballad about a fame-hungry model, which became an immediate hit. The song featured jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
trumpeter Stjepko Gut
Stjepko Gut
Stjepko Gut is a Belgrade-based jazz musician. Studied jazz trumpet at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern,Switzerland and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. As a conductor, he won first place in the first Austrian Big Band Competition...
on piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
. At the time, Đorđević decided to leave acoustic guitar and dedicate himself to singing. Soon, Riblja Čorba was joined by a rhythm guitarist, Momčilo Bajagić
Momcilo Bajagic
Momčilo Bajagić "Bajaga" is a highly popular Serbian rock musician born in Bjelovar. He is best known as the leader of the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Bajaga i Instruktori, as well as a former member of the hard rock band Riblja Čorba.-Early career:Bajagić started his musical career as a...
, on the recommendation of Kojić, who previously played with Bajagić in the band Glogov Kolac. This lineup held its first concert on January 7, 1979 in Jarkovac
Jarkovac
Jarkovac is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sečanj municipality, Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,817 people .-References:...
. On February 28 they held a long promoted concert in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
's Dom omladine, which was the band's first concert in Belgrade. Minka Kamberović's ballerinas took part in the concert, and while the band performed "Lutka sa naslovne strane" Đorđević broke a fashion doll
Fashion doll
Fashion dolls are dolls primarily designed to be dressed to reflect fashion trends. They are manufactured both as toys for children to play with and as collectibles for adult collectors. The dolls are usually modeled after teen girls or adult women, though child, male, and even some non-human...
. During that concert Riblja Čorba played most of the songs that would be released on their first album. At the beginning of March, the band held several concerts in Macedonia
Socialist Republic of Macedonia
The Socialist Republic of Macedonia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
. On their concert in Dolovo
Dolovo
Dolovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Pančevo municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 6,835 . Dolovo is very peaceful village. It has three churches and one school....
Aleksić fell from the stage and broke his leg, so until the end of the tour he was replaced by Miroslav Cvetković (who would later become a member of Bajagić's band Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...
). On March 19, they released their second single with songs "Rock 'n' Roll za kućni savet
Rock 'n' Roll za kucni savet
"Rock 'n' Roll za kućni savet" is a single from influential Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba from their 1979 album Kost u grlu.B-side features the song "Valentino iz restorana".-Personnel:*Bora Đorđević - vocals*Rajko Kojić - guitar...
" ("Rock 'n' Roll for Residents' Committee") and "Valentino iz restorana"
Rock 'n' Roll za kucni savet
"Rock 'n' Roll za kućni savet" is a single from influential Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba from their 1979 album Kost u grlu.B-side features the song "Valentino iz restorana".-Personnel:*Bora Đorđević - vocals*Rajko Kojić - guitar...
("Restaurant Valentino
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...
"). Marina Tucaković
Marina Tucaković
Marina Tucaković is a Serbian songwriter who has composed several hit albums in former Yugoslavia. She is a known collaborator with Ceca, Lepa Brena, Jelena Karleusa among others...
wrote part of "Valentino iz restorana" lyrics, which was the only time in the history of the band that the author of the lyrics was someone outside the band. Riblja Čorba spent the summer in Makarska
Makarska
Makarska is a small town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split and northwest of Dubrovnik. It has a population of 13,716 residents. Administratively Makarska has the status of a town and it is part of the Split-Dalmatia County....
, where they practiced for the upcoming debut album promotion. The concert was held on September 1 in Tašmajdan Stadium. Although the album was released ten days after the concert, the stadium was sold out. Bulevar
Bulevar (band)
Bulevar were a Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band from Belgrade.-Band formation:The band history dates from the days of the group Tilt consisting of young highschool attendants Dejan Cukić , Nenad Stamatović , Dušan Bezuha , Miroslav Cvetković and drummers at different times,...
, Formula 4 and Meri Cakić's "anti-ballet" group Ribetine also performed at the concert (Meri Cakić, who appeared on the concert wearing garter belts, has, by some, inspired Đorđević to write "Lutka sa naslovne strane", although he denied the claims). At this concert Đorđević got his concert nickname Bora Majstor (Bora the Master). On the concert the band played all the songs that would be released on their debut album, the songs released on their 7" singles, and the covers of Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
's version of "The Letter" and The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
' "Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jumpin' Jack Flash
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released as a single in 1968. Called "supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London" by Rolling Stone, the song was perceived by some as the band's return to their blues roots after the psychedelia of their preceding...
". Several days later Đorđević went to Doboj
Doboj
Doboj is a city and a municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, situated in the northern part of the Republika Srpska entity on the river Bosna. Doboj is the largest national railway junction; as such, the seats of the Republika Srpska Railways, and the Railways Corporation of Bosnia and...
and Kojić went to Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
, to serve the Yugoslav People's Army
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army , also referred to as the Yugoslav National Army , was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.-Origins:The origins of the JNA can...
. On November 28, the band, without Đorđević and Kojić performed at the marathon concert in Sarajevo with Aleksić on vocals, which was the only time that Riblja Čorba performed without Đorđević.
Riblja Čorba's debut album, Kost u grlu
Kost u grlu
Kost u grlu is the 1979 debut album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.The album was polled in 1998 as the 16th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike .-Album cover:The album cover...
(Bone in the Throat) was soon released and well received by both fans and critics. It brought a large number of hits: "Zvezda potkrovlja i suterena" ("Star of Attics and Basements"), "Egoista" ("Egoist"), "Ja sam još ona ista budala" ("I'm Still the Same Old Fool"), and "Ostani đubre do kraja" ("Remain Garbage to the End"). The songs "Mirno spavaj" ("Sleep Peacefully") was written by Đorđević and Nenad Božić during Đorđević's days in Suncokret
Suncokret
Suncokret was a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1975 by former Zajedno member Bora Đorđević , a former U Cvetu Mladosti member Nenad Božić and female singers Snežana Jandrlić and Vesna Rakočević...
, and was previously recorded for the SOS' never released album. The PGP-RTB
PGP-RTB
PGP-RTB was a major record label and chain record store in the former SFR Yugoslavia based in Belgrade, Socialist Republic of Serbia. PGP-RTB was established in 1958...
editors believed that the verse "Popij svoje sedative" ("Take your sedative
Sedative
A sedative or tranquilizer is a substance that induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement....
s") from this song might have reminded of drug abuse
Drug abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent. The term "drug abuse" does not exclude dependency, but is otherwise used in a similar manner in nonmedical contexts...
, and the first number of copies of the album with the version of the song containing this verse were soon retrieved from the stores. The album cover was designed by the cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
and a former Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
Porodicna Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba were a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band and a theatre group and one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav acoustic rock scene....
member Jugoslav Vlahović
Jugoslav Vlahović
Jugoslav Vlahović is a Serbian artist, illustrator, photographer and a former rock musician. Vlahović is known for his work on album covers...
, who would later design covers for all Riblja Čorba albums released until the present day, except Osmi nervni slom
Osmi nervni slom
Osmi nervni slom is the seventh studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba in 1986....
and Koza nostra
Koza nostra
Koza nostra is the tenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1990....
covers. Kost u grlu was sold in more than 120,000 copies, Đorđević was proclaimed the rock musician of the year by some music magazines, and Riblja Čorba's hard rock sound with blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
elements achieved success, although the age of New Wave in Yugoslavia was about to begin.
Early 1980s
At the end of July 1980, Đorđević, who was still serving the army, appeared in Belgrade to record "Nazad u veliki prljavi gradNazad u veliki prljavi grad
"Nazad u veliki prljavi grad" is a single from influential Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.B-side features an uncensored version of song "Mirno spavaj" .-Personnel:...
" ("Back to the Big Dirty City") with Bajagić, Milatović and Kojić. The B-side featured the uncensored version of "Mirno spavaj". On December 31 and January 1, 1981 Riblja Čorba held two concerts with the hard rock band Atomsko Sklonište
Atomsko sklonište
Atomsko sklonište is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock band, formed in Pula in 1977. The band is known primarily for its strong anti-war lyrics.-1977-1987:...
. The concerts were held in Belgrade's Pionir Hall
Pionir Hall
Pionir Hall, or Pionir Arena is a sports arena in Belgrade, Serbia, located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula...
and were advertised as 'Atomska Čorba' (Atomic Stew). In February 1981 Riblja Čorba released its second album Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti
Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti
Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti is the second studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1981....
(Perverted Imagination and Sordid Passions). The album was produced by Enco Lesić, who also played keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
on the album recording and wrote the music for the song "Rekla je" ("She Said"). The album brought a large number of hits: "Ostaću slobodan" ("I'll Stay Free"), "Lak muškarac" ("Easy Man"), ballads "Neke su žene pratile vojnike" ("Some Women Escorted Soldiers"), "Nemoj srećo, nemoj danas" ("Don't, Honey, Don't do It Today"), "Dva dinara druže" ("Two Dinars
Yugoslav dinar
The dinar was the currency of the three Yugoslav states: the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1918 and 2003. The dinar was subdivided into 100 para...
, Comrade"), and "Rekla je" ("She Said"). The band promoted the album on their Yugoslav tour. After their return to Belgrade, they held a concert in Kalemegdan
Kalemegdan
Belgrade Fortress , represent old citadel and Kalemegdan Park on the confluence of the River Sava and Danube, in an urban area of modern Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad...
's Rockoteka. The band's special guest on the concert, on the cover of the ZZ Top
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
song "Tush
Tush (song)
"Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album Fandango!. It reached number 20 on the pop chart.The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G. The recording was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning...
", was Ian Gillan Band
Ian Gillan Band
The Ian Gillan Band was a jazz-rock fusion band formed by Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan in 1975.-History:After leaving Deep Purple in 1973, Ian Gillan had retired from the music business to pursue other business ventures, including a motorbike manufacturing company and a hotel. These ventures all...
bass guitarist John McCoy
John McCoy (musician)
John McCoy is a British bass guitarist who is best known for his work with Ian Gillan and Mammoth as well as numerous other bands and sessions since the late 1960s. He currently plays in British rock trio Guy McCoy Torme with former Gillan/Ozzy guitarist Bernie Torme and Bruce Dickinson/Sack Trick...
, who would produce the band's third album Mrtva priroda
Mrtva priroda
Mrtva priroda is the third studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1981....
(Still Life). Mrtva priroda, also released in 1981, brought Riblja Čorba's first song with political-related lyrics, "Na zapadu ništa novo" ("All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.The...
"). The album was sold in more than 450,000 copies.
In January 1982, Riblja Čorba started their Yugoslav tour with a concert in Čačak
Cacak
Čačak is a city in central Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Moravica District of Serbia. Čačak is also the main industrial, cultural and sport center of the district...
. Ironically, the tour's slogan was "Ko preživi - pričaće" (The One Who Survives Will Tell about It). On their concert in Ledena dvorana in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, due to bad organization, there were 15,000 people in the hall with only 10,500 seats as well as only two exit doors being open. In the rush at the end of the concert a fourteen-year old girl Željka Marković was trampled and died. This was a reason for some politicians to publicly attack Riblja Čorba and rock music in general. After the concert in Zagreb some of the concerts on the tour were cancelled.
This was also the time of the first political scandal that followed Riblja Čorba. League of Communist Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina demanded Mrtva priroda to be banned because of the lyrics "Za ideale ginu budale" ("Fools get killed for their ideas") and "Kreteni dižu bune i ginu" ("Jerks organize uprisings and get killed") from the song "Na zapadu ništa novo". Before the concert in Sarajevo, Đorđević had to write an explanation for this problematic lyrics and sign a statement that he would sing the song "Na zapadu ništa novo" on his own risk.
Riblja Čorba finished the tour with four concerts in Pionir Hall
Pionir Hall
Pionir Hall, or Pionir Arena is a sports arena in Belgrade, Serbia, located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula...
. Live album U ime naroda
U ime naroda
U ime naroda is the first live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav influential rock band Riblja Čorba...
(In the Name of the People, the title referring to the political scandal around "Na zapadu ništa novo") was recorded on their concert on April 11. On the Youth Day the band was unexpectedly awarded with Majska nagrada award by the Belgrade Committee of the League of Socialist Youth as the band which "sings about the life and the problems of the young people" and which "has become a symbol of the large part of the youth"
Their next album, Buvlja pijaca
Buvlja pijaca
Buvlja pijaca is the fourth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1982.The album is the second Riblja Čorba album produced by John McCoy...
(Flea Market), was released at the end of 1982. The producer was once again John McCoy. The album featured softer sound than the previous Riblja Čorba albums, as some of the songs featured string instruments. This album brought a large number of successful songs: ironic love songs "Draga ne budi peder" ("Darling, Don't be a Faggot"), "U dva će čistači odneti đubre" ("At Two Garbage Collectors Will Take away the Trash"), "Dobro jutro" ("Good Morning"), and political songs "Ja ratujem sam" ("I'm at War by Myself"), "Pravila, pravila" ("Rules, Rules"), "Kako je lepo biti glup" ("How Nice It Is to be Stupid"). However, the final number of copies sold was 250,000, which was less than expected. The album was followed by a tour, which ended with a concert in Belgrade's Sajmište
Staro Sajmište
Staro Sajmište is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd and it was the site of the World War II Sajmište concentration camp ....
. The opening bands on the concert were Dʼ Boys and Siluete
Siluete
Siluete was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock band from Belgrade, notable for being one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.-1961 - 1971:...
, the latter performing with guitarist Nikola Čuturilo
Nikola Čuturilo
Nikola Čuturilo , also known as Čutura is a Serbian musician...
, who would later become a member of Riblja Čorba. As Milatović had to leave the band after the concert due to his army obligations, a barber
Barber
A barber is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, and to shave or trim the beards of men. The place of work of a barber is generally called a barbershop....
cut his hair off on stage. After the concert, Milatović left the band and was temporarily replaced by a former Tilt and Suncokret
Suncokret
Suncokret was a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1975 by former Zajedno member Bora Đorđević , a former U Cvetu Mladosti member Nenad Božić and female singers Snežana Jandrlić and Vesna Rakočević...
member Vladimir Golubović (who would later join Bajagić's band Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...
).
Prior to leaving to serve the army, Milatović started a side project: he formed the heavy metal band Ratnici (later known as Warriors) with the vocalist Dušan Nikolić, but recorded only an EP with them. After he went to serve the army, the band recorded their first self-titled album without Milatović, moving to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
after its release. A short break after the Buvlja pijaca tour was used by another two Riblja Čorba members for their side projects: Kojić released his solo EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
Ne budi me bez razloga
Ne budi me bez razloga
Ne budi me bez razloga is an EP from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock musician Rajko Kojić. It is Rajko Kojić's only solo release....
(Don't Wake Me Up Without a Good Reason), with lyrics written by Đorđević and Bajagić and featuring Đorđević and Golubović as guests, and Bajagić worked on songs for his solo album Pozitivna geografija
Pozitivna geografija
Pozitivna geografija is the 1984 debut album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Bajaga i Instruktori, released in 1984...
(Positive Geography). Although working on his solo album, Bajagić also found time to write the songs for Riblja Čorba's next album.
Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju
Veceras vas zabavljaju muzicari koji piju
Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju is the fifth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(Tonight You Will Be Entertained by Musicians Who Drink) was released in 1984. As Riblja Čorba's record label PGP-RTB
PGP-RTB
PGP-RTB was a major record label and chain record store in the former SFR Yugoslavia based in Belgrade, Socialist Republic of Serbia. PGP-RTB was established in 1958...
refused to pay for the recording in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, the band signed a contract with PGP-RTB's main competitor Jugoton
Jugoton
Jugoton was the largest record label and chain record store in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia based in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia the company continued to work in independent Republic of Croatia under the name Croatia...
. The album was produced by Kornelije Kovač
Kornelije Kovac
Kornelije "Bata" Kovač is a famous Serbian composer. He is a father of Aleksandra Kovač and Kristina Kovač, both successful Serbian singers.-Early life:...
. Immediately after the album was released, state's censors declared songs "Mangupi vam kvare dete" and "Besni psi" ethically unacceptable. "Besni psi" caused an international scandal. Because of the lyrics "Grčki sverceri, arapski studenti, negativni elementi, maloletni delikventi i besni psi". ("Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
smugglers, Arab
Arab
Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...
students, negative elements, juvenile hooligans and mad dogs") from the song "Besni psi" (Mad Dogs") embassys of three Arab countries and Zaire
Zaire
The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...
protested because, in their words: "Đorđević equated foreign students and mad dogs", and the Yugoslav Ministry of culture ordered an analysis of the song by the experts. With dark, depressive atmosphere, album was not as nearly successful as Riblja Čorba's previous albums, bringing only one hit, Bajagić's gentle ballad "Kad hodaš
Kad hodaš
"Kad hodaš" is a single from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.The song was written by the band's guitarist Momčilo Bajagić for the band's 1984 album Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju...
" ("When You Walk"). In the spring of 1984, Bajagić's Pozitivna geografija was released and very well received by fans and critics alike. However, Riblja Čorba spring tour was unsuccessful, bringing conflicts inside the band. Kojić did not appear on two television appearances and one press conference, and left the band on tour several times. Although Đorđević and Aleksić wanted to exclude Kojić from the band, Bajagić insisted that Kojić remains a member. However, after both Kojić and Bajagić refused to perform in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
during the summer, Đorđević and Aleksić excluded them from the band. Shortly after Bajagić started a successful career as a frontman of the pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...
band Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...
.
Vidoja "Džindžer" Božinović
Vidoja Božinovic
Vidoja Božinović , also known as Džindžer , is a Serbian musician. He is best known as the guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
, a former Pop Mašina
Pop Mašina
Pop Mašina was a former Yugoslav progressive rock band from Belgrade. Pop Mašina was formed in 1972, and released two studio albums and one live album before disbanding in 1978...
, Dah
Dah (band)
Dah was a former Yugoslav/Belgian progressive rock band. Originally formed in Yugoslavia in 1972, the band, in 1975, moved to Belgium and changed the name to Land...
, Opus
Opus (progressive rock band)
-Band history:The band was formed in Belgrade in 1973 by Miodrag "Mive" Okrugić , Miodrag "Bata" Kostić and Dušan Ćućuz . The band got their name after the song "Opus No...
and Rok Mašina
Rok Mašina
Rok Mašina was a short-lasting former Yugoslav hard rock band from Belgrade. Rok Mašina was formed in 1980 by former members of the progressive/hard rock band Pop Mašina, and it is often considered a continuation of Pop Mašina.-1980 - 1982:The band was formed in 1980 by former Pop Mašina members...
member, and Zoran Dašić became the band's new guitarists. After only couple of rehearsals Dašić left the band (he would later form the starogradska muzika
Starogradska muzika
Starogradska muzika is an urban traditional folk music of Macedonia and Serbia.-In Serbia:...
band Legende, and Đorđević would write lyrics for seven and music for two songs released on their debut album Dođi druže do Srbije uže) and was replaced by a former Kredit, Bicikl, Zamba, Siluete
Siluete
Siluete was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock band from Belgrade, notable for being one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.-1961 - 1971:...
and Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
member Nikola Čuturilo
Nikola Čuturilo
Nikola Čuturilo , also known as Čutura is a Serbian musician...
. During this period the band performed mostly at the clubs. At this time, Đorđević made a guest appearance on Bijelo Dugme
Bijelo dugme
Bijelo dugme was a highly influential former Yugoslav rock band, based in Sarajevo. Active between 1974 and 1989, it is widely considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav rock...
's self-titled album Bijelo Dugme
Kosovka Djevojka
Bijelo dugme is the seventh studio album released by Yugoslav rock group Bijelo dugme. Due to Bijelo dugme's usage of the famous painting by Uroš Predić for the album's cover the most widely used name for the album is Kosovka djevojka , despite it officially being a self titled album.Kosovka...
, on the song "Pediculis Pubis", having co-written it with his main rival at the time, Bijelo Dugme leader Goran Bregović
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
. This guest appearance helped Riblja Čorba's shattered status. During the winter the band entered the studio to record their next album.
Istina
IstinaIstina
Istina is the sixth studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(The Truth) was released in 1985. As Jugoton refused to release songs "Snage opozicije" ("Opposition Forces"), "Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele" ("Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American Bildungsroman. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time...
"), "'Alo" ("Hello") and "Dvorska budala" ("Jester") because of their political-related lyrics, the band signed back with PGP-RTB, which refused to release only "Snage opozicije". (The song remained unreleased until 1997, when it appeared on the compilation album Treći srpski ustanak
Treci srpski ustanak
Treći srpski ustanak is a compilation album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997....
.) Although after Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju was released many critics claimed that Riblja Čorba belongs to the past, Istina was praised by both fans and critics. Produced by McCoy and more heavy metal-oriented than any of the band's previous works, album is often considered Riblja Čorba's magnum opus
Masterpiece
Masterpiece in modern usage refers to a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship....
. Album is perhaps most memorable for the song "Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele", which went on to become one of Riblja Čorba's signature song
Signature song
A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singer or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of songs...
s. However, Istina is also the album after which the band, although still generally fitting into hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
sound, started turning towards more commercial sound. On the Bosnian tour that followed the album release the former YU grupa
YU grupa
YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....
bass guitarist Žika Jelić replaced Aleksić, who was not able to perform due to illness. In May the band performed in Belgrade Sports Hall, and Đorđević released his first book of poems entitled Ravnodušan prema plaču (Apathetic towards Crying).
Late 1980s
In February 1986, the band released Osmi nervni slomOsmi nervni slom
Osmi nervni slom is the seventh studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba in 1986....
(Eighth Nervous Breakdown). The album featured British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
musician Eddy Grant
Eddy Grant
Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...
on vocals in the song "Amsterdam". Other hits included "Nemoj da ideš mojom ulicom" ("Don't Walk Along My Street"), "Tu nema Boga, nema pravde" ("There's no God, There's no Justice"), "Južna Afrika '85. (Ja ću da pevam)" ("South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
'85 (". At the beginning of 1986, Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...
discussed Riblja Čorba's lyrics, but that did not affect the audience. On March 8, in front of 10,000 people in Sarajevo's Skenderija
Skenderija
Skenderija is a city center in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was constructed in 1969 as a cultural and sport center, but was later revitalized and expanded for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games. Below the structure is a shopping mall...
Riblja Čorba started their most successful tour since the Mrtva priroda tour. During the year, Milatović released his first solo album U ritmu srca malog dobošara
U ritmu srca malog dobošara
U ritmu srca malog dobošara is the first solo album released by Vicko Milatović....
(In the Rhythm of the Little Drummer's Heart). At the 1986 MESAM Festival, the band was awarded with the Rock Band of the Year Award, Đorđević was proclaimed Composer of the Year, and "Amsterdam" was proclaimed Hit of the Year.
In February 1987, they released their ninth studio album Ujed za dušu
Ujed za dušu
Ujed za dušu is the eighth studio album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1987.Except "Član mafije", which had elements of the Caribbean music and criticized League of Communists of Yugoslavia, album did not feature any other song with political-related lyrics,...
(Soul Bite), which featured their first cover
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
, "Zadnji voz za Čačak" ("Last Train to Čačak
Cacak
Čačak is a city in central Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Moravica District of Serbia. Čačak is also the main industrial, cultural and sport center of the district...
", cover of The Monkees
The Monkees
The Monkees are an American pop rock group. Assembled in Los Angeles in 1966 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork,...
' "Last Train to Clarksville
Last Train to Clarksville
"Last Train to Clarksville" was the debut single by The Monkees, released August 16, 1966, and later included on the group's 1966 self-titled album, that was released on October 10, 1966. The song was recorded at RCA Victor Studio B in Hollywood, on July 25, 1966...
"). Surprisingly, "Član mafije" ("Mafia Member") was the album's only political song. Songs "Nesrećnice nije te sramota
Nesrecnice nije te sramota
"Nesrećnice nije te sramota" is a single from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. The single was given as a gift to the buyers of Riblja Čorba 1987 album Ujed za dušu.B-side features song "Zašto kuće arlauče".- Personnel :...
" ("Miserable Woman, Aren't You Ashamed") and "Zašto kuče arlauče"
Nesrecnice nije te sramota
"Nesrećnice nije te sramota" is a single from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. The single was given as a gift to the buyers of Riblja Čorba 1987 album Ujed za dušu.B-side features song "Zašto kuće arlauče".- Personnel :...
("Why the Dog Howles") were released on a gift 7" single.
Đorđević's 1987 unplugged
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...
performance with singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Arsen Dedić
Arsen Dedic
Arsen Dedić is a Croatian singer-songwriter who has been prominent in the Croatian as well as former Yugoslav music scene. Dedić writes and performs chansons as well as film music...
in Terazije Theatre
Terazije Theatre
Theatre on Terazije is a Broadway-style theatre in the Terazije area of Belgrade, Serbia. It is the only theatre in Serbia which exclusively produces musicals and has produced the Serbian versions of Chicago, Kiss Me, Kate, and many more...
resulted in a famous bootleg album
Bootleg recording
A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging...
Arsen & Bora Čorba Unplugged '87, which is included in the official Bora Đorđević discography. The performenace feaured Stjepan Mihaljinec on piano and Božinović and Čuturilo on guitars. In 1987, Đorđević was indicted for "disturbing the public", when he red his poems in Sava Centar, but because he was reading poems already published in his books and in various magazines, the charges were dropped. In 1988, after reading his poems in Bar
Bar, Montenegro
Bar is a coastal town in Montenegro. It has a population of 17,727...
, he was indicted for "insulting the working people of Yugoslavia", but these charges were also dropped. In 1988, he released Bora priča gluposti
Bora priča gluposti
Bora priča gluposti is the recording of the poetry evening Serbian and former Yugoslav rock musician Bora Đorđević held in KST in Belgrade in May 1988, released on compact cassette through Helidon in 1988.-References:...
(Bora's Talking Rubish), which featured a recording of his poetry evening
Performance poetry
Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution.-History:...
held in Belgrade's KST.
In 1988, Riblja Čorba celebrated ten years of existence by releasing Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi
Prica o ljubavi obicno ugnjavi
Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi is the ninth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1988....
(Talking about Love Is Usually Annoying) and the compilation album Riblja Čorba 10
Riblja Corba 10
Riblja Čorba 10 is a promo compilation album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. Riblja Čorba 10 is the band's first official compilation album...
, which was released in a limited number of 1,000 copies only, and was given to the friends of the band and the media. The band planned to hold a fund raising concert in front of the Cathedral of Saint Sava, with all the funds raised dedicated to the construction of the Cathedral, and with Đorđe Balašević, Ekatarina Velika
Ekatarina Velika
Ekatarina Velika , sometimes referred to as EKV for short, was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock group from Belgrade, being one of the most successful and influential music acts coming out of former Yugoslavia....
and Piloti
Piloti (band)
Piloti is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Formed in 1981, and initially immersed in the Yugoslav New Wave scene, the band later moved towards mainstream pop rock, they came to prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s as one of the leading pop rock acts in former Yugoslavia...
as special guests, but did not manage to get the permission to organize it. In 1988, Čuturilo released his first solo album 9 lakih komada (9 Easy Steps). The band held their last concert with Čuturilo on October 14, 1989 in Sarajevo. After releasing his second studio album Raskršće (Crossroads) in 1989, he decided to leave the band. He was replaced by Zoran Ilić, a former Bezobrazno Zeleno
Bezobrazno Zeleno
Bezobrazno Zeleno were a former Yugoslav New Wave/pop rock band from Belgrade. The band was notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija project as well as for their later works....
member. In 1990, the band released Koza nostra
Koza nostra
Koza nostra is the tenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1990....
(Cosa Nostra, also a word play
Word play
Word play or wordplay is a literary technique in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement...
, with "Koza" meaning "goat
Goat
The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...
" in Serbian). Album featured Branimir Štulić
Branimir Štulic
Branimir "Johnny" Štulić is a Yugoslav singer, songwriter, poet and a leader of the popular former Yugoslav rock group Azra...
and Azra
Azra
Azra was a rock band from Zagreb that was popular across Yugoslavia in the 1980s. Azra was formed in 1977 by its frontman Branimir "Johnny" Štulić. The other two members of the original line-up were Mišo Hrnjak and Boris Leiner . The band is named after a verse from "Der Asra" by Heinrich Heine...
members on backing vocals on the track "Al Kapone" ("Al Capone
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the "Capones", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early...
"), former Suncokret
Suncokret
Suncokret was a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1975 by former Zajedno member Bora Đorđević , a former U Cvetu Mladosti member Nenad Božić and female singers Snežana Jandrlić and Vesna Rakočević...
members Bilja Krstić
Bilja Krstic
Biljana "Bilja" Krstić is a Serbian singer. She was born on November 9, 1955 in Niš and brought up on the folk traditions of central Serbia. Biljana first studied music in Niš at the music school "Dr. Vojislav Vučković", after graduating she continued her education by travelling to Belgrade to...
, Gorica Popović
Gorica Popović
Gorica Popović is a Serbian theatre, television and film actress.-Selected filmography:*The Fall of Italy *The Dark Side of the Sun *Battle of Kosovo -External links:...
and Snežana Jandrlić on backing vocals, and Saša Lokner on keyboards. After the album release the band performed in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
1990s
After the outbreak of the Yugoslav warsYugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
, Riblja Čorba members decided to record their farewell album. Labudova pesma
Labudova pesma
Labudova pesma is the eleventh studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1992.-Recording and reception:...
(Swan Song
Swan Song
Swan song is a reference to an ancient belief that the Mute Swan sings before it dies.Swan Song, The Swan Song or Swansong may also refer to:- Music :...
), recorded in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, featured several anti-war songs and only one hit, "Kad sam bio mlad" ("When I Was Young", cover of Eric Burdon
Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...
's "When I Was Young
When I Was Young
"When I Was Young" is a song performed in 1967 by The Animals with Eric Burdon on vocals. It was released on 8 April. It charted in Australia peaking #2 and stayed 4 weeks there. Later it was a hit charting #10 on the Canadian RPM chart, # 15 in the US and #7 in the Netherlands. The song was...
"), However, it did not turn out to be Riblja Čorba's last album, as they eventually changed their decision to disband. Oliver Mandić
Oliver Mandic
Oliver Mandić is a Serbian pop musician, composer, and producer - very prominent and popular throughout the 1980s.-Early biography:...
, who was approached to join the band as a keyboard player, eventually did not become a Riblja Čorba member, and songs recorded with him were not released on the album. During the same year Zoran Ilić formed the comedy rock
Comedy rock
Comedy rock is rock music mixed with comedy, often satire and parody.-History:Early USA examples include Stan Freberg, who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose "Purple People Eater" reached No...
supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
Babe with Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...
member Žika Milenković, Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
member Goran Čavajda and a former Bezobrazno Zeleno
Bezobrazno Zeleno
Bezobrazno Zeleno were a former Yugoslav New Wave/pop rock band from Belgrade. The band was notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija project as well as for their later works....
member Zoran Vasić. The next Riblja Čorba album Zbogom, Srbijo
Zbogom, Srbijo
-Personnel:*Bora Đorđević – vocals*Vidoja Božinović – guitar*Zoran Ilić – guitar*Miša Aleksić – bass guitar*Vicko Milatović – drums-Additional personnel:*Vlada Barjaktarević – keyboardsm co-producer...
(Farewell, Serbia) was not very successful either. It featured "Zelena trava doma mog" ("Green Grass of My Home", cover of Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
' "Green Green Grass of Home
Green Green Grass of Home
"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr., is a country song originally made popular by Porter Wagoner in 1965 and Bobby Bare in 1965. It was sung later by Tom Jones in 1966 when it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 3 December staying there for a total of seven...
"), "Danas nema mleka" ("No Milk Today", a heavy metal cover of Herman's Hermits
Herman's Hermits
Herman's Hermits are an English beat band, formed in Manchester in 1963 as Herman & The Hermits. The group's record producer, Mickie Most , emphasized a simple, non-threatening, clean-cut image, although the band originally played R&B numbers...
' "No Milk Today
No Milk Today
"No Milk Today" is a song that was written by Graham Gouldman and originally recorded by British pop band Herman's Hermits. It was first released as a single by the Mancunian group in the UK in October 1966 and, with the B-side "My Reservation's Been Confirmed", enjoyed chart success, peaking at #7...
") and "Tamna je noć" ("Dark Is the Night", cover of Mark Bernes
Mark Bernes
Mark Naumovich Bernes was a Soviet actor and singer of Jewish ancestry , who performed some of the most poignant songs to come out of the World War II, including Tyomnaya noch and Zhuravli...
' "The Dark Night") as the album's only hits. At this period, Vlada Barjaktarević, a former Van Gogh
Van Gogh (band)
Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...
member, became the band's first official keyboard player.
At this time, Đorđević became an active supporter of the Serbian troops in Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
and Republika Srpska Krajina. With Knin
Knin
Knin is a historical town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia, located near the source of the river Krka at , in the Dalmatian hinterland, on the railroad Zagreb–Split. Knin rose to prominence twice in history, as a one-time capital of both the Kingdom of Croatia and briefly of the...
band Minđušari he recorded controversial songs "E moj druže zagrebački" ("Oh, my Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
Comrade"), as a response to Jura Stublić
Jura Stublic
Jurislav "Jura" Stublić is a Croatian singer and songwriter.-Biography:In 1961, he moved with his parents Tomislav and Vesna to Sesvetski Kraljevec near Zagreb. His father was from Sesvetski Kraljevec and he too was a singer. His mother was a tailor.In Zagreb, Stublić studied philosophy, but he...
's song "E moj druže beogradski" ("Oh, my Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
Comrade"), and "Ljetovanje" ("Summer Vacation"). This has, alongside with the unsuccessful Riblja Čorba albums, made Riblja Čorba lose a part of their fans in Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
.
Đorđević's support for Serbian nationalism did not, however, imply support for the government of Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and Yugoslavia. He served as the President of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Republic of Serbia from 1989 until 1997 in three terms and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000...
, and he would express his attitude in Riblja Čorba political songs recorded on albums Ostalo je ćutanje
Ostalo je cutanje
Ostalo je ćutanje is the thirteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
and Nojeva barka
Nojeva barka
Nojeva barka is the fourteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1999....
, as well as on his 1996 solo album Njihovi dani
Njihovi dani
Njihovi dani is the first and so far the only studio album released by Bora Đorđević...
(Their Days) which he released in his own name rather than that of his band. Nevertheless, the songs from Njihovi dani were performed at Riblja Čorba concerts and "Baba Jula" ("Grandma Jula", the song that innuends to Mirjana Marković
Mirjana Markovic
Mirjana "Mira" Marković is the leader of the Yugoslav Left political party and the widow and childhood friend of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević.-Personal life:...
) became an anthem on 1990s protests in Serbia. During the same year, Milatović formed the hard rock band Indijanci, infamous for their pornographic
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
lyrics.
In the summer of 1996, Ilić left Riblja Čorba. He was not replaced, and the band continued with only Božinović on guitar. The album Ostalo je ćutanje
Ostalo je cutanje
Ostalo je ćutanje is the thirteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(The Rest Is Silence), released in 1996, featured a cover of John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
's song "Jealous Guy
Jealous Guy
"Jealous Guy" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. It is one of the most commonly covered Lennon songs, with at least ninety-two recorded cover versions, the most notable being Roxy Music's version, which reached number one in several...
", Riblja Čorba version titled "Ljubomorko" ("Jealous Guy"). At the beginning of 1997, a compilation album Treći srpski ustanak
Treci srpski ustanak
Treći srpski ustanak is a compilation album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997....
(Third Serbian Uprising
Serbian revolution
Serbian revolution or Revolutionary Serbia refers to the national and social revolution of the Serbian people taking place between 1804 and 1835, during which this territory evolved from an Ottoman province into a constitutional monarchy and a modern nation-state...
), with a choice of Riblja Čorba political songs, previously unreleased "Snage opozicije" and the new song "Volim i ja vas" ("I Love You, Too"), was released. In 1997, the band held a tour named Po slobodnim gradovima Srbije (Around the Free Cities of Serbia) which ended with two concerts in Tašmajdan, with Rambo Amadeus
Rambo Amadeus
Rambo Amadeus is the stage name of the Belgrade-based Montenegrin singer-songwriter Antonije Pušić, popular all over the former Yugoslavia...
, Babe, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi
Prljavi inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi
Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade.-1990s:...
, Direktori
Direktori
Direktori is a Serbian oi! punk/ska group from Belgrade.-1989 – 1999:During the spring of 1989, vocalist Nebojša Drakula, with the former Varšavski Geto member Miroslav Pilipović "Trta" on guitar, former Pogrebni Zavod member Srđan Marić on bass guitar and former Hogari member Dragan "Rale"...
, Indijanci, Aleluja, and Kraljevski Apartman
Kraljevski Apartman
Kraljevski Apartman is a Serbian heavy metal band from Belgrade.-Apartman 69:...
as the opening acts. On these two concerts Riblja Čorba recorded live albums Beograd, uživo '97 - 1
Beograd, uživo '97 - 1
Beograd, uživo '97 - 1 is the first disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997. Beograd, uživo '97 - 1 was followed by Beograd, uživo '97 - 2, as the band, instead of releasing a double live album, opted for two separate releases...
and Beograd, uživo '97 - 2
Beograd, uživo '97 - 2
Beograd, uživo '97 – 2 is the second disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997. Beograd, uživo '97 - 2 was preceded by Beograd, uživo '97 - 1, as the band, instead of releasing a double live album, opted for two separate releases...
. (Belgrade, Live 97 - 1 and 2). Đorđević's political involvement caused Riblja Čorba concert in Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
to be banned.
In 1999, Riblja Čorba released Nojeva barka
Nojeva barka
Nojeva barka is the fourteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1999....
(Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark is a vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis and the Quran . These narratives describe the construction of the ark by Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from the worldwide deluge of the Great Flood.In the narrative of the ark, God sees the...
), produced by Aleksić and Miša Popović. Album featured a cover of Merle Travis
Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
' "Sixteen Tons
Sixteen Tons
"Sixteen Tons" is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis and released on his box set album Folk Songs of the Hills the following year...
" (Riblja Čorba version titled "16 noći" ("16 Nights"). The former band member Momčilo Bajagić made a guest appearance on the song "Gde si" ("Where Are You"). At the beginning of 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Riblja Čorba recorded the patriotic tune "Samo Sloga Srbina Spašava" ("Only Unity Saves the Serbs
Only Unity Saves the Serbs
Only Unity Saves the Serbs is an unofficial motto used in Serbia and a popular slogan among Serbs, often used as a rallying call against foreign domination and during times of national crisis....
") with Bajagić, Dejan Cukić
Dejan Cukic
Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cukić was the frontman of the New Wave band Bulevar, releasing two albums with the band. After Bulevar disbanded in 1982, he retired from music...
, Van Gogh
Van Gogh (band)
Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...
frontman Zvonimir Đukić, and Generacija 5
Generacija 5
Generacija 5 is a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Belgrade.-1977—1982:...
frontman Đorđe David.
2000s
The first Riblja Čorba album after the 2000 political changes in Serbia was Pišanje uz vetarPišanje uz vetar
Pišanje uz vetar is the fifteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 2001....
(Pissing Against the Wind), released in 2001, on which Riblja Čorba experimented with different musical genres. "Crno-beli svet" ("Black and White World") featured Eyesburn
Eyesburn
Eyesburn is a Serbian hardcore punk/crossover thrash band with influences of reggae music.- 1990s :The band was formed in 1994, and the original line-up featured former Dead Ideas guitarist Nemanja "Kojot" Kojić , who simultaneously worked as trombonist in Del Arno Band and bass guitarist in...
frontman Hornsman Coyote
Hornsman Coyote
Nemanja Kojić , better known by his stage name Hornsman Coyote , is a Reggae/Dub musician of Serbian descent.- Personal life :Coyote resides in Belgrade...
on vocals. In 2002, after the tour following the album release, Barjaktarević left the band and was replaced by Nikola Zorić
Nikola Zoric
Nikola "Nidža" Zorić is a Serbian musician best known as the keyboardist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
. In 2003, Milatović released a children's music
Children's music
Children's music is used here to refer to music composed and performed for children by adults. In European influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment...
album entitled Dečaci o devojčicama (Boys about Girls). In 2003, Riblja Čorba released Ovde
Ovde
Ovde is the sixteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 2003.The album featured a bonus CD with explicit lyrics songs "Zašto uvek kurcu sviram" and "Pičkin dim"....
(Here), with songs "Zašto uvek kurcu sviram" and "Pičkin dim" released on the bonus CD. The album saw little success, with the ballad "Poslednja pesma o tebi" ("The Last Song About You") becoming the album's only hit. On December 20, Riblja Čorba, alongside Orthodox Celts
Orthodox Celts
Orthodox Celts is a Serbian band which plays Irish folk music combined with rock elements. Despite their unusual sound the band is one of the top acts of the Serbian rock scene and has influenced several younger bands, most notably Tir na n'Og and Irish Stew of Sindidun.The band started their...
, performed in Belgrade's KST. The Riblja Čorba performance was interrupted due to a bomb threat
Bomb threat
A bomb threat is generally defined as a threat, usually verbal or written, to detonate an explosive or incendiary device to cause property damage, death, or injuries, whether or not such a device actually exists...
. On July 3, 2004 Riblja Čorba, alongside the Belgrade faction of the band Zabranjeno Pušenje, held a concert at the Belgrade Ušće
Ušce (Belgrade)
Ušće is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd. Ušće is located on the mouth of the Sava river into the Danube, thus the name...
, in order to celebrate Riblja Čorba's twenty-five and Zabranjeno Pušenje
Zabranjeno pušenje
Zabranjeno Pušenje is a Yugoslavian garage rock band from Sarajevo, closely associated with the New primitivism cultural movement and the radio and television satire show Top Lista Nadrealista...
's twenty years on the scene. However, the concert is best remembered by the fact that Zabranjeno Pušenje performance was ended after about half an hour, as the band performed the world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
songs they recorded as The No Smoking Orchestra, and the angry fans threw various objects on stage. The other acts that performed on the concert included Negative, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi
Prljavi inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi
Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade.-1990s:...
, Bjesovi
Bjesovi
Bjesovi are a Serbian grunge/alternative rock band from Gornji Milanovac.- Formation and breakup :...
, Alogia
Alogia (band)
Alogia is a Serbian progressive/power metal band from Smederevo. Formed in 2000 by brothers Miroslav and Srđan Branković, Alogia is one of the top acts of the Serbian heavy metal scene.-History:...
, Roze Poze, Abonos
Abonos
Abonos is a Serbian gothic metal band from Belgrade.The guitarist Jakša Vlahović and a former keyboardist and vocalist Marta Vlahović are brother and sister and children of graphic artist and former Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba member Jugoslav Vlahović...
, Kraljevski Apartman
Kraljevski Apartman
Kraljevski Apartman is a Serbian heavy metal band from Belgrade.-Apartman 69:...
, Đorđe David, and others.
In 2005, the band released Trilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštite
Trilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštite
Trilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštite is the first EP from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. It is the first part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy released during 2005 and 2006...
(Trilogy 1: Virginity without Protection), the first part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy
Trilogy
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...
. Two other parts of the trilogy, Trilogija 2: Devičanska ostrva
Trilogija 2: Devicanska ostrva
Trilogija 2: Devičanska ostrva is the second EP from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. It is the second part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy released during 2005 and 2006...
(Trilogy 2: Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, which form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean...
) and Trilogija 3: Ambasadori loše volje
Trilogija 3: Ambasadori loše volje
Trilogija 3: Ambasadori loše volje is the third EP from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. It is the third and the final part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy released during 2005 and 2006...
(Trilogy 3: Badwill Ambassadors) were released in 2006. Although imagined as Riblja Čorba's comeback to the top of the Serbian rock scene
Serbian rock
Serbian rock is the rock music scene of Serbia. During the 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s, while Serbia was a constituent republic of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbian rock scene was a part of the SFR Yugoslav rock scene....
, trilogy did not manage to recover Riblja Čorba's popularity in Serbia, partly decreased because of Đorđević's political involvement as a Democratic Party of Serbia
Democratic Party of Serbia
The Democratic Party of Serbia is a political party in Serbia.-Foundation:The Democratic Party of Serbia was founded when a faction of the Democratic Party that supported its involvement in the Democratic Movement of Serbia split from the party and formed their own in 1992.Soon after the March...
member. After releasing the live album Gladijatori u BG Areni
Gladijatori u BG Areni
Gladijatori u BG Areni is a double and the fifth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. The album was recorded on Riblja Čorba concert held in Belgrade Arena, on March 10, 2007....
(Gladiators in Belgrade Arena
Belgrade Arena
The Belgrade Arena is an indoor arena located in Novi Beograd, Belgrade. It is designed as a universal hall for sport, cultural events and other programs. With a total space that covers 48,000 square metres, and an official total capacity of 19,982 seats , it is one of the largest indoor arenas in...
) in 2008, the band, at the beginning of 2009, released the studio album Minut sa njom
Minut sa njom
Minut sa njom is the eighteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.The album features mostly love songs, and is the first Riblja Čorba album since their 1981 album Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti which does not feature any song with political-related...
(A Minute with Her). Minut sa njom was the first Riblja Čorba album since Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti which did not feature any political song. The band celebrated thirty years since the 1979 concert at Tašmajdan Stadium and the release of their debut album Kost u grlu with a concert in Belgrade Arena held on October 31, 2009.
2010s
In 2010, the band released the live/video album entitled Niko nema ovakve ljude!Niko nema ovakve ljude!
Niko nema ovakve ljude! is the live/video album by Serbian rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 2010. The album was recorded on the band's concert held on October 10, 2010 in Belgrade Arena...
(No One Has This Kind of People!) with a recording of their concert held in Belgrade Arena on October 31, 2009. In January 2011, film director Dušan Vesić announced that he is working on a documentary about Riblja Čorba. In July 2011, Đorđević stated that the band is working on the new studio album, which is expected to be released during the autumn.
In August 2011, PGP-RTS
PGP-RTS
PGP-RTS is a major record label based in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a successor of PGP-RTB which was established in 1958 in Belgrade, then capital of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
released Riblja Čorba box set, which features twelve CDs: the first ten studio albums, the first live album, and the singles released in the 1978—1990 period and rarities on the twelfth CD.
Legacy
Riblja Čorba is one of the best-selling and is considered one of the top and most influential acts on the former Yugoslav rock scene and remains one of the top mainstream acts on the Serbian rock sceneSerbian rock
Serbian rock is the rock music scene of Serbia. During the 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s, while Serbia was a constituent republic of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbian rock scene was a part of the SFR Yugoslav rock scene....
. However, Bora Đorđević's support for Serbian nationalism during Yugoslav wars
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
has caused Riblja Čorba's absence from mainstream media in Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
.
Riblja Čorba songs were covered by acts such are Zaklonišče Prepeva
Zaklonišce prepeva
thumb|220px|Zaklonišče Prepeva in concertZaklonišče Prepeva is a Slovenian rock band from Nova Gorica. Most of their lyrics are in Serbo-Croatian with certain amount of yugo-nostalgia....
, Sick Mother Fakers
Sick Mother Fakers
Sick Mother Fakers , also known as SMF for short, is a Serbian hardcore punk/crossover thrash band from Belgrade.- 1980s :...
, Six Pack
Six Pack (band)
- 1990s :The band was formed in early 1993 by Branko Mitrović , Milan Radojević , Dragan Bojić "Bojke" , Saša Bogdanović "Bogda" , Miloš Novaković and Vladimir Čupić "Čupa" , and got the name by the Black Flag song of the same name.The band recorded their first eight-song demo during the late...
, Alogia
Alogia (band)
Alogia is a Serbian progressive/power metal band from Smederevo. Formed in 2000 by brothers Miroslav and Srđan Branković, Alogia is one of the top acts of the Serbian heavy metal scene.-History:...
, Lude Krawe, and others.
The song "Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele" was voted Hit of the Year in 1985 by the listeners of Radio Beograd 202
Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade is a state-owned and operated radio station in Belgrade, Serbia.The predecessor of Radio Beograd, Radio Beograd-Rakovica, started its program in 1924 and was a part of a state wireless telegraph station. Radio Beograd, AD started in March 1929...
and Song of the Decade in 1990. In 2009, the song was voted the Greatest Domestic Song by the readers of the Standard magazine.
The book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike is a book by Duško Antonić and Danilo Štrbac...
(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music) features eight Riblja Čorba albums: Kost u grlu
Kost u grlu
Kost u grlu is the 1979 debut album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.The album was polled in 1998 as the 16th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike .-Album cover:The album cover...
(ranked #16), Mrtva priroda
Mrtva priroda
Mrtva priroda is the third studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1981....
(ranked #19), Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti
Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti
Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti is the second studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1981....
(ranked #23), Istina
Istina
Istina is the sixth studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(ranked #43), Buvlja pijaca
Buvlja pijaca
Buvlja pijaca is the fourth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1982.The album is the second Riblja Čorba album produced by John McCoy...
(ranked #64), Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju
Veceras vas zabavljaju muzicari koji piju
Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju is the fifth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(ranked #80), Osmi nervni slom
Osmi nervni slom
Osmi nervni slom is the seventh studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba in 1986....
(ranked #83), and U ime naroda
U ime naroda
U ime naroda is the first live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav influential rock band Riblja Čorba...
(ranked #85).
The B92 Top 100 Yugoslav songs list fetaures two songs by Riblja Čorba: "Kad hodaš
Kad hodaš
"Kad hodaš" is a single from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.The song was written by the band's guitarist Momčilo Bajagić for the band's 1984 album Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju...
" (ranked #4) and "Lutka sa naslovne strane
Lutka sa naslovne strane
"Lutka sa naslovne strane" is the debut single from the influential Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
" (ranked #12).
In 2009, Pošta Slovenije
Pošta Slovenije
Pošta Slovenije is a state owned company responsible for postal service in Slovenia.- External links :*...
released the postage stamp
Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...
that features Riblja Čorba logo.
Discography
- Kost u grluKost u grluKost u grlu is the 1979 debut album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.The album was polled in 1998 as the 16th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike .-Album cover:The album cover...
(1979) - Pokvarena mašta i prljave strastiPokvarena mašta i prljave strastiPokvarena mašta i prljave strasti is the second studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1981....
(1981) - Mrtva prirodaMrtva prirodaMrtva priroda is the third studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1981....
(1981) - Buvlja pijacaBuvlja pijacaBuvlja pijaca is the fourth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1982.The album is the second Riblja Čorba album produced by John McCoy...
(1982) - Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji pijuVeceras vas zabavljaju muzicari koji pijuVečeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju is the fifth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(1984) - IstinaIstinaIstina is the sixth studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(1985) - Osmi nervni slomOsmi nervni slomOsmi nervni slom is the seventh studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba in 1986....
(1986) - Ujed za dušuUjed za dušuUjed za dušu is the eighth studio album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1987.Except "Član mafije", which had elements of the Caribbean music and criticized League of Communists of Yugoslavia, album did not feature any other song with political-related lyrics,...
(1987) - Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjaviPrica o ljubavi obicno ugnjaviPriča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi is the ninth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1988....
(1988) - Koza nostraKoza nostraKoza nostra is the tenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1990....
(1990) - Labudova pesmaLabudova pesmaLabudova pesma is the eleventh studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1992.-Recording and reception:...
(1992) - Zbogom, SrbijoZbogom, Srbijo-Personnel:*Bora Đorđević – vocals*Vidoja Božinović – guitar*Zoran Ilić – guitar*Miša Aleksić – bass guitar*Vicko Milatović – drums-Additional personnel:*Vlada Barjaktarević – keyboardsm co-producer...
(1994) - Ostalo je ćutanjeOstalo je cutanjeOstalo je ćutanje is the thirteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....
(1996) - Nojeva barkaNojeva barkaNojeva barka is the fourteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1999....
(1999) - Pišanje uz vetarPišanje uz vetarPišanje uz vetar is the fifteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 2001....
(2001) - OvdeOvdeOvde is the sixteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 2003.The album featured a bonus CD with explicit lyrics songs "Zašto uvek kurcu sviram" and "Pičkin dim"....
(2003) - Trilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštiteTrilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštiteTrilogija 1: Nevinost bez zaštite is the first EP from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. It is the first part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy released during 2005 and 2006...
(2005) - Trilogija 2: Devičanska ostrvaTrilogija 2: Devicanska ostrvaTrilogija 2: Devičanska ostrva is the second EP from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. It is the second part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy released during 2005 and 2006...
(2006) - Trilogija 3: Ambasadori loše voljeTrilogija 3: Ambasadori loše voljeTrilogija 3: Ambasadori loše volje is the third EP from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. It is the third and the final part of the Riblja Čorba trilogy released during 2005 and 2006...
(2006) - Minut sa njomMinut sa njomMinut sa njom is the eighteenth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.The album features mostly love songs, and is the first Riblja Čorba album since their 1981 album Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti which does not feature any song with political-related...
(2009)