Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti
Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti (trans. Perverted Imagination and Sordid Passions) is the second studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1981.
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| Released | February 23, 1981 | |||
| Recorded | December 1980 - February 1981[1] | |||
| Studio | Druga Maca Studio, Belgrade | |||
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| Length | 38:26 | |||
| Label | PGP-RTB | |||
| Producer | Enco Lesić | |||
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In 1998, the album was polled as the 23rd on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).[2] In 2015, the album was pronounced the 13th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav albums published by Croatian edition of Rolling Stone.[3]
Album cover
The album cover was designed by Jugoslav Vlahović.
The original album cover was supposed to display a photograph of naked Mrs. Adela, an eighty-year-old model at the Belgrade's University of Arts' Facility of Fine Arts. However, shortly before the album was released, Bijelo Dugme's Doživjeti stotu came out with a naked old woman on the three-piece cover, so the Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti cover ended up featuring writer Miloš Jovančević reading a porn magazine.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Srećan put pišo moja mala" ("Happy Trip, My Little Winky”) | B. Đorđević | B. Đorđević, M. Bajagić | 2:23 |
| 2. | "Nemoj srećo, nemoj danas" ("Don't, Honey, Not Today") | B. Đorđević | M. Bajagić | 3:05 |
| 3. | "Vidiš da sam gadan kad sam tebe gladan" ("You See That I'm Nasty When I'm Hungry For You") | B. Đorđević | R. Kojić | 2:39 |
| 4. | "Vrlo, vrlo zadovoljan tip" ("A Very, Very Content Guy") | B. Đorđević | B. Đorđević | 3:21 |
| 5. | "Neke su žene pratile vojnike" ("Some Women Were Escorting Soldiers") | B. Đorđević | B. Đorđević | 4:24 |
| 6. | "Ostaću slobodan" ("I'll Stay Free") | B. Đorđević | M. Aleksić | 2:34 |
| 7. | "Hajde, sestro slatka" ("Come On, Sweet Sister") | B. Đorđević | B. Đorđević | 5:00 |
| 8. | "Lak muškarac" ("Easy Man") | B. Đorđević | B. Đorđević | 2:15 |
| 9. | "Dva dinara druže" ("Two Dinars, Comrade") | B. Đorđević | M. Bajagić | 4:05 |
| 10. | "Evo ti za taksi" ("Here's Some for the Cab") | B. Đorđević | M. Bajagić | 3:05 |
| 11. | "Rekla je" ("She Said") | B. Đorđević | E. Lesić | 5:35 |
Personnel
- Bora Đorđević - vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar, percussion
- Rajko Kojić - guitar
- Momčilo Bajagić - guitar, backing vocals
- Miša Aleksić - bass guitar, backing vocals
- Vicko Milatović - drums
Additional personnel
- Enco Lesić - piano, keyboard, producer
- Dušan Vasiljević - recorded by
- Miroslav Cvetković - recorded by
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Džuboks | Favorable[4] |
By the end of 1981, more than 200,000 copies were sold.
Legacy
In 1998, the album was polled as the 23rd on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).[2]
In 2015, the album was pronounced the 13th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav albums published by Croatian edition of Rolling Stone.[3] The magazine wrote:
Passionate rock, with tense vocal chords, tons of sweat and emotions had its amount of "perverted imagination and sordid passions". Actually, there was nothing perverted and sordid in the songwriting of talented Bora Đorđević, who, in the songs of outstanding emotional realism, mentioned and accurately revealed the "dark sides" of life, the twosome, man-woman, and society in general. Brilliant, perspicacious lyrics about the life in a "big dirty city" [...] on Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti resulted in one of the best albums of yu rock, expanding the thematic circle of Đorđević and Čorba from their superb debut, Kost u grlu. Huge commercial success - fueled primarily by exquisite songs which became the new standard - led to recording of following albums, Mrtva priroda and Buvlja pijaca, with foreign producer, but raw sound of Pokvarena mašta was the perfect outlet for Đorđević's songs, which, alongside the growing repertoire of Branimir Štulić, during those years swept away everything in their path and marked the establishing of a great new talent [...] Pokvarna mašta is the peak of neorealism of domestic rock, not new wave, but "black wave", some sort of equivalent to Žika Pavlović and the 1960s films of Serbian Black Wave.[3]
In 2015 Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti album cover was ranked 18th by web magazine Balkanrock on their list of 100 Greatest Album Covers of Yugoslav Rock.[5]
Covers
- Serbian pop punk band Lude Krawe released a cover of "Dva dinara druže" (alongside a cover of the song "Vetar duva, duva, duva" from Riblja Čorba's album Mrtva priroda) on their 2007 cover album Sve tuđe.
References
- Riblja Čorba chronology Retrieved 9 November 2014
- Antonić, Duško; Štrbac, Danilo (1998). YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike. Belgrade: YU Rock Press. p. 21.
- "Rolling Stone - Specijalno izdanje: 100 najboljih albuma 1955 - 2015". Rolling Stone (in Croatian). No. Special editidon. Zagreb: S3 Mediji. p. 38.
- Kremer, Dragan. "Riblja Čorba: Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti (PGP RTB): Crna boja sa detaljima". Džuboks (in Serbian). Gornji Milanovac: Dečje novine (108 (second series)): 42, 43, 46.
- "100 najboljih omota YU rocka", Balkanrock.com
- Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti at Discogs
- EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4
- Riblja čorba, Jakovljević Mirko; ISBN 86-83525-39-2