Kad bi bio bijelo dugme

Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme
Studio album by Bijelo Dugme
Released November 18, 1974
Recorded Akademik Studio, Ljubljana
September 1974
Genre Hard rock
Folk rock
Progressive rock
Length 34:24
Label Jugoton
Producer Bijelo Dugme
Bijelo Dugme chronology
Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme
(1974)		 Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu
(1975)

Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme (trans. If I Were a White Button) is the 1974 debut studio album from influential Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme.

The album was polled the 14th on the 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums list in the 1998 book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Pop and Rock Music).[1]

Recording

Prior to the release of the album, Bijelo Dugme had large success with their 7" singles. The band's record label, Jugoton, intended to release Bijelo Dugme's first album during the spring of 1975, but the group's manager, Vladimir Mihaljek, managed to persuade the label's editors to release the record during the autumn of 1974.[2] The recording sessions started on October 2, 1974, in Akademik Studio in Ljubljana.[3] The album was produced by the band themselves, with the help of Akademik Studio's producer Deče Žgura.[3] The album featured a new version of the title track, which the band had originally released as a 7" single in 1973 while still performing under the name Jutro.[4]

Album cover

A young guy came up to me on the street to ask: 'Do you know that girl?', pointing to a girl short distance away. I looked at her and recognized the girl I took a photo of for the cover. I waved hello, and the guy went over to her, slapped her in the face, calling her a whore. I asked him: 'Why?'. He said she had told him that she was the one from the album cover, and that he only wanted to make sure if I really knew her. After that they left together like nothing happened...

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-Dragan S. Stefanović[5]

The album cover was designed by designer Dragan S. Stefanović who would go on to design covers for the band's future releases as well.[4] Four decades after the album release, it was revealed that the name of the model was Ljiljana Božanić.[6]

Rock critic Dražen Vrdoljak stated in 1981 that Kad bi bio bijelo dugme album cover "represented a shift in conceiving the covers of domestic [Yugoslav] rock albums, identical to the shift Bregović's music made on our rock scene".[5]

Track listing

All the songs were written by Goran Bregović, except where noted.

No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme" ("If I Were a White Button")   10:23
2. "Blues za moju bivšu dragu" ("Blues for My Former Darling")   6:23
3. "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira" ("Don't You Sleep, Baby, while the Music Is Playing")   2:30
4. "Sve ću da ti dam, samo da zaigram" ("I Will Give Everything to You Only to Dance")   4:04
5. "Selma"  V. DijakG. Bregović 6:10
6. "Patim, evo, deset dana" ("I've Been Suffering for Ten Days")   4:51

Personnel

Additional personnel

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
DžuboksFavorable[7]

The album was well received by audience and critics alike.[4] In a Džuboks review, Maksa Ćatović wrote:

“ The sounds imprinted on this record can with full confidence be referred to as Yugoslav pop music. YU Grupa used to incorporate folk motifs, and now the guys from Bijelo Dugme are doing it, but it seems that they are doing it much better and much closer to the audience's taste. We could even call this album the first Yugoslav rock album.[7] ”

Bijelo Dugme's Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin-influenced hard rock sound with the Balkans folk music elements was described by rock critic Dražen Vrdoljak, in his review published in Studio, as "pastirski rok" (shepherd rock), and the term was later frequently used, often pejoratively, by the critics to describe the band's sound.[5][8][9]

The album's biggest hits were the title track, rock and roll-influenced hit "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira", and the ballad "Selma".[4] Immediately after the release, the album broke the record held by YU Grupa's debut album, which was sold in more than 30,000 copies.[4] In February 1975, the band was awarded a gold record at the Opatija Festival, as they sold their debut album in more than 40,000 copies.[4] The final number of copies sold was about 141,000.[4]

Legacy

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 (YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Pop and Rock Music).[1]

The title track was polled in 2000 as the 97th on the Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times list.[10]

Covers

References

  1. 1 2 Antonić, Duško; Štrbac, Danilo (1998). YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske pok i pop muzike. Belgrade: YU Rock Press.
  2. ↑ Vesić, Dušan (2014). Bijelo Dugme: Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu. Belgrade: Laguna. p. 57.
  3. 1 2 Vesić, Dušan (2014). Bijelo Dugme: Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu. Belgrade: Laguna. p. 58.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Janjatović, Petar (2007). EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006. Belgrade: self-released. p. 32.
  5. 1 2 3 Krstulović, Zvonimir (2005). Bijelo Dugme: Doživjeti stotu. Profil. p. 25.
  6. ↑ Vesić, Dušan (2014). Bijelo Dugme: Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu. Belgrade: Laguna. p. 65.
  7. 1 2 "Bijelo Dugme - Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme". Džuboks (in Serbian). Gornji Milanovac: Dečje novine (5 (second series)): 22.
  8. ↑ Jurica Pavičić - "Bijelo dugme", Jutarnji list
  9. ↑ "Bregovićevi uzori opet jašu". Muzika.hr. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  10. ↑ "100 najboljih pesama svih vremena YU rocka". Rock Express (in Serbian). Belgrade: Rock Express (25): 27–28.
  11. ↑ Disco Rock at Discogs
  12. ↑ Ništa više nije kao prije at Discogs
  13. ↑ Janjatović, Petar (2007). EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006. Belgrade: self-released. p. 143.
  14. ↑ Satan je blazn zmatran at Discogs
  15. ↑ окенрол-СР-ЈугосÐ/release/1665880 Igra rokenrol SR Jugoslavija at Discogs
  16. ↑ Dalmatinka at Discogs
  17. ↑ Šta bih dao da sam na tvom mestu at Discogs
  18. ↑ "SELMA" via Branimir Štulić, YouTube

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