Film (music group)
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Film was a Croatia
n rock
group
founded in 1978 in Zagreb
. Film was one of the most popular rock groups of the former Yugoslav New Wave
in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
members when Branimir "Johnny" Štulić
brought Jura Stublić
as the new vocalist. Stublić was to become Aerodrom
member, but due to his deep vocals it never happened. The lineup functioned for a few months only and after a quarrel with Štulić, on early 1979, Pelajić, Jurčić, Hromatko and Stublić formed the band Šporko Šalaporko i Negove Žaluzine, naming the band after a story from the "Polet" youth magazine, which was soon after renamed to Film. The memories of the Azra lineup later inspired Štulić to write the song "Roll over Jura" released on Filigranski pločnici in 1982.
Saxophonist Jurij Novoselić, who at the time had worked under the pseudonym Kuzma Videosex, joined the band, inspiring others to use pseudonym instead of their original names: vocalist Stublić became Jura Jupiter, bassist Pelajić became Mario Baraccuda and guitarist Jurčić became Max Wilson. Before joining the band, Stublić did not have much experience as a vocalist, however, since his father had been an opera singer, he often visited the theatre and opera, and at the age of 13, he started playing the guitar, earning money as a street performer at seaside resorts.
After their first live appearances they had quickly gained the respectable title "A first class New Wave club attraction", and the first larger appearance was as an opening act for Lena Lovich on her 1980 Yugoslav
tour. At the time, the band recorded their first single "Kad si mlad" ("When you're young") with "Zajedno" ("Together") as the B-side, which was released a year later due to the record label refusal to accept band idea of putting a screen-shot from the film Barbarella
on the single cover. On the Subotica
Youth festival, the band won with the song "Neprilagođen" ("Unfit"), after which they became one of the most popular bands in former Yugoslavia
.
The 1981 debut album 'Novo! Novo! Još jučer samo na filmu a sada i u vašoj glavi (Extra! Extra! Since yesterday only on film and now in your head), featuring the new drummer Ivan Stančić "Piko", a former Grupa 220, Time
and Parni Valjak
member, who came as a replacement for Hromatko who had gone to serve the Yugoslav People's Army
. The album, produced by Buldožer
member Boris Bele, featuring a series of urban ska sound with a clear message: "Neprilagođen" ("Unfit"), "Zamisli" ("Imagine"), "Moderna djevojka" ("Modern girl"), "Radio ljubav" ("Radio love") and "Odvedi me iz ovog grada" ("Take me out of this town"). Stublić was signed as the author of the complete material, being inspired by the life in and around Zagreb
.
On January 1981, the band triumphed at the Pozdrav iz Zagreba (Greetings from Zagreb) festival. At the time as live musician appeared the rock critic Dražen Vrdoljak on organ, with whom the band performed at the 1981 Subotica Youth festival as the winners of the previous festival, causing quite a spectacle with the audience massively occupying the stage. The energy of their live appearances were captured live on the EP
Film u Kulušiću – Live (Film in Kulušić - Live), recorded in the Zagreb club Kulušić on February 11, 1981. The EP, the first of the many following live releases recorded in the same club, featured a witty band introduction by Vrdoljak, and live versions of six tracks originally released on the first album.
After the EP release, the band went on an Adriatic
coast tour with the Belgrade
New Wave band Idoli, with whom the band became close after the 1980 Subotica Youth festival on which the two bands had performed. At the time, the Jugoton
rereleased Film u Kulušiću – Live and VIS Idoli EP
as a split compilation Zajedno (Together).
"), a cover of the theme from the film serial of the same name, and "España" ("Spain
"). As authors on the album, beside Stublić, appeared Jurčić, Stančić and Novoselić.
For the recording of the third studio album, the band went to Sweden
where, produced by Tihomir "Tini" Varga, the band recorded Sva čuda svijeta (All the wonders of the world), featuring the hit songs "Kada budu gorijeli gradovi" ("When the cities would burn"), "Istina piše na zidu" ("The truth is written on the wall"), "Mi nismo sami" ("We are not alone"), "Boje su u nama" ("The colors are inside us"), and the title track. Due to the Pelajić departure to the army, Jurčić recorded the bass parts, and after the album release, Jurčić went to the army being temporarily replaced by the former Drugi Način
member Robert Krkač on the promotional tour. The song "Mi nismo sami" was soon after covered by a Swedish rock group as "Have you ever".
The following album, Signali u noći, the band recorded with the drummer Dražen Šolc, the returned Pelajić and Jurčić, and as the album producer was chosen the English
musician and producer Nick Van Eede
. The album brought the concert favorites "Pjevajmo do zore" ("Let's sing until dawn"), "Rijeke pravde" ("Rivers of justice"), "Osmijesi" ("Smiles"), and the title track. Guests on the album included Massimo Savić on guitar and backing vocals, Davor Slamnig
on guitar, Ljerka Šimara on harp, and Nikola Santro on trombone.
At the time, Juričić, Pelajić and Stančić formed the band Le Cinema, performing cover versions of the foreign New Wave hits, expressing their musical differences to the ones Stublić had, which lead the band to part ways in the Spring of 1986. The three remained in Le Cinema, Juričić also formed Vještice with the former Azra
drummer Boris Leiner, eventually ending up in the band Šo! Mazgoon. Pelajić joined Haustor
and appeared on their album Tajni grad in 1988. Novoselić formed his band Dee Dee Mellow, was a member of Disciplina Kičme
and finally joined Psihomodo Pop
.
sound, Stublić recorded "Srce na cesti" ("Heart on the road"), "Ivana" ("Ivana"), "Dom" ("Home"), and "Valovi ('67.-'77.-'87.)" ("Waves ('67-77-87) and "Sjećam se prvog poljupca" ("I remember the first kiss").
The following release, the 1989 studio album Zemlja sreće (The land of Happiness), featured the new guitarist Deni Kozić and drummer Davor Vidiš, and as guests on the album appeared Laza Ristovski
, Vlatko Stefanovski
, Massimo Savić, guitarist Branko Bogunović, Davor Rodik and klapa "Bonaca". The album featured Dobre vibracije ("Good Vibrations
"), quoting the Beach Boys, "Doći ću ti u snovima" ("I'll come to your dreams"), "Ljubav je zakon" ("Love is the law"), and "Uhvati vjetar" ("Catch the Wind"), a cover of Silute
version of a Donovan
song. During the same year, the band also appeared on the double various artists live album ZG forces live, released by Jugoton, also featuring the most prominent Zagreb bands at the time Psihomodo Pop
, Parni Valjak
and Prljavo Kazalište
, each covering one LP side on the release.
During the early 1990s, Stublić often changed the band members and in 1992, he released Hrana za golubove
, featuring the song "E moj druže beogradski" ("Oh my Belgrade friend"), accepted by the people on both sides of the front in the Yugoslav wars
which were fought in the time of the album release. The song was recorded as a cover version of the song "Na morskome plavom žalu" ("On the blue sea strand"), originally recorded by Dragan Jokić for the Emir Kusturica
film Do You Remember, Dolly Bell?, with the new lyrics. The lineup which recorded the album, beside Stublić featured Mario Zidar (guitar), Ante Pecotić (bass) and Goran Rakočević (drums).
In 1994 appeared the first compilation album Greatest hits vol. 1, featuring two new songs, "Nježno, nježno, nježnije" ("Gentle, gentle, gentler") and the cynical "Čikago" ("Chicago
"), a cover version of the old work action
song "U tunelu usred mraka" ("In the tunnel in the dark"). The recording of the song was in possession of the record label for six months, eventually being released without a line from the lyrics, but despite the fact, the song was banned on the Croatia
n media. The followup was the second part of the compilation Greatest hits vol. 2, released in 1996, featuring the rerecorded "Neprilagođen", "Moderna djevojka" and "Boje su u nama", and the new track "Lijepo, lijepo, neopisivo" ("Beautiful, beautiful, inexplicable")
In 2002, Stublić released another selection of the released material on the compilation album Sve najbolje (All the best).
Le Cinema (Film in French language
) was formed on December 1985 by the remaining members of the Film last lineup excluding Jura Stublić, Mladen Juričić "Max", Marino Pelajić "Baraccuda" and Ivan Stančić "Piko". The band, mainly performing the New Wave
and punk rock
standards, quickly became a club attraction. With the band often appeared Mira Furlan
, Massimo Savić, Vlada Divljan
and Drago Mlinarec with whom the band recorded a cover version of the Mlinarec's Grupa 220 hit single "Osmijeh" ("Smile").
The band released the album Rocking At The Party Live!, recorded live in Kulušić on early 1988, offered the band's interpretation of the famous songs by John Lennon
, Chuck Berry
, Talking Heads
, The Ramones, Blondie
and others. The album also featured the song "Maršal" ("Marshall"), originally released as "Poslednji dani" ("The last days") by Idoli on their debut album Odbrana i poslednji dani
(The defense and the last days), featuring Vlada Divljan, and the band introduction by Dražen Vrdoljak. After the album release, the band performed over two hundred concerts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia
.
After taking a longer work break, the band renewed their activities in 1997, featuring the new bassist Žan Jankopač from the band Šo! Mazgoon, the band where Juričić had played. Despite the lineup changes, the original lineup recorded the comeback album Doručak kod Trulog (Breakfast at Rotten's), featuring nine cover versions of old Film songs, including "Zona sumraka" ("Twilight zone") with Majke
vocalist Goran Bare on lead vocals, and cover of Šarlo Akrobata
single "Ona se budi
" ("She is waking up"), recorded live in the Zagreb KSET on October 12, 2002. The disc also featured a remastered material from the Rocking At The Party Live!, and music videos including the one recorded for the song "Osmijeh" with Drago Mlinarec.
On February 22, 2003, the band appeared on the Jako dobar tattoo Milan Mladenović
tribute concert, held at the Zagreb Tvornica, which was recorded and released by CBS during the same year. The band covered the song "Krug" ("The Circle"), originally recorded by Ekatarina Velika
on their 1989 album Samo par godina za nas
.
(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music) features four Film albums: Još jučer samo na filmu a sada i u vašoj glavi (ranked #22), Signali u noći (ranked #67), Sva čuda svijeta (ranked #69) and Film u Kulušiću – Live (ranked #70). The B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list fetaures three songs by Film: "Zamisli život u ritmu muzike za ples" (ranked #27), "Neprilagođen" (ranked #80) and "Boje su u nama" (ranked #85).
Croatia
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n rock
Rock music
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group
Musical ensemble
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founded in 1978 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...
. Film was one of the most popular rock groups of the former Yugoslav New Wave
Yugoslav New Wave
New Wave in Yugoslavia was the New Wave music scene of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
New Wave years (1979-1981)
During 1977 and 1978, bassist Marino Pelajić, guitarist Mladen Jurčić, and drummer Branko Hromatko were AzraAzra
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 when Branimir "Johnny" Štulić
Branimir Štulic
Branimir "Johnny" Štulić is a Yugoslav singer, songwriter, poet and a leader of the popular former Yugoslav rock group Azra...
brought 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...
as the new vocalist. Stublić was to become Aerodrom
Aerodrom (band)
Aerodrom is a Croatian rock band from Zagreb. The group was active between 1979 and 1986, releasing five studio albums in that period. Aerodrom saw its greatest success in the early 1980s before launching a comeback in 2001...
member, but due to his deep vocals it never happened. The lineup functioned for a few months only and after a quarrel with Štulić, on early 1979, Pelajić, Jurčić, Hromatko and Stublić formed the band Šporko Šalaporko i Negove Žaluzine, naming the band after a story from the "Polet" youth magazine, which was soon after renamed to Film. The memories of the Azra lineup later inspired Štulić to write the song "Roll over Jura" released on Filigranski pločnici in 1982.
Saxophonist Jurij Novoselić, who at the time had worked under the pseudonym Kuzma Videosex, joined the band, inspiring others to use pseudonym instead of their original names: vocalist Stublić became Jura Jupiter, bassist Pelajić became Mario Baraccuda and guitarist Jurčić became Max Wilson. Before joining the band, Stublić did not have much experience as a vocalist, however, since his father had been an opera singer, he often visited the theatre and opera, and at the age of 13, he started playing the guitar, earning money as a street performer at seaside resorts.
After their first live appearances they had quickly gained the respectable title "A first class New Wave club attraction", and the first larger appearance was as an opening act for Lena Lovich on her 1980 Yugoslav
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
tour. At the time, the band recorded their first single "Kad si mlad" ("When you're young") with "Zajedno" ("Together") as the B-side, which was released a year later due to the record label refusal to accept band idea of putting a screen-shot from the film Barbarella
Barbarella (film)
Barbarella is a 1968 Franco-Italian science fiction film based on Jean-Claude Forrest's French Barbarella comics. The film was directed by Roger Vadim and stars Jane Fonda, who was Vadim's wife at the time.-Plot:...
on the single cover. On the Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
Youth festival, the band won with the song "Neprilagođen" ("Unfit"), after which they became one of the most popular bands in former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
.
The 1981 debut album 'Novo! Novo! Još jučer samo na filmu a sada i u vašoj glavi (Extra! Extra! Since yesterday only on film and now in your head), featuring the new drummer Ivan Stančić "Piko", a former Grupa 220, Time
Time (rock band)
Time was a rock band from Yugoslavia that was formed in 1971 by Dado Topić after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original lineup consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović , Vedran Božić , Mario Mavrin , Ratko Divjak and Brane Lambert Živković...
and Parni Valjak
Parni Valjak
Parni valjak 1975 is a Croatian and former Yugoslav rock band. They were one of the top acts of the former Yugoslav Rock scene, and currently one of the top rock-and-roll bands in Croatia.-Biography:Parni valjak was founded in 1975...
member, who came as a replacement for Hromatko who had gone 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...
. The album, produced by Buldožer
Buldožer
Buldožer was Yugoslav-Slovenian progressive rock band from 1970s and 1980s. They were one of the first bands in communist Yugoslavia that could be considered alternative, and forefathers of the Yugoslav New Wave...
member Boris Bele, featuring a series of urban ska sound with a clear message: "Neprilagođen" ("Unfit"), "Zamisli" ("Imagine"), "Moderna djevojka" ("Modern girl"), "Radio ljubav" ("Radio love") and "Odvedi me iz ovog grada" ("Take me out of this town"). Stublić was signed as the author of the complete material, being inspired by the life in and around 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...
.
On January 1981, the band triumphed at the Pozdrav iz Zagreba (Greetings from Zagreb) festival. At the time as live musician appeared the rock critic Dražen Vrdoljak on organ, with whom the band performed at the 1981 Subotica Youth festival as the winners of the previous festival, causing quite a spectacle with the audience massively occupying the stage. The energy of their live appearances were captured live on the 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...
Film u Kulušiću – Live (Film in Kulušić - Live), recorded in the Zagreb club Kulušić on February 11, 1981. The EP, the first of the many following live releases recorded in the same club, featured a witty band introduction by Vrdoljak, and live versions of six tracks originally released on the first album.
After the EP release, the band went on an Adriatic
Adriatic Sea
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coast tour with the Belgrade
Belgrade
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New Wave band Idoli, with whom the band became close after the 1980 Subotica Youth festival on which the two bands had performed. At the time, the 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...
rereleased Film u Kulušiću – Live and VIS Idoli EP
VIS Idoli (EP)
VIS Idoli was the first and only EP by the Serbian new wave band Idoli. The cover of the EP is the Red Nude, an act by Amedeo Modigliani.- History :...
as a split compilation Zajedno (Together).
Mainstream rock years (1982-1986)
On late 1981, after a quarrel between Stublić and the rest of the band on the new studio album conception, the band went on a two month work break. Having agreed on the future of their work, the band recorded the second studio album Zona sumraka (Twilight zone), released in 1981, offering a more depressive view on of live, covering loneliness, alienation in city life, crime and drug addiction problems. Successful with the songs "Zagreb je hladan grad" ("Zagreb is a cold town") and "Krvariš oko ponoći" ("You're bleeding around midnight"), the album featured two instrumental tracks, "Džems Bond" ("James BondJames Bond
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"), a cover of the theme from the film serial of the same name, and "España" ("Spain
Spain
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"). As authors on the album, beside Stublić, appeared Jurčić, Stančić and Novoselić.
For the recording of the third studio album, the band went to 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....
where, produced by Tihomir "Tini" Varga, the band recorded Sva čuda svijeta (All the wonders of the world), featuring the hit songs "Kada budu gorijeli gradovi" ("When the cities would burn"), "Istina piše na zidu" ("The truth is written on the wall"), "Mi nismo sami" ("We are not alone"), "Boje su u nama" ("The colors are inside us"), and the title track. Due to the Pelajić departure to the army, Jurčić recorded the bass parts, and after the album release, Jurčić went to the army being temporarily replaced by the former Drugi Način
Drugi Način
Drugi Način was a former Yugoslav rock band.- 1970s and 1980s :In the first half of the 1970s Branko Požgajec , Halil Mekić and Vjekoslav Poldrugac performed in the reformed Novi Akordi...
member Robert Krkač on the promotional tour. The song "Mi nismo sami" was soon after covered by a Swedish rock group as "Have you ever".
The following album, Signali u noći, the band recorded with the drummer Dražen Šolc, the returned Pelajić and Jurčić, and as the album producer was chosen the English
English people
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musician and producer Nick Van Eede
Nick Van Eede
Nick Van Eede is an English musician, producer and songwriter. He is best remembered for singing and writing the 1987 U.S...
. The album brought the concert favorites "Pjevajmo do zore" ("Let's sing until dawn"), "Rijeke pravde" ("Rivers of justice"), "Osmijesi" ("Smiles"), and the title track. Guests on the album included Massimo Savić on guitar and backing vocals, Davor Slamnig
Davor Slamnig
Davor Slamnig is a Croatian writer and musician-Biography:Slamnig was born on 13 March 1956 in Zagreb, where he finished his primary education as well as graduated from grammar school. He allegedly never finished his musical education as well as his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the...
on guitar, Ljerka Šimara on harp, and Nikola Santro on trombone.
At the time, Juričić, Pelajić and Stančić formed the band Le Cinema, performing cover versions of the foreign New Wave hits, expressing their musical differences to the ones Stublić had, which lead the band to part ways in the Spring of 1986. The three remained in Le Cinema, Juričić also formed Vještice with the former 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...
drummer Boris Leiner, eventually ending up in the band Šo! Mazgoon. Pelajić joined Haustor
Haustor
Haustor was a rock band from Zagreb, SR Croatia, a member of the Novi val movement, and an important act of the former Yugoslav Rock scene.- Biography :...
and appeared on their album Tajni grad in 1988. Novoselić formed his band Dee Dee Mellow, was a member of Disciplina Kičme
Disciplina Kičme
Disciplina Kičme , is a Serbian band, one of the two spin-offs of the seminal Yugoslav New Wave and later post-punk band Šarlo Akrobata, the other being Ekatarina Velika...
and finally joined Psihomodo Pop
Psihomodo Pop
Psihomodo Pop is a Croatian pop punk group. The band was formed in 1983 in Zagreb and has since achieved a somewhat cult following across the area of former Yugoslavia....
.
One-off reunion (1998)
During the mid-1998, the default Film lineup Juričić, Pelajić and Stančić reunited with Stublić for a one-off show and performed at the Zagreb Gori (Zagreb's Burning) open-air concert.Jura Stublić & Film
In 1987, Stublić, as Jura Stublić & Film, released the studio album Sunce sja (The sun is shining), with Robert Krkač (guitar), Dario Kumerle (bass), Željko Turčinović (drums) and Bojan Goričan (keyboards), and as guest vocalist appeared Jurica Pađen and Massimo Savić. Focusing on the pop rockPop rock
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sound, Stublić recorded "Srce na cesti" ("Heart on the road"), "Ivana" ("Ivana"), "Dom" ("Home"), and "Valovi ('67.-'77.-'87.)" ("Waves ('67-77-87) and "Sjećam se prvog poljupca" ("I remember the first kiss").
The following release, the 1989 studio album Zemlja sreće (The land of Happiness), featured the new guitarist Deni Kozić and drummer Davor Vidiš, and as guests on the album appeared Laza Ristovski
Laza Ristovski
Laza Ristovski was a Serbian and former Yugoslav keyboardist, best known for his involvement with Smak and Bijelo Dugme rock bands, as well as for his eclectic solo work that spawned many different musical genres.-Biography:Laza Ristovski was born in Novi Pazar as his father, a JNA officer, was...
, Vlatko Stefanovski
Vlatko Stefanovski
Vlatko Stefanovski is Macedonian ethno-rock jazz fusion guitar player.-Biography:Born in Prilep in 1957, he started playing guitar at the age of 13. Stefanovski was one of the founding members of Leb i sol with whom he recorded 13 albums between 1978 and 1991...
, Massimo Savić, guitarist Branko Bogunović, Davor Rodik and klapa "Bonaca". The album featured Dobre vibracije ("Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations
"Good Vibrations" is a song by American rock band The Beach Boys. Composed and produced by Brian Wilson, the song's lyrics were written by Wilson and Mike Love....
"), quoting the Beach Boys, "Doći ću ti u snovima" ("I'll come to your dreams"), "Ljubav je zakon" ("Love is the law"), and "Uhvati vjetar" ("Catch the Wind"), a cover of Silute
Šilute
Šilutė is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County, Lithuania. The city was part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor. Šilutė was the interwar capital of Šilutė County and is currently the capital of Šilutė district municipality.-Name:...
version of a Donovan
Donovan
Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
song. During the same year, the band also appeared on the double various artists live album ZG forces live, released by Jugoton, also featuring the most prominent Zagreb bands at the time Psihomodo Pop
Psihomodo Pop
Psihomodo Pop is a Croatian pop punk group. The band was formed in 1983 in Zagreb and has since achieved a somewhat cult following across the area of former Yugoslavia....
, Parni Valjak
Parni Valjak
Parni valjak 1975 is a Croatian and former Yugoslav rock band. They were one of the top acts of the former Yugoslav Rock scene, and currently one of the top rock-and-roll bands in Croatia.-Biography:Parni valjak was founded in 1975...
and Prljavo Kazalište
Prljavo kazalište
Prljavo kazalište is a rock and roll band from Zagreb, Croatia. Since its formation in 1977, the group changed several music styles and line ups but remained one of the top acts of both the Croatian and the former Yugoslav rock scenes.-Beginnings:Prljavo kazalište was formed in 1977 in Dubrava,...
, each covering one LP side on the release.
During the early 1990s, Stublić often changed the band members and in 1992, he released Hrana za golubove
Hrana za golubove
Hrana za golubove was the last studio album by Film, led by singer Jura Stublić. It was released in 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence. The album contained many patriotic and anti-war themes as well as the usual pop fare...
, featuring the song "E moj druže beogradski" ("Oh my Belgrade friend"), accepted by the people on both sides of the front in the 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...
which were fought in the time of the album release. The song was recorded as a cover version of the song "Na morskome plavom žalu" ("On the blue sea strand"), originally recorded by Dragan Jokić for the Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica
Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
film Do You Remember, Dolly Bell?, with the new lyrics. The lineup which recorded the album, beside Stublić featured Mario Zidar (guitar), Ante Pecotić (bass) and Goran Rakočević (drums).
In 1994 appeared the first compilation album Greatest hits vol. 1, featuring two new songs, "Nježno, nježno, nježnije" ("Gentle, gentle, gentler") and the cynical "Čikago" ("Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
"), a cover version of the old work action
Youth work actions
Youth work actions were organized voluntary labor activities of young people in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The actions were used to build public infrastructure such as roads, railways, and public buildings, as well as industrial infrastructure...
song "U tunelu usred mraka" ("In the tunnel in the dark"). The recording of the song was in possession of the record label for six months, eventually being released without a line from the lyrics, but despite the fact, the song was banned on the 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 ...
n media. The followup was the second part of the compilation Greatest hits vol. 2, released in 1996, featuring the rerecorded "Neprilagođen", "Moderna djevojka" and "Boje su u nama", and the new track "Lijepo, lijepo, neopisivo" ("Beautiful, beautiful, inexplicable")
In 2002, Stublić released another selection of the released material on the compilation album Sve najbolje (All the best).
Le Cinema
The supergroupSupergroup (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"....
Le Cinema (Film in French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
) was formed on December 1985 by the remaining members of the Film last lineup excluding Jura Stublić, Mladen Juričić "Max", Marino Pelajić "Baraccuda" and Ivan Stančić "Piko". The band, mainly performing the New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
and punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
standards, quickly became a club attraction. With the band often appeared Mira Furlan
Mira Furlan
Mira Furlan is a Croatian actress and singer currently residing in the United States. She is well known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn on all five seasons of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 , and Danielle Rousseau on Lost.-Early life:Furlan was born to an...
, Massimo Savić, Vlada Divljan
Vlada Divljan
Vladimir "Vlada" Divljan , is a Serbian singer and songwriter. He is known as the frontman for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Idoli, as well as for his solo works.-Early activity:...
and Drago Mlinarec with whom the band recorded a cover version of the Mlinarec's Grupa 220 hit single "Osmijeh" ("Smile").
The band released the album Rocking At The Party Live!, recorded live in Kulušić on early 1988, offered the band's interpretation of the famous songs by 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...
, Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
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, Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
, The Ramones, Blondie
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...
and others. The album also featured the song "Maršal" ("Marshall"), originally released as "Poslednji dani" ("The last days") by Idoli on their debut album Odbrana i poslednji dani
Odbrana i poslednji dani
Odbrana i poslednji dani is the first studio album by former Yugoslavn New Wave band Idoli released in 1982....
(The defense and the last days), featuring Vlada Divljan, and the band introduction by Dražen Vrdoljak. After the album release, the band performed over two hundred concerts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
.
After taking a longer work break, the band renewed their activities in 1997, featuring the new bassist Žan Jankopač from the band Šo! Mazgoon, the band where Juričić had played. Despite the lineup changes, the original lineup recorded the comeback album Doručak kod Trulog (Breakfast at Rotten's), featuring nine cover versions of old Film songs, including "Zona sumraka" ("Twilight zone") with Majke
Majke
Majke are a cult Croatian hard rock band from the City of Vinkovci, a town located at the eastern border of Croatia. Founded in 1986 in Vinkovci, Majke were one of the many bands to appear in a city that had a particularly vibrant rock and alternative scene...
vocalist Goran Bare on lead vocals, and cover of Šarlo Akrobata
Šarlo Akrobata
Šarlo Akrobata were a seminal Yugoslav rock band often categorized as late punk or New Wave, particularly art-oriented. Short-lived but extremely influential, in addition to being one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav New Wave scene, the three piece left an indelible mark on the entire...
single "Ona se budi
Ona se budi
"Ona se budi" is the B-side on the only single Mali čovek by Yugoslav New Wave band Šarlo Akrobata released in 1981. It is also the opening track on the Paket aranžman compilation which is one of the most influential releases by Yugoslav rock bands.In 2006 the song was ranked #5 on the B92 Top...
" ("She is waking up"), recorded live in the Zagreb KSET on October 12, 2002. The disc also featured a remastered material from the Rocking At The Party Live!, and music videos including the one recorded for the song "Osmijeh" with Drago Mlinarec.
On February 22, 2003, the band appeared on the Jako dobar tattoo Milan Mladenović
Milan Mladenovic
Milan Mladenović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as the frontman of Serbian art rock band Ekatarina Velika.-Early life:...
tribute concert, held at the Zagreb Tvornica, which was recorded and released by CBS during the same year. The band covered the song "Krug" ("The Circle"), originally recorded by 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....
on their 1989 album Samo par godina za nas
Samo par godina za nas
Samo par godina za nas is the fifth studio album by the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika, released in 1989. It is the last one recorded with Bojan Pečar as a bassist. The album was produced by Mitar "Suba" Subotić, Theodore Yanni and Ekatarina Velika, with Suba and Yanni also included as guest...
.
Legacy
The book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzikeYU 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 four Film albums: Još jučer samo na filmu a sada i u vašoj glavi (ranked #22), Signali u noći (ranked #67), Sva čuda svijeta (ranked #69) and Film u Kulušiću – Live (ranked #70). The B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list fetaures three songs by Film: "Zamisli život u ritmu muzike za ples" (ranked #27), "Neprilagođen" (ranked #80) and "Boje su u nama" (ranked #85).
Studio albums
- Još jučer samo na filmu a sada i u vašoj glavi (1981)
- Zona sumraka (1982)
- Sva čuda svijeta (1983)
- Signali u noći (1985)
Singles
- "Kad si mlad" (1980)
- "Zamisli život u ritmu muzike za ples" (1981)
- "Zona sumraka" (1982)
- "Pljačka stoljeća" (1982)
- "Ti traćiš zrake" (1983)
- "Boje su u nama" (1983)
Studio albums
- Sunce sja (1987)
- Zemlja sreće (1989)
- Hrana za goluboveHrana za goluboveHrana za golubove was the last studio album by Film, led by singer Jura Stublić. It was released in 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence. The album contained many patriotic and anti-war themes as well as the usual pop fare...
(1992)
Compilation albums
- Greatest hits vol. 1 (1994)
- Greatest hits vol. 2 (1996)
- Sve najbolje (2001)
See also
- SFR Yugoslav pop and rock scene
- New Wave in Yugoslavia
- Music of CroatiaMusic of CroatiaThe music of Croatia, like the divisions of the country itself, has two major influences: the Central European one, present in the central and northern parts of the country, as well as in Slavonia, and the Mediterranean one, particularly present in the coastal regions of Dalmatia and Istria.In...
- Sretno dijeteSretno dijeteSretno dijete is a documentary film directed by Igor Mirković, and produced by Rajko Grlić, an Ohio University professor of film, in 2003...