Nadurveni vuglishta
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The Album
"Nadurveni vuglishta" is the fourth album by the BulgariaBulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n rock
Rock and roll
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band Hipodil
Hipodil
Hipodil is a Bulgarian rock band, founded 1988 in Sofia by four classmates from the local Mathematics High School. The band describe their music as alco-agro-porno-punk though elements of ska, hard rock and heavy metal are used en masse as well....
, released in 1998 under the Riva sound label, the bands fourth with the company. The name is a pun
Pun
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- in Bulgarian
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
"Nadurveni vuglishta" means "Horny Charcoal", but if written separately, as in "Na durveni vuglishta", it will still sound like the first version, but the meaning will be quite different - "Roasted On Charcoal".
The album was initially released on audio cassettes only and after a famous controversy (see below) was released also on a CD several months later. Some of the tracks were included in the band's CD compilation Tu'pest
Tu'pest
"Tu'pest" is a greatest hits compilation of some of the most popular songs from the first four albums of the Bulgarian rock band Hipodil, released in 2000 under the Riva Sound label, the bands fifth and last release with that company...
in 2000.
The Controversy
This album is maybe the most scandalous one in the Bulgarian music history. Prior the album release, the lyrics of some tracks like "Poslednoto zemno izprazvane na kosmonavta Romanenko" (Cosmonaut Romanenko's Last Jerk-off on Earth), "Arividerci" and "Vurtianalen sex" (Virtuanal Sex) leaked to Bulgarian media and shocked part of the audience with their explicit, though humorous content.Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, which by law regulates Bulgarian publishing industry, speedily [over]reacted and banned the release of the album on CD and was to file against the band in court for obscenity. Strangely, the ministry did not ban the audio cassette release of the album so it reached the market in that format.
Much to the amazement of both fans and media, the band chose not to fully exploit the marketing opportunities this controversy created and instead kept low profile. They only allowed themselves a few vague remarks on 'censorship', 'freedom of speech' and 'bigotry' during the promo party for the album in a downtown Sofia club. Bulgarian media speculated that the band and their label behaved like that due to inappropriate legal advise, which, if true, could be qualified as a major PR flop for the band.
Reportedly, ministry officials invited the band and representatives of their label to a meeting. No official information on the discussions held at this meeting was ever released to public but the ministry dropped its plans to sue the band.
As expected, the controversy helped the album become Hipodil's first real commercial success though no trustworthy sales figures were ever made available to public, a common practice in Bulgarian music industry even today. A few months later, the album was released on CD with no legal consequences neither for Hipodil nor for their label.
The Music
Musically, the album presents Hipodil as a mature though still restless and highly critical band with strong connections to punk, ska and heavy metal. The band demonstrated significant growth in both musical and lyrical direction and even though some hardcore fans criticized the album for being a bit far from the raw sound of the band's early recordings, Nadurveni vuglishta was obviously of higher production and historical value.The pilot track "Bate Gojko" (mentioned here is the Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
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n actor Gojko Mitic
Gojko Mitic
Gojko Mitić is a Serbian director, actor, stuntman, and author. He lives in Berlin....
, famous in the former Eastern Bloc
Eastern bloc
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for his East German-made western films in which he usually played a Native American
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protagonist) became Hipodil's most popular song. It entered Bulgarian airplay charts, another 'first ever' in the band's history, despite the tongue-in-cheek implications in the lyrics. It was among the few Hipodil tracks to have a video.
The next song from the album to have a video was "D'ska", which however failed to repeat "Bate Gojko"s success. These two tracks sound more mainstream and ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
-orientated than the other stuff in the record, which is basically harder and more aggressive. As usual, Hipodil make a lot of funny parodies and mockeries, targeted at other Bulgarian pop acts like Argirov Brothers, Marius Kurkinski
Marius Kurkinski
Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...
and Irina Florin and their songs in "Tintiri-mintiri". The band also offers some serious lyrics in songs like "Potuvane nagore!" (Sinking Upward), "Otnesen!" (Scatter-brained) and "Vujen" (Rope) while "Nishto" (Nothing) is an openly depressive song.
When you read the first letter (B) of the English-titled song "Bless me" in Bulgarian (as "V") it sounds like the Bulgarian phrase "Vlez mi" (Enter Into Me). This phrase, as used in the chorus of the track, should not be taken literally as in Bulgarian slang it means an invitation to start a fight, another pun
Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...
in the well-known style of Hipodil.
Tracks
- B.G./Bate Gojko (Big Brother Gojko)
- Vujen (Rope-made)
- Potuvane nagore! (Sinking Upward)
- Poslednoto zemno izprazvane na kosmonavta Romanenko (Cosmonaut Romanenko's Last Jerk-off on Earth)
- Nishto (Nothing)
- Bez higiena/Meze na guza (Without Hygiene/Relish on the Ass)
- Shtrank (instrumental track)
- Tintiri-mintiri (similar to the English phrase "Blah-blahBlah- In music :* Blah Blah , a 2006 EP and song by Lady Sovereign* Blah Blah Blah , 1986* Blah Blah Blah , 1996* "Blah Blah Blah" , a 2010 single by Ke$ha from her debut album Animal...
") - Otnesen! (Scatter-brained)
- Arividerci ( Bye )
- Bless me
- Vuzbuden sum! (I'm Horny)
- Vurtianalen sex (Virtuanal Sex)
- D'ska (a pun between the music style ska and the Bulgarian word "duska", which means "board")
Personnel
- Svetoslav Vitkov - vocals
- Petar Todorov - guitars
- Ventzi Bassistcheto - bass guitar
- Lachezar Marinov -drums