Obojeni Program
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Obojeni Program is a Serbia
n alternative rock
band from Novi Sad
. The band are pioneers of the Serbian alternative rock scene. The band is also famous for giving strange names to their albums, which is explained by the fact that the first letters of all the studio albums form an acronym of their home town. They have performed on all the Exit festivals since the first one held in 2000.
was a member of the two minor Novi Sad punk rock
groups, Abortus and Pankreas. With the latter, Babić performed at the Zemun
Punk festival, where the members of the Belgrade punk group Urbana Gerila
approached him and asked to join them. He became their member, but only for a few months. One of the first Obojeni Program lineups was a trio, featuring Babić (vocals), Goran Ivčić "Tukša" (bass) and Edi Keler (drums). They sounded similar to the early period of Disciplina Kičme
, which was formed two years later.
Lasting only for six months, the band was transformed into a quintet featuring Babić, Bora Oslovčan, Pera Telarov, Aleksandar Koledin "Kole" and Aleksandar Jocić "Cana", who used to change instruments during their performances. Moving towards a more post-punk
oriented sound, influenced by the Manchester
bands The Fall and Magazine
, Babić renamed the group to Program, with the lienup which beside him featured Aleksandar Jocić "Cana" (guitar), Zoran Geratović "Gera" (bass) and Edi Keler (drums). Having performed for a year, the band rerenamed itself to Obojeni Program.
The first live appearance the band had in 1981, at the Novi Sad's club Bronx, performing their songs only, with Babić singing with his back towards the crowd, which became a part of his stage performance for a while. During the same year, at the first Novi Sad private studio Meta Sound, the band recorded four tracks, "Kad bi malo (7x) mozak stao" ("If the (7x) Brain Could Stop a Little"), "O, da li?" ("Oh, Is It?", "Obojeni program" ("Coloured Program"), and "Ulični kerovi" ("Street Dogs"), produced by the former member Bora Oslovčan. The recordings were often broadcast on Radio Novi Sad, especially in the Yu pop scena (Yu Pop Scene) radio show hosted by Dragan Gojković "Goja".
After the media presentation, the band started performing across the former Yugoslavia, including Belgrade, Zagreb
, Osijek
and Ljubljana
. On February 1982, as a part of the Novosadski novi talas (Novi Sad New Wave) manifestation, the band performed at the Vienna
Arena, sharing the stage with the groups Grad, Ove Sezone Vedri Tonovi, Imperium of Jazz, Boye
, and Luna. During the same year, with the latter two bands, Obojeni Program often performed in Novi Sad and Belgrade. The following year, the band appeared in the director Želimir Žilnik
's movie Drugi talas (The Second Wave). The band would later appear another Žilnik movie, the 1988 Kako se kalio čelik (How the Steel Was Tempered
), and the TV drama Prvo tromesečje Pavla Hromiša (The First Quarter of Pavle Hromiš), with the band members appearing as well as their music being used as the soundtrack. During 1983, the band recorded three new songs, "Filadelfija" ("Philadelphia"), "Gradonačelnik se buni" ("The Mayor is Angry") and "Gospodar vaših stolica" ("The Lord of Your Chairs"), later renamed to "981", and a new version of the local hit "O, da li?". Once again, the recordings were made at the Meta Sound studio and produced by Bora Oslovčan.
After the song recording, the band refused to perform at the Subotica
Youth festival, due to the mainstream popularity of the festival. At the time, bassist Geratović left the band, moving to Australia, being replaced by the former Pečat member Miroslav Bedov "Micke". However, the band went on an eighteen-months hiatus soon after this due to Babić's army obligations. Having returned from the army, in June 1985, Babić reformed the band as a trio, featuring bassist Bedov and Edi Keler on drums. Zoran Lekić "Leki", guitar player of Ove Sezone Vedri Tonovi who has been playing saxophone with Obojeni Program since 1982, occasionally performed as an additional member. During the same year, the band performed at the Split Alternative rock festival. For the following four years, the band had performed across the country, but with frequent member changes, which was the reason why the band did not record any material during the period.
In 1989, the lineup which lasted for a while, featuring Branislav Babić "Kebra" (vocals), Robert Radić (drums), Branislav Bukurov (guitar), Miroslav Bedov (bass) and Maša Žilnik (backing vocals) performed at the Subotica Youth festival, winning the second place. The song "Kad bi malo (7x) mozak stao" performed at the Youth festival appeared on the festival official compilation. The band also performed at the YURM festival where they entered the finals and in Zagreb where they won the first place. At the festival, the band met Zagreb journalists Aleksandar Dragaš and Ante Čikara who founded the independent record label
Search & Enjoy only to release the material recorded by the band. Having finished the album recordings, Bukurov left the band, and Zoran Lekić became the new guitarist.
Akademija studio, for which the album production was done by Disciplina Kičme
frontman Dušan Kojić "Koja"
and the album cover by the famous Belgrade underground painter Momir Grujić "Fleka", featured a selection from their decade-long career. The songs "Štipaljka" ("Clothespin"), "Filadelfija" ("Philadelphia") and "O, da li?" ("Oh, is it?"), featured Babić's unique vocal style and a stiff musical background, owing to which the band had often been compared to the Greater Manchester
band The Fall. A promotional video was recorded for the song "Štipaljka", which became the album's greatest hit. After the album release, the band went on a promotional tour, including Belgrade, Zagreb
, Ljubljana
, Maribor
, Split, Dubrovnik
, Skopje
and Novi Sad
.
The followup, Ovaj zid stoji krivo (On the Side is this Wall Bended), recorded at the Guru Sound studio during August and September 1991, was released during the late 1991 and once again produced by Kojić. It featured the notable "Nebo, nebo plavo je" ("The Sky, the Sky Is Blue"), inspired by the outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars
, "Čudan glas te poziva" ("A Strange Voice Is Calling You"), "Pozivamo tople reke" ("We Are Inviting Warm Rivers"), "981", and "Dejvi" ("Davy"), the latter two being recorded for the first album but were omitted, presented as an array of Babić's claustrophobic visions. Guest appearances on the album featured the producer Kojić, who played the guitar on several songs, the members of the Novi Sad band Boye, who did backing vocals, and Disciplina Kičme member Zoran Erkman "Zerkman", who played the trumpet. The band was pronounced the album of the year at the TV Revija magazine, and the gained popularity of the band provided album sales in former Yugoslav republics. By the end of 1991, the band had suddenly disbanded.
On early 1992, Babić reformed the band in the lineup featuring Danica Milovanov "Daca" (backing vocals), Dragan Knežević (guitar), Ljubomir Pejić (drums) and Boye bassist Ilija Vasiljević "Bebec" as a temporary member, promoting live the second album, for the first time in Serbian cities Kragujevac
, Užice
and Niš
. On April, the band had performed at the Belgrade Republic Square in front of a crowd of fifty thousand people at an antiwar concert Ne računajte na nas (Do Not Count on Us), also featuring Rambo Amadeus
, Boye, Električni Orgazam
, and Rimtutituki
, and on December, the band the band performed at the Subotica
antiwar concert Muzika mira (The Music of Peace).
The recording of the Belgrade KST performance on August 1, 1992, was released the live album Prijatelju kočnice ti ne rade baš sve (My Friend, Not All of Your Breaks are Functioning), available on compact cassette
only, which, beside the unreleased title track, featured live versions of the previously released songs. The following year, the Serbian independent record label Music YUser rereleased the material released on the first two studio albums with the bonus track "Nebo, nebo drugo je" ("The Sky, the Sky Is Different") on the compilation album Obojeni program. During the same year, Babić spent six months in London
, and during the time he had made contacts with the people from MTV
, and the music videos for the songs "981" and "Reforma u vašoj glavi" ("A Reform in Your Head") appeared on the show 120 Minutes
, owing to which the songs appeared on several British
various artists compilations.
In 1994, the band released the album Verujem ti jer smo isti (Very Similar Indeed We are so I Believe You), in a new lineup featuring backing vocalists Danica Milovanov "Daca" and Jovanka Ilić, guitarist Dragan Knežević, bassist Ljubomir Pejić (a former Vrisak Generacije member) and drummer Vladimir Cinkocki (a former Goblini
and Generacija Bez Budućnosti member). With an effective cover done by Talenat and the production done by the band themselves, the band continued working in the same musical direction as on the previous releases. The as the most distinguishable songs from the album were "ABCD avioni" ("ABCD Airplanes") and "Ruža lutanja" ("Rose of Wandering"), the latter featuring a recitative
by the conceptual artist Miroslav Mandić, the creator of a project of walking around Europe
on foot. During the same year, the song "Nebo, nebo plavo je" appeared on the various artists compilation album Radio Utopia, released by B92.
The following album, the 1996 Ili 5 minuta ispred tebe (If Not 5 Minutes Ahead of You), the band had recorded at the Zrenjanin
Tarkus studio. Guest appearances on the album featured Zoran Erkman "Zerkman" on trumpet and Ivana Vince on backing vocals. The record label Tarcus, which released the album, also rereleased the compilation album Obojeni program. After the album release, and for the first time since the breakup of former Yugoslavia, the band had performed in Slovenia
. During the same year, the song "Kočnice" ("Breaks") appeared on the Metropolis Records
various artists compilation album Ustani i kreni (Stand up and Go), and the following year, the band appeared on the various artists compilation album Ovo je zemlja za nas?!?, with the song "Dragon".
The fifth studio album Sva sreća general voli decu (Such Good Fortune, the General Loves Children), released in 1999 by B92 and produced by Boye bassist Ilija Vasiljević "Bebec", for which the album cover was designed by the painter Saša Stojanović, featuring an ironical drawing of a child displaying Serbian three-finger salute
. The album, consisting of twenty four songs, brought a modernized sound, including samples and dance music
remix of the Boye song "Fudbal" ("Football"). The lineup which recorded the album featured the new bassist Zoran Geratović "Gera", backing vocalist Tamara Dobler and drummer Slobodan Levakov "Coba". The album also featured two remixed songs, "Srce srce srce" ("Heart Heart Heart") and "Autobran" ("Cardefence"), done by Smokin' J.
John Peel
who had included the song "Uživaj u ludilu nekih malih stvari" ("Enjoy in the Madness of Small Things") on the BBC Radio
playlist. During the same year, the song "Reforma u vašoj glavi" ("A Reform in Your Head") appeared on the Metropolis Records various artists compilation Metropolis vol. 2. The following year, the band performed as an opening act for Placebo
at the Belgrade
Sports' Hall
.
The seventh studio album Da li je to čovek ili je mašina (Do I See a Man or a Machine), released in 2005, was recorded at the former Čista Proza
frontman Milan Ćirić "Mile" analogue studio Sing Sing in Netherlands
, and during the occasion, the band also held a concert in Amsterdam
. Beside the seven new tracks, the album also included the remixed versions of the songs, done by both Serbian and foreign authors. The lineup which recorded the album featured Branislav Babić (vocals), Tamara Dobler (backing vocals), Dragan Knežević (guitar), Miloš Romić (groove box machine), and Miloš Rašković (bass). The journalist Brankica Drašković recorded the documentary about the album recording. The following year, Babić appeared in the Jovan Đerić rockumentary
Bilo jednom...
(Once upon a Time), dealing with the Novi Sad punk rock
scene during the 1990s.
After a four-year discography break, the band, featuring Babić, Vladimir Cinkocki (drums), Ilija Vasiljević "Bebec" (bass) and Ljubomir Pejić (bass), started preparing the eight studio album Kosmos u tvom srcu / Igračke se voze levom rukom (Cosmos in Your Heart / Toys Are Driven with the Left Hand), released on June 29, 2009, recorded at the Sing Sing studio in Metslawier
, available in LP format in Netherlands
and for free download via the Exit festival record label Exit Music. The album was recorded with Milan Ćirić as the sound engineer and Boris Schmidt as the album producer. The record label Hello Bing, which released the album, also released the 7" single "Ja hoću te" ("I Want You"), a cover of the Boye single, with "981" as the B-side. The single, recorded at the Sing Sing studio on February 2009, was printed in 500 copies only.
After the album release, on September 18 of the same year, the band shared the stage with their idols The Fall, at the Jelen Pivo Live
festival, held at the Belgrade SKC
.
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 alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band from 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....
. The band are pioneers of the Serbian alternative rock scene. The band is also famous for giving strange names to their albums, which is explained by the fact that the first letters of all the studio albums form an acronym of their home town. They have performed on all the Exit festivals since the first one held in 2000.
1980s
Before forming the band, vocalist Branislav Babić "Kebra"Branislav Babić
Branislav "Kebra" Babić is a Serbian rock vocalist and the founding member of the band Obojeni Program...
was a member of the two minor Novi Sad 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...
groups, Abortus and Pankreas. With the latter, Babić performed at the Zemun
Zemun
Zemun is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia...
Punk festival, where the members of the Belgrade punk group Urbana Gerila
Urbana gerila
Urbana Gerila was a former Yugoslav punk rock and New Wave band from Belgrade. The band is notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija project in 1981...
approached him and asked to join them. He became their member, but only for a few months. One of the first Obojeni Program lineups was a trio, featuring Babić (vocals), Goran Ivčić "Tukša" (bass) and Edi Keler (drums). They sounded similar to the early period 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...
, which was formed two years later.
Lasting only for six months, the band was transformed into a quintet featuring Babić, Bora Oslovčan, Pera Telarov, Aleksandar Koledin "Kole" and Aleksandar Jocić "Cana", who used to change instruments during their performances. Moving towards a more post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
oriented sound, influenced by the Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
bands The Fall and Magazine
Magazine (band)
Magazine are an English post-punk group active from 1977 to 1981, then reformed in 2009. Their debut single, "Shot by Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life, is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time...
, Babić renamed the group to Program, with the lienup which beside him featured Aleksandar Jocić "Cana" (guitar), Zoran Geratović "Gera" (bass) and Edi Keler (drums). Having performed for a year, the band rerenamed itself to Obojeni Program.
The first live appearance the band had in 1981, at the Novi Sad's club Bronx, performing their songs only, with Babić singing with his back towards the crowd, which became a part of his stage performance for a while. During the same year, at the first Novi Sad private studio Meta Sound, the band recorded four tracks, "Kad bi malo (7x) mozak stao" ("If the (7x) Brain Could Stop a Little"), "O, da li?" ("Oh, Is It?", "Obojeni program" ("Coloured Program"), and "Ulični kerovi" ("Street Dogs"), produced by the former member Bora Oslovčan. The recordings were often broadcast on Radio Novi Sad, especially in the Yu pop scena (Yu Pop Scene) radio show hosted by Dragan Gojković "Goja".
After the media presentation, the band started performing across the former Yugoslavia, including Belgrade, 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...
, Osijek
Osijek
Osijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...
and 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...
. On February 1982, as a part of the Novosadski novi talas (Novi Sad New Wave) manifestation, the band performed at the 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...
Arena, sharing the stage with the groups Grad, Ove Sezone Vedri Tonovi, Imperium of Jazz, Boye
Boye (band)
Boye were a Serbian New Wave/alternative rock band from Novi Sad. Until the late 1980s Boye were an all-female band, but later lineups also featured male members.- 1980s :...
, and Luna. During the same year, with the latter two bands, Obojeni Program often performed in Novi Sad and Belgrade. The following year, the band appeared in the director Želimir Žilnik
Želimir Žilnik
Želimir Žilnik is a Serbian film director. He is noted for his socially engaging style and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during the Yugoslav communist era...
's movie Drugi talas (The Second Wave). The band would later appear another Žilnik movie, the 1988 Kako se kalio čelik (How the Steel Was Tempered
How the Steel Was Tempered
How the Steel Was Tempered is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky during Joseph Stalin's era. Pavel Korchagin is the central character.- Analysis :...
), and the TV drama Prvo tromesečje Pavla Hromiša (The First Quarter of Pavle Hromiš), with the band members appearing as well as their music being used as the soundtrack. During 1983, the band recorded three new songs, "Filadelfija" ("Philadelphia"), "Gradonačelnik se buni" ("The Mayor is Angry") and "Gospodar vaših stolica" ("The Lord of Your Chairs"), later renamed to "981", and a new version of the local hit "O, da li?". Once again, the recordings were made at the Meta Sound studio and produced by Bora Oslovčan.
After the song recording, the band refused to perform at the Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
Youth festival, due to the mainstream popularity of the festival. At the time, bassist Geratović left the band, moving to Australia, being replaced by the former Pečat member Miroslav Bedov "Micke". However, the band went on an eighteen-months hiatus soon after this due to Babić's army obligations. Having returned from the army, in June 1985, Babić reformed the band as a trio, featuring bassist Bedov and Edi Keler on drums. Zoran Lekić "Leki", guitar player of Ove Sezone Vedri Tonovi who has been playing saxophone with Obojeni Program since 1982, occasionally performed as an additional member. During the same year, the band performed at the Split Alternative rock festival. For the following four years, the band had performed across the country, but with frequent member changes, which was the reason why the band did not record any material during the period.
In 1989, the lineup which lasted for a while, featuring Branislav Babić "Kebra" (vocals), Robert Radić (drums), Branislav Bukurov (guitar), Miroslav Bedov (bass) and Maša Žilnik (backing vocals) performed at the Subotica Youth festival, winning the second place. The song "Kad bi malo (7x) mozak stao" performed at the Youth festival appeared on the festival official compilation. The band also performed at the YURM festival where they entered the finals and in Zagreb where they won the first place. At the festival, the band met Zagreb journalists Aleksandar Dragaš and Ante Čikara who founded the independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
Search & Enjoy only to release the material recorded by the band. Having finished the album recordings, Bukurov left the band, and Zoran Lekić became the new guitarist.
1990s
On May 1990, the band released Najvažnije je biti zdrav (Necessity is To Remain Healthy), through Search & Enjoy. The album, recorded at the BelgradeBelgrade
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...
Akademija studio, for which the album production was done by 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...
frontman Dušan Kojić "Koja"
Dušan Kojic
Dušan Kojić "Koja" is a Serbian rock bassist, singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of the Serbian Alternative rock band Disciplin A Kitschme .- Compilation albums :...
and the album cover by the famous Belgrade underground painter Momir Grujić "Fleka", featured a selection from their decade-long career. The songs "Štipaljka" ("Clothespin"), "Filadelfija" ("Philadelphia") and "O, da li?" ("Oh, is it?"), featured Babić's unique vocal style and a stiff musical background, owing to which the band had often been compared to the Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
band The Fall. A promotional video was recorded for the song "Štipaljka", which became the album's greatest hit. After the album release, the band went on a promotional tour, including Belgrade, 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...
, 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...
, Maribor
Maribor
Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....
, Split, Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...
, Skopje
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...
and 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....
.
The followup, Ovaj zid stoji krivo (On the Side is this Wall Bended), recorded at the Guru Sound studio during August and September 1991, was released during the late 1991 and once again produced by Kojić. It featured the notable "Nebo, nebo plavo je" ("The Sky, the Sky Is Blue"), inspired by the outbreak of 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...
, "Čudan glas te poziva" ("A Strange Voice Is Calling You"), "Pozivamo tople reke" ("We Are Inviting Warm Rivers"), "981", and "Dejvi" ("Davy"), the latter two being recorded for the first album but were omitted, presented as an array of Babić's claustrophobic visions. Guest appearances on the album featured the producer Kojić, who played the guitar on several songs, the members of the Novi Sad band Boye, who did backing vocals, and Disciplina Kičme member Zoran Erkman "Zerkman", who played the trumpet. The band was pronounced the album of the year at the TV Revija magazine, and the gained popularity of the band provided album sales in former Yugoslav republics. By the end of 1991, the band had suddenly disbanded.
On early 1992, Babić reformed the band in the lineup featuring Danica Milovanov "Daca" (backing vocals), Dragan Knežević (guitar), Ljubomir Pejić (drums) and Boye bassist Ilija Vasiljević "Bebec" as a temporary member, promoting live the second album, for the first time in Serbian cities Kragujevac
Kragujevac
Kragujevac is the fourth largest city in Serbia, the main city of the Šumadija region and the administrative centre of Šumadija District. It is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River...
, Užice
Užice
Užice is a city and municipality in western Serbia, located at the banks of the Đetinja river. It is the administrative center of the Zlatibor District...
and Niš
Niš
Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,...
. On April, the band had performed at the Belgrade Republic Square in front of a crowd of fifty thousand people at an antiwar concert Ne računajte na nas (Do Not Count on Us), also featuring 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...
, Boye, 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 :...
, and Rimtutituki
Rimtutituki
Rimtutituki was a Serbian rock supergroup featuring Ekatarina Velika, Električni Orgazam and Partibrejkers members. The band was formed as an anti-war project during the Yugoslav Wars...
, and on December, the band the band performed at the Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
antiwar concert Muzika mira (The Music of Peace).
The recording of the Belgrade KST performance on August 1, 1992, was released the live album Prijatelju kočnice ti ne rade baš sve (My Friend, Not All of Your Breaks are Functioning), available on compact cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
only, which, beside the unreleased title track, featured live versions of the previously released songs. The following year, the Serbian independent record label Music YUser rereleased the material released on the first two studio albums with the bonus track "Nebo, nebo drugo je" ("The Sky, the Sky Is Different") on the compilation album Obojeni program. During the same year, Babić spent six months 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...
, and during the time he had made contacts with the people from MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, and the music videos for the songs "981" and "Reforma u vašoj glavi" ("A Reform in Your Head") appeared on the show 120 Minutes
120 Minutes
120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to alternative music, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003....
, owing to which the songs appeared on several British
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
various artists compilations.
In 1994, the band released the album Verujem ti jer smo isti (Very Similar Indeed We are so I Believe You), in a new lineup featuring backing vocalists Danica Milovanov "Daca" and Jovanka Ilić, guitarist Dragan Knežević, bassist Ljubomir Pejić (a former Vrisak Generacije member) and drummer Vladimir Cinkocki (a former Goblini
Goblini
Goblini are a Serbian punk rock band from Šabac.- Formation, rise to prominence :...
and Generacija Bez Budućnosti member). With an effective cover done by Talenat and the production done by the band themselves, the band continued working in the same musical direction as on the previous releases. The as the most distinguishable songs from the album were "ABCD avioni" ("ABCD Airplanes") and "Ruža lutanja" ("Rose of Wandering"), the latter featuring a recitative
Recitative
Recitative , also known by its Italian name "recitativo" , is a style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech...
by the conceptual artist Miroslav Mandić, the creator of a project of walking around Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
on foot. During the same year, the song "Nebo, nebo plavo je" appeared on the various artists compilation album Radio Utopia, released by B92.
The following album, the 1996 Ili 5 minuta ispred tebe (If Not 5 Minutes Ahead of You), the band had recorded at the Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
Tarkus studio. Guest appearances on the album featured Zoran Erkman "Zerkman" on trumpet and Ivana Vince on backing vocals. The record label Tarcus, which released the album, also rereleased the compilation album Obojeni program. After the album release, and for the first time since the breakup of former Yugoslavia, the band had performed in Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
. During the same year, the song "Kočnice" ("Breaks") appeared on the Metropolis Records
Metropolis Records (Serbia)
Metropolis Records is a record label based in Belgrade, Serbia.Formed in 1994, the label is mainly oriented towards rock music, and has released albums by a numerous notable acts of the Serbian rock scene.- Artists :...
various artists compilation album Ustani i kreni (Stand up and Go), and the following year, the band appeared on the various artists compilation album Ovo je zemlja za nas?!?, with the song "Dragon".
The fifth studio album Sva sreća general voli decu (Such Good Fortune, the General Loves Children), released in 1999 by B92 and produced by Boye bassist Ilija Vasiljević "Bebec", for which the album cover was designed by the painter Saša Stojanović, featuring an ironical drawing of a child displaying Serbian three-finger salute
Three-finger salute (Serbian)
The three-finger salute is a salute expressing Serbian ethnic nationalism, made by extending the thumb, index, and middle fingers of the right hand...
. The album, consisting of twenty four songs, brought a modernized sound, including samples and dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
remix of the Boye song "Fudbal" ("Football"). The lineup which recorded the album featured the new bassist Zoran Geratović "Gera", backing vocalist Tamara Dobler and drummer Slobodan Levakov "Coba". The album also featured two remixed songs, "Srce srce srce" ("Heart Heart Heart") and "Autobran" ("Cardefence"), done by Smokin' J.
2000s
In 2002, the album Ako nisam dobra, šta ćemo onda? (And What Do We Do If I Am Not Good?), beside the new songs, featured another miniature done by Miroslav Mandić from his book Ruža lutanja (Rose of wandering). The album received a special critical recognition by the famous disc jockeyDisc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
who had included the song "Uživaj u ludilu nekih malih stvari" ("Enjoy in the Madness of Small Things") on the BBC Radio
BBC Radio
BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company...
playlist. During the same year, the song "Reforma u vašoj glavi" ("A Reform in Your Head") appeared on the Metropolis Records various artists compilation Metropolis vol. 2. The following year, the band performed as an opening act for Placebo
Placebo
A placebo is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient...
at the 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...
Sports' Hall
Hala sportova
Hala sportova is a multi-purpose sports arena located in Belgrade municipality of New Belgrade.The venue's actual name is "Palata sportova" , but it is widely known by its informal title - Hala. It was built and opened during 1968...
.
The seventh studio album Da li je to čovek ili je mašina (Do I See a Man or a Machine), released in 2005, was recorded at the former Čista Proza
Čista Proza
Čista Proza was a former Yugoslav New Wave band from Novi Sad, founded by the well-known Serbian producer and sound engineer Milan Ćirić.- History :...
frontman Milan Ćirić "Mile" analogue studio Sing Sing in Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, and during the occasion, the band also held a concert in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
. Beside the seven new tracks, the album also included the remixed versions of the songs, done by both Serbian and foreign authors. The lineup which recorded the album featured Branislav Babić (vocals), Tamara Dobler (backing vocals), Dragan Knežević (guitar), Miloš Romić (groove box machine), and Miloš Rašković (bass). The journalist Brankica Drašković recorded the documentary about the album recording. The following year, Babić appeared in the Jovan Đerić rockumentary
Rockumentary
The term rockumentary is a neologism denoting a documentary about rock music or its musicians. The term was used by Bill Drake in the 1969 History of Rock & Roll radio broadcast, and by Rob Reiner in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap....
Bilo jednom...
Bilo jednom...
Bilo jednom... is a 2006 rockumentary by Serbian filmmakerJovan Đerić. The film's premiere in a packed Arena cinema, was followed by live sets from punk-rock bands Mitesers and Generacija bez budućnosti. The film is about the punk-rock scene of Serbia's second city, Novi Sad, in the first half of...
(Once upon a Time), dealing with the Novi Sad 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...
scene during the 1990s.
After a four-year discography break, the band, featuring Babić, Vladimir Cinkocki (drums), Ilija Vasiljević "Bebec" (bass) and Ljubomir Pejić (bass), started preparing the eight studio album Kosmos u tvom srcu / Igračke se voze levom rukom (Cosmos in Your Heart / Toys Are Driven with the Left Hand), released on June 29, 2009, recorded at the Sing Sing studio in Metslawier
Metslawier
Metslawier is a small village in Dongeradeel in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has around the 920 citizens .About half a mile to the north there is the Ropta-windmill, which is in good operational shape....
, available in LP format in Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
and for free download via the Exit festival record label Exit Music. The album was recorded with Milan Ćirić as the sound engineer and Boris Schmidt as the album producer. The record label Hello Bing, which released the album, also released the 7" single "Ja hoću te" ("I Want You"), a cover of the Boye single, with "981" as the B-side. The single, recorded at the Sing Sing studio on February 2009, was printed in 500 copies only.
After the album release, on September 18 of the same year, the band shared the stage with their idols The Fall, at the Jelen Pivo Live
Jelen Pivo Live
Jelen Pivo Live is a musical festival held since 2006 in order to promote the Apatin brewery brand Jelen pivo. The organizers had the idea gather the finest Serbian rock bands at one place, but the following year beside Serbian bands, foreign acts were also included in the festival lineups.- 2006...
festival, held at the Belgrade SKC
Studentski kulturni centar
Studentski Kulturni Centar , abbreviated as "SKC", is a cultural centre in Belgrade, Serbia.The center opened in 1971 in the building that had up to that point been used by state security agency UDBA. The opening of SKC was seen by many as the communist regime's concession to the youth of Belgrade...
.
Legacy
The song "Nebo, nebo plavo je" ("The Sky, the Sky Is Blue") appeared on the 45th place of the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs, polled by the Radio B92 listeners in 2006.Studio albums
- Najvažnije je biti zdrav (1990)
- Ovaj zid stoji krivo (1991)
- Verujem ti jer smo isti (1994)
- Ili 5 minuta ispred tebe (1996)
- Sva sreća general voli decu (1999)
- Ako nisam dobra, šta ćemo onda? (2002)
- Da li je to čovek ili je mašina (2005)
- Kosmos u tvom srcu / Igračke se voze levom rukom (2009)
Other appearances
- "Kad bi malo (7x) mozak stao" (Omladina '89, 1989)
- "Nebo, nebo plavo je" (Radio Utopia, 1994)
- "Kočnice" (Ustani i kreni, 1996)
- "Dragon" (Ovo Je Zemlja Za Nas?!?, 1997)
- "Reforma u vašoj glavi" (Metropolis vol.2, 2002)
Videography
- Drugi talas (1983)
- Prvo tromesečje Pavla Hromiša (1983)
- Kako se kalio čelik (1988)
- Kad se neko nečem dobrom nada (2001)
- Da li je to čovek ili je mašina (2005)
- Bilo jednom...Bilo jednom...Bilo jednom... is a 2006 rockumentary by Serbian filmmakerJovan Đerić. The film's premiere in a packed Arena cinema, was followed by live sets from punk-rock bands Mitesers and Generacija bez budućnosti. The film is about the punk-rock scene of Serbia's second city, Novi Sad, in the first half of...
(2006)
External links
- Official website
- Obojeni Program at MyspaceMyspaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Obojeni Program at FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
- Obojeni Program at YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- Pbpjeni Program at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Obojeni Program at Rateyourmusic
- Obojeni Program at Last.fmLast.fmLast.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....
- Obojeni Program at B92.fm