Prljavi inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi
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Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi (Serbian Cyrillic: Прљави Инспектор Блажа и Кљунови, trans. Dirty Inspector Blaža and Honchos) is a Serbia
n rock
band from Belgrade
.
), Aleksandar Karadžič (guitar), Dejan Resanović (bass guitar
) and Vojin Šurašinović (drums
). At the beginning of the 1980s, Blažević was the leader of the New Wave
band Fiskulturno Lane. He started using his pseudonym at the end of 1991 when he became a radio host at Radio Pingvin.
In the beginning, the band performed mostly at the Belgrade club Prostor and Klub Studenata Tehnike. Most of the songs they performed were hits by former Yugoslav rock bands, but their main hit was Blažević's song "Dule Savić" (referring to former football player Dušan Savić
). Blažević often performed striptease
on stage and communicated with the members of the audience, and the band soon became one of Belgrade's most popular club bands, so they self-released the recording of their concert in Klub Studenata Tehnike held on April 14, 1994 on the audio cassette Igra rokenrol SR Jugoslavija (FR Yugoslavia Is Dancing to Rock and Roll, referring to Električni Orgazam
hit "Igra rock 'n' roll cela Jugoslavija"). The album featured covers of songs by Azra
, Zabranjeno Pušenje
, Riblja Čorba
, Prljavo Kazalište
, Bijelo Dugme
, Plavi Orkestar
, but also by Blažević's former band Fiskulturno Lane. Panta, leader of the alternative rock
band Šiklja Nafta, and Drakula, leader of the punk rock
band Direktori
appeared on the concert as guests. During the same year, on May 25, Blažević organized a Youth Day celebration at the club Prostor which featured all the elements of rock culture from the socialist times.
In October 1996, the band released their first studio album entitled Plagijati i obrade (Plagiarism and Covers) which featured covers of Jadranka Stojaković
's "Čekala sam", Elvis J Kurtović's "Da bog da crk'o rokenrol (kad ga svako svira)", Mile Lojpur
's "Šumadijski tvist", the former featuring Lojpur on vocals. The album also featured new versions of Fiskulturno Lane songs "Vive Le France" and "Nema problema", the latter featuring Miško Petrović "Plavi" on keyboards. Plagijati i obrade also featured singer Marija Mihajlović and the members of Irish folk/Celtic rock
band Orthodox Celts
as guest musicians. After the album was released, Milutin Petrović left the band and was replaced by Sale Šofer. In 1998, before the beginning of the 1998 FIFA World Cup
, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi recorded the song "Alez Yugoslavia", which was, alongside other football chant
s, released on the compilation album Navijačke pesme '98.
In 1998 the band released their second studio album Seks, droga i Bodiroga (Sex, Drugs, Bodiroga, referring to basketball player Dejan Bodiroga
). Blažević decided to name the album Seks, droga i Bodiroga, having seen this written as a graffiti
, after FR Yugoslavia won the gold medal at the 1998 FIBA World Championship
. The album featured hits "Dule Savić 3", "Arigo Saki bluz" (which featured several lines from Riblja Čorba
's "Evo ti za taksi" lyrics), "Lepa si Pamela" (dedicated to Pamela Anderson
), "O kako gi sakam parite" (sung in Macedonian language
) and the title track. This album featured only two covers, "24 000 baci" and an unplugged version of Azra
song "Balkan" (Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi version titled "Balkan anplagd"), the former being the recording of Blažević's performance at the 1994 unplugged festival in Belgrade's Sava Centar. Blažević and other members of the band soon formed the record label Kljun records, intending to release albums by bands from other former Yugoslav republics.
for Puši ga Blažo!, trans. Suck It, Blaža!) which was recorded at the band performance in Studentski kulturni centar
. In 2002, the band released Pare ne vraćamo (We Won't Give Money Back) which featured songs in the similar comedy rock
style as on the previous band releases, with songs referring to James Bond
, Anna Kournikova
and Pamela Anderson. The album featured guest appearances by YU grupa
member Dragi Jelić
, on vocals in "To je samo rock 'n' roll", and Eyesburn
members Aleksandar Petrović "Alek", flute
on "Zvuci rodnog kraja" and tambourine
on "Sunce tuđeg neba (ne greje k'o naše)", and Hornsman Coyote
, trombone
on "Anna Kournikova". The song "Častan policajac" featured lyrics written by Riblja Čorba
frontman Bora Đorđević. In 2007 the band released the live album Samo Supermen Srbiju spašava (Only Superman
Saves the Serbs
, a parody of Serbian motto Samo sloga Srbina spasava). The album was recorded on December 8, 2006 in Coupe club in Pančevo
, and featured three studio songs as bonus tracks: "Nisam dijamant", "Obećo si mito (Blažo bekrijo)" (a cover of Azra
's version of song "Mito bekrijo" by folk music
singer Hanka Paldum
), and "Vranjanka".
which at the time had played at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
. In 2011, the recording of the band's performance at the 2010 Belgrade Beer Fest
was released on the DVD LIVE@Belgrade Beer Fest 2010. The DVD contains 17 songs, and all the funds raised from the album sale are dedicated to the Assembly of the City of Belgrade action Beogradski bebi klub (Belgrade Baby Club). In October 2011, the band released the song "Živele žene" ("Viva Women"), a cover of Elvis Presley
song "Viva Las Vegas
", and the video for the song.
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 rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band from 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...
.
1990s
The band was formed at the beginning of 1994 by Igor Blažević (also known as Prljavi Inspektor Blaža, Dirty Inspector Blaža, vocals), "Gazda" Milutin Petrović (guitarElectric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
), Aleksandar Karadžič (guitar), Dejan Resanović (bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
) and Vojin Šurašinović (drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
). At the beginning of the 1980s, Blažević was the leader of 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...
band Fiskulturno Lane. He started using his pseudonym at the end of 1991 when he became a radio host at Radio Pingvin.
In the beginning, the band performed mostly at the Belgrade club Prostor and Klub Studenata Tehnike. Most of the songs they performed were hits by former Yugoslav rock bands, but their main hit was Blažević's song "Dule Savić" (referring to former football player Dušan Savić
Dušan Savic
Dušan "Dule" Savić is a Serbian former football player.He started playing football in the local side Jedinstvo Ub in his home town.-Club career:...
). Blažević often performed striptease
Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
on stage and communicated with the members of the audience, and the band soon became one of Belgrade's most popular club bands, so they self-released the recording of their concert in Klub Studenata Tehnike held on April 14, 1994 on the audio cassette Igra rokenrol SR Jugoslavija (FR Yugoslavia Is Dancing to Rock and Roll, referring to 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 :...
hit "Igra rock 'n' roll cela Jugoslavija"). The album featured covers of songs by 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...
, Zabranjeno Pušenje
Zabranjeno pušenje
Zabranjeno Pušenje is a Yugoslavian garage rock band from Sarajevo, closely associated with the New primitivism cultural movement and the radio and television satire show Top Lista Nadrealista...
, Riblja Čorba
Riblja Corba
Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...
, 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,...
, Bijelo Dugme
Bijelo dugme
Bijelo dugme was a highly influential former Yugoslav rock band, based in Sarajevo. Active between 1974 and 1989, it is widely considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav rock...
, Plavi Orkestar
Plavi orkestar
Plavi orkestar is one of the most popular bands from former Yugoslavia. The band was founded in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1983.The band has remained popular to the present day with 8 albums and more than 3500 concerts worldwide...
, but also by Blažević's former band Fiskulturno Lane. Panta, leader of the 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 Šiklja Nafta, and Drakula, leader of the 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...
band Direktori
Direktori
Direktori is a Serbian oi! punk/ska group from Belgrade.-1989 – 1999:During the spring of 1989, vocalist Nebojša Drakula, with the former Varšavski Geto member Miroslav Pilipović "Trta" on guitar, former Pogrebni Zavod member Srđan Marić on bass guitar and former Hogari member Dragan "Rale"...
appeared on the concert as guests. During the same year, on May 25, Blažević organized a Youth Day celebration at the club Prostor which featured all the elements of rock culture from the socialist times.
In October 1996, the band released their first studio album entitled Plagijati i obrade (Plagiarism and Covers) which featured covers of Jadranka Stojaković
Jadranka Stojakovic
Jadranka Stojaković is a Bosnian singer-songwriter popular in the former Yugoslavia, known for her unique, beautiful voice...
's "Čekala sam", Elvis J Kurtović's "Da bog da crk'o rokenrol (kad ga svako svira)", Mile Lojpur
Mile Lojpur
Milan "Mile" Lojpur was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock musician, arguably the first Serbian, Yugoslav rock and roll musician.-Biography:...
's "Šumadijski tvist", the former featuring Lojpur on vocals. The album also featured new versions of Fiskulturno Lane songs "Vive Le France" and "Nema problema", the latter featuring Miško Petrović "Plavi" on keyboards. Plagijati i obrade also featured singer Marija Mihajlović and the members of Irish folk/Celtic rock
Celtic rock
Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock and a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context...
band Orthodox Celts
Orthodox Celts
Orthodox Celts is a Serbian band which plays Irish folk music combined with rock elements. Despite their unusual sound the band is one of the top acts of the Serbian rock scene and has influenced several younger bands, most notably Tir na n'Og and Irish Stew of Sindidun.The band started their...
as guest musicians. After the album was released, Milutin Petrović left the band and was replaced by Sale Šofer. In 1998, before the beginning of the 1998 FIFA World Cup
1998 FIFA World Cup
The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th FIFA World Cup, was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. France was chosen as host nation by FIFA on 2 July 1992. The tournament was won by France, who beat Brazil 3-0 in the final...
, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi recorded the song "Alez Yugoslavia", which was, alongside other football chant
Football chant
A football chant or terrace chant, is a song or chant sung at association football matches. They can be historic, dating back to the formation of the club, adaptations of popular songs, or spontaneous reactions to events on the pitch. They are one of the last remaining sources of an oral folk song...
s, released on the compilation album Navijačke pesme '98.
In 1998 the band released their second studio album Seks, droga i Bodiroga (Sex, Drugs, Bodiroga, referring to basketball player Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....
). Blažević decided to name the album Seks, droga i Bodiroga, having seen this written as a graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
, after FR Yugoslavia won the gold medal at the 1998 FIBA World Championship
1998 FIBA World Championship
The 1998 FIBA World Championship was the 13th FIBA World Championship, an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation and hosted in Athens, Greece from July 29 to August 9, 1998...
. The album featured hits "Dule Savić 3", "Arigo Saki bluz" (which featured several lines from Riblja Čorba
Riblja Corba
Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...
's "Evo ti za taksi" lyrics), "Lepa si Pamela" (dedicated to Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990...
), "O kako gi sakam parite" (sung in Macedonian language
Macedonian language
Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
) and the title track. This album featured only two covers, "24 000 baci" and an unplugged version of 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...
song "Balkan" (Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi version titled "Balkan anplagd"), the former being the recording of Blažević's performance at the 1994 unplugged festival in Belgrade's Sava Centar. Blažević and other members of the band soon formed the record label Kljun records, intending to release albums by bands from other former Yugoslav republics.
2000s
In 2000, the band released the live album Shipu ga Žobla! (anagramAnagram
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who...
for Puši ga Blažo!, trans. Suck It, Blaža!) which was recorded at the band performance in Studentski kulturni centar
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...
. In 2002, the band released Pare ne vraćamo (We Won't Give Money Back) which featured songs in the similar comedy rock
Comedy rock
Comedy rock is rock music mixed with comedy, often satire and parody.-History:Early USA examples include Stan Freberg, who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose "Purple People Eater" reached No...
style as on the previous band releases, with songs referring to James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
, Anna Kournikova
Anna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name...
and Pamela Anderson. The album featured guest appearances by YU grupa
YU grupa
YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....
member Dragi Jelić
Dragi Jelić
Dragi Jelić is a Serbian rock musician, best known as a singer and guitarist for the band YU grupa, which he formed in 1970 with his brother Zika Jelić. During the 1960s, alongside his brother Žika, he was a member of the beat band Džentlmeni.-References:...
, on vocals in "To je samo rock 'n' roll", and Eyesburn
Eyesburn
Eyesburn is a Serbian hardcore punk/crossover thrash band with influences of reggae music.- 1990s :The band was formed in 1994, and the original line-up featured former Dead Ideas guitarist Nemanja "Kojot" Kojić , who simultaneously worked as trombonist in Del Arno Band and bass guitarist in...
members Aleksandar Petrović "Alek", flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
on "Zvuci rodnog kraja" and tambourine
Tambourine
The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
on "Sunce tuđeg neba (ne greje k'o naše)", and Hornsman Coyote
Hornsman Coyote
Nemanja Kojić , better known by his stage name Hornsman Coyote , is a Reggae/Dub musician of Serbian descent.- Personal life :Coyote resides in Belgrade...
, trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
on "Anna Kournikova". The song "Častan policajac" featured lyrics written by Riblja Čorba
Riblja Corba
Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...
frontman Bora Đorđević. In 2007 the band released the live album Samo Supermen Srbiju spašava (Only Superman
Superman
Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
Saves the Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
, a parody of Serbian motto Samo sloga Srbina spasava). The album was recorded on December 8, 2006 in Coupe club in Pančevo
Pancevo
Pančevo is a city and municipality located in the southern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina, 15 km northeast from Belgrade. In 2002, the city had a total population of 77,087, while municipality of Pančevo had 127,162 inhabitants. It is the administrative center of the South Banat...
, and featured three studio songs as bonus tracks: "Nisam dijamant", "Obećo si mito (Blažo bekrijo)" (a cover of 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...
's version of song "Mito bekrijo" by folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
singer Hanka Paldum
Hanka Paldum
Hanka Paldum is a popular Bosniak folk and sevdah singer. She is regarded as one of the best female sevdah performers of all time, and has diva status in her home country. She is a star that has been shining for the last three decades with full intensity at the very top of the sky above Bosnia...
), and "Vranjanka".
2010s
In 2010, the band recorded the single "Alez 2010", a rerecorded version of the song "Alez Yugoslavia" featuring altered lyrics and song title, dedicated to the Serbia national football teamSerbia national football team
The Serbia national football team represents Serbia in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia, the governing body for football in Serbia. Serbia's home ground is Stadion Crvena Zvezda in Belgrade and their last head coach was Vladimir Petrović...
which at the time had played at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...
. In 2011, the recording of the band's performance at the 2010 Belgrade Beer Fest
Belgrade Beer Fest
Belgrade Beer Fest is an annual festival of beer in Belgrade, Serbia. Started in 2003, the festival is held annually over 4 to 5 days as a showcase event for various beer producers. In addition to domestic and foreign brews, the festival features live music performances each evening...
was released on the DVD LIVE@Belgrade Beer Fest 2010. The DVD contains 17 songs, and all the funds raised from the album sale are dedicated to the Assembly of the City of Belgrade action Beogradski bebi klub (Belgrade Baby Club). In October 2011, the band released the song "Živele žene" ("Viva Women"), a cover of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
song "Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas is a 1964 American romantic musical movie starring music icon Elvis Presley and actress/dancer Ann-Margret. This movie is regarded by many fans of these actors and by film critics as one of Presley's best movies, and it is noted for the apparent on-screen chemistry between Presley...
", and the video for the song.
Studio albums
- Plagijati i obrade (1996)
- Seks, droga i Bodiroga (1998)
- Pare ne vraćamo (2002)
Live albums
- Igra rokenrol SR Jugoslavija (1995)
- Shipu ga Žobla! (2000)
- Samo Supermen Srbiju spašava (2007)