Rocker (album)
Encyclopedia
Rocker is the third studio album by Serbia
n heavy metal
band Kraljevski Apartman
. For the first time in the band's history, an official keyboard player was brought in substituting the second guitar. The band presented a heavy but at the same time a melodic approach to their music with heavy-riff
songs and power ballads. The band recorded eleven new songs plus one bonus track from Labyrinth movie soundtrack. The album featured ballad "Dama iz kraljevskog apartmana" which became their stamp for the future, "Ranjena zver" (for which the band recorded a promotional video), glam metal
-oriented "Vino, viski i Rock 'n' Roll" and "Za ljubav ne treba da moliš" which became classics and considered unskipable on live appearances. The track "Niemansland" was written in German language
and Zdravković provided the vocals. This is the first Kraljevski Apartman track on foreign language and not sang by Lalović.
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 heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band Kraljevski Apartman
Kraljevski Apartman
Kraljevski Apartman is a Serbian heavy metal band from Belgrade.-Apartman 69:...
. For the first time in the band's history, an official keyboard player was brought in substituting the second guitar. The band presented a heavy but at the same time a melodic approach to their music with heavy-riff
RIFF
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songs and power ballads. The band recorded eleven new songs plus one bonus track from Labyrinth movie soundtrack. The album featured ballad "Dama iz kraljevskog apartmana" which became their stamp for the future, "Ranjena zver" (for which the band recorded a promotional video), glam metal
Glam metal
Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...
-oriented "Vino, viski i Rock 'n' Roll" and "Za ljubav ne treba da moliš" which became classics and considered unskipable on live appearances. The track "Niemansland" was written in German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and Zdravković provided the vocals. This is the first Kraljevski Apartman track on foreign language and not sang by Lalović.
Track listing
All songs were written by Zoran Zdravković except where noted.- "Ranjena zver" - 4:06
- "Ne traži milost" - 5:32
- "Rocker" - 2:24
- "Znam da život kratko traje" - 3:57
- "Dama iz kraljevskog apartmana" - 3:56
- "Za ljubav ne treba da moliš" - 5:54
- "Nije sve crno" - 3:11
- "Neću da stanem na pola puta" - 4:11
- "Vino, viski i Rock 'n' Roll" - 3:43
- "Niemandsland" (R. Schreiner, Z. Zdravković) - 2:39
- "Crni konjanici" (M. MilatovićVicko MilatovicMiroslav "Vicko" Milatović is a Serbian musician best known as the drummer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Early career:...
, Z. Zdravković) - 2:55
Bonus tracks
- "U lavirintu sedam greha" (Bonus track from the Labyrinth movie soundtrack) - 4:12
Personnel
- Zoran Lalović - vocals
- Zoran Zdravković - guitar
- Zoran Rončević - drums
- Marko Nikolić - bass
- Dejan Đorđević - keyboards