Dozivjeti Stotu

11Jul09

My dad went to a conference in Yugoslavia when I was a kid, probably
in 1984.  Somebody told him that people in the Eastern Bloc were
starved for designer jeans and U.S. rock records, so he carried over a suitcase
of jeans and records to give as presents.  Who knows about the rest of
the Warsaw Pact, but it turned out Yugoslavia was lousy with cheap
Levi’s knockoffs and cheap bootleg tapes, and his gifts were accepted
coolly, when at all.  Anyway, he brought me back two cassettes by
Yugoslav rock sensation Bijelo Dugme.  The standout track was “Dozivjeti
Stotu,” and here it is on YouTube, a classic piece of late-Communist
new wave.  Favorite things about this:  the way they say “Ni ni ni ni
ni” where an Anglophone band would say “la la la la la” or “na na na
na na”.   The part where they say “No sex no drugs no rock and roll”
in heavily Serbo-Croatized English.  And the excellent hair-smoothing
and guitar-swinging in almost every frame.

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