Bijelo dugme (album)

Bijelo dugme
Studio album by Bijelo dugme
Released	December 1984
Recorded	Studio I, RTV Sarajevo Studio IV, RTV Zagreb Studio RTV Skopje Studio Akvarijus, Belgrade[1]
Genre	Arena rock AOR Heavy metal Pop rock Melodic rock
Length	39:07
Label	Diskoton, Kamarad
Producer	Goran Bregović
Bijelo dugme chronology
Sanjao sam noćas da te nemam (Velike rock balade) (1984) Bijelo dugme (Kosovka djevojka) (1984) Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo (1986)

Bijelo dugme (unofficially known as Kosovka djevojka) is the seventh studio album released by Yugoslav rock group Bijelo dugme. Due to Bijelo dugme's usage of the famous painting by Uroš Predić for the album's cover the most widely used name for the album is Kosovka djevojka (Kosovo Maiden), despite it officially being a self-titled album. This was the most successful Bijelo Dugme album by then, selling more than 5.000.000 copies.^{[citation needed]}

Kosovka djevojka marks the return of folk music elements most prominent on "Lipe cvatu, sve je isto k'o i lani" and oriental on "Za Esmu".

The album produced by Goran Bregović was recorded at several locations with Mufid Kosović and Milka Gerasimova as sound engineers. Bora Đorđević, frontman of the rock band Riblja Čorba made a guest appearance in the song "Pediculis pubis" (wrong transcription of Pediculosis pubis), having co-written it with Goran Bregović (Bregović would, in return, make a guest appearance on Riblja Čorba 1985 album Istina, singing with Đorđević in the song "Disko mišić"). Other guest appearances included, the Croatian folk group Ladarice, the Macedonian gajda (bagpipe) player Pece Atanasovski and the folk instruments orchestra of the Radio-Television Skopje and Sonja Beran - Leskovšek who played the harp.^[1]

It was the group's first album since the departure of former frontman Željko Bebek who was replaced by Mladen "Tifa" Vojičić. Despite his talents, Tifa's stint as Bijelo Dugme's lead singer would be a short one, due to personality clashes, lack of professionalism, and drug and alcohol abuse causing friction between Tifa and the other band members, particularly Goran Bregović who would go on to fire Tifa in October 1985.

Track listing

All songs written by Goran Bregović, except "Hej, Slaveni" by Samuel Tomášik and "Pediculis Pubis" by Bora Đorđević and Goran Bregović.

1. "Hej, Slaveni" (Hey, Slavs)^[2] - 1:33
2. "Padaju zvijezde" (The Stars Are Falling) - 4:41
3. "Meni se ne spava" (I'm Not Sleepy) - 4:44
4. "Za Esmu" (For Esma) - 4:17
5. "Jer kad ostariš" (Because When You Grow Old) - 5:42
6. "Lipe cvatu, sve je isto k'o i lani" (Linden Trees Blossom, Everything Is Just Like Last Year) - 4:01
7. "Pediculis pubis" - 4:28
8. "Aiaio radi radio" (Aiaio, The Radio Works) - 2:55
9. "Lažeš" (You're Lying) - 3:47
10. "Da te bogdo ne volim" (If I Could Only Not Love You) - 5:12

Personnel

• Goran Bregović - guitar
• Mladen Vojičić Tifa - vocals
• Zoran Redžić - bass
• Ipe Ivandić - drums
• Vlado Pravdić - keyboard

Additional personnel

• Liner notes on the album's inner record sleeve^[1]
• Folk group Ladarice, Zagreb - backing vocals
• Pece Atanasovski - gajda on track 6
• Orkestar na narodni instrumenti of Radio-Television Skopje - Macedonian folk instruments on track 6
• Bora Đorđević - vocal on track 7
• Sonja Beran - Leskovšek - harp on track 10

Footnotes

The Official Website: http://www.kadbibiobijelodugme.com