YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike explained

YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
Author:Duško Antonić, Danilo Štrbac
Country:FR Yugoslavia
Language:Serbian
Published:1998 (YU Rock Press)
Pages:104 pages
Oclc:= 81276585

YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (trans. YU 100: the Greatest Yugoslav Rock and Pop Music Albums) is a book by Duško Antonić and Danilo Štrbac, published in 1998.[1] It features a list of top 100 former Yugoslav popular music albums, formed according to the poll of 70 Serbian music critics, journalists, artists and others.[2] [3]

Statistics

Artists with the most albums

Record labels by the number of albums

Producers with the most albums

Voters

The voters were music critics, journalists, artists closely associated to the former Yugoslav popular music scene, and others. There are only several musicians among them. Each of them suggested ten former Yugoslav popular music albums he considers the greatest, and the second part of the book features short biographies of every one of them, and each one's choice of ten albums. The list was completed according to their suggestions.[4] The voters were:

Book cover

The book cover was inspired by the cover of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It features rock and pop musicians Josipa Lisac, Bebi Dol, Nele Karajlić, Oliver Mandić, Marina Perazić, Branimir Štulić, Slađana Milošević and Dado Topić, Đorđe Marjanović, Dušan Kojić, Arsen Dedić, Đorđe Balašević, Viktorija, Kornelije Kovač, Zoran Miščević, Goran Bregović, Žika and Dragi Jelić, Oliver Dragojević and Mišo Kovač, Zdravko Čolić (in the Yugoslav People's Army uniform, from a photograph taken during his army service), Bora Đorđević (in a uniform similar to the ones The Beatles members are wearing on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), and Momčilo Bajagić. The album cover also features the White Angel, Saint Sava, football player Dragan Džajić, bodybuilder Petar Čelik and his wife Irena (from the cover of Laboratorija Zvuka album Telo), actor Zoran Radmilović (in the role of King Ubu), scientist Nikola Tesla, film director Emir Kusturica, basketball player Vlade Divac, folk musician Toma Zdravković, Romani musician Šaban Bajramović, actors Dragan Nikolić and Milena Dravić (from the time of their hit TV show Obraz uz obraz), and a bust of the former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito.

Reactions

Džoni Štulić

In his 2010 book Smijurijada, former Azra frontman Branimir Štulić commented on the book:

Srđan "Gile" Gojković

In a 2011 interview for Večernje novosti, Električni Orgazam frontman Srđan Gojković "Gile", commented on the fact that Električni Orgazam albums Distorzija and Kako bubanj kaže came in at No.24 and No.73, respectively:

Zdenko Kolar

In 2013, for the book's 15th anniversary, Balkanrock.com webzine interviewed some of the musicians whose work made the list. Zdenko Kolar (who played on Idoli albums Odbrana i poslednji dani and VIS Idoli, ranked No.1 and No.71 respectively, as well as on the split album Paket aranžman, ranked No.2) stated:

Vedad Hadžiabdić

In the same online piece, Teška Industrija guitarist, whose album Teška Industrija was ranked No.95, stated:

Nikola Čuturilo "Čutura"

Further on in the same piece, Nikola Čuturilo (whose solo album 9 lakih komada was ranked No.99 and who played on Riblja Čorba albums Istina and Osmi nervni slom, ranked No.43 and No.83 respectively) stated:

100 Best Serbian Albums Published after the Breakup of SFRY

In 2021 Antonić published the book Kako (ni)je propao rokenrol u Srbiji (How Rock 'n' Roll in Serbia (Didn't) Came to an End). Besides Antonić's essays on Serbian rock scene, the book also features a list of 100 best Serbian rock albums published after the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia. The list was formed according to a poll of 58 Serbian music journalists, critics, artists and others related to Serbian rock scene, conducted in a similar way to the poll in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://secanja.com/top-ex-yu-muzickih-albuma-2/ "YU 100 Najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rock i pop muzike", secanja.com
  2. http://secanja.com/top-ex-yu-muzickih-albuma-2/ "YU 100 Najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rock i pop muzike", secanja.com
  3. http://www.yurope.com/nasa-borba/arhiva/Mar98/2503/2503_35.HTM "YU 100: NAJBOLJI ALBUMI JUGOSLOVENSKE ROK I POP MUZIKE: Anketom do liste", Naša Borba, March 25, 1998
  4. http://secanja.com/top-ex-yu-muzickih-albuma-2/ "YU 100 Najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rock i pop muzike", secanja.com
  5. Book: Antonić, Duško. Kako (ni)je propao rokenrol u Srbiji. 2021. Take It Or Leave It. Belgrade. 151–152.