BILI SMO RAJA

This album seems to be dedicated to popular acts of the so-called "Sarajevo Pop School" of the former Yugoslavia. This scene has been characterized by highly commercial, chart-topping sounds of pop, pop-rock and pop-folk styles since the early 1970s. Here we have cover versions of the hits by Merlin, Kemal Monteno, Zdravko Colic, Indexi, Plavi Orkestar, Halid Beslic, Crvena Jabuka and the likes. Not only that this is nowhere near the progressive rock music, but the performances of these mediocre hits are too pedestrian, too safe and even outright bad in a sleazy way. If the previous album by TESKA INDUSTRIJA was somewhat fresh in adding the female vocals and modern arrangements to the radio-friendly (or Youtube-friendly) adult-contemporary pop-rock sound, this album whose title translates as "We Were Buddies" is a real flop! You can safely avoid this poor disc.