''Buvlja pijaca'' (trans. ''

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, released in 1982. The album is the second Riblja Čorba album produced by John McCoy. It featured a softer sound than previous Riblja Čorba releases, as some of the songs featured

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. The album was polled in 1998 as the 64th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book '' YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike'' (''YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music'').

Album cover

The album cover features the iconic ''

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and is the only Riblja Čorba cover which does not feature their logo.

Track listing

Personnel

Bora Đorđević Borisav "Bora" Đorđević ( sr-Cyrl, Борисав, Бора Ђорђевић; 1 November 1952 – 4 September 2024), also known as Bora Čorba ( sr-Cyrl, Бора Чорба), was a Serbian singer-songwriter and poet. He was best known as th ...

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Rajko Kojić Radislav "Rajko" Kojić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радислав-Рајко Којић; 12 April 1956 – 11 April 1997) was a Serbian guitarist best known for his work with band Riblja Čorba. Biography Rajko Kojić was born on 12 April 1956 in J ...

- guitar *

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- guitar *

Miša Aleksić Miroslav "Miša" Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Миша Алексић, 16 August 1953 — 29 November 2020) was a Serbian musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba. Bio ...

- bass guitar *

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- drums

Additional personnel

Kornelije Kovač Kornelije "Bata" Kovač ( sr-Cyrl, Корнелије "Бата" Ковач, ; ; 1 January 1942 – 13 September 2022) was a Serbian composer. Early life Born in Niš during World War II in the Nazi-occupied Serbia to a Hungarian father an ...

- keyboard *Rešad Jahja - cello *Petar Jovanović - cello *Miroljub Aranđelović - clarinet *Miroslav Blažević - trumpet *Asan Selimović - tuba *Miomir Maksimčev - viola *Petar Mladenović - viola *Geza Balaž - violin *Gordana Todorović - violin *Miloš Lazarević - violin *Miroljub Milošević - violin *Stojan Grbić - violin *Žarko Mićković - violin * John McCoy - producer *Tony Taverner - recorded by *Jovan Stojanović - engineer

Reception and legacy

The album brought a number of hit songs: ironic love songs such as "Draga ne budi peder", "U dva će čistači odneti đubre", "Dobro jutro" plus political and satirical songs "Slušaj sine, obriši sline", "Kako je lepo biti glup" (inspired by Đorđević's service in

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), "Pravila, pravila", "Kad ti se na glavu sruši čitav svet" and "Ja ratujem sam". It sold more than 250,000 copies, which was less than expected, considering the sales of previous records. The songs "U dva će čistači odneti đubre", "Kad ti se na glavu sruši čitav svet", "Ja ratujem sam", "Pravila, pravila", "Kako je lepo biti glup" and "Dobro jutro" appeared in Mića Milošević's 1982 movie '' A Tight Spot''. In 1998, ''Buvlja pijaca'' was polled the 64th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book '' YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike'' (''YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music''). In 2015 ''Buvlja pijaca'' album cover was ranked 57th on the list of 100 Greatest Album Covers of Yugoslav Rock published by

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References

''Buvlja pijaca'' at Discogs
* ''EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006'', Janjatović Petar; * ''Riblja čorba'', Jakovljević Mirko;

External links

''Buvlja pijaca'' at Discogs
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