Odbrana i poslednji dani
album by Idoli
Odbrana i poslednji dani (Serbian Cyrillic: Одбрана и последњи дани 'The Defense and the Last Days') is the first studio album by Yugoslav new wave band Idoli released in 1982.
Džuboks magazine critics voted the album the greatest Yugoslav rock album of the 20th century in 1985. The album was polled in 1998 as Yugoslav greatest popular music album 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, Odbrana i poslednji dani was polled the greatest Yugoslav rock album in the special edition of Croatian Rolling Stone.
Overview
The band started recording their first album during autumn 1981. The record was originally supposed to be produced by the band members themselves with the assistance of Dušan "Spira" Mihajlović; however, Mihajlović soon left the recording sessions, so the album was produced with the help from Mile "Pile" Miletić and Goran Vejvoda. The band's initial plan was an album dealing with religion and tradition, which was seen as potentially provocative due to multiple aspects of these topics still being a taboo in communist Yugoslavia's public sphere at the time. This was the first release that included a lineup change as Kokan Popović (who played with Vlada Divljan and Zdenko Kolar in Zvuk Ulice) now joined Idoli as their new drummer.
The record was named after Borislav Pekić's 1977 novella Odbrana i poslednji dani.
Entering the studio, the band members still weren't entirely clear on what they wanted to do, either stylistically or musically.
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