Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Azra: Singl ploce 1979-1982


Here's another favourite band of mine from ex Yugoslavia: Azra were one of the most popular rock groups of the yugoslavian new wave (if not THE most popular), and even today, fiteen years after their break up, they are something more than a cult not only in Croatia (they came from Zagreb) but also in the rest of the Balkans. 
This album is a compilation with their first singles, spanning from 1979 to 1982 and it contains also music prior to their first eponymous album (1980). It's probably not their best release but it's a very good introduction.
And for those who don't know a thing about yugoslav new rock and about Branimir "Johnny" Štulić (the leader of Azra and now a kind of mysterious exiled artist, totally unwilling to come back to his former country, if you can call it so after the war in the nineties), I'd urge you to view this nice documentary, "Sretno djete", about the Zagreb scene in the eighties (with english subtitles).

This is one of the songs from the compilation. With english translation of the lyrics (from LyricsTranslate).


A šta da radim (And what should I do)

And what should i do
When my friends leave
When a girl leaves
On which I throw my gazes.
And so day by day
On public places with a guitar
Ofcourse someone always comes
to hear me at least furtively
Nothing is important to me anymore
I found a good band
I only want to play
To get my kicks and that's all.
And what should i do
When my friends leave
When a girl leaves
On which I throw my gazes.
People just talk
Why are you so nervous?
People just say
Don't be so horrible.
Human lips whisper
sneak through the city
Stay out of trouble
They will take your head off.
Nothing is important for to me anymore
I found a good band
I only want to play
To get my kicks and that's all.
And what should i do
When my friends leave
When a girl leaves
On which I throw my gazes.
Instrumental
Nothing is important to me anymore
I found a good band
I only want to play
To get my kicks and that's all
To get my kicks and that's all
To get my kicks and that's all