Kost u grlu

There was something about Riblja Corba that we need to talk about. How does one band, whose sound is rooted in blues, and hard rock, become relevant across the 80s, selling out stadiums left and right, becoming the darlings of critics and listeners alike?

It's still a mystery to me, but I guess it had to do with a darker presence of the band itself, and I'm not talking about voodoo or anything. Yugoslavia lacked a harder sounding band that didn't fiddle with glam aesthetics, so Riblja Corba fit right in there as a band for those macho men who never were into more "colorful" hard rock like Smak and Bijelo Dugme, but into blues and drinking the bitter booze.

Bora had that vocal of a 50 something year old drunkard, and the band followed with a crude rendition of some of their early 70s idols. It's great, albeit a bit late to matter in the grander scheme of things, though you could make a gymnastic pirouette and declare it to be punk, and in a way it is: something different from the norm with fair amounts of criticism. So there's your answer to the question in the beginning.