Bloodstains across Yugoslavia

[red_menace]

This one (Yugo) is my favorite Bloodstains! I have a bunch! BUt thanks for heads up to the comunity... PFFT!

[vint]

Truth be told, I don't care much for Yugoslavian punk myself. I like to hear it on occasion (to refresh my memory), but I'd never buy any of it myself. It's got too western of a sound for me, yet the fact that it is not western makes it sound awkward to me. Instead of it coming off as something unique and all it's own, it reminds me of those cheap and weird USA brand jeans I'd see in Russia, or the USA cigerettes I used to buy from the kiosk.

I'd rather listen to Laibach.

[frankie teardrop]

It's got too western of a sound for me,

haha. That is exactly why I was dissapointed with the comp. NO surprises. Just the same Western sound. It could have been great and unique. But it is not. I remember reading this description of Pekinska Patka from a Yugo. He said, "Popular for their Western style sound." Laughed and realized they must be boring. They are.

[Scrod Prickknee]

You're boring.

[Maltodextrin]

It's got too western of a sound for me,

haha. That is exactly why I was dissapointed with the comp. NO surprises. Just the same Western sound. It could have been great and unique. But it is not. I remember reading this description of Pekinska Patka from a Yugo. He said, "Popular for their Western style sound." Laughed and realized they must be boring. They are.

It's rock'n'roll, what did you expect?  How is it inherently more "boring" for a Yugoslavian band to do it right?  Ever heard a Japanese band playing stylistically unadventurous "Western" rock music, say Teengenerate, Lip Cream, Registrators, Bastard or Tweezers? It ain't boring, I can assure you of that.

[Scrod Prickknee]

Absolutely. If you can't hear eastern Europe in songs like "Bila Je Taco Lepa", I don't know what to tell you. I haven't heard a single Russian punk rock band. I've heard lots of cool stuff from there, but I like the straight up punk shit the best (Call me KBD for short). What you get on this comp are different perspectives, different languages, odd approaches to singing (see: "Bila Je Taco Lepa") & time signatures & structures, etc. Like Simon said, the slightly off feel you'd get from Teengenerate, or the warped take a lot of Frenchies currently have on garage. This is a PUNK compilation, and a good one at that.

[goneoffdatlean]

I also can hear a different take on "punk"...the basic framework is the same.

Guitar/bass/drums/vocals, 4/4 beat/verse chorus verse but it's the small things that puts a different stamp on it.

[frankie teardrop]

Come on fellas. Not saying that Punk is boring, far from it. Within the context of Western European punk, I think the comp is good. But I was dissapointed that the comp is not distinctly Yugoslavian. I think I just had too high expectations. I thought I was gonna hear real Yugo culture as practiced by non-mainstream Yugos. Something that I know nothing about. But I didn't get that. I got Western European Punk. That is fine on its own. God knows how many of those records I have. To me, it shows how Globalization can homogenize music.There is more than one "right way" to do rock'n'roll.

[goneoffdatlean]

Yugoslavia was one of the most Western countries in the Communist bloc....so run with that idea....

[shauuuun]

Not distinctly Yugoslavian?  What the fuck are you talking about?  Name me one international punk comp that sounds more distinct to its country's sounds that doesn't suck fucking shit and I will buy that comp tomorrow.  Is "Bila Je Taco Lepa" even on this comp?  I forget.  But download that fucking song if its not, because I can't think of a better, more distinct-to-its-region Euro punk song ever recorded.

[Scrod Prickknee]

I agree. Out of all the Bloodstains comps, this one is as distinctly of its region as any I've heard, and I have a ridiculous amount of those stupid things.

[icki]

Yeah..."Not Distinctly Yugoslavian???"

How is it NOT distinctly Yugoslavian? They were Yugoslavian kids making punk music. Can't get much more Yugoslavian than that.

Sure, they were trying to ape the sound of the UK & US punk (like ANY other country who had punk bands...then or now), but being born & raised in Yugoslavia, these bands definitely put their own stamp on the sound.

[vint]

Everyone bored by that comp listen to early Laibach, Plastic People of the Universe, Republika, Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Yanka, DG 307 or any of the other "non-punk" great Eastern Euro bands. I'm not ragging on Yugo punk, it just doesn't trip my trigger the way it does others.

[SSR]

Ah...yer showing your ignorance of Yugo punk. Certainly there are bands who incorporate their own culture/sound into the western 1-2-3-. A few: Hali Gali Halid, Satan Panonski, Gnjenvi Cvi, Losi Decki, DJ Zdenko.....

[vint]

I like Satan Panonski although I don't know the others you mentioned and I've not claimed to be an authority on the subject. I'd like to hear that other stuff though. I'm very interested in hearing any of that stuff, just saying what stuff has interested me the most.

I really like Eastern European "new wave" like Kino (Russia), Republika (Poland) and Lady Pank (Poland) than most of the eastern euro punk stuff I've heard. Most of the "punk" music I like from eastern euro, is, as Todd pointed out, not "punk" to most people's ears.