Bjesovi

Bjesovi (Serbian Cyrillic: Бјесови; trans. The Demons) are a Serbian grunge/alternative rock band from Gornji Milanovac.

Biography

Formation and breakup (1985-1997)

The band's history began in the mid-eighties when two seventeen-year-olds, Zoran Marinković and Goran Marić "Max", started writing for the famous Yugoslav music magazine Džuboks under the names McCrywack and Max Radackow. At the same time, they began making some home demo recordings which led to the decision to form a band. The band was formed in 1989 under the name "Baader-Meinhof". After changing the name to "Saint Gallen" and later to China Blue, the band got the name Bjesovi (which is one of the translations of the title of Dostoyevsky's novel Demons). Marić and Marinković, both vocalists and songwriters, were backed by Predrag Dabić and Goran Filipović on guitars, Božidar Tanasković on bass and Goran Ugarčina on drums.

The band then won the Čačak Guitar Festival in 1989 and recorded their debut album U osvit zadnjeg dana (At The Last Day's Dawn) released only on cassette on October 1990. Guest appearances featured Vladimir Vesović and Nikola Slavković on guitars and Dejan Marinković who provided narration on the track "On je sam" ("He Is Alone"). The album featured their version of Philippe Soupault’s poem "Georgia" (Serbian: "Džordžija") to which Zoran Marinković wrote the music, as well as the cover version af the Yugoslav beat band Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete track "Vule Bule", which itself was a cover of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs' "Wooly Bully". On the track "Zli Dusi" (a Serbian language title of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed), the lyrics included lines from the Gospel of Luke and Pushkin's poetry.

Bjesovi (album)

Bjesovi is the self-titled and second album of the Serbian rock band Bjesovi released in 1994.

Track listing

All tracks written by Goran Marić and Zoran Marinković, except where noted.

Personnel

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