Yugoton was a one-off project. Poland's popular artists recorded their own … Read Full Bio ↴Yugoton was a one-off project. Poland's popular artists recorded their own versions of Yugoslavian hits, with Polish lyrics. The idea of the project came from Grzegorz Brzozowicz, a well-known musical journalist.

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Yugoton tribute album was released in Poland by ZIC ZAC Music Company and BMG Poland in 2001.
It features cover versions of eminent artists from SFR Yugoslavia such as: Električni orgazam, Idoli, Bajaga i Instruktori, Haustor, Prljavo kazalište and Parni valjak. Most of these artists were formerly involved in the Yugoslav New Wave (Novi Val) scene. The songs including the main single from the Prljavo kazalište's Crno bijeli svijet album, are performed in Polish by the cover band Yugoton feat. Polish artists: Katarzyna Nosowska, Paweł Kukiz, Olaf Deriglasoff, Tymon Tymański and others. The CD also has CD ROM multimedia features for PC use.

The album is a tribute to the former Yugoslav music scene. Even its very title is a nod to the Yugoslav record industry, specifically its largest and most prominent state-owned record label and chain record store Jugoton, which was very popular among the youths behind the Iron Curtain, including the Poles, who couldn't travel freely to western countries and thus had difficulties accessing western music. One of their solutions around this was going shopping to socialist Yugoslavia which was not an Eastern Bloc country, and as such more open to western influences. As a result, Yugoslav records gained a cult status around Eastern Europe and became a sort of symbol of the western popular culture. Another reference to the Yugoslav records and Jugoton can be found in the film Sonnenallee (which takes place in the former East Germany), in the scene with the record smuggler.

Many of the former Yugoslav artists were touring Poland, which also had a vibrant music scene including punk rock and new wave music as well as other genres with large fanbase. In 1981 the former Yugoslav band Azra released the song Poljska u mome srcu (Poland in my heart) to boost the morale of the Polish people in the struggle of their worker's union Solidarity against the dictatorship of Wojciech Jaruzelski, while Električni orgazam released the album titled Warszawa '81 for Jugoton in 1982. Also a support to the Polish opposition was expressed by the British punk rock band Angelic Upstarts.

The ties between the two scenes still exist. Vlada Divljan from Belgrade's Idoli and Darko Rundek from the Zagreb-based Haustor were invited as guests to the Yugoton project. They are featured on the photo on the CD cover of Yugoton together with the Polish artists.

Czarno
Yugoton Lyrics

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Mam na imię Kazimierz
Syn Stanisława a oto dla państwa melodia
Czarno biały świat
Zabaawa

Czarno biały świat
Czarno biały świat
Czarno biały świat

Czarno biały świat
Czarno biały świat

Czarno biały telewizor o tacie moim film pokazuje
Czarno moja biała mama na telewizję pomstuje
Nie prawda że tata nigdy nie nosił krawata
Rata rata rata rata rata ta ta ta ta ta

A oto Onkjel Dessig kolega
Dzięki Bogu nic mu nie dolega
Gdy go poznałem myślałem że to Niemiec
Tak mi jakoś wyglądał jak cudzoziemiec

Czarno biały świat
Może to się wszystko
Czarno biały świat
Kupy nie trzyma
Czarno biały świat
Nigdy bym nie skopał
Czarno biały świat
Olafa z Berlina

Czarno biały świat
Czarno biały świat

Czarno biały świat
Czarno biały świat

Overall Meaning

The song Czarno-biały świat by Kazik is a commentary on the black and white, binary nature of the world. The lyrics are a series of seemingly disconnected observations and anecdotes, all of which reflect this theme. The song begins with Kazik introducing himself and announcing that he will be performing a melody for us. The melody itself is simple and repetitive, consisting mainly of the refrain 'czarno biały świat' ('black and white world').

The first verse of the song references Kazik's parents and their use of a black and white television. His father shows films on the television, while his mother complains about the lack of color. The next verse introduces a character named Uncle Dessig, who Kazik initially mistakes for a German due to his foreign appearance. The final verse of the song is an enigmatic statement that the world is 'czarno biały', and that it 'nie trzyma kupy' ('doesn't hold together').

The song is a commentary on the limitations of thinking in binaries, and the way that such thinking can lead to a fragmented and confusing view of the world. It also highlights the potential for misunderstanding and misinterpretation when we rely on superficial and simplistic categories to make sense of the world around us.

Line by Line Meaning

Mam na imię Kazimierz
My name is Kazimierz

Syn Stanisława a oto dla państwa melodia
Son of Stanisław, here is a melody for you

Czarno biały świat
Black and white world

Zabaawa
Fun

Czarno biały telewizor o tacie moim film pokazuje
My father shows films on our black and white TV

Czarno moja biała mama na telewizję pomstuje
My white mother complains about the TV

Nie prawda że tata nigdy nie nosił krawata
It's not true that my father never wore a tie

Rata rata rata rata rata ta ta ta ta ta
Nonsense syllables

A oto Onkjel Dessig kolega
And here's Onkjel Dessig, a colleague

Dzięki Bogu nic mu nie dolega
Thank God he is healthy

Gdy go poznałem myślałem że to Niemiec
When I met him, I thought he was German

Tak mi jakoś wyglądał jak cudzoziemiec
He looked like a foreigner to me

Może to się wszystko
Maybe it's all

Kupy nie trzyma
Doesn't hold together

Nigdy bym nie skopał
I would never kick

Olafa z Berlina
Olaf from Berlin

Czarno biały świat
Black and white world

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Comments from YouTube:

@damirhlobik6488

2y↑3

Świetnie, mam płytę CD i często jej słucham

Niestety wielki polski artysta Tadeusz Nalepa nie jest znany w Chorwacji, kocham jego muzykę od 45 lat, R.I.P Tadeusz :-(

Pozdrowienia z Chorwacji dla polskich braci

@gorseh19

11y↑5

In polish heart's it will be existing for ever! JUGOPOWER!

@DarkoMesarosSubotica

11y↑7

Actually the song was made in Yugoslavia, so it makes it Yugoslav ! :)

@crveni1

8y↑2

odlično!

@gorseh19

11y

powyżej 1000 wyświetleń. mainsteam

@mieszaczu

8y↑4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891V5nni_Vo - oryginał

@jrstudio07

9y↑1

hahaha, jebeno :D

@tomislavstrugaric5592

5y↑3

Davorine dal ti se sviđa?Nama da,ajmo Dubrava!!i Polska ratatatata

@mwitbrot

10y↑22

"It is not Jugosłowiańskiego zespołu. It is CROATIAN band! Yugoslavia does not exists for almost 25 years."

This song is from year 1980 - yes, it was Yugoslavia!

@gnjavator1

9y↑6

Marek Witbrot Of course, the same way as Henryk Sienkiewicz is a great Russian novelist - he lived from 1846-1916 - yes, it was Russia!

@mwitbrot

9y↑1

Veliki Gnjavator in exactly opposite way.

@gnjavator1

9y↑4

Marek Witbrot not really. Poland had its independence before, and so did Croatia, but at the time when Sienkiewicz was alive Poland was divided among Prussia, AustroHungarian Empire and Russia (after three partitions in 18th century); it is true that after Napoleonic Wars a part of Poland (where Sienkiewicz was born) claimed and gained certain level of independence but was still under Russian control, and was permanently losing its relative independence, especially after 1831. war (before Sienkiewicz's birth) and even most of its authonomy after 1863. (before he became a writer), when this part of Poland was formally annected as one of Russian provinces (and stayed in this status untill Sienkiewicz death).

Now, comparing to Croatia in 1980.: Croatia had its own parliament (as every other Yugoslavian federal unit, having federal parliament above them), its president of republic (Yugoslavia had collective Presidency, containing one member from each federal unit), its own television (with its own language and script), its own constitution, and its right to declare independence (the same as all other republics) given not only by its own but by federal constitution as well (if not given by federal constitution it probably wouldn't be written in Croatian constitution; but the fact that the separation from Yugoslavia was performed according to Constitution of Yugoslavia independence of separated republics was quickly recognized by most of world countries).

And even if we compare tradition, Croatia accepted christianity and had its own kingdom before Poland - but this really isn't matter of this subject.

So, doesn't it seem that position of Croatia in 1980's was at least not worse than Poland during life and work of Sienkiewicz - and if you claim right to consider Sienkiewicz to be a Polish writer (as it undoubtedly is in my opinion) then by the same right Prljavo kazalište has to be considered a Croatian band.

@Kwazzaaap

8y↑2

+Veliki Gnjavator The whole genre of the music is called Ex-Yu rock for a reason, it was part of Yugoslav culture, it died off with Yugoslavia, it does not exist within any of the countries that Yugoslavia dissolved into, it was indigenous to Yugoslavia and if that doesn't make it Yugoslavian I don't know what does.

@gnjavator1

8y↑2

+Kwaki Prljavo kazalište still exists. Is it therefore still a Yugoslav band? Or did it magically turned to Croatian just because some politicans said so? Did they die as well and they don't realize it? I don't see any difference between Prljavo kazalište in 80's or 90's, as well as Film, Parni valjak or any other band that was active before and after split of Yugoslavia.

As for Yugoslav culture, it is a myth. Would you say that Lithuanian and Tajik culture didn't exist in USSR years and that they were both just part of the same Soviet culture, together with Nenets, Tatar, Russian and Armenian one? If you watch enough Yugoslav movies you'll be able to distinguish Bosnian, Slovenian, Croatian or Serbian with low percentage of mistakes. Yes, the actors often played in other cinematographies very successfully, but if Jean Reno or Emanuelle Beart plays in American movie does it mean that instead of American it belongs to some superior culture, maybe Atlantic? Culture borders don't have to coincide with admnistrative ones.

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@MrNEBA1976

10y↑5

iako je hrvatski bio je Yugoton

@settantacinque2232

5y↑1

I dok je bio Jugoton tvoja selendra je bila puna ko šibica i ljudi su odlično živjeli.
Danas nema više Jugotona a tvoja selendra je skoro prazna, ostalo je još par baba i djedova koji čekaju "zadnju vuru".....a tako je i u ostalim selendrama : PRAZNO, PUSTO, ZARASLO U TRNJE I KOROV......

@settantacinque2232

As part of Yugoslavia, Croatia had 4 .800 000 inhabitants, today as "independent" pro-USA Croatia have as most 3. 200 000 inhabitants. Very large areas in Croatia is EMPTY and ABANDONED.

@FilaMan74

@Settanta Cinque Svatko traži svoju sreću. Recimo ja sam još u CRO (HR), jer Ne želim raditi za dolare (Židove). Moja pokojna teta i stric su pustili kosti u njemačkoj (zapravo sahranjeni su CRO, ali najbolje godine života su ostavili u tuđini). U život kreće samo VJERAN PAS. Rat , pa poslije Mito i Korupcija sjebalo je ovu zemlju (i ne samo ovu) za Vijeke, vjekova. Amen.

@settantacinque2232

@IsItAbout TheHedge Kažeš da ne želiš raditi za dolare jer su židovski.
No Rotschildnije imao kontrolu nad Narodnom Bankom Jugoslavije i to je jedan od razloga što je Jugoslavija morala nestati. Osamostaljenje Hrvatske Tuđman je platio tako što je sve od vrijednosti morao predati Rotschildu. Rotschild je tako već 1994 preuzeo Hrvatsku Narodnu Banku.