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I guess that in 1984 Luna and Katarina II [new wave bands, Katarina was later renamed
Ekatarina Velika] issued albums. Pankrti issued their most serious Rdeci album. I think
you‘re mistaken about the reception of Zastave, as far as I remember Polet glorified this
album and if it wasn‘t for Laibach and Borghesia records that were appearing largely, it
[Paraf album] would have probably be better off.
July 20, 2009 1:40 AM 201
Although the comments seem promising when first considered as a characteristic part of 4MO,
unfortunately they only seldom prove to be ‗fleshy‘ enough for much analysis. This suggests that
the majority of visitors mostly just browse through posts and music and download what they find
interesting, and rarely engage in any extended discussion about music. Most often, the comments
feature pleads to the blogger to re-upload an expired link (―C‘mon, re-post Parafs please. I‘ve got
all the vinyls but haven‘t had a gramophone in the last 20 years:)‖), 202 or expressions of gratitude
for posting and admiration of the posted music.
Still, the discussions among more or less regular visitors, as seen above, also reveal particular
user‘s views on certain music and affective attention to detail. In complementing the posts, the
storytelling is to some extent enhanced and features in fact as co-creative storytelling. Moreover,
the vernacular history of Yugoslav (in this case punk rock) music thus proves to be a history in the
making by people who apparently are fans and connoisseurs. Hence, it often seems lucrative to
look at the dynamics/dialogic between the posts on one blog, or even between various blogs.
Roughly, as we have seen, these may feature as an expression of fandom and critic/ironic
depictions of music. A telling case in point is the entry on Plavi Orkestar, a once very popular
Yugoslav pop band that Gramofonije thought deserved some attention. Attention in a very ironic
way which showed his contempt for the band‘s music. This post also emphasises the controversy
this band stirred later on in the 1980s when they allegedly turned too poppy and nationalist. What
is particularly interesting in this post is the way he positions himself in relation to both the music
and the period:
Considering the fact that I never liked ―Plavci,‖ I said to myself right, let‘s just listen that
out and see what was to the band and the album that wreaked such chaos in its time. And
chaos was massive – who‘s old enough to remember – he remembers! Who was young
doesn‘t. I remember it all started overnight: they were all over radio and TV stations, in
newspapers and magazines. 203
Illustrative is also the generation boundary explication (not really exclusion), which posits distinct
delimitation between those who can actually remember and those who cannot, i.e. those who are
201 Ibid.
202 Post comment on : Ove ploca nista ne valja – ima rupu u sredini!, ―Paraf nas nasusni,‖
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5189995390510371193&postID=8410724251369245000, accessed 8
August 2011.
203 ―Plavi orkestar,‖ Nevaljaleploce, http://nevaljaleploce.blogspot.com/2010/10/plavi-orkestar.html, accessed 6
September 2011.
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