The second AERODROM album Tango Bango appeared right during the New Wave Boom in Yugoslavia
1981. In order to gain larger audience, and having learnt lessons from the previous album, it was
necessary to abandon some, if not all, prog elements from their music. The result was a huge success.
The album kick starts with two great hits an erotically seductive dance rock Stavi pravu stvar
(En. Put your right stuff into the right place and do it often) and an excellent power rock ballad Tvoje
lice (En. Your Face). These two songs remain among their best songwriting examples up to date.
Dobro se zabavljaj (En. Have Some Real Fun) contains obligatory ska/power pop rhythmic
structures with fiery guitar riffs and melodic bass hook, providing another hit single. Legions of
Yugoslav teenage youth used to party till the morning hours with songs like this. I live for women and
I live for rock music and vices yells ivković in another catchy pop/rock tune Rock i porok
(En. Rock and Vices), while Nudistička plaa (En. The Nudist Beach) contains the call for the girls
to take down your panties!
After the enormous hit potentials and speedy tempo of almost entire first side of the vinyl, the second
part provides a needed break in the form of two instrumentals. The first is energetic ska improvisation
of Aerodrom while the second Mordorea still retains slight instrumental prog elements (expanded
keyboards and guitar sounds) along with the next track aptly titled Mijenjam se (En. I Undergo
Changes).
Sex and party is back again in reggae-rhythmic patterns of Djevojke (En. Girls), when all the gang,
finally exhausted of 24-hours non-stop dance-craze, drops into Monotonija (En. Monotony), a
surprising post-punk psychedelia reminiscent of GANG OF FOUR or early SIMPLE MINDS!
Tango Bango is not a progressive rock album. It is a powerful, energetic rock and roll statement full
of confidence and emotions. Judging it as a whole, and having in mind its purpose in the mainstream
New Wave scene in former Yugoslavia a highly productive artistic and rocknroll movement - it
appears to be even better record than the commercially unsuccessful prog debut. It remains probably
the best album of AERODROM.
PERSONAL RATING: 4/5
P.A. RATING: 3/5
1981. In order to gain larger audience, and having learnt lessons from the previous album, it was
necessary to abandon some, if not all, prog elements from their music. The result was a huge success.
The album kick starts with two great hits an erotically seductive dance rock Stavi pravu stvar
(En. Put your right stuff into the right place and do it often) and an excellent power rock ballad Tvoje
lice (En. Your Face). These two songs remain among their best songwriting examples up to date.
Dobro se zabavljaj (En. Have Some Real Fun) contains obligatory ska/power pop rhythmic
structures with fiery guitar riffs and melodic bass hook, providing another hit single. Legions of
Yugoslav teenage youth used to party till the morning hours with songs like this. I live for women and
I live for rock music and vices yells ivković in another catchy pop/rock tune Rock i porok
(En. Rock and Vices), while Nudistička plaa (En. The Nudist Beach) contains the call for the girls
to take down your panties!
After the enormous hit potentials and speedy tempo of almost entire first side of the vinyl, the second
part provides a needed break in the form of two instrumentals. The first is energetic ska improvisation
of Aerodrom while the second Mordorea still retains slight instrumental prog elements (expanded
keyboards and guitar sounds) along with the next track aptly titled Mijenjam se (En. I Undergo
Changes).
Sex and party is back again in reggae-rhythmic patterns of Djevojke (En. Girls), when all the gang,
finally exhausted of 24-hours non-stop dance-craze, drops into Monotonija (En. Monotony), a
surprising post-punk psychedelia reminiscent of GANG OF FOUR or early SIMPLE MINDS!
Tango Bango is not a progressive rock album. It is a powerful, energetic rock and roll statement full
of confidence and emotions. Judging it as a whole, and having in mind its purpose in the mainstream
New Wave scene in former Yugoslavia a highly productive artistic and rocknroll movement - it
appears to be even better record than the commercially unsuccessful prog debut. It remains probably
the best album of AERODROM.
PERSONAL RATING: 4/5
P.A. RATING: 3/5
