In 2009, in an interview to journalist Aleksandar Arežina, Bajagić commented on the songs:
"Berlin" "My dad was a
Partisan when he was 16, from 1943 to 1944. He was a kid, and they were really into going to
Berlin. But, as they travelled mostly by foot, by the time they reached some place in
Austria,
Berlin fell. The time when the song was written was years before the
fall of the Berlin Wall, so, back then it had a completely different meaning."
"Mali slonovi" "It is like it's written for kids, but I didn't write it as a
children's song, although maybe it will be remembered as one."
"Poljubi me" "It's my first good recording. I don't mean as a song, but as a recording. [...] It's one of the best songs from the album."
"Limene trube" "I wanted to have a
punk tune. So we made the trumpets sound a little steamed [...] The lyrics 'people are running away, people are leaving', I don't know why I wrote them back then. Certainly, something was in the air..."
"Znam čoveka" "The lyrics are about a neighborhood friend of mine, from
Zemun. He was a drummer, and he died a long time ago." Although not stated in this interview, Bajagić mentioned on other occasions that the song was dedicated to Dragan "Đera" Đerić, his former bandmate from the bands Ofi and Glogov Kolac.
"Tekila - Gerila" "At the time, there was a lot of talking about
Sandinistas, a lot of fuss in
Colombia,
Peru [...] For me, 'Tekila - Gerila' was a nice way of seeing those things. Besides, I wanted a good excuse to do
Latin music."
"Marlena" "At the time I loved
Lou Reed, and that sort of rock, and 'Marlena' sounded good with
Marlene Dietrich. So, since we already had a 'Berlin', let's also have
a 'Marlena'."
"Kosooka" "Exotic. We wanted to have that to. It's the only song I'm not satisfied with. Back then, I thought I was so smart, so I thought you could make a song with only one
chord,
E sharp. [Kornelije Kovač] asked me 'Can't we use couple more chords', and I was like 'No, no, no! This is great, we're gonna do something completely
minimalistic'."
"Tamara" "'Tamara' had been written way before I would eventually visit
Russia. I made a lot of [geographical] mistakes in the lyrics.
Neva and
Hermitage are in
Leningrad, and
Bolshoi Theatre is in
Moscow. Tamara couldn't possibly live in both Leningrad and Moscow. The
Russians didn't complain, though, they thought it was cute.
Spira thought we could find a [local] chick to say something, anything, in
Russian. But we couldn't find one with a good enough accent. [...] Spira then remembered that
river level reports on [Serbian] radio are read out in Russian (among other languages), every day. So we recorded the radio announcer chick reading a water level report! So in 'Tamara' you can hear that 'the
Danube is this high in
Bezdan, and that high in some other place'."
"Pustite me, druže" "The oldest song on the album. I did it while the rest of the guys from [Riblja] Čorba were in
the army. I didn't know what to do with myself, however, I had a sideband, Frka, with [Miroslav Cvetković]. We were given some time at Enco Lesić's [Druga Maca studio], so we recorded the song, and it even ended up being played on the
Rokenroler show. I also heard that it was considered for inclusion on
Paket aranžman—and I don't know who ultimately made those sorts of decisions—but apparently me being a guitarist in [a popular and nationally-known] Riblja Čorba prevailed [as they decided to go with unknown
Belgrade acts]. [The song itself] is about an everyday experience of a long-haired teenager in Belgrade."
"Papaline" "I didn't know Suzana Petričević before that. Spira said that he had a friend who can sing. The song was a joke [...] 'Papaline' () were funny to people from Belgrade as well as to people from
Zagreb. [...] The idea of the song was that all love songs are 'slimy and disgusting', so I thought about what could be small and slimy." ==Personnel==