My Obsession With Wartime Yugoslav Music (By snakelover23) 

When countries actually made diss tracks against each other

Techno and nationalism Name a more iconic duo

America has Gangsta Rap Scandinavia has Black metal Britain has Heavy metal Yugoslavia: Genocide music

"they lived in peace for centuries" Boy has someone *not* read up on this complete lie.

Yugoslav turbo folk lyrics be like "I'm addicted to alcohol n gambling. War is shitty, our enemies suck, why are we even fighting, nobody can fuck with us."

friend: hey, what's your fave music genre? me: warcrimes

War is over, but we still have these great songs. Love from Serbia, I hope Bosanska and Hrvatska are doing well.

As a Turk i can say that in the song "Alija" that Ramadan joke genuinly made me laugh.

Croatia doesnt have turbofolk becouse it was a "serbian thing" and we all hated each other.

I’m sorry but when you have a song that is literally called “My dads a war criminal” immediately have got me hooked

I’m telling you the fact that a American dude from FL was better able to break this shit down then any scholar, reporter or even a politician amazes me. Plus it is hysterical ! This is coming from a Serb female and I have to say literally one of the funniest videos I have ever watched . It’s also sarcastically informative as if Jerry Seinfeld or Larry David were to ever break down the Balkan conflict . Best I could do to show gratitude was send a star thank you gift . Please please make more !

6:48 my friend who owned many electric instruments around 2000s says it does sound like a pre made loop that you buy with the equipment

For context about why op couldn’t find any Croatian turbo folk, I remember seeing a comment on the original video about a Croatian teen who’d play old turbo folk in his room and his dad who was a veteran from the wars would always say something like “Turn that crap off, I didn’t fight and almost die to have my own son listen to that Serbian shit”, basically implying that turbo folk was more trendy in Serbia than it was in Croatia

"If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans" -Otto von Bismarck, 1898

Music: 0:00 - 1:21 - Tamo daleko 1:21 - 1:27 - (?) 1:31 - 2:14 - Baja Mali Knindza - Prosli su mi vozovi 2:14 - 2:27 - (?) 2:27 - 2:37 - Miro Semberac - Jadna bosna suverenna 2:37 - 2:49 - Baja Mali Knindza - Ćuti, ćuti ujko 2:49 - 2:54 - (?) - Bosanska Artilerija 2:56 - 3:00 - (?) - (?) "Serbia Strong" 3:00 - 3:07 - Baja Mali Knindza - (?) 3:07 - 3:18 - Miro Semberac - Jadna bosna suverenna x2 3:20 - 3:27 - (?) 3:27 - 3:54 - Samir Bureković(?) - Selam Selam Merhaba 3:57 - 4:00 - Marko Perković "Thompson" - Bojna Ćavoglave 4:00 - 4:07 - (?) 4:07 - 4:08 - Thompson - Ćavoglave x2 4:08 - 4:14 - (?) same as the one above 4:14 - 4:18 - (?) 4:18 - 4:21 - Ćavoglave x3 4:21 - 4:24 - Thompson - (?) 4:32 - 4:37 - (?) same as the one above 4:37 - 5:00 - Ćavoglave x4 5:00 - 5:16 - Perica Ivanović - Srpska Granata Too lazy to finish.

finally, a person who understands that all sides commited war crimes, amazing

I loved how you made an attempt to explain quantum Balkan theory... you’re Neil degrassimir tišonić ...

As a serbian, it's surreal to me that there are people who never heard this type of music. Shit's been basically engraved in my ears

You describing Thompson as a "this guy yelling" is probably the best take on his music ever 😂. Sending love from Dalmatia, Croatia ✌️

I’ve talked to Montenegrin old folks and they believe if someone was as influential as Tito after his demise they would have stayed together

we balkans really are something different...

6:20 this is normal thing in Serbia,singers usually target less mainstream songs and steal their melodies(usually Greek or Turkish songs) There's a joke that,if Greece would sue Serbia for all the stolen melodies,it would fix it's financial crisis immediately...

“This Fucking guy just yelling” yeah he’s yelling how Croatians are brothers and how they should fight against oppression. Rlly doesn’t feel great having an American say that too. Just saying

Thank you so much for uploading this-it could have easily been lost forever otherwise. I didn’t know any of this!

I'm not even a Slav, but when I saw Roki Vulović, I clicked

"because you declared independence, there want be a head on your shoulders" sings while he dances with a smile. Such a wholesome song.

My Serbian professor said that the best thing that could happen to the Balkans would be the invention of a memory-wiping machine. Yugoslavia was stronger together, sad it fell apart so violently.

This man made an amazing video essay and just dipped I wish he uploaded more content

"My Obsession" *Proceeds to hate everyone involved in turbofolk

As a Bosnian, I find these war songs hilarious and sing them in the car with my friends. EDIT: Yes, even the ones directed against Bosnians

Cant wait to see what kind of insane music will come out of America's eventual secession crisis/civil war part 2 electric boogaloo.

Early 90's- Italy: "Hey Romania, what you up to?" Romania: "Meh, just sitting here on the couch, eating popcorn, watching these Slavs fight each other. Again..." :D

He pissed on all of us equally, nice.

As a Bosnian, this is a certified hood classic

3:40, Everytime he says Bosnia take a drink.

I've been looking for this video for a while, didn't realise that it was gone I just thought I didn't remember the title correctly. Thank you so much!

Turbofolk the original vapor wave artistically and philosophically

I like how he is talking about falling of Yugoslavia,and in the background is Serbian WW1 song

The laziest and most concise explanation of the Balkans ever given….respect!

Music teacher: What will you choose for your music history presentation? Most kids: History of classical music. The quiet kids: Yugoslavian war music theory. Edit: my german music teacher hates electric guitars because she believes only classical musics are real musics and guitars in general don't belong there. Should have shown her turbofolk.

"They all lived for centuries in peace", i think you gotta learn your history man

This got more and more deppressing as it went on.

This video is perfection and I love it. I never thought that I would watch a video like this but it's funny and I learned a lot from it

Showed my polish boyfriend this type of music just for our amusement… now we‘re singing them all the time and laughing about it 😂 to a certain point it‘s just hilariously funny Someone notived that in most of those music videos the men seem always to smoke cigarettes as a sign of coolness and menlyhood? 😂

After the post of this video, this man started a new war between the countries.

Sad that the original channel is gone

Westerners: “Nooooooo you can’t just plagiarise the song from and N64 game!!!!” Baja: “haha accordion go brrrrrr”

Damn I missed this video for such a long time I thought I was alone in my obsession with Serbian wartime turbo folk, but this video came along it was a gem. Absolutely amazing just wish he did more serb songs.

German marches? No Soviet marches? No *Ahh yes, Yugoslav wartime music.*

"Its clear he hates alija and bosnia but why?". let me tell you why B E C A U S E B A L K A N S

Loved how for Thompson just said " he is Screaming. "

Thankyou for this. I forever try to explain to many about these conflicts, so now I can refer them to this video. Not sure if will help but anyway I will forward.

When Yugoslavia was at peace, they hated each other silently

As Slavoj Zizek the Slovenian philosopher has so often said “No Genocide without poetry”

Ppl talk about the Vietnam War having the best soundtrack, but now I think the Yugoslav War arc definitely comes in for the most BASED soundtrack

serbia got beat by a slovenian hunting club. lol

If Serbs said to you they don't know who Baja Mali Knindža is, they weren't Serbs.

I have this memory of a Bosnian or Albanian song about George H. W. Bush and about thanking him excessively and saying he was their best friend. It was so funny but I can't find it anywhere anymore.

When you're into Yugoslav War Music, there's no going back

Shame about snakelover23's channel. This is brilliant, I'd love to check out more of his videos.

I think Wartime Yugoslav Music is cool too but it also a little bit disturbing most wars after ww2 where fought in Asia Africa and south america so it is kind of scary seeing war footage from a country that looks similar to my home country that is not 70+ years old.

Bosanska Artillerija slaps the hardest out of all the Yugoslav war songs. Change my mind

I think that sound effect at 6:20 is from the late 90s Roland keyboards (JV/XP series). You basically just hold one key down and it loops.

hahahah brilliant! Fully enjoyed video!.. You brought to me some happy and somber memories. I was in the states during the period that lasted from 1996 to 2002 and ther was still war waging in the balkans. I was dating at that time a Bosnian Serb girl named Vesna as she was a refugee amongside many others of various ex-Yugoslav ethnicities. They often seemed to argue among themselves, and of course they rarely translated me what the matter of discussions where. But i remember how proud and fiery they where. Some where Bosnian croats, like Senad or Purely Bosnian like Adil. However they would never get into fights and ultimately they would calm down and have another party together. As an italian among them, i have never got to seep into that balcanic strong bejaviour and array of emotions, often times so colliding. But i learned to appreciate , the connection, the generosity and the love they were capable of. It was torching inside, to assist to this humongous tragedy unfolding, but yet ita has been a wonderful experience for me to be with them and share their quotidianity. One time while i was there in the US i happened to stumble across a serbian movie, in a Blockbuster , called Lepo Selo, Lepo Gore. I was oblivious of what it could contain. But when i saw it, i was totally distraught and torn apart.A very cruel and deep rendition of the conflict that really made me weep like a baby. The music in it was also very emotional and neat. To wrap it up , from my experience of Ex-Yugoslav people is of strong mixed feelings but a lot of positive and admired ones. Balkans are not for the faint of heart and people from those places are strong, proud, weolcoming people, but also stubborn, nationalist, and traditionalist beyond belief. Watch that movie if you haven't yet.. and sorry for my broken english, for i have lost it a little since i have made my comeback to Italy

Stealing melodies from western artists was very common in yugoslavia tho 😂😅

Im serbian, my history teacher played this video in class, what a good teacher

This is a really solid take on the situation. I am in Serbia right now having driven through Croatia as well. We have been listening to turbo folk the whole time and your analysis is bang on. Thanks for your hard work on bringing this to light.

Thank you for preserving this relic. I've downloaded a local copy, for posterity.

That screaming guy is Marko Perković "thompson", he is the almost only Croatian war time singer, he is more of rock and roll and folk music mix. Turbofolk wasn't used in Croatia because it was a Serbian thing, and to our soldiers turbofolk was like Erika to soviet soldiers in WW2. Most of our songs simmilar to ones you described in the video were written after our victory, like "oj Srbijo iz 3 djela" or "Nije jedan već su pala oba".

"It's so hateful and pointless that it's hilarious, but also deeply concerning." 100% agree. DEEPLY concerning. Thanks for preserving this video.

I remember enjoying this with my dad because my mom would play goofy bosnian love songs so I went to listen to wartime jugoslav music with him

I believe I watched this video around several months ago to a little less than a year ago and I remember how great of a job you did explaining these songs. One thing I didn't remember though was how great your last overview to the final song was. It's insane how perfect that explanation was.

I miss the old youtube, random shit that seemed to spawn from a fever dream while exploring stumble upon and tolling on robotusssin. No matter what you do youtube I member bum fights

I am from Serbia and this video is so fucking good, it is not fully accurate but it has so much goddamn charm that I can't help but come back to it every now and then

"like Serbs are some hell people" as a Serb i can confirm we r like that, we love wars and to drink

"... whose real name is impossible to pronounce" *Proceeds to flawlessly pronounce Dervišhalidović... thrice*

I love how this man tries to explain something that only holly trinity of this 3 nations understand.

Kakva smo sprdnja 😂😂😂

"this guy just yelling" count your days snake lover.

5:37 - he's not squinting, weak westerners don't understand the look of the true balkan sigma warcriminillionaire grindset

FUN Fact: Dino Merlin never stole music, he always puts original and author names in credits.

Turbofolk is taboo in Croatia because of the war. To this day no croatian musician can get away with making actual turbofolk, and until recently no radio station would play it. But in reality it is a guilty pleasure to a lot of us.

I keep coming back to this video because I love it so much

that line about pies threw me for a loop for a second what i thought it meant: "your cuisine's gonna suck now that you don't have access to our superior ingredients, lol" weirdly specific jab after a civil war but cool, can get behind it what it actually meant: "y'all slurs are gonna literally starve because we genocided everyone who grew your food lmao" 10/10, man's inhumanity against man exemplified

Good song is "my dad is war criminal"

Roki was actually my school director. After war, he actually didn't want to sign those songs as he thought that it was unfair and bad towards muslims, because we actually now live in peace, more or less. He is a great guy. You actually nailed the point of the Balkan wars. We fought in them, but didn't know why we fight. It was and still is really stupid, and lots of people died from both sides. Older people now are trying to imprint hatred onto new generations, but we just cannot see the reason why anybody should fight, especially for those small, meaningless countries, that are broke. Of course, there are people that would still fight for them, but I personally can't understand that. One could say that we are the most complicated bunch of countries and people existing today.

Basically ethnic wars and alcoholism the genre.

when you think about that, Miloševič was right, if anyone else can get independence, why not the serbs or some other people. If the west really Supports "voting for independence" there would be so many new countrys, but its only for their interest... how could we, the balkans, do this to us, so much blood was lost, so many men, woman and children, all for nothing, for new, corrupt, bankrott and poor states? Is that what you wanted?

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Rambo Amadeus is a really smart man and artist. He just coined the phrase turbo folk. Turbo means combustion under great pressure and folk means people. It means combustion of the people. Read between the lines. His lyrics are pure Monty Phyton, combined with jazz. Explore it.

Virgin US gamer: "noooo they are singing about hatred and stealing songs it is weird" Chad Baja Mali: "My father is is war criminal!"

the foggy mic, it puts me in a good mood. reminds me of my childhood

its so funny when americans pretend they know about our history

11:21 the sheer absourdity of this hatred makes me laugh but at same time it's awfully conserning. One of the best explenations of the whole situation here.

that was a very interesting video dude, gracias!

The collapse of Yugoslavia was undeniably a tragedy

To tell that "THE YELLING GUY" sings turbo folk in croatia that's almost considered a hate crime hahahaha sad but true

Every balkan country has a version of it: Serbia: Turbofolk Romania: Manele Bosnia: Chalga Greece: Laiko Albania: Tavalla

This looked like one of the sh'ttiest time and place combinations to have been born in. Combination of boring, terrible style, and genocide.