Treći Svijet

So bizarre! This is way better than expected. Ovo je stvarno dobar album. Uživala sam slušajući ga. Hvala što si podijelio ovo malo blago!

Treći Svijet is a great 1980s rock album by Croatian-Yugoslav band Haustor. I cannot understand Croatian, but apparently the lyrics are amazing too. The music is a kind of western rock and punk orientated reggae similar to songs The Clash ("The Magnificent Seven") and Elvis Costello ("Watching The Detectives"). "Neobičan Dan" and "Treći Svijet" are the best tracks.

A cross between Madness and the Police. You can really hardly tell that the language is foreign. Very enjoyable. 4/5

I didn't particularly enjoy the music but this is more of what the OG list should contain. I'd never seek out Croatian-Yugoslavian rock from the 80s and it is an interesting peak into the culture from that time. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Yes.

I love the chaotic instrumentation and production mixed with the rough vocals. Some parts sound punk and others sound like they’re out of a David Lynch film. There’s a lot of range that I get from just the first listen, which is very impressive given I can’t make out a thing they’re saying. I love the way this was recorded. The drums pop right out. The brass is just perfect. I like this a hell of a lot. Great pick. More of this please. 4/5

Very fun, with a great variety of styles and influences. I didn't understand a word, but somehow that didn't matter.

Definitely elements of early Clash in their music. I also recognized a bit of Madness as well (as someone else mentioned). I really liked it. I can't say there was one song that stood out among the others. Just on the whole, it's a solid album from a band I am certain 90% of us never heard of before.

This is really good, especially considering it was released in 1984. Shades of the Police, Dire Straits, and the Clash - all good company to be in. 4 stars.

Totally new to me. Hard for me to rate given I don’t understand the language so I’ll rate on feel and impressions. I enjoyed it. Glad it was on here.

Very cool album from an underrepresented place and time. Listening to this within the context of what 1980s Yugoslavia was like is interesting and relevant for sure. Enjoyed this and this was a great choice for this list.

Oh good Yugoslav had new wave too! I actually really like the tunes here, especially the flutes and melody coming out of the last track

Fun international take on the Clash here, enjoyed the new wave/rock blend on this Croatian LP. Seems to lose steam in the back half and fall into some repetitive territory, but still manages to remain entertaining even then. Cool listen, always happy to see more non-US/UK adds here and enjoy some non-English vocals.

Wikipedia calls this rock but I heard a lot dub reggae in this. I’m all for some Yugoslavian reggae.

Well, I have now learnt a lot about the Yugoslav (now Croatian) new wave scene and it's fascinating. Theirs goes from thrilling, to a bit generic, but it's a fascinating insight into a scene I knew nothing about!

Interesting

Very unique sound. It's like a bit of slower or darker ska. It has very unconventional guitar parts. I'm not the greatest fan of the timbre of the vocalist. It takes a bit of getting used to. Overall not too bad

It was an interesting listen. Another album that sneaked in the super duper long version when the original was a lot shorter. I’m glad this was on the list though.

This fell a little towards the Talking Heads side of the music spectrum, but then the pipe gave me Men at Work vibes… not my favorite but appreciated the music.

An interesting curio. I’m too far removed from the language, culture, history, country, era, and politics of this to really get anything out of it. But anything that pisses fascists off is cool.

I liked this: solidly in the global tradition of rock, with folk, world music inflection, but very not American. The language barrier made really engaging with it challenging and I found it tending to fall into the background -pleasant but (through no fault of its own I suspect) superficial.

I really don't know what to make of this album. I couldn't understand the lyrics, but that's okay. The music wasn't really my style, but it was still decent enough. It's hard to put the Croatian rock style on display here into more American genre terms, but it's something like reggae-ska-rock. Anyway, it was fun to experience something unfamiliar to my ears, but the album didn't really resonate with me.

Meh 2

I didn't really enjoy Treći Svijet, it sounded like a bad foreign cover of The Police, and I really don't like The Police. Production is good but it's a remaster so probably not really representative of the actual era. It's boring, my favourite 2/5 comes up again.