Kad bi bio bijelo dugme
Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme (trans. "If I Were a White Button") is the 1974 debut studio album from influential Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme. The album was polled the 14th on the 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums list in the 1998 book "" ("YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Pop and Rock Music"). Recording. Prior to the release of the album, Bijelo Dugme had large success with their 7-inch singles. The band's record label, Jugoton, intended to release Bijelo Dugme's first album during the spring of 1975, but the  group's manager, Vladimir Mihaljek, managed to persuade the label's executives to release the record during the autumn of 1974. The recording sessions started on 2 October 1974 in Akademik Studio in Ljubljana. The album was produced by the band members themselves, with help from Akademik Studio's producer Dečo Žgur. The album featured a new version of the title track, which the band had originally released as a 7-inch single in 1973 while still performing under the name Jutro. Album cover. The album cover was designed by designer Dragan S. Stefanović who would go on to design  covers for the band's future releases as well. Four decades after the album release, it was revealed that the name of the model was Ljiljana Božanić. Rock critic Dražen Vrdoljak stated in 1981 that "Kad bi bio bijelo dugme" album cover "represented a shift in conceiving the covers of domestic [Yugoslav] rock albums, identical to the shift Bregović's music made on our rock scene". Track listing. All the songs were written by Goran Bregović, except where noted. Reception. The album was well received by audience and critics alike. In a "Džuboks" review, Maksa Ćatović wrote: The intro to  the album's opening track was referred to as "pastirski" (shepherd-like) by rock critic Dražen Vrdoljak in his review published on 30 November 1974 in "Studio". Few weeks later, a write-up about the album in "Tina" used the term "pastirski rok" ("shepherd rock"). The term was soon picked up by a wider section of the Yugoslav public and used frequently, often pejoratively, to describe Bijelo Dugme's Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin-influenced hard rock sound mixed in with the Balkans folk music elements. The album's biggest hits were the title track, rock and roll-influenced hit  Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira, and the ballad "Selma". Immediately upon its release, the album broke the record held by YU Grupa's debut album, which sold in more than 30,000 copies. In February 1975, the band was awarded a gold record at the Opatija Festival, as they sold their debut album in more than 40,000 copies. The final number of copies sold was about 141,000. Legacy. The album was polled in 1998 as the 16th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book "" ("YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Pop  and Rock Music"). The title track was polled in 2000 as the 97th on the Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times list. In 2015 "Kad bi bio bijelo dugme" album cover was ranked 20th on the list of 100 Greatest Album Covers of Yugoslav Rock published by web magazine Balkanrock.