Anyway after many gigs, appearing on famous festivals as Omladinski Festival (Youth Festival) in Subotica and Novi Rock (New Rock) in Ljubljana, Majke release their first tape in 1987 for independent label Slusaj Najglasnije/Listen Loudest. This is also first issue of that really great label. The tape begins with song 'Iz sve snage' (With All Power) and really from the beginning till the end we get pure metallic guitar sound we already know from our Stooges records. The big wall of guitar noise, pumping bass and driving drums bring you in the apocalyptic world of youth from country which is already in war. No future, life without dreams, full of fear and pessimism - we are locked in and songs like Bad Life (Los zivot), Alone (Sam), Dazed and Confused (Zbunjen i osamucen) and You Can't Go Anywhere (Nemas kuda da odes) are nothing else than terrible reality of thousands of ex-yu teenagers. 

Three years later - after they toured almost every small club and place - Majke release long play record 'Razum i bezumlje' (Reason and Unreasonableness). There are lot of songs from their first tape, but this time recorded in proper studio. Sound is just a little bit colder than before. It is very subjective, but I heard that first tape billion times and I got used on all these songs. So I expected only new material. Anyway - it was nice to have some old songs On vinyl too. Here we have 6 new songs which are also great. My favorite is 'Lutak iskrivljenog lica' (The Doll with Distorted Face -- I hope I translate it good).

Majke had pretty various gigs. Sometimes they were great and sometimes they couldn't play at all. At least few good friends of mine say so. They saw them many times live - I only once (cos they came only once to my town). They were really great then. It is one of the best gigs I ever saw. It was on University, just in the main hall. No light show, no PA - only amplifiers, also for voice. Majke were pretty drunk, etc... They also had new guitar player - old one died in car accident. The singer was very drunk and stoned and he couldn't stand properly on stage, but he sung great. Guitars had that fat sound - and solo guitar was so acid - straight to your brain. Everything sounded like it will fall apart - like they walk on some thin line between life and death. Very strange atmosphere, morbid, sick and at the same time great - you know what I mean - when your flesh creeps. So it was 1990. The end of my youth and many other things. 

The war started just few months later. Majke stopped for few years. Their solo guitarist and writer of all these early songs joined Hare Krishna. In 1992 the rest of band starts again with new members. Their 2nd album 'Razdor' (Division) didn't come close to their early stuff. Now they sound like some ordinary 70s hippy/hard rock band. They became very popular - the most famous band in Croatia and very very popular in other ex-Yu countries, also in Serbia.

But their new stuff is not so good to me anymore. They lost that magic from before. I don't know, they are not punky anymore - too slow for my taste. I have to be honest - they still have here and there a great song, but it's not the same anymore. 
 

Releases:
"Majke" (Slusaj najglasnije 1987, tape)
"Razum i bezumlje" (Search and Enjoy" 1990)
"Razdor" (T.R.I.P. / Croatia Records 1993)
"Milost" (Heroina 1994)
"Vrijeme je da se krene" (Jabukaton 1996)
"Zivot, uzivo" - live (Jabukaton 1997)