Istina

The album is perhaps most memorable for its apocalyptic track "Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele" (named after, but not inspired by the novel Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe) which went on to become one of Riblja Čorba's signature pieces. It was voted Hit of the Year in 1985 by the listeners of Radio Beograd 202 and Song of the Decade in 1990.^[5] In 2009, the song was voted the Greatest Domestic Song by the readers of the Standard magazine.^[6] In 2000, the song was polled the first on the Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times list.^[7]

The album was polled in 1998 as the 43rd on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).^[8]

Istina was described by Serbian critic Petar Janjatović as "the first real comeback album in the history of Yugoslav rock".^[9] Serbian critic Dimitrije Vojnov named Istina one of ten most important albums in the history of Yugoslav rock music, stating also that Đorđević, "just like everyone who came back from the bottom, from rock coma, decided to become a preacher [...] 'Pogledaj dom svoj, anđele' would soon become much more than Čorba's comeback hit. It would become a political ideology, a soundtrack for pathos which announces the final clash, and the borders between rock 'n' roll provocation and reality, between Bora and the audience would be frozen and erased forever".^[10] Despite being more heavy metal-oriented than any of the band's previous albums, Istina is also the album after which the band, although generally still fitting into hard rock, started turning towards more commercial sound.

In 2015 Istina album cover was ranked the 2nd by web magazine Balkanrock on their list of 100 Greatest Album Covers of Yugoslav Rock.^[11]

• Istina at Discogs
• EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4
• Riblja čorba, Jakovljević Mirko; ISBN 86-83525-39-2

• Istina at Discogs