[3] For the first time, a Riblja Čorba album featured a song written entirely by the guitarist Momčilo Bajagić, "Ja sam se ložio na tebe".

In his 2011 book, Šta je pesnik hteo da kaže, Đorđević recalls how the band decided to hire McCoy: [PGP-RTB executive] Stanko Terzić knew he had the goose that lays golden eggs on his hands, so the label paid for our trip to London to find a producer as well as a studio to record in.

Here's the trick: in the absence of grass, which would destroy our concentration, the English guy, in order to achieve the real atmosphere, decided to get us drunk.

"Na zapadu ništa novo" (named after Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front) was the band's first song with direct political undertones.

Arriving to Sarajevo in late February 1982 for a show at Skenderija as part of the album tour, Đorđević was forced into writing a public explanation for these specific lyrics that were deemed problematic.

[...] Mrtva priroda is one of the rare albums of the Yugoslav scene from which literally every song became a hit [...] the message, the music and the emotions of the band matched with what the youth wanted at that point.