Odbrana i poslednji dani (Serbian Cyrillic: Одбрана и последњи дани 'The Defense and the Last Days') is the first studio album by Yugoslav new wave band Idoli released in 1982.

[1] In 2015, Odbrana i poslednji dani was polled the greatest Yugoslav rock album in the special edition of Croatian Rolling Stone.

The band's initial plan was an album dealing with religion and tradition, which was seen as potentially provocative due to multiple aspects of these topics still being a taboo in communist Yugoslavia's public sphere at the time.

This was the first release that included a lineup change as Kokan Popović (who played with Vlada Divljan and Zdenko Kolar in Zvuk Ulice) now joined Idoli as their new drummer.

They had ideas (within the specific context of Pekić's work, and also in broader philosophical scope), but turning them into music and finding satisfactory sound presented a challenge.

The track "Senke su drugačije" featured Vuk Vujačić (saxophone), Goran Grbić (trumpet) and Slobodan Grozdanović (trombone).

Idoli used the mental state of this man who was disoriented and confused with his surroundings and moved it to the urban background and the present moment (used in the song "Kenozoik").

The song "Poslednji dani" (originally entitled "Maršal") represents a man who feels very joyous and romantic at night, a time when his hidden personality shows up.

In the mirror he sees a woman he would like to be, filled with strange comparisons and statements that shows a deep psychological disorder, which in a different form happened to the main character of the novel.

The backing vocals lyrics include "Igrale se delije nasred zemlje Srbije" which was a popular poem written by Serbian poet Milorad M. Petrović Seljančica (1875-1921).

"Odbrana" (originally entitled "Isus je naš maj") is a sophisticated song about a lonely man who is far away from everything he loves and who misses his old life by the river.

"Glavna ptica (skrati svoj dugački jezik)" is talking about barricades, tear-gas, road blocks which are connected to war, the man in the novel could not understand.

One of the first live shows the band did was in Zagreb club Kulušić where Dragan Vulinović, who worked in Radio Belgrade as sound engineer, dressed in black and holding a thurible containing incense was walking along the stage as a thurifer.

In 2007 the album appeared on Croatia Records' box set VIS Idoli featuring all studio efforts except the "Vidici" single.