Ballast of the republic
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Ballast der Republik is the fifteenth studio album by the rock band Die Toten Hosen . It was produced by Vincent Sorg and released on May 4th, 2012 on the band's own label, JKP , as a single as well as a double album, together with the anniversary album The Ghosts We Called . The additional album The Ghosts We Called mainly contains cover versions and is not available separately.
Ballast der Republik contains 16 German-language pieces of music, in which the band partly presents their point of view and their impressions as citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany . It refers to the old and the new federal states and their common history. Some of the lyrics were created in a collaboration between the band's front man from Düsseldorf , Campino , and the hip-hop musician Marteria from Rostock . The rock hymn days like this was added to the album as the first single in March 2012.
Cover
The front of the packaging, designed by Dirk Rudolph , shows a collage in black and white with symbols and photos of personalities and buildings in the FRG and the GDR ; This includes portraits of the band members, taken by Slavica Ziener . Despite the mask on, you can see Konrad Adenauer and Angela Merkel , who is wearing 3D glasses . In the foreground is a combination of hammer and compass from the national coat of arms of the German Democratic Republic and the German federal eagle in gold.
Emergence
In addition to Vincent Sorg, with whom the band has been working since 2007, Tobias Kuhn was hired as a co-producer in autumn 2011 . When writing the texts, Campino was mainly assisted by Marteria; Birgit Minichmayr helped with texts like this . The band was made up of the musicians Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf on guitars, Andreas Meurer on bass, Vom Ritchie on drums and Campino as lead singer.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered in the Principal Studios from October 2011 to March 2012 . As in previous productions, the band increasingly uses string and wind instruments. The recordings for this were made in the Easy Sound Studios in Cologne. Guest musicians were Thomas Schmitz on cello, Constanze Sannemüller and Adrian Bleyer on violin and Iryna Bayeva on viola, conducted by Dietmar Mensinger , who was also responsible for arranging the classical instruments.
Songs and track list
Ballast of the republic
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The album begins with the almost one and a half minute instrumental piece Drei Kreuze (that we are here) , dog whine and the sounds of a viola convey a gruesome cemetery atmosphere . After a short break, the title song Ballast der Republik follows , in which the authors Campino and rapper Marteria deal with the state of the nation and discover that both new and old federal states carry the same baggage of the past with them.
Campino explains on the band's homepage in March 2012 about the theme of the song “ Tage wie This ”: “Ultimately, it's also about celebrating the moment. The way you go to a concert or a party with a friend and know that this is one of those evenings, a moment that may not come back like this. The song describes such a situation. ”The group published a Spanish version of the piece of music with the title Días Como Estos on August 14, 2012 on their homepage. The translation was written by Sebastián Teysera from the band La Vela Puerca from Uruguay .
Sad for a Summer deals with the fleeting grief of fans for prominent deceased musicians. To be named Jim Morrison , Sid Vicious , Bon Scott , Rex Gildo and Michael Jackson . The following melodic , hymn-like piece Altes Fieber is a nostalgic review of the band's own history and the shared memories of the members.
The text on Two Thirds of Love , developed jointly by Marteria and Campino , deals with the subject of alcohol and deals with the relationship between vodka and passion. The song Europa is about the hope and fate of the boat refugees .
The song Schade, how can that happen? is another anthem of the sports-loving band. It's about defeat and revenge. In the text, which was originally intended for the Düsseldorfer EG , it says: “What a shame, shit, how can that happen, how could we lose against something like that? [...] But we come back to return the favor. "
In the ballad Outside the Door , Campino works on his personal story and his relationship with his father. Campino continues the father-son story in the text of This is the moment , this time with reference to his son, at the same time he tells of his musical life with the band.
The person who talks about himself in the song Three Words is unable to pronounce the phrase “I love you”; the feelings that a woman has for a man for whom she alone puts on make-up, dresses expensively and constantly takes part in the lively nightlife of Oberhausen remain unrequited. According to Campino, the song is called Oberhausen because he remembered going to the bars in the Sterkrade district with a friend . However, the plot of the song could take place in any other city. Die Toten Hosen played one of their first concerts in what was then the Oberhausen club "Old Daddy".
The lyrics in Tear You Up and A Good Day to Fly addresses the same topic, it's about "letting go".
The line of text “We don't want to go and we don't want to stay. We are afraid to decide when and where our path ends. ”From the chorus to Everything has a reason is reminiscent of the song Should I stay, or Should I Go by The Clash .
The song Vogelfrei closes the album . Like almost all of the pieces on the album, it is written from a first-person perspective . The narrator tells from heaven how well he is after he's dead: “God makes the best coffee and nobody spits into me. [...] Champagne from the tap and New Year's Eve every day. ”The piece of music ends with the melody from the instrumental introduction to the album.
The spirits we called
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On the occasion of their 30th anniversary, the band produced a second album together with Vincent Sorg and arranged it with Tobias Kuhn, which is entitled The Ghosts We Called . The anniversary album cannot be purchased individually and consists exclusively of German-language cover versions.
This is partly to songs by German punk bands, like the music computer State of the band down in 1980, downtown front of lunch break from 1979, Sirens of times in 1980 and industry-girl of SYPH from the year 1980th Cry for Love comes from the band Die Ärzte from the 1993 album The Beast in Human Form.
Die Toten Hosen also interpreted the successful titles The Model from Kraftwerk , No Power for Nobody from Ton Steine Scherben , Rock Me Amadeus from Falco and from Today Here, Tomorrow There by Hannes Wader .
Furthermore, the band set music to the poems Im Nebel by Hermann Hesse from 1908 and Voices from the mass grave from 1927 by Erich Kästner . Campino wrote the music for both songs. In the fog the single Drowning from 2009 was already published on the B-side . The Moor song of the prisoners of the concentration camp Börgermoor of 1933 had Die Toten Hosen already on their tour Neck and leg break presented in 2008 a larger audience.
The Foxtrot She has a great Nazi! comes from the revue Weltgeschichte compliant by Fritz Grünbaum (text), music by Stephan Weiss from 1928.
Let's sing is a drinking song. According to the information in the booklet accompanying the album, the text comes from the early 17th century, allegedly from a "Count Zirben" and a " Destilie van der Vogelbeer", who are said to have lived in a complicated relationship to one another, like from their joint diaries from the year 1650 should emerge. The associated music has not survived, the new setting comes from Campino and Andreas von Holst .
Original interpreter and author Funny van Dannen was a guest singer for Some Women ; Wolfgang Rohde whistles in a cry for love , and Hans Steingen is responsible for the sound effects and the additional instruments in A Great Nazi Has She! and let's sing responsibly.
Singles
The song Days Like This was released in March 2012 before the album. After Ten Little Jägermeisters from 1996, it reached number one in the German charts as the band's second single and was awarded three gold records in Germany and one gold in Austria until August 2012 . On the front cover of the single you can see a photograph called May Day III , taken by Andreas Gursky at a mass event in 1998 .
- Days like this
- Champions League - 3:37 (Frege, van Dannen)
- You're missing - 3:04 (Meurer / Campino)
- What is Berlin doing? - 3:30 (Breitkopf / Campino)
The next song Altes Fieber was released from the album in October 2012. The music video for the single, which was directed by Johannes Grebert , shows Die Toten Hosen in the role of the lawless, hunted heroes. The clip is reminiscent of the film Two Bandits , the script of which is freely based on the lives of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .
- Old fever
- On trip - 3:17 (Breitkopf / Campino)
- Under the stones - 3:16 (from Holst / Campino)
- Walking - 2:42 (from Holst / Campino)
- Vacation in Afghanistan - 0:54 (Instrumental; Meurer, Vincent Sorg )
The single Outside Front Door was released in March 2013. The accompanying music clip was also directed by Johannes Grebert.
- Outside the door
- Until the ground burns - 2:43 (from Holst / Campino)
- This letter - 3:16 (from Holst / Campino)
- The world won't collapse from this - 3:22 (van Dannen, Campino)
As the fourth single on the album, the song This is the moment was released in August 2013. The accompanying video was directed by Paul Ripke .
- That's the moment
- You and I (are rock 'n' roll history) - 3:14 (Kuhn, Sorg, von Holst / Campino)
- Hold me - 3:22 (Campino, from Holst / Campino)
- Survival - 3:25 (Breitkopf, Meurer / Campino, Marteria)
Tour days like this and Der Krach der Republik
The band began the tour for the album in April 2012 with a series of concerts in the living rooms of fans, in clubs or club restaurants in Germany. She also played on May 26, 2012 in the exhibition hall 1 in Frankfurt (Oder) and in the Dogana hall in Innsbruck under the motto days like this . On June 2, 2012 she was headliner at Rock im Park in Nuremberg, on June 3, 2012 at Rock am Ring on the Nürburgring, on June 9, 2012 at the Nova Rock Festival in Nickelsdorf in Austria, on June 30, 2012 at the Open- Air-Festival in St. Gallen , Switzerland and on August 10, 2012 at the Artmania Festival in Sibiu , Romania. The band also gave two unplugged concerts in the Vienna Burgtheater , one in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle and one in the Zurich Club Kaufleuten .
In mid-November 2012, the band went on a concert tour under the motto Der Krach der Republik . The tour began with two concerts in the Leipzig Arena , took the band on to Cologne in the Lanxess Arena , in Frankfurt am Main in the Festhalle , in Bremen in the ÖVB Arena and for two concerts in Düsseldorf in the ISS Dome . The band played two days in a row in the O2-World -Arena in Hamburg. In December 2012 the band played in the Munich Olympiahalle , in the Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle , in the Zurich Hallenstadion , in the Erfurt exhibition hall , in the Chemnitzer Arena and two concerts in the TUI Arena in Hanover. Further stops were the Rothaus Halle in Friedrichshafen, the SAP Arena in Mannheim, the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, the Arena Nürnberger Versicherung in Nuremberg, the Stadthallen in Graz and Vienna and, for two days in a row, the Dortmund Westfalenhallen . The two final concerts for the year took place on December 29 and 30, 2012 in Berlin's Max-Schmeling-Halle .
The tour Der Krach der Republik was continued in 2013 and began on April 18 in the Weststadthalle in Essen . Further stations were Pier 2 in Bremen, the Seidensticker Halle in Bielefeld, the Sparkassen-Arena in Kiel, the Dreiländerhalle in Passau, the Schwabenhalle in Augsburg, the Danube Arena in Regensburg, the Olympiahalle in Innsbruck, and two days one after the other the Rewirpowerstadion in Bochum. In the summer of 2013 the group played in St. Gallen in the AFG Arena , in the Olympiahalle in Munich, in the Heilbronner Frankenstadion , in the stadium am Hünting in Bocholt, in the Cologne Rheinenergiestadion , in the Willy Sachs Stadium in Schweinfurt, in the IGA-Park in Rostock, on the trotting track in Hamburg, in the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf and in Bayreuth in the Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion .
Furthermore, the band Die Toten Hosen was a guest at the following events as part of their tour: Expo Plaza Open Air in Hanover, Ferropolis in Gräfenhainichen , Hessentag in Kassel, Festival in St. Wendel am Bostalsee , Moon & Stars Festival in Locarno , Seenland Festival in Hoyerswerda . The band gave a two and a half hour show at the open air at the Freiburg exhibition center in front of 50,000 people. She performed at the Gurten Festival in Bern, the Deichbrand festival in Cuxhaven, at the Frequency Festival in St. Pölten and during the Film Nights on the River Elbe in Dresden. She played in front of 20,000 people at the open air in the Wiley district of Neu-Ulm and in front of 40,000 people at the festival on the banks of the Weser in Minden . She played at the Mannheim Maimarkt , at the SWR3 New Pop Festival in Baden-Baden and at Rock am See in Konstanz. On August 9, 2013, the band organized a festival together with the Berlin group Die Ärzte on the grounds of the former Berlin Tempelhof Airport . At the end of the concert tour, the band gave two concerts on October 11 and 12, 2013 in the ESPRIT arena in Düsseldorf in front of around 47,000 people. A compilation of the two final concerts was released in November 2013 as a double album under the name Der Krach der Republik and was released in April 2014 as a music film.
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The album received consistently good reviews and immediately reached number one in the charts in Germany, number one in Austria and the top of the Swiss charts. For more than 900,000 records of the album sold, the band received nine gold records in Germany , one platinum each for more than 30,000 copies in Switzerland and more than 20,000 copies in Austria. (As of March 2019).
The band Die Toten Hosen received several awards at the Echo Awards 2013 on March 21, 2013. She received the award for “Best Group National Rock / Pop”, for Ballast der Republik as “Album of the Year 2012” and the song “ Tage Like This ” as “Hit of the Year 2012”. In addition, they presented the song Today here, tomorrow there at a joint appearance with Hannes Wader .
Birgit Fuß from Rolling Stone is of the opinion that Die Toten Hosen would not have sounded so compelling for a long time and "bundle their forces efficiently" on ballast of the republic as they have not done since the album away game . In addition, Die Toten Hosen would have “long since ceased to be a dilettante”, one would hear that from the “more varied instrumentation”.
Alexander Cordas at laut.de described Ballast der Republik as "a late work easily shot from the hip" of the band. Die Toten Hosen would “not present any more over-song”, but with the album they would have created “an extremely entertaining work that sounds very informal and seems as if it did not cost the band too much agony.”
Andreas Schulz from the online magazine Musikreviews.de joins the positive reviews and describes the album as "the perfect balancing act between traditional pants-punk and the more grown-up pants-rock of recent years." It offers "the unmistakable pants sound that characteristic guitar playing by Kuddel and Breiti and the always beautiful melancholy melodies that spread a certain Rhenish melancholy. "
In the culture section of Focus magazine it says: “In its 30th anniversary year, the veteran gang from the Rhine presents itself more than ever old-fashioned and not angry. Die Toten Hosen don't accuse the republic of ballast , they don't want to improve the world or provoke the hell out of it. They just want to: entertain. "
Joachim Hiller from Ox-Fanzine , on the other hand, judges days like these as “pounding along” and criticizes his “ingratiating simplicity”. He also writes: “Beer tent, humpahumpatäterä! The trousers have never been more carnival and stadium, and never more unbearable. "
Web links
- Lyrics to the album
- Die Toten Hosen don't go out of style Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from May 4, 2012.
- Punk veterans cover Die Ärzte report on laut.de from March 29, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Birgit Fuß : A little furniture show . Article in Rolling Stone , April 2012 issue, 38–47.
- ↑ a b c d booklet to the album Ballast der Republik and The Ghosts We Called .
- ↑ a b Die Toten Hosen: days like this, video and text. Die Toten Hosen , March 22, 2012, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ “Días Como Estos” the Spanish version of “Days like this”. Die Toten Hosen, August 15, 2012, archived from the original on November 22, 2012 ; accessed on February 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Campinos announcement at Rock am Ring 2012.
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen: What a shame, how can that happen? Die Toten Hosen, accessed November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Dirk Hein: Die toten Hosen sing from Oberhausen und der Liebe on a new album. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , May 2, 2012, accessed on October 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen: Everything has a reason. Die Toten Hosen, accessed November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen: Vogelfrei. Die Toten Hosen, accessed November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Tour data archive - May 28, 2008 Berlin Columbiahalle. Tobias Henze, accessed October 8, 2017 .
- ↑ She has a great Nazi! interpreted by the Dajos Béla dance orchestra . Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Old fever. Die Toten Hosen, October 5, 2012, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Outside the door. Die Toten Hosen, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ This is the moment. Die Toten Hosen, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen cry out for love - and they get plenty of it. Waiblinger Kreiszeitung, June 3, 2013, accessed on September 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Christos & Christos: Die Toten Hosen appear again in Trend Magazine , July 2012 issue, p. 6.
- ↑ Jan Felix Walther: Abitur versus Die Toten Hosen: Everything out of love. Der Spiegel, April 29, 2013, accessed on September 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Fabian Peltsch: Die Toten Hosen: taunts against Uli Hoeneß. Rolling Stone, June 13, 2013, accessed September 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Tour data archive - Ballast der Republik. Tobias Henze, accessed October 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Matthias Kugler: Die Toten Hosen: “This evening was a gift!” SWR 3, July 14, 2013, archived from the original on October 9, 2013 ; accessed on October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Christine Ricken: Die Toten Hosen rock Freiburg. SWR 3, September 2, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Oliver Helmstädter: Die Toten Hosen make Wiley the south curve. Augsburger Allgemeine , August 26, 2013, accessed October 9, 2013 .
- ↑ mt: 40,000 fans at the Toten Hosen concert in Minden. Neue Westfälische , September 1, 2013, accessed April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Pants: Entry in the Golden Book. SWR3, September 14, 2013, accessed April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen: Pioneer of Rock. SWR3, September 14, 2013, accessed April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Ärztival: Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen live in Berlin. Rolling Stone, August 12, 2013, accessed September 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Philipp Holstein: Die Toten Hosen triumph in tour finals. (No longer available online.) Rheinische Post , October 14, 2013, archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; Retrieved October 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Music industry database - search query required
- ↑ The Toten Hosen clear away. ARD , 2013, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Martina Birkelbach: Hannes Wader speaks about his life, the echo and getting older. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , November 14, 2015, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Birgit Fuß: Die Toten Hosen - ballast of the republic. Rolling Stone , May 4, 2012, accessed October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Alexander Cordas: A late work loosely shot from the hip. laut.de , May 4, 2012, accessed October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Andreas Schulz: Die Toten Hosen: Ballast der Republik (Review). musikreviews.de , May 14, 2012, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Record review: Ballast der Republik. Focus , May 6, 2012, accessed October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Joachim Hiller: Die Toten Hosen - Ballast of the Republic / The spirits we called. In: Issue No. 102 June / July 2012. Ox-Fanzine , June 2012, accessed on October 9, 2017 .