The golden lemons
| The golden lemons | |
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_IMGP3644_smial_wp.jpg) The Golden Lemons at the Haldern Pop Festival , 2013 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Fun punk , punk , avant-garde |
| founding | 1984 |
| Website | die-goldenen-zitronen.de |
| Founding members | |
| Ted Gaier | |
| Schorsch Cameroon | |
Guitar, bass |
Aldo Moro (until 1994) |
| Ale sex enemy (until 1990) | |
| Current occupation | |
| Julius Block (since 1992) | |
Synthesizer , guitar, bass, various instruments |
Ted Gaier |
Singing, various instruments |
Schorsch Cameroon |
Drums, triangle
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Enno Palucca (since 1991) |
Drums |
Stephan Rath (since 2001) |
| Mense Reents (since 2000) | |
| former members | |
Bass, guitar |
Psycho 1 (1989-1995) |
| Rodrigo González (1986–1988) | |
Guitar, organ, drums, various instruments |
Hans Platzgumer (1995-2002) |
Die Goldenen Zitronen are a band from Hamburg . Founded in 1984 as a fun punk band , their lyrics have shown an increasingly socially critical tendency ever since . Since the 1990s, they have pursued a musical path between new wave, free jazz, electronics and krautrock, sometimes with hip hop influences . They are considered to be the forerunners of the Hamburg School , with which they are critical B. dealt with the album Dead School Hamburg (Give Me A Vollzeitarbeit) . Since the 2000s, electronic elements and experimental musical forms have been added. The texts often have a political reference.
history
The founding members were Bernhard Wondra (vocals), Ale Sexfeind (drums), Ted Gaier (bass, guitar) and Aldo Moro (guitar, bass). After the first concert, however, Wondra was replaced by the actual founding member Schorsch Cameroon . In the meantime, only Schorsch Cameroon and Ted Gaier are still among the founding members. New additions over the years include Thomas Wenzel ( Die Sterne ) under the pseudonym Julius Block , keyboardist Mense Reents (including Egoexpress and Stella ), Stephan Rath and Enno Palucca .
In the beginning, the band combined hard rock 'n' roll with 1970s punk rock and humorous, sometimes evil, hit-like lyrics. Live they were and are in demand due to their chaotic performances. The golden lemons see themselves as a symbol of independence and reject cooperation with the music industry.
In 1986 they caused a stir for the first time with their song On the Day when Thomas Anders died , a satirical adaptation of the hit On the day when Conny Kramer died by Juliane Werding . With Forever Punk - a cover version of the Alphaville hit Forever Young - in which members of numerous other punk rock groups such as Die Toten Hosen or Die Ärzte participated, they had a cult hit in the relevant scene. Several major label contracts were rejected by the band.
The album Fuck You (1990), on which they made fun of big rock bands and protested against everyday stupidity, documented a further development of the band.
In 1994 they presented themselves in a new musical style with the album Das bißchen Totschlag. In addition to their usual power rock, there were elements of garage trash , electro beats, hip hop and noise rock - pop . In the title song, the band refers to the arson attacks in Mölln and Hoyerswerda , the politically motivated murders of blacks in Germany and the subsequent tightening of the asylum law as well as the manslaughter of the squatter and anti-fascist Silvio Meier . In the music video, popular advertising clichés and images of fun society were parodied, which are in stark contrast to the lyrics. In 1996 they released their album Economy Class , on which some jazz-like improvisations can be heard.
With Dead School Hamburg they changed their music style again and the instrumentation became more electronic. A certain tendency towards the avant-garde continued in her 2001 studio album Schafott zum Lift . Five years passed before the next album Lenin . In the end, the result is another collage of modern punk music, apart from the usual pop culture.
On their 2009 album The Origin of the Night , the style of music changed again, and the Golden Lemons developed a tendency towards poetry and chanting. The album is very different from its predecessors. It was album of the week on ByteFM web radio .
The band worked with songwriter and writer Franz Josef Degenhardt , among others , but also with younger artists such as Chicks on Speed and Peaches , Hans Platzgumer , Françoise Cactus , DJ Koze , DJ Hell , Dis * ka and the Merricks. On the 2009 album they collaborated with Michaela Melián and Mark Stewart .
The album More Than A Feeling , released at the beginning of 2019, immediately became “Album of the Week” at NDR Info Nightclub. It sounds like the 1980s, although it is "significantly more electronic, a little more experimental than pure pop", "an exciting album", the reviewer said.
Other projects of the band members
music
- Julius Block: Die Sterne (as Thomas Wenzel with Frank Spilker and Christoph Leich ) and Cow (with Peta Devlin )
- Ted Gaier: Three Normal Beatles and Les Robespierres (with Klaus Ramcke), Schwabinggrad Ballett (with Bernadette La Hengst , Knarf Rellöm , among others ), Motion (with Rocko Schamoni and Schorsch Cameroon)
- Schorsch Cameroon: Motion (with Rocko Schamoni and Ted Gaier), Schorsch Cameroon (solo), Silvester Boy
- Enno Palucca: Enno Palucca (Solo), Dis * ka (with Albert Pöschl , Ralf Summer, Didi Neidhart and Ivi Vukelic)
- Hans Platzgumer: HP Zinker (with Andi Pümpel), Queen Of Japan (as Jo Ashito with Koneko Jr. and Jason Arigato ) and Shinto (with CaMi Tokujiro and Thomas Wühr)
- Mense Reents: Egoexpress (with Jimi Siebels ), Stella (with Elena Lange and Thies Mynther ) and Die Vögel (with Jakobus Durstewitz )
- Stephan Rath: Les Robespierres (with Klaus Ramcke), workshop (with Stephan Abry, Kai Althoff , Christoph Rath and Stefan Mohr)
theatre
- Schorsch Cameroon works regularly as a director on major stages in German-speaking countries, such as the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Münchner Kammerspiele .
- Ted Gaier is a regular guest at the international theater group 400asa .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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 DE
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| 1987 | Porsche, Genscher, Hello HSV Weser Label |
DE86 (1 week) DE |
LP, CD
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| 1988 | Kampfstern Mallorca docks at Weser Label |
- |
LP, CD
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| 1990 | Fuck you polyphony |
- |
LP, CD
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| 1991 | Punk rock multi-sound |
- |
LP, CD
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| 1994 | That little manslaughter Sub Up Records |
- |
LP, CD
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| 1996 | Economy Class Sub Up Records |
- |
LP, CD
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| 1998 | Dead School Hamburg (Give me a full-time work) Cooking Vinyl |
- |
LP, CD
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| 2001 | Scaffold to the elevator Buback sound carrier |
- |
2CD
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| 2006 |
Lenin Buback phonograms |
- |
LP, CD
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| 2009 |
The making of the night Buback sound carrier |
- |
LP, CD
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| 2013 | Who's Bad Buback sound carrier |
- |
LP, CD
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| 2015 | Flogging a Dead Frog Altin Village & Mine |
- |
LP, CD
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| 2019 | More Than a Feeling Buback sound carrier |
DE61 (1 week) DE |
LP, CD
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See also
- Remaining mature attitudes - Documentary by Peter Ott from 2007 about the golden lemons
Web links
- Website of the band
- The Golden Lemon at Discogs (English)
- The Golden Lemons at MusicBrainz (English)
- Works by and about Die Goldenen Zitronen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Golden Lemons - laut.de - Volume. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Jörg Sundermeier: Too beautiful to shock . taz.de. October 12, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ The Golden Lemons "The Origin of the Night" . ByteFM . October 12, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Matias Boem: The golden lemons know no borders . On February 5, 2019 from ndr.de, accessed February 6, 2019
- ↑ Chart sources: DE