Yankees out
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Publication |
1982 |
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| Label (s) | Aggressive rock productions | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD (1989) |
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Title (number) |
15th |
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running time |
40:18 |
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Thomas Baur |
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Studio (s) |
Overexploitation Studios, Hamburg |
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Yankees out is the second music album by the German punk band Slime . It was released in 1982 as an LP on aggressive rock productions .
History of origin
In 1981, Slime met the record label boss Karl-Ulrich Walterbach , who led the young band to his recently founded label Aggressive Rockproduktionen . After the two samplers of soundtracks to downfall , he first released the self-financed debut album Slime I and then supported the band in the realization of their second album.
Shortly after the release of the debut album, the band broke up with their drummer Peter "Ball" Wodok, who was not reliable due to frequent excessive drinking. Christian Mevs brought Stephan Mahler into the band. The two had previously played with Screamer. Mahler was already involved in the debut, where he wrote the lyrics for Karlsquell and sang in I Wish I Was . Mahler quickly took over the songwriting for Slime : he contributed the two Screamer pieces Pseudo and Demokratie and wrote 50% of the pieces on the album.
The overexploitation studios in Hamburg were booked again for the recordings. The producer was Thomas Baur.
Cover artwork
The cover artwork shows a photograph of Boris Peetz, a friend of the band, in the outfit of a fast-food service with a hamburger being pressed in the face. The Slime lettering is red. Below it is “Yankees Out” in capital letters and in the colors of the United States flag . On the back there is a photo of a gathering of Langenhorn punks.
Track list
No songwriting credits were given on the original LP. With one exception, the list of authors is based on the information in the booklet of the DVD When Heaven is Burning .
A side
- Yankees Out - 3:09 (unexplained)
- Buy or Die - 1:37 (Stephan Mahler)
- Nightmare - 3:09 (Michael Mayer)
- Pseudo - 3:32 (Stephan Mahler)
- Wide again - 2:32 (Stephan Mahler)
- Greensleeves - 1:59 (traditional)
- Bundeswehr - 2:26 (Michael Mayer)
B side
- Justice - 2:53 (Stephan Mahler / Dirk Jora)
- We will always win - 3:07 (Stephan Mahler)
- Block E - 2:51 (Dirk Jora / Stephan Mahler)
- Thinking is death - 2:48 (Stephan Mahler)
- Legal-Illegal-Shit doesn't matter - 1:50 (Michael Mayer / Dirk Jora)
- Nothing - 1:24
- Democracy - 3:39 (Stephan Mahler)
- When the sky burns - 2:54 (Stephan Mahler)
Re-releases
In 1989 it was first published on compact disc . In 2002 a new version was released on the Hamburg punk label Weird System , but without subjecting the album to a new mastering , without bonus tracks and without a CD equivalent. The background was that the rights had meanwhile been transferred to Universal and that Universal owned the master tapes. In 2007 Slime managed to reclaim the rights after the major label missed a payment deadline. The album was immediately digitally remastered and enhanced with bonus tracks and reissued on the Slime Tonträger label.
Bonus tracks from the new releases 2007 and 2013 (Slime sound carrier)
- Nazis out - 2:46 (Live in Hanover on April 10, 1982, cover by Beton Combo )
- Nightmare - 3:13 (Live Hasenheide Berlin September 20, 1990)
- Democracy - 3:25 (Gasrec / Soundgarden 1990)
- Justice - 2:47 (Gasrec / Soundgarden 1990)
- Police - 2:03 (Gasrec / Soundgarden 1990, cover by Male )
Song info
The copyrights to Yankees out are unclear. Michael Mayer stated in Daniel Ryser's band biography Germany must die that he wrote it under the English title Yankees Out and wrote the music. The DVD Der Himmelbrennt names Stephan Mahler and Dirk Jora as authors . Since the German-language pieces were more popular with the debut album than the English-language ones, the band decided to rely entirely on German lyrics. The song was therefore translated into German, with Mahler probably leading the way. The original version was released in 1990 on the '81 to '87 compilation . An alternative version of the follow-up project Rubberslime caused trouble after it was supposed to be published with updated text on an Attac benefit sampler. In both texts, the anti-Americanism of the band uses a Nazi comparison . In the original it says " In the land of freedom everyone is the same / As the same as in the Third Reich " and the updated text " A nightmare" Made in America "/ The 4th Reich has been around for a long time " and " World Police SA - SS ". In the end, the sampler was released via Impact Records , but without mentioning the name of Attac.
Legal-illegal-don't give a shit quickly became part of the linguistic usage of the left-wing scene and is still often chanted and used as graffiti. The Hessian Greens posted an ironic "Legal, Illegal, Scheißegal" in the state election campaign , which alluded to the CDU donation affair in 1984.
Block E is one of the band's first football songs. Although Slime are considered a supporter of FC St. Pauli , this song cheers their long-term rival, Hamburger SV . The shift to the right in the HSV fan scene and the simultaneous shift to the left by FC St. Pauli did not begin until 1985.
Nightmare is a song that seeks solidarity with the peace movement and warns of the nuclear age .
Music style and lyrics
Musically, slimes on the second album were much more influenced by the American hardcore punk scene around Black Flag and Dead Kennedys than on their debut . With Mahler, an experienced musician also joined the band, who became the most important lyricist of the band and who directed the fortunes of the band both until the dissolution and at the time of the reunion. He left a gap with Slime that the band could not close after the reunion in 2010 and therefore resorted to the setting of Erich Mühsam's lyrics. Although there were political pieces on the album with Yankees out , Democracy , Legal-Illegal-Shit, and Justice , the band moved away from the slogan-like character of the first phase of the band towards more personal lyrics. The biggest point of criticism of the album today is the unsuccessful, pressureless sound, which can be traced back to the work of the Raubbau studio. The studio was unfamiliar with punk records and the band was rather disinterested in the sound tinkering.
Web links
- Yankees out on Slime's official website
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67653-4 , p. 92-105 .
- ↑ Yankees Out (2002). Discogs , accessed June 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2013, p. 229 f .
- ↑ Peter Brandes: "Yankees out" - America reception in the German punk and hardcore discourse . In: Stefan Höppner, Jörg Kreienbrock (Ed.): The American Gods. Transatlantic processes in German-language literature and pop culture since 1945 . De Gruyter, 2015, p. 153-157 .
- ↑ The ATTAC debate about SLIME's punk song "Yankees out". Anis Online, October 2003, accessed March 20, 2015 .
- ↑ CDU - legal, illegal, don't give a shit - meanwhile ready for anything - The Greens. Europeana.eu , archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67653-4 , p. 130 .
- ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67653-4 , p. 95 f .