Ö (album)
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10 |
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45:22 |
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Herbert Grönemeyer, Norbert Hamm |
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Ö is the seventh studio album by the German musician Herbert Grönemeyer . It was released by EMI on March 30, 1988. For a long time, at 14 weeks, it was the longest album in the German album charts by a German artist since the switch to weekly charts. Only in August 2010 was itsurpassedby Unheilig's Great Freedom . Ö was sold more than 1.75 million times in Germany alone.
background
After the successful Sprünge tour in 1986 and the birth of his son, Herbert Grönemeyer and his band went to a studio installed in a villa in Membach , Belgium in October 1987 to record the follow-up album. Peter Woodroffe was responsible for the recordings, which were completed by December 1987. The recordings were completed with Harald Lepschies in January 1988 in Cologne . Lepschies also did the mix between February and March 1988 at Dierks Studios in Stommeln . On March 30, 1988, Ö was published . The first single was What is it for? selected, but also Vollmond , Halt mich and Komet developed into hits in German-speaking countries.
The album reached number 1 in Germany , Austria and Switzerland . On the subsequent tour, which began on April 13, 1988 in Grefrath and ended on September 3, 1989 in Essen at the Georg Melches Stadium , Grönemeyer played 68 concerts in German-speaking countries . On the German bestseller list of the year 1988 by the magazine Musikmarkt, Ö reached number 2 immediately behind Michael Jackson's Bad . At the end of 1988 Grönemeyer released the English-language album What's All This , which did not only contain songs by Ö but also from earlier albums. This was able to achieve a certain degree of success in Canada , where the title song made it into the singles charts, so that Grönemeyer also gave concerts there in several large cities. A VHS video Ö-Tour 1988 was also released , recorded on June 29 of that year in the Cologne sports hall .
The artwork shows a section of the lettering “GRÖNEMEYER” in white on a turquoise background, whereby the “Ö” was designed as a stylized face with the dots within the circle and placed centrally on the cover. The turquoise on white lettering is continued on the inside cover. It was designed by the artist Josef Hawle .
Content and reception
In Mit Gott , Grönemeyer discussed the Barschel affair at the time (“unfortunately one of them went swimming, but we threw him overboard in time”) and the CDU (“the C radiates huge over us”) in general.
Die Zeit wrote that with the album Grönemeyer proved to be “again the first German rock poet”, that the songs had “lightness and polish” and were “at the same time peppered with rhythmic barbs and intellectual contradictions.” Grönemeyer was better at mastering and using his vocal means they are "more economical and more effective". Especially Was that , a song about a jealousy scene, with its self-irony and its "comedy to be seen as a stroke of luck for German rock". "The music consists of blobs that together make a brightly colored picture."
Track list
- What shoud that? - 4:33
- Full moon - 4:30
- Comet - 5:19
- With God - 4:38
- Hold me - 3:25
- No home - 3:39
- Autumn awakening - 4:31
- Questionable - 3:51
- Are you deaf - 4:04
- What shoud that? (Extended new mix) - 6:15 (bonus track, only on CD)
Single releases
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| 1988 | What shoud that? | 3 | 15th | - | ||||
| Full moon | 21st | - | - | |||||
| Hold me | 33 | - | - | |||||
| 1989 | comet | 59 | - | - | ||||
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 15th place first: Unheilig set a record . Abendblatt.de, accessed August 20, 2010
- ^ Biography Herbert Grönemeyer musik-base.de
- ↑ a b Sources: DE ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH
- ↑ Tour course Ö-Tour last-version.de
- ↑ Pop: Jackson's nose ahead . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1989 ( online ).
- ^ Person, year 1988 ( Memento from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) groenemeyer.de
- ↑ Grönemeyer biography cd-kritik.de
- ↑ Martin Ahrends: Strolling is a luxury. German rock: sometimes better than expected . In: Die Zeit , No. 41/1988.
