2nd skin
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Publication |
June 5, 2000 |
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February-April 2000 |
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD |
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Title (number) |
15th |
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running time |
39:47 |
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The Bates & Martin Wagnitz |
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Studio (s) |
Basement's "Room No. 1 ", Kassel |
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2nd Skin is the last studio album by the Hessian punk rock band The Bates . It was released in 2000 by Virgin Records and contains only cover versions .
background
The album was created as a satirical response to criticism allegations that the band would have success almost exclusively with cover songs, for example Billie Jean by Michael Jackson and Hello by Shakespears Sister . The appropriate title 2nd Skin was chosen for this. The selection of songs is limited to classics of rock and pop music . With the exception of the songs by The Cure , Aneka and The Chameleons , all songs were written before the 1980s. Blue from Eiffel 65 was also represented in the music that was current at the time . According to the musicians, every song has a meaning for the band members. The idea behind the album was "to make one or the other (ancient) song interesting for a new audience".
The album was released between February and April 2000 in Basement's "Room No. 1 “recorded in Kassel . The producer was Martin Wagnitz. The guitarist Tilmann "Dully" Schüssler, who joined in 1999, is involved in the recordings for the first time. The album was released as a limited digipak and as a normal CD version on June 5, 2000. Japanes Girl was planned as a single release , but was only pressed in small numbers in 2000 and then deleted.
It was to be the band's last album. The first tour for the album ended on August 26th, 2000 with a canceled concert and the continuation of the tour in autumn had to be prematurely ended. The background was probably personal differences, which were sparked primarily by Markus Zimmer's alcohol consumption. A year after the album was released, the Bates announced their breakup.
Track list
| # | title | length | original interpreter | Text and composition | Music publisher |
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| 1 | Up the Down Escalator | 3:48 | The Chameleons | Burges / Lever / Fielding / Smithies | EMI Virgin Music Publishing |
| 2 | Out of time | 2:24 | The Rolling Stones | Mick Jagger / Keith Richards | Essex Musikvertriebs GmbH |
| 3 | Japanese Girl (Original title: Japanese Boy) | 3:11 | Aneka | Heatlie | EMI Publishing |
| 4th | Ferry 'Cross the Mersey | 2:01 | Gerry & the Pacemakers | Marsden | Universal Music Publishing |
| 5 | Children of the Revolution | 2:20 | T. rex | Bolan | WIzard Ltd. |
| 6th | Wailing Wall | 2:39 | The Cure | Smith | Music publisher Intersong GmbH |
| 7th | 48 crash | 2:48 | Suzi Quatro | Chinn / Chapman | Chinnichap / rak Publ. Ltd. |
| 8th | Sorry Suzanne | 3:00 | The Hollies | Stephens / Macauley | Music edition Discoton |
| 9 | Blue | 1:22 | Eiffel 65 | Randone / Gabutti | GZ2538 Publishing |
| 10 | To Know Her Is to Love Her (Original title: To Know Him Is to Love Him) | 2:26 | The Teddy Bears | Spector | Abkco Music Publishing |
| 11 | A glass of champagne | 2:27 | Sailor | Kajanus | Warner / Chappell |
| 12 | Nights in White Satin | 3:30 | The Moody Blues | Hayward | Tyler Music Ltd. |
| 13 | Big donor | 1:55 | Shirley Bassey | Coleman / Fields | Connelly Music Publishing Sikorski Kg |
| 14th | Up around the bend | 2:27 | CCR | Fogerty | Jondira BMI |
| 15th | Helter Skelter | 3:24 | The Beatles | Lennon / McCartney | Sony / ATV Music Publ./EMI Songs |
Music genre
Musically, the songs were implemented in the typical Bates style, i.e. mainly recorded faster, louder and more direct. The song Blue , originally assigned to Eurodance , sounds like Metal in the Bates version . Aneka's Japanese Boy was renamed Japanese Girl and the cover of Teddy Bears was sexually changed to To Know Her Is to Love Her .
reception
Bettina Doerr from Laut.de emphasized that this album “unfortunately does not reach the class of her version of 'Hello (Turn Your Radio On)' or the ingenious interpretation of the German canon 'Heo, Spann den Wagen an'”. In the Visions the songs were panned as "eggless screwed up [e] new editions by four moderately talented jokers".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bettina Doerr: A classic in rock history, played loudly and directly. Retrieved March 2, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Review. Whiskey-soda.de, archived from the original on October 25, 2013 ; Retrieved March 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Albums. Official website, archived from the original on May 12, 2012 ; Retrieved March 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Singles. Official website, archived from the original on May 4, 2012 ; Retrieved March 2, 2012 .
- ^ Band history. Official website, archived from the original on May 4, 2012 ; Retrieved March 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Bates singer died. Kino.de , June 29, 2006, archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; Retrieved March 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Band biography. Laut.de , accessed on March 2, 2012 .
- ↑ criticism . In: Visions . No. 87 , June 2006 ( visions.de ).