4630 Bochum

4630 Bochum
Studio album by Herbert Grönemeyer
Publication (s)	May 11, 1984
admission	1984
Label (s)	EMI
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	10
running time	38:43 min
occupation	Herbert Grönemeyer - vocals , choir, keyboards , piano Detlef Kessler - drums Alfred Kritzer - keyboards, piano, trumpet Norbert Hamm - bass Jakob Hansonis - guitar Gagey Mrozeck - guitar Charlie Mariano - saxophone
production	Herbert Grönemeyer
Studio (s)	EMI Tonstudio II, Cologne
Location (s)	Maarwegstudio II, Cologne
chronology Mixed Feelings (1983) 4630 Bochum Jumps (1986)
Single releases 4th June 1984 Men October 8, 1984 alcohol 4th February 1985 Airplanes in the stomach

4630 Bochum is the fifth studio album by the German musician Herbert Grönemeyer . It was published on 11 May 1984 as Vinyl - LP and on 14 August 1984 as the audio CD at EMI .

Emergence

4630 Bochum was recorded between January and March 1984 in EMI-Tonstudio II on Maarweg in Cologne . It is Grönemeyer's first album for EMI after Intercord Tonträger GmbH had terminated its record deal the year before. The album entered the German album charts at number 30 on May 28, 1984 and stayed there for 79 weeks. While Michael Jackson's Thriller was the most successful album of the year worldwide , this title went to 4630 Bochum in Germany in 1984 . With over 2.5 million copies sold, it ranks third among the best-selling albums in Germany. It has been awarded platinum 5 times . In Switzerland and Austria, the album was in the charts for 13 and 24 weeks respectively. Above all, the single men made the artist known throughout Germany.

The cover shows lettering similar to a letter addressing in block script with white chalk on a black background:

Herbert

Grönemeyer

4630 Bochum

4630 was the former postcode of the city of Bochum , where Grönemeyer grew up and where he had worked as a musician at the theater .

Content and effect

In the opinion of the publicist and pop music expert Jürgen Stark , Grönemeyer had already taken up left-wing issues in his previous works “with the aura of the mercilessly bourgeois down-to-earth”. At 4630 Bochum , Grönemeyer had become a Ruhrpott buddy who sang about men, children and alcohol the way you think in trendy bars in the Rhineland. The women's movement, Stark continued, could “ smile at Grönemeyer's self-knowledge as a converted softie and be happy about the victory”.

The Rolling Stone magazine ranks the album one of the "50 events that changed rock and roll". In a list of the best albums of all time by the broadcaster WDR 2 , 4630 Bochum came in 10th as the best German-language album.

The title track of the album is seen by many Bochumers as a kind of unofficial "hymn of the city". Since March 20, 1992, the song has been sung , alongside the club song, before every home game of VfL Bochum . According to Rolling Stone, the title's solo contains "a few wrong notes, which goes so well with the homage to the gray, dilapidated mining town with the heart in the right place".

The single Men is one of Grönemeyer's most successful titles to this day. The youth magazine Bravo described the song as a "catchy man-making". For Der Spiegel , the song is about “half satire , half eulogy , part Men's Lib , part Chauvi - Restoration ”. The song seems to have "hit the nerve of all (emancipation-impaired?) Men". Grönemeyer, according to Der Spiegel , was "dealing with the remnants of non-reformed masculinity such as clogged arteries and emotional uptightness [...] with hard rhythms and a bright, throaty, sometimes overturning voice." The song was covered several times or became a reference point for other songs including men! by The Admirals .

Track list

1. Bochum - 3:50
2. Men - 4:00
3. Planes in the stomach - 3:54
4. Alcohol - 4:29
5. America - 3:26
6. There for you - 3:23
7. Now or never - 4:57
8. Trick Questions - 4:17
9. Caught - 4:01
10. Mambo - 2:45

Single releases

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1984	Men 4630 Bochum	DE7 (26 weeks) DE	-	CH27 (5 weeks) CH	First published: June 4, 1984
	Alcohol 4630 Bochum	DE33 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 8, 1984
1985	Aircraft in the belly 4630 Bochum	DE44 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 4, 1985

Cover versions

• 1989 Men a cappella from the Bläck Fööss
• 1995 men as women from JBO
• 1998 Airplanes in the belly of Oli.P ( DE # 1, AT # 1, CH # 1) and Xavier Naidoo
• 1999 Mambo as Mamboleo by Loona
• 2012 Airplanes in Katja Friedenberg's belly in the casting show The Voice of Germany ( DE # 41)

In November 2015, the German rapper Alligatoah released his single Denkt an die Kinder , in which he quotes a line of text from the song Men and sings it in Herbert Grönemeyer's style. The word “men” was replaced by “children” and is an allusion to Herbert Grönemeyer's children in power .

See also

• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany

Web links

• Does Grönemeyer really sing “deep in the west”? ( Memento from August 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) A comparison of the lyrics with the real events in Bochum . The West, August 15, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.amazon.de/Bochum-Vinyl-LP-Herbert-Nemeyer/dp/B0000706SQ
2. ↑ ^{a b} album information at hitparade.ch
3. ↑ Herbert Grönemeyer: 4630 Bochum , Official German Charts, accessed on July 17, 2017
4. ↑ Bayern 3 ( Memento from June 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ 35 years of gold / platinum - Herbert Grönemeyer in first place in the official ranking. ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Musikindustrie.de, July 2, 2010
6. ↑ Jürgen Stark: "Deep in the West": From Krautrock to Neue Deutsche Welle . In: Barbara Hammerschmitt, Bernd Lindner (Ed.): Rock! Youth and Music in Germany . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-86153-384-9 , p. 66
7. ↑ ^{a b} Magical Moments - Herbert Grönemeyer sings about Bochum ( Memento from May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Rolling Stone Magazine
8. ↑ WDR 200 - The best album of all time (PDF)
9. ↑ "Bochum" celebrates its anniversary .  ( 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. Report from Vfl Bochum 1848, August 14, 2009, accessed on February 24, 2017  
10. ↑ ^{a b} People too . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1984, pp. 168-169 ( online ).
11. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH