4 wins (album)

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4 wins
Studio album by Die Fantastischen Vier

Publication
(s)

1992

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

CD. LP

Genre (s)

Hip hop

Title (number)

18th

running time

65m20s

occupation
  • Smudo (Michael Bernd Schmidt)

production

And.Ypsilon, Klaus Scharff, Andreas "Bär" Läsker

chronology
Here we go
(1991)
4 wins The 4th Dimension
(1993)

4 wins is the second studio album by the hip-hop formation Die Fantastischen Vier . It was released on August 28, 1992. With those there !? this album contains the band's most successful single to date. In 2009, on the occasion of the band's 20th stage anniversary, a digitally revised version of the album was released, which also contains bonus tracks.

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
4 wins
  DE 3 09/21/1992 (44 weeks)
  AT 3 11/29/1992 (17 weeks)
  CH 3 11/29/1992 (20 weeks)
Singles
That one!?!
  DE 2 09/21/1992 (28 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 11/29/1992 (12 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 11/29/1992 (24 weeks)
juice
  DE 19th 02/01/1993 (12 weeks)
  CH 38 02/21/1993 (2 weeks)
Let the sun shine in
  DE 92 07/05/1993 (3 weeks)

Style and reception

"4 wins" continues the style of the previous album Jetzt it goes from consistently.

The lyrics also deal with youthful topics such as relationships ( Thomas and the women , Die there!?! ) And sex ( juice ), as on “Now it goes off” there is also a diss track ( asshole ) for the last time .

Especially the catchy single Die da!?! provided the band with regular airplay for the first time and thus a level of awareness beyond the status of an insider tip. Outside of the German-speaking area, however, the reaction of the critics was rather restrained; the album only got 2.5 out of 5 stars from the All Music Guide .

successes

The album “4 wins” achieved, probably also fueled by the success of Die da!?! , in Germany, Austria and Switzerland place 3 of the respective album hit parade. When singles were juice , let the sun in and those there!?! released. The most successful single was Die da!?! , which climbed to the top of the single charts in Austria and Switzerland and reached number 2 in Germany.

Track list

No. title length
1. Four wins 3:52
2. That one !?! 4:11
3. Listen to this one 1:32
4th juice 4:36
5. Thick sweater 1:40
6th Alright 3:03
7th One more 0:32
8th. There will be rain 3:35
9. Call him President (only on CD) 2:12
10. Record player (only on CD) 1:18
11. Hip hop music 4:38
12. Let the sun shine in 4:09
13. Thomas and the women 3:14
14th Nonixnarretz 0:40
15th Yes 3:35
16. Reich (only on CD) 1:30
17th Individually but quickly 3:52
18th asshole 13:11

Trivia

The melody of the chorus of Die da !? comes from the piece Right Down Here by the Indian musician Asha Puthli . The samples with the wording Who is she? and she is beautiful! in this song are from Star Wars and are said by Luke Skywalker . For Nonixnarretz , Godfather runnin 'the joint was sampled by James Brown . The song White Horse by the Danish pop duo Laid Back was again sampled for the song Saft .

On the LP version, the last piece of asshole is infinitely long, as the sonorous sound at the end of the song is fed into an endless groove and therefore continues until you manually stop playback. This was not technically possible on the CD; here the sound is slowly faded out after about 13 minutes.

Individual evidence

  1. Discogs: 4 wins. Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
  2. a b Singlecharts: DE ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  3. Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
  4. Texts to 4 wins . Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
  5. All Music Guide: 4 wins. Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Album charts: DE ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de

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