Adios (album)
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| Label (s) | Rule 23 | |||
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15th |
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56:57 |
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| occupation | Singing: Kevin Russell Drums: Peter Schorowsky |
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Stephan Weidner |
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studio23, Frankfurt |
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Adios is the 15th studio album by the German rock band Böhse Onkelz . It was released on July 26, 2004 on the band's own label Rule23 Recordings and is the last studio album before their interim separation. The autobiographical lyrics and the comparatively hard riffs are characteristic of the style of the album . As with the previous album Dopamin , the pre-production for the album Adios took place from the end of September 2003 to spring 2004 on the Balearic island of Ibiza .
Cover design
The Cuban artist Pozo drew the artwork for the album and made a video clip for the song Onkelz vs. Jesus and a making-of that was added to the album as a DVD track. The cover is mostly in blue and white tones and shows the silhouettes of the band members as well as several blocks. In the center is adios in red letters and underneath the Böhse Onkelz band logo in yellow.
Track list
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| 1 | Fire | 3:34 |
| 2 | Always in search of | 2:58 |
| 3 | Superstar | 2:30 |
| 4th | You have something like that ... | 5:01 |
| 5 | Yes / Yes | 3:35 |
| 6th | Let me go | 4:01 |
| 7th | catch me | 2:47 |
| 8th | once | 4:20 |
| 9 | Children of that time | 3:04 |
| 10 | Haters | 4:24 |
| 11 | Onkelz vs. Jesus | 3:31 |
| 12 | Overstimulated | 3:59 |
| 13 | Prince Valium | 2:47 |
| 14th | You should have known | 5:21 |
| 15th | ADIOZ | 5:12 |
Background information on individual songs
- Haters
The song title is a mixture of the words "hate" and "Hitler" and phonetically refers to the English term "hustler" (crook, hustler). In this song, the neo-Nazis are accused of wanting to restore the conditions from the time of National Socialism :
- Want to repeat history, want to march again
- You are the hater - paranoid and confused
- You are the hater - pierced once through the brain
- Onkelz vs. Jesus
The band describes how they overrated themselves in their early years.
- We were stupid, but confident
- With a proudly swollen hero's breast
- The course was set
- The streets of our world
- You should have known
This farewell song to the loyal fans was often played as the last song at the remaining concerts after the album was released.
- For everyone and none
- We are on target and at peace with ourselves
- The last one turns the light off
- We go
- ADIOZ
The song begins and ends with the sound of the sea and is played by three acoustic guitars. ADIOZ is an instrumental and the slowest track on the album.
Chart successes and singles
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Adios entered the German album charts at number 1 in the 33rd calendar week of 2004 and stayed there for 3 weeks before dropping to number 2. Overall, the album was in the top 100 for 17 weeks. In the German annual charts for 2004, the sound carrier was ranked 11th.
The song Onkelz vs. Jesus , including the album track Superstar , the cover song My Generation and an instrumental version of the track Prinz Valium . The CD also contained a ROM part. The single entered the German charts at number 2, stayed in the top 100 for 10 weeks and sold over 150,000 copies.
Sales figures and awards
The album sold over 200,000 times in Germany within five days, which corresponds to the sales figures for a platinum record .
reception
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Michael Edele from laut.de rated the album with four out of a possible five points. He writes that the Onkelz "have [] with" Adios "an album at the start, with which they say goodbye anything but quietly". The texts are still critical, "snappy and clear up grievances of various origins". He notes critically that "the mix of the disc could have been better, because Kevin's singing is often too quiet and it is sometimes difficult to determine whether Kevin or Stefan is singing."
The music magazine Rock Hard gave the album 8.5 out of a possible ten points. The author Götz Kühnemund describes Adios as "the expected round farewell" and "the musically most mature Onkelz album ever". In addition to the “down-to-earth (good) production [...] there are also clear influences of“ modern ”guitar rock bands”. "The band - especially drummer Pe and bassist Stephan" - have "improved their playing technique without losing their gutter charm."
Adios was ranked 393 in the Rock Hard list - The 500 strongest records of all time by Rock Hard magazine .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Onkelzvinyl.de - album "Adios". Retrieved on August 16, 2010 ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2010 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.
- ↑ Gonzo: The official and authorized biography of Matthias Röhr . Autobiography written with co-authors Dennis Diel and Marco Matthes, Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 1st edition, November 2019. p. 287
- ↑ Album cover on amazon.de
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Chart tracking Adios at musicline.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.
- ↑ DE: Annual charts # 11
- ↑ Chart tracking Onkelz vs. Jesus at musicline.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.
- ↑ Article on dunklerort.net ( Memento from April 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive
- ↑ SPV wins platinum with Onkelz On mediabiz.de, August 2, 2004. Accessed August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Evaluation: Loud
- ↑ Rating: Rock Hard
- ↑ Rating: CDSTARTS
- ↑ Rock Hard - The 500 strongest discs of all time in Rock Hard (ed.): Best of Rock and Metal, Heel-Verlag, Königswinter 2007
