All Against All (album)
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Publication |
1983 |
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| Label (s) | Aggressive rock productions | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
15th |
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running time |
38:20 |
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Studio (s) |
Musiclab Berlin |
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Alle gegen Alle is the third music album by the German punk band Slime . It was published on 15 April 1983 on Aggressive rock productions .
History of origin
The members of Slime and label boss Karl-Ulrich Walterbach were not particularly satisfied with the production of the two previous albums Slime I and Yankees out . The recordings for the band's third album were therefore moved to the Musiclab Studio in Berlin . Harris Johns could be won as a producer . Johns was to remain loyal to Walterbach, as he subsequently became the house producer of the aggressive rock productions successor Noise Records and a well-known producer in the metal genre. Work on the songs began after the Yankees were recorded . It was mainly Stephan Mahler who was responsible for the lyrics, while Michael Mayer contributed the music.
Cover artwork and title
The cover artwork shows a mummy shooting someone in the head. The title Alle gegen Alle was coined by the DAF song of the same name and was a reaction to the tensions within the Hamburg punk scene at the time. The CD booklet also contains statements about the allegations of anti-Americanism that emerged after the Yankees :
“It is up to everyone to interpret our texts. But if we have to be accused of fascist sentiments, because - 'if you sing yankees out you can just as well' sing turks out '(the warning quote from a' critic ') - then you ask yourself what political statement is for text "
Track list
A side
- Left bourgeoisie - 2:06 (Mayer)
- Störtebeker - 2:12 (Mayer)
- Downfall - 2:31 (Mahler)
- Too cold - 2:50 (Mahler)
- You are beautiful - 2:58 (Mahler)
- Religion - 3:16 (Mayer)
- Nazis out - 2:11 (Frank Nowatzki, originally from Beton Combo )
B side
- Sand in the Gears - 2:10 (Mahler)
- All against all - 3:00 (Mevs, Mahler)
- The Last - 2:09 ( Mahler)
- Etiquette Kills - 3:19 (Mevs, Mahler)
- I don't want to become - 3:20 ( Möbius , originally by Ton Steine Scherben )
- Death - 1:51 (Mayer, Mahler)
- Oh Boy - 1:41 (Tilghman, Petty , West , originally by The Crickets )
- Good advice is expensive - 2:37 (Mayer)
Re-releases
The album was first released in CD format in 1989. As with all early Slime albums, the rights had meanwhile been transferred to Universal . In 2002 a non-remastered version was released on the Hamburg punk label Weird System . In 2007 Slime managed to reclaim the rights after the major label missed a payment deadline. The album was immediately digitally remastered and enhanced with bonus tracks and reissued on the Slime Tonträger label.
- ACAB - 1:44
- Karlsquell - 2:47
- DISCO - 2:56
- We have to get out of here - 4:06 (Original from Ton Steine Scherben )
- Fourth Reich - 2:08
Music style and lyrics
Alle gegen Alle showed Slime as a more mature, but also bitter band. Compared to the Yankees out , the lyrics were refined one more time and finally deprived of the slogan heaviness of the first release. They are much more personal, but also show, especially in the title track, in You are beautiful , Linke Spießer and The Last, the bitterness of the Hamburg punk scene, which Slime accused of commercialism and which threatened to break apart. The critics call Alle gegen Alle the best early slime album.
Song info
Left philistines , a settlement with the former radical left, who thought of Slime with their anti-American accusations, but at the same time now also represent the establishment (“ You are teachers and civil servants, are so-called scholars, (...) But you have something against Rabatz and are doing the cops like to place ") was also on the right rock band amplifier gecovert . The band couldn't do anything about it, as Endstufe didn't make any textual changes.
The album contains several cover pieces, including the song Nazis raus from the Berlin punk band Beton Combo . The second cover, I don't want to become, pays tribute to Rio Reiser and Ton Steine Shards , who were a huge influence on Slime. This is followed by the title Oh Boy , a rock 'n' roll classic by The Crickets , which is sometimes referred to as boy, boy .
Alle gegen Alle is also the title of the 2009 Sunny Bastards tribute sampler Alle gegen Alle - A Tribute to Slime . The sampler was indexed in 2013 by the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young People.
Web links
- All versus All on Slime's official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67653-4 , p. 104-109 .
- ^ Quoted from Peter Brandes: "Yankees out" - America reception in the German punk and hardcore discourse . In: Stefan Höppner, Jörg Kreienbrock (Ed.): The American Gods. Transatlantic processes in German-language literature and pop culture since 1945 . De Gruyter, 2015, p. 154
- ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2013, p. 229 f .
- ^ A b André Bohnensack / Joachim Hiller: Punk is a master from Germany . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 102 , 2012 ( ox-fanzine.de ).
- ↑ Slime: Punk Rock is not dead . In: Ox-Fanzine. No. 75, December 2007 / January 2008 ( http://www.ox-fanzine.de/web/itv/2819/interviews.212.html )
- ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People: Announcement No. 4/2013 on carrier media harmful to young people of March 19, 2013