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Auswartspiel is a studio album by the music group Die Toten Hosen . It was released on January 21, 2002 to mark the band's 20th anniversary on their own label, JKP . The title alludes to the group's frequent concerts abroad and also underlines their close connection with the sport of football . It is the band's first album to have drummer Vom Ritchie contribute to the entire production.
The album contains anthem-like and rocking songs, up-tempo punk rock pieces , but also the quiet ballad Nur zu Visit , which deals with the mourning of a deceased person. In the songs Graue Panther , Kanzler sein... and Dankbar , Die Toten Hosen continue their tradition of treating political and social issues ironically. The lyrics of No Alcohol Is No Solution deal with an area that the band has often satirized in the past. The album also includes two English language tracks , a cover of the Dillinger track Cokane in My Brain and the song Daydreaming , a collaboration with T.V. Smith .
emergence
On June 11, 2000, Campino tore his cruciate ligament while jumping onto the Rock am Ring stage . The tour "Immorblich", which was planned for the rest of the year, had to be canceled and it took some time before the band's frontman was able to perform again. The Toten Hosen then gave their first concert on January 25, 2001 at the Cuban music fair " Cubadisco " in Havana . After that, the band planned an album into which they wanted to incorporate their impressions from the numerous concerts abroad and which should show the background of their eventful, unsettled life as musicians. Die Toten Hosen have been touring regularly in the Eastern bloc since their inception . In 1990 they gave various concerts at the New Music Seminar in New York , and in 1998 they led the Vans Warped Tour at festivals in Australia, Japan and the USA. Since 1992 the band has also played frequently in Argentina. There she appeared in 1996 as the opening act for the Ramones at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires . Since then, Die Toten Hosen have been celebrated with great enthusiasm in Argentina.
In 2001, in order to be able to work on new plays undisturbed, the group rented a secluded holiday home in Ibiza . More than 75 songs were created there, of which the band chose 15 pieces for the new album. The album was recorded in the "Music-Lan" studio in Avinyonet de Puigventós and finally mixed under the direction of Jon Caffery at Dieter Dierks in Stommeln . The mastering was done by Michael Schwabe in the "Monoposto Studio" in Düsseldorf.
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The photo on the front page was taken at the Balneario Universitario , a seawater outdoor pool in Havana 's Miramar district. It shows the band members in the twilight, like the “black boys” from the Struwwelpeter , running one after the other on a narrow bridge out to sea. In addition to all the lyrics, the booklet contains a number of mostly black and white or blue photographs of the band members during their stay in Cuba in 2001. The cover was designed by Johann Zambryski in collaboration with the photographer Donata Wenders .
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The album's German lyrics, mostly written by Campino, are written from the first-person perspective . For the most part, they deal with memories of the band traveling together, long parties, going to football games and drinking alcohol and the resulting lifestyle. There are serious thoughts about love and death, while Campino satirizes political issues.
retrospect and lifestyle
The album's first song, titled You only live once (before) , is about looking back on "All the years". It ends with the realization: “No time for great regrets; Nobody gives you anything in return.” In the following title Schlampe (nachher) , which refers to the predecessor, the word Schlampe , based on an idea by Rocko Schamoni , is a synonym for an unsound life. Here it says: "Give me a new life! You can get my old one back for free.” Daydreaming 's English text is about the fact that many people miss life because they are waiting for the future. In Amanita Phalloides , Campino quotes dangerous manifestations of diseases as if he were singing the package insert of a drug. The title bears the Latin name of the death cap mushroom . In Depression Deluxe , a morbidly depressed person describes their feelings.
In Das Mädchen aus Rottweil , Campino remembers a girl he met years earlier in front of a cash register in the Swabian town of Rottweil . At the sight of the girl it hit him "like lightning". However, at the time he got on the tour bus and drove on without speaking to her. The line of text "Yes, I wonder how she lives today and whether she has dogs or a husband" is an allusion to the dog breed that made the town of Rottweil famous. Musically, the song is based on Yugoslavian music of the Sinti and Roma . The band was inspired by Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra , known from the film Black Cat, White Cat .
The album closes with the title No alcohol (it's not a solution either)! and Campino's realization that problems will not necessarily be solved even if he gives up alcohol.
love and sadness
In the song What Counts , which is about love, Campino uses archaic imagery and phrases: " I swam the sea, lived on water and salt, just to come here and finally see you. I've been in every desert you can think of, almost giving up, just moving on. "
The piece begins with a melody played by Andreas von Holst on electric guitar, which recurs in the first half of the verses and in the interlude. It consists of open-sounding melody tones, muted rhythmic filling tones, dead notes and a quarter delay effect . In addition, all guitars together play a dominant rhythm with a warm, but heavily distorted sound in the second part of the verses and power chords in the chorus.
In the quiet title Just Visiting , which Campino dedicates to his mother Jennie, as he walks through the cemetery he talks to a deceased loved one as if they were still alive. Campino's vocals are accompanied by guitar, bass, piano and strings, to an arrangement by Hans Steingen .
Soccer
With the title song "Auswartspiel" the band put the entire album under the motto "Life is an away game". The chorus " Ole ole ole ola, we don't care who wins today! Ole ole ole ola because it's about something else! She also sees it as a tribute to her Argentinian fan community.
In the German text of Venceremos - We will win , with the addition "sometime", the band remembers their stay in Cuba from the previous year, where Fidel Castro's slogan Venceremos could still be read on "every house wall". With the English translation, assisted by The Boys' Matt Dangerfield , she directly associates the song with a sporting victory. The English version We Will Be Heroes is on the Official Album of the 2002 FIFA World Cup .
The chorus in Stand Up When You're Down is accompanied by guitars in a shuffle rhythm. The title is based on the lyrics "Walk on With Hope in Your Heart" from the club anthem of Liverpool FC You'll Never Walk Alone . The English version of the song Stand Up , lyrically a collaboration with T.V. Smith, is part of the soundtrack to the film Land of Plenty by Wim Wenders . Get up when you're down also served as the theme song for the 2010 Tatort episode Tod auf dem Rhein .
rhythm
Cokane in My Brain is a cover version of Dillinger's 1976 reggae song of the same name. It's about the "pulse" of the city of New York, where everyone seems to be high on cocaine . The lyrics were taken from the original song unchanged, but the music was recorded much harder and faster, in the style of Rage Against the Machine .
The stress and restricted mobility of a caged creature are described next to the text "Run, run, run - back and forth again and again." Mute and full of impatience that will burn forever” briefly played eighth notes in the title Animal .
The sound of the guitar in the song swimming is inspired by Balkan music, according to Andreas von Holst, who recorded half of the tracks on this piece alone . Old garbage cans and metal parts served as percussion instruments . Music and text in unison describe the rhythmic movements of swimming in the sea.
politics
In Graue Panther the band smiles at themselves. It's about the once youthful revolutionaries of the punk movement , who have since developed symptoms of old age and who complain about the "ungrateful youth" of today. An old-fashioned drum machine sets the rhythm throughout the song .
In the text of Chancellor sein ... Campino puts himself in the role of Gerhard Schröder and complains about his "difficult fate" as Chancellor . "Just be glad you're not chancellor..." it says. He also grumbles: "And then the whole shitty relatives, even some from the East...", a tip that refers to Schröder's election campaign.
The content of the song Grateful is based on a biblical quote: "He who has never known evil cannot see good at all." It cynically refers to the words of comfort a government gives to its disaffected people.
publications
singles
The single Was Counts was released in December 2001 before the album. Three more singles were released throughout 2002, some with live versions recorded on the away tour. T.V. Smith 's cover of the song Runaway Train Driver is the same recording as on the Useless album with the vocals re-sung by Campino.
What matters
- What matters
- Hang him higher – 2:37 (Meurer / Campino)
- Talking about it - 1:42 (by Holst / Campino)
- Waiting nicer – 3:57 (Campino)
No alcohol is not a solution either)!
- No alcohol is not a solution either)!
- How to Make Rabbits - 3:57 (Campino, Meurer / Campino)
- In the Sea – 3:41 (Breitkopf, von Holst / Campino)
Get up when you're on the ground
- Get up when you're on the ground
- Life in the frame – 3:06 (Meurer / Campino)
- Grateful – Live – 2:46 (Breitkopf, von Holst / Campino)
- Call of the Wild - Live - 3:11 (Breitkopf / Campino, T.V. Smith)
Only to visit
- Only to visit
- Runaway Train Driver - 3:12 Cover by TV Smith
- Brain Fuck (Food for the Fish) - 3:14 (by Holst / Campino)
- Just Visiting (Instrumental) – 3:18
music videos
The video for the pre -single What counts by director Ralf Schmerberg shows the band rehearsing in an empty high-rise building in Berlin. Computer-controlled lamps in the windows create patterns that are visible from the outside. The video was made after September 11, 2001 and shows, among other things, the high police presence in the German capital at the time. In a brief shot, extras with oversized papier- mâché heads representing Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush carry a large heart through the street at night. The location was the teacher's house in Berlin , the light installation was the Blinkenlights project .
In 2002, a music video for No alcohol (it's not a solution either) was released! by Peter Thorwarth , in which Karina Krawczyk and Ingo Naujoks are shown as a couple in a posh restaurant. The story is told simultaneously in two different versions through split screen . In one half of the picture, the couple stays sober, while on the other side, copious amounts of alcohol are consumed. In the end, the drunk man staggers over to the "wrong movie" and fights with the people there, so that the plot doesn't have a happy ending on either side. The work won the 2002 Comet for Best National Video.
Director Olaf Heine is responsible for two other videos from the same year . Get Up When You're Down is a black-and-white atmospheric portrait featuring cinematic portraits of individuals, including the band members, and Just Visiting Campino walks the streets and shops of a deserted town. At the end of the song he meets himself and slaps himself in the face. This event makes him realize how busy the city is and that he has just isolated himself.
Reissue 2007
At the end of 2007 all tracks on the album were remastered . In addition to a new, second accompanying booklet and an interview by Jan Weiler with the band, the new edition contains six additional tracks from the years 2001 to 2004, which have since been released as B-sides or demos.
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- Talking about it - 1:42 (by Holst / Campino)
- Waiting nicer – 3:58 (Campino)
- In the Sea – 3:42 (Breitkopf, von Holst / Campino)
- Life in the frame – 3:05 (Meurer / Campino)
- Brainfuck (Food for the Fish) - 3:17 (by Holst / Campino)
- Life Is Hard When You're Stupid - 3:39 (by Holst/Campino)
tour
The band opened the concert tour of the same name for the album Auswärtsspiel on February 8th and 9th, 2002 with two "home games" in the Düsseldorf Philipshalle . Over the course of the year, 75 sold-out concerts followed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She was a guest at the Himos Festival in Finland, at the Sziget Festival in Budapest and at the Polish Woodstock Festival in Żary in front of 350,000 spectators. In addition, Die Toten Hosen gave their “highest” concert to date on the Zugspitze . On August 7, 2002, she organized an evening in the hometown of the girl from Rottweil , to which only women were admitted. There Die Toten Hosen first played a cover version of Funny van Dannen's song Women of this World , which they released shortly thereafter as a single; on the B-side the song Young People, Old People , a collaboration between Campino and van Dannen, and another song, van Dannen's grieves asshole , which the artist also accompanies on the guitar. The single reached number 23 in Germany, number 74 in Austria and number 95 in Switzerland.
In November the band traveled to Argentina again and performed twice at the "El Teatro" in Buenos Aires. The tour ended on December 28, 2002 with a concert at Sporthalle Böblingen .
The tour was managed by Kiki Ressler, who has worked as a roadie for Die Toten Hosen since 1982 and has been managing director of the company KKT (“Kiki's Little Touring Service”) since the 1990s, organizing the band's concert tours. The musicians and the 65-strong crew, for whose catering the chefs of the RGF (“ Red Gourmet Fraction ”) were responsible, traveled in six buses. The equipment found space in five trucks. With ticket prices kept low at around 21 euros, it was the most successful concert tour by a music group in Germany in 2002.
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The album reached number one in the charts in Germany and also number one in the Austrian charts, and number three in Switzerland. In 2002 it was awarded a gold and a platinum record in Germany; in Austria once with gold.
press reviews
In Rolling Stone , which featured the band members in astronaut attire on the cover of its February 2002 issue, the group received the seven-page cover story with Im Headquarter der Toten Hosen . There it says, among other things, that you can listen to the songs on the new album several times without getting bored. Just visiting would almost bring tears to your eyes, and if you don't laugh at No alcohol is no solution , it's your own fault. The band also received praise for the album at laut.de. The reviewer, who adapts his words to the language of football, writes that the game system is no longer up-to-date, but that they play to their strengths and crack every catenaccio according to the motto "Cobbler, stick to your bars".
The online magazine Powermetal.de speaks of "very successful and varied songs, numerous hits and absolutely outstanding lyrics." Götz Kühnemund , editor-in-chief of the magazine Rock Hard , also attests to the extreme versatility of the Toten Hosen on this album. The songs Graue Panther , Kanzler sein and No alcohol (isn't a solution either) are self-deprecating and funny, while Depression Deluxe and Only to visit thoughtfully and you live only once are the best "pants song" in a long time. At CDstarts.de it is said that the title song is a first-class catchy tune, it sounds hopeful and forgiving. The Toten Hosen would have overcome their melancholic phase and would finally deliver songs again, which one can hear the good mood of the band.
Oliver Ding from Plattentests.de , on the other hand, writes that in the gloomy What counts , which initially gave hope for a return to old strengths, Campino shows himself more expressively than seldom, while the band grabs it as if they had mothballed their rheumatic blankets and warmed themselves up again with their own sweat. But despite the newly discovered attacking game, there are unfortunately problems all too often in the team structure. Regarding the title Nur zu Visit , Ding says that even the most committed pants hater could get caught secretly letting a tear disappear into his buttonhole.
The album received negative criticism in Spiegel Online . The numerous self-plagiarisms are grueling, only a touch of emphasis runs through just visiting . The drinking song, which is available again this time, is not very meaningful and only moderately amusing . .
literature
- Die Toten Hosen, edited by Hans Steingen : Rich & sexy II - The fat years. (Songbook) Bosworth Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-937041-45-1 .
- Red Gourmet Faction: Cooking for Rock Stars . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 2004. ISBN 3-462-03397-2 .
- Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 .
- Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies ... The Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens 1982-2007 . Booklet accompanying the 2007 reissue, Episode 17: Away Game .
itemizations
- ↑ a b Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . p. 62.
- ↑ Jürgen Seibold , VIP music: Die Toten Hosen . Paul Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-552-05005-1 . P.56.
- ↑ How the Toten Hosen conquer Argentina. , Weltonline, article from April 30, 2009.
- ^ a b Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies ... The Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens 1982-2007 . Booklet accompanying the 2007 reissue, Episode 17: Away Game .
- ↑ You and Me , February 2002 edition
- ↑ a b c d Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . pp. 103-105.
- ↑ a b c Die Toten Hosen, adaptation by Hans Steingen : Rich & sexy II - The fat years. (Songbook) Bosworth Berlin, ISBN 3-937041-45-1 .
- ↑ a b Booklet accompanying the album, p. 2.
- ↑ The Official Album of the 2002 FIFA World Cup , Epic , EPC 5081 76 3.
- ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . p. 107.
- ↑ Land of Plenty soundtrack
- ↑ Between all chairs - Interview with Campino. Rock Hard , Issue #3, March 2002.
- ↑ Wom, February 2002 edition, p. 29.
- ↑ a b Birgit Fuss: In the Toten Hosen headquarters. , in Rolling Stone , Issue #2, February 2002, pages 44–50.
- ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . p. 108.
- ↑ Schröder's Elective Affinities Article in Spiegel Online of May 22, 2001.
- ↑ Tim Pritlove : Dropping Knowledge and Chocolate City (mentioned filming of What Matters )
- ↑ DVD Rich and Sexy II - Your most successful videos , comments from the band.
- ↑ The Toten Hosen on the summit. in Münchner Merkur of February 8, 2002.
- ↑ The girl from Rottweil - desperately looking for an article from the FAZ .
- ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . p. 148.
- ↑ Red Gourmet Faction: Cooking for Rock Stars . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 2004. ISBN 3-462-03397-2
- ↑ Trouser skirt & canned beer Article in focus , issue 29/2002.
- ↑ Hit parade Austria
- ↑ Swiss hit parade
- ↑ Music Industry Database – Search required
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen "away game" in the IFPI database DE AT CH
- ↑ Review on laut.de
- ↑ Review from May 23, 2002 in the online magazine Powermetal.de
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund : Between all chairs , in Rock Hard , Issue 178, March 2002 edition.
- ↑ Criticism on CDstarts.de
- ↑ Review at Plattentests.de
- ↑ Review on Spiegel Online , January 28, 2002.
web links
- Lyrics to the album
- The big away game interview 2002 - Part 1. Die Toten Hosen, 2002, archived from the original on June 25, 2013 ; retrieved October 26, 2013 .
- The Big Away Game Interview 2002 - Part 2. Die Toten Hosen, 2002, archived from the original on September 1, 2004 ; retrieved October 26, 2013 .
