Until the bitter end (album)
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1987 |
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18th |
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47:48 |
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The first live album of the punk rock band Die Toten Hosen is until the bitter end . It was recorded during 1987, during various concerts on the tour, entitled A Colorful Evening for a Black Republic , produced by Jon Caffery and released at the end of 1987 on the Virgin Records label. It reached number 23 in the German album charts and was the album with the second-highest sales by a German band until the mid-1990s.
Cover design
The front cover, in orange and black, designed by Die Hosen Cover AG and LMP, shows the words Die Toten Hosen and the title of the album against a background of laughing yellow skulls. The booklet contains newspaper clippings, concert photos and lyrics. On the back you can see children's pictures of the band members. The first edition of the vinyl edition was accompanied by a stencil of the ribbon logo " Bone Eagle".
Emergence
The concert tour began with a concert on March 29, 1987 in the Wartburg in Wiesbaden under the motto A colorful evening for a black republic under the direction of Jäki Eldorado . It led via Hamburg , Baden-Baden , Bonn , Cologne , the Bruchhausen Festival in Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Münster .
On June 14th and 15th, 1987 the band gave two concerts in Munich , some of which were recorded by Bayerischer Rundfunk for the broadcast Live from Alabama . They played in Baindt , Bamberg , Bayreuth , Nuremberg , Frankfurt am Main , Höxter , Osnabrück , Haltern am See , at the Rock-im-Sportpark Festival and the Plattlin Festival in Göttingen , in Mannheim and a second time in Bonn.
After the event at the Roskilde Festival on July 3, 1987 in Denmark, drummer Wolfgang Rohde broke his collarbone. Until the end of the tour, Jakob Keusen , who had already played temporarily for the band in 1985 , represented him . The concert tour continued to Haltern , Oberhausen , Wuppertal , Düsseldorf and Deggendorf . On September 5th, 1987 the band played in the Tempodrom in Berlin, on September 12th in Garching near Munich at the Peace Festival and on September 15th at the Olof Palme Peace Festival in Pilsen , where the band, after an exuberant celebration, together with those from the Fans who had traveled to the GDR were forced to leave the country immediately by the police. The tour ended with a Christmas concert on December 23, 1987 at Tor 3 in Düsseldorf .
During the concert tour, the group Stunden X from Düsseldorf and the London band Blubbery Hellbellies did the opening act . Sometimes Die Goldenen Zitronen also appeared on stage as guests.
The concerts were recorded by the mobile recording studio Dieter Dierks , the mixing and the final mastering for the album Bis zum bitter Ende was done by Jon Caffery in the studio Preußenton in Berlin.
Procedure, announcements and track list
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The title of the album goes back to the song of the same name, which was first published in 1983 on the debut album Opel-Gang . An a cappella version of the song was recorded for the album Damenwahl in 1986. The band plays this simple drinking song live, mostly in the encores according to the call and response principle with the audience.
The arrangement of the music tracks on the album is based on the order of the set list as it was played at most of the concerts on the tour. From the announcement at the beginning of the album, spoken by tour leader Jäki Eldorado: “Dear punk rockers, the wait was worth it. Are you all in a good mood? Do you all like lemonade? Is Purple Schulz the greatest thing for you guys? You guys are at the completely wrong concert. This is punk rock. These are Die Toten Hosen from Düsseldorf! ”It flows seamlessly into Rock 'n' Roll , an interpretation of the song by Gary Glitter .
With Police on my Back , in the original by The Equals, there is another cover version in English on the album. For Disco in Moscow , the text of the song by The Vibrators was translated into German by Campino . Army of Losers and Love Song had previously been published as B-sides. The music title Jürgen Englers Party from the debut single We are ready was changed to Die Rosen giving 'ne Party , whereby the hosts mean the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen , under which Die Toten Hosen the album Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen im In 1987. Happy Metal Part I , Friday the 13th , Happy Metal Part 'II , Drunken on Service and Happy Metal Part III are combined as one medley .
Many songs are announced by Campino, for example the word about Sunday : “It's time for all the priests and pastors to get away on Saturday evening and let a few sensible people speak the word for Sunday : Lemmy from Motörhead, for example, or of course Johnny Thunders . This is ours! ”Or the title Schwarzwaldklinik :“ The next one is from a hospital where the patients wear white coats, and it is called the Black Forest Clinic . ”The lyrics of the song Schwarzwaldklinik contain a mocking swipe at Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders from Modern Talking : "Dieter and Thomas got burned in the tanning institute while sunbathing."
New edition 2007
At the end of 2007, among other things, the album Until the bitter end was reissued, all tracks remastered and a completely new booklet designed. The CD also contains the recordings of a concert the band gave in Edinburgh in 1992 and which was broadcast live on the radio.
Additional title
- Blitzkrieg Bop - 2:18 (cover by Ramones )
- Opel-Gang - 1:27 (from Holst, Campino / Campino, from Holst, Meurer, Trimpop, Breitkopf)
- Sample - 2:56 (from Holst / Campino)
- Whole Wide World - 3:16 (Cover by Wreckless Eric )
- Love Song - 3:43 (Breitkopf / Campino)
- Do Anything You Wanna Do - 3:36 (Cover by Eddie & the Hot Rods )
- Carnival in Rio (Punk Was) - 3:06 (M: Campino, von Holst / T: Ronald Biggs )
- All the years - 3:58 (Campino)
Reviews and awards
Until the bitter end , entered the German charts on January 4, 1988, stayed there for 20 weeks and reached number 23 as the highest endowment. The Austrian hit parade entered it on February 15, 1988, stayed there for 4 weeks and reached the highest number 17. The album was Awarded a platinum record in Germany for more than 500,000 copies .
In his book about Die Toten Hosen from 2007, Hollow Skai regards the album as “probably the most lively live album by a German band”, longing to live “mainly from the good atmosphere” and present “Campino as a charismatic entertainer for the first time.” The reviewer of the Rheinische Post is of the opinion that the album shows "what makes the early pants". During the “punk rock fireworks” you can experience “a band that gives everything”. It couldn't be more “authentic”.
literature
- Bertram Job : Until the bitter end ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-462-02532-5 .
- Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 .
- Kai Jessen: Forever Punk , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12889-3 .
- Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies ... Die Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens to 1982–2007 . Booklet for the new edition 2007, part 5: Until the bitter end .
- Thees Uhlmann : Die Toten Hosen . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05369-2 . Pp. 132-157.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hollow Skai: Die Toten Hosen. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , pp. 88-89.
- ↑ a b Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies… Die Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens to 1982-2007 . Booklet for the new edition 2007, part 5: Until the bitter end .
- ↑ a b Thomas Böhm: No Sleep Till Bamberg - Four perfectly normal days with the dead pants. Musikexpress, edition 9/1987.
- ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , p. 28.
- ↑ Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , p. 30.
- ↑ Music Industry Database - Search Requirement Required, accessed September 1, 2012
- ↑ Explained: Die Alben der Toten Hosen at RP Online page 5, accessed on October 31, 2012.