Please please
| Please please | |
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| publication | 1988 |
| length | 3:13 |
| Genre (s) |
Synth-Pop New Wave |
| Author (s) | Farin Urlaub |
| Label | CBS |
| album | That's not the whole truth ... (1988) |
| Cover version | |
| 2000 | Dance rage |
Please Please is a synth pop song by the Berlin band Die Ärzte . It's about BDSM and is the last single from the 1988 album That's not the whole truth ...
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The peculiarity of the piece is that it is the doctors' last regular single before the five-year separation. At the end of each stanza, the phrase “From today on I belong to you alone”. The lyrics of the song are told from the point of view of a man who wants to confess his love to a woman by offering himself to her as a slave. Some types of BDSM are discussed , as can be seen in the song line “I can no longer be saved, whip me, put me in chains” . Other practices are listed in the dominatrix mix. Musically, the song clearly deviates from the otherwise punk-rock style of the band in the 1980s. With its synthesizer sounds and electronic drums, the song is similar to the synthpop and new wave popular in the 1980s .
Publications
Please please appeared in different versions. In addition to the album version, there is a shortened single version as well as the so-called domina mix . The latter appeared in 1989 on maxi single and the band's first maxi CD at the time. In 1994 he was on the rarities and B-sides - Compilation Best of shortly after earlier to jetze republished. The song has been lengthened from three to over seven minutes and the instrumental passages contain spoken lines of text by a dominatrix friend named "Dominique" who explains the following terms from fetish and S / M jargon: dominatrix, submissive , bondage , blows, educational games, Clinic sex , baby sex , toilet sex , tying , pee and caviar. All versions from 1989 were available on the various singles.
In 2002, Please Please was released as an unplugged version on the album Rock 'n' Roll Realschule . In addition to drums and guitar, the song was voiced with a school orchestra, chains and a singing saw . This version was recorded in 2002 during an MTV Unplugged concert in the auditorium of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Hamburg .
Single and music video
The single shows on the cover the legs of a woman with high-heeled shoes and suspenders, as are common with mistresses. The woman is holding a whip. The words “Please Please” are printed in large, red block letters, the band name cannot be seen. The single was released in several versions, including CD, 12 "LP and 7". CD and 12 '' include all versions of Please, please , as well as the bonus track Gabi gibt'ne Party from the youth television program mosquito of the SFB , the 7 '' contained only the bonus track. The single stayed in the German charts for 15 weeks and reached number 18.
Reinhard Günzler shot a music video for it. In the music video, then porn star Teresa Orlowski appeared as a dominatrix. The music video refers to the indexing of various recordings of Die Ärzte by the Federal Testing Agency for Writings Harmful to Young People (today: Federal Testing Agency for Media Harmful to Young People). The censorship authority is represented as a fascist apparatus, the inspectors wear uniforms and you can see swastika-like symbols , adorned with a "Z" for censorship. Against this background, the dominatrix can let off steam. The video and the associated making of were published on the VHS compilation The Best Band in the World (... and live!) II . In Austria, the video was only approved by the Youth Media Commission from the age of 18.
Track list
- Please please (Domina Mix) - 7:35
- Please Please (Single Version) - 3:13
- Please please (CBS Mix) - 6:05
- Gabi is giving a party - 3:10
Cover versions
The band Tanzwut covered the song on their album Labyrinth der Senses in 2000 and released a maxi CD for it.
The German rock band Kraftklub sampled the piece in 2017 under the title Sklave . In this newly written piece, the band takes up the line “Let me be your slave”. The piece was released as a video from Kraftklub's third studio album, No Night for Nobody .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Karg: The Doctors - An oversized guinea pig eats the earth , p. 118. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-369-1
- ↑ Booklet on Das Beste from shortly after earlier to now , double CD, CBS Records 1994
- ↑ http://www.bademeister.com/v10/php/diskografie.php?tid=444&p=3&a=10&aid=56
- ↑ Chart tracking ( 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. on Musicline.de
- ↑ Music video for Please, Please 1989. Director: Reinhard Günzler
- ↑ biography. Dieaerzte.at, accessed on February 28, 2015 .
- Jump up ↑ Tanzwut - Please, please go to Discogs
- ↑ Power Club - Slave. austriancharts.at, June 2, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Power Club - Slave (official video). youtube.com, May 31, 2017, accessed December 31, 2018 .
