Blast Action Heroes

Blast Action Heroes
Studio album by Beginner
Publication (s)	September 1, 2003
Label (s)	Buback Universal Music
Format (s)	CD , LP , download
Genre (s)	German hip-hop , rap
Title (number)	14/16/22
running time	63:30 / 71:49 / 95:27
occupation	Denyo (rap) Jan Delay (Rap) DJ Mad ( cuts , scratches )
production	Beginner
chronology Bambule (1998) Blast Action Heroes Advanced Chemistry (2016)
Single releases June 10, 2003 Rot November 3, 2003 Gustav Goose 2003 Who are you? 4th October 2004 Tomorrow Freeman 2004 Headlights

Blast Action Heroes is the third studio album of the Hamburg hip-hop - group Beginner . It was released on September 1, 2003 on the labels Buback and Universal Music . On October 18, 2004 it was re-released as version 2.0 , including a bonus CD.

production

The beats of the album were produced by the beginners themselves.

Cover design

The album cover is a painted picture showing the three band members in white jogging suits. You hold a keyboard , a record and microphones in your hands. At the top left there are high-rise buildings that form the lettering Beginner . Underneath are the words Composed and Conducted by Beginner and Blast Action Heroes in black . The background is kept white.

Guest Posts

In addition to the beginners, other artists are represented on two songs on the album. So is the singer Nina Hagen on the song Wer bistn du? heard while rapper Max Herre has a guest appearance on God Is a Music .

Track list

#	title	Guest musician	length
1	Back in town		3:38
2	Who are you?	Nina Hagen	3:58
3	Headlights		4:55
4th	Gustav Goose		3:38
5	City blues		5:27
6th	Shit		4:15
7th	Pen		4:36
8th	St. Anger		3:33
9	Chilli chill bang bang		5:14
10	Listen away		4:07
11	Rot		3:59
12	God is a music	Max Herre	3:52
13	Beautiful		4:12
14th	Kake is at the steam		8:32

Bonus songs of the special edition:

#	title	Guest musician	length
15th	Not alone (live)		4:26
16	Back in Town (live)		3:27

Bonus CD version 2.0 :

#	title	Guest musician	length
1	The toughest band in the world		2:26
2	Tomorrow Freeman		3:45
3	thank you		4:50
4th	Who are you? (live)	Nina Hagen	3:57
5	The boat (live)		2:46
6th	City Blues (live)		4:31
7th	Not alone (live)		4:50
8th	Rot (live)		4:26

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Blast Action Heroes   DE 1 09/15/2003 (12 weeks)   AT 3 09/14/2003 (6 weeks)   CH 13 09/14/2003 (6 weeks)

Singles

Rot   DE 17th 06/23/2003 (9 weeks)   AT 55 06/22/2003 (10 weeks)   CH 52 07/06/2003 (3 weeks) Gustav Goose   DE 26th 11/17/2003 (9 weeks)   CH 89 07/12/2003 (1 week) Tomorrow Freeman   DE 47 10/18/2004 (5 weeks)

Blast Action Heroes entered the German album charts at number 1 on September 15, 2003 and was at number 5 and 10 in the following weeks. Overall, the album stayed in the top 100 for twelve weeks. In Austria, the record reached position 3 and was able to do so stayed in the charts for six weeks, while it was 13th in Switzerland and also stayed in the charts for six weeks. In the German annual charts for 2003, the album was ranked 80th.

The first single to be released on June 10, 2003 was the song Fäule , which reached position 17 in the German charts and stayed in the top 100 for nine weeks. The songs Gustav Gans (DE # 26, 9 Wo.), Wer bistn du? , Morning Freeman (DE # 47, 5 wk) and spotlights .

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de

Stefan Johannesberg from the website laut.de rated Blast Action Heroes with four out of a possible five points. Above all, he praises the album in terms of its content and describes it as a “song-strong social and political criticism”, “without losing any of its coolness and style”. It is only in terms of rap technique that the beginners cannot quite match other big names in the scene such as Kool Savas , Curse or Samy Deluxe .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
3. ↑ Chart tracking Blast Action Heroes at officialcharts.de
4. ↑ DE: Annual charts # 80
5. ↑ Rating: laut.de