Blast Action Heroes
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Studio album by Beginner | |||||||||||
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September 1, 2003 |
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Title (number) |
14/16/22 |
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running time |
63:30 / 71:49 / 95:27 |
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occupation |
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Beginner |
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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 |
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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 |
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15th | Not alone (live) | 4:26 | |
16 | Back in Town (live) | 3:27 |
Bonus CD version 2.0 :
# | title | Guest musician | length |
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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
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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
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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
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Chart tracking Blast Action Heroes at officialcharts.de
- ↑ DE: Annual charts # 80
- ↑ Rating: laut.de