Ladies Choice (Album)
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Publication |
October 1986 |
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records , skull | |||
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CD, LP, MC |
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
41:29 |
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Studio (s) |
Sound workshop, Düsseldorf |
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Damenwahl is the band's third studio album, Die Toten Hosen . It was produced by Jon Caffery and was released on Virgin Records in October 1986 . It is the group's first album to include Wolfgang Rohde , who replaced Trini Trimpop on drums in January 1986 .
Cover
The front of the cover shows the flashy and colorfully dressed band members looking down from a box decorated with large pastel colored flowers. On the back you can see the band members, yawning or already asleep, each sitting at small tables on the edge of the dance floor, while there is a lot of activity. The photos were taken by J. Dahlmann in the Weindorf dance hall in Düsseldorf .
Emergence
The album Damenwahl was recorded and mixed in May 1986 under the direction of Jon Caffery in the Klangwerkstatt studio in Düsseldorf . The participating musicians were Campino , singer and front man of the band and mainly the author of the lyrics for the album, Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf on the electric guitars , Andreas Meurer on the electric bass and the band's new drummer Wolfgang Rohde .
Text and music, track list
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In the 25-second introduction, based on the Russian language, a speaker announces the "Krasboniska Komsomolska Produktse Discotheka Toten Hosen", the "krassni newska Bolsheviks". He ends the speech with: “Nastrovje!” The announcement is accompanied by a roaring tape recording of the melody of the hymn of the Soviet Union . This is followed by a German cover version of the song Disco in Moscow by The Vibrators . The song is about upheaval, perestroika , in the Soviet Union, and Campino wrote the German text.
This is followed by the call to hedonism in the song Waste Your Time .
The song Friday the 13th is a black and humorous love song. The lyrical self celebrates the formerly unhappy, but now tender and happy relationship with his wife, as he has meanwhile stabbed, stuffed and preserved her.
The album also contains a melodic a cappella version of the drinking song Bis zum bitter Ende from the album Opel-Gang .
The text in Ehrenmann is about the hypocrisy of a man's open grave, about parting in mourning, in love and in gratitude, although this person was just an "asshole" in life. Helmstedt Blues is a 21-second instrumental piece composed by Wolfgang Rohde. It serves as an introduction to the song Großalarm , which is about indifference .
Schwarzwaldklinik was the name of the hospital in the television series of the same name , to which, according to this song, some people should be admitted. First and foremost the writers of the BILD newspaper, followed by the Federal Chancellor, who cannot remember anything, the tennis idol with erectile dysfunction and finally Dieter and Thomas, who got sunburned in the tanning salon. The background for this song were headlines from BILD , which included Helmut Kohl , Boris Becker , Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders .
In the hymn Wort zum Sonntag the band Johnny Thunders sang “As long as Johnny Thunders lives, I'll stay a punk.” After Thunder's death in 1991, shortly after the recording of the album Learning English Lesson One , the text was changed to: “Hey Johnny, can you see us right now? We dont forget you. We will talk about you everywhere so that your name lives on forever. ”The band confesses to the joy of partying:“ As long as there is something to drink, all our parties continue ”and proclaims non-conformist behavior towards the media in lines like“ No newspaper boy will ever tell us what is old or brand new ”, or“ As long as the surfers blaspheme, I know that there is nothing better ”.
The song Toyland is about the popularity of war toys . In Cursed, Damned, Branded, the question is raised: “Why do I have to be dead pants? Because of sex & drugs & rock 'n' roll. God, what have I done that I should always lose? "
Agent X is the only English-language track on the album. It's about total surveillance by the state : "Whatever you say, whatever you do, Agent X is watching you." According to the booklet accompanying the album, the idea for the text arose when the band was "constantly being followed by a Trabi" on their tour in Poland.
Another drinking song, a cover version of the carnival hit Das Altbierlied by Hans Ludwig Lonsdorfer in 3/4 time , put the band at the end of the album.
single
In the same year, Das Altbierlied was released as a single and brought out with the titles Practice makes perfect and Until the bitter end on the B-side. A glass overflowing with Altbier was depicted on the cover .
tour
The tour under the motto Ladies Choice began on May 9, 1986 with a concert in the Budapest multi-purpose hall Petőfi Csarnok . On July 27, 1986, the band performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival in Burglengenfeld together with Herbert Grönemeyer , Udo Lindenberg , Marius Müller-Westernhagen , BAP , the Rodgau Monotones and others in front of 100,000 people in order to demonstrate against the construction of the local reprocessing plant . The band opened their show with the song Großalarm , which they introduced with loud helicopter noises. , Also wore a topic meltdown from the title adapted motto courtyard from the debut album Opel-course before: ". Fuck, fuck, blowing, everything on the nuclear-infested lawn" and they played a cover of Carnival hit song On May 30, the end of the world from the Year 1954.
A club tour followed from September to December 1986 with stops in Zurich, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Mannheim, the Batschkapp cultural center in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Bielefeld in PC69 , Aachen, Hanover, Bochum, Düsseldorf in Tor 3 , Mainz in Eltzer Hof , Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz in the Jura-Hallen and in Berlin in the Metropol discotheque .
A planned concert by the band in the North Sea Hall on Helgoland on September 27, 1986 was not approved by the local authorities at short notice because of the "uncertain weather conditions". According to research by the Rheinische Post , “in reality the rejection was based on the fear that punks and skinheads could fight a battle with no alternative options on the island.” Nevertheless, the band, accompanied by fans, went to the island and hosted it Football tournament with their fans on the beach, which was increasingly guarded by the local police. The concert moved the band to Nordenham .
On October 18, 1986, an almost twelve-hour music festival took place in Berlin's Tempodrom , at which the band Die Toten Hosen also performed Die Ärzte , Die Mimmis , Die Suurbiers and Element of Crime . The proceeds of the event went to the hands of Norbert Hähnel , who had been fined 10,000 DM in the case that Heino had brought against him.
The tour was subtitled Mit Sack und Pack. Contraception is a men's business. With the help of the financial support of the condom manufacturer Fromms , the band donated hundreds of condoms to the audience every concert evening in order to promote safe sex on the occasion of the AIDS epidemic . As a merchandise item for the tour, the bands put T-shirts with the words "Ficken, Bumsen, Blasen" in capital letters into circulation. The Panhandle Alks , Rocko Schamoni and Die Goldenen Zitronen played as supporting acts and guests . Part of the tour is documented in the music film 3 chords for a hallelujah from 1989.
resonance
Teddy Hoersch only found positive words for the album in October 1986 for the Musikexpress . It was "knitted according to the tried and tested, but by no means boring basic pattern." In addition, the songs would be "presented with a great sense of tonal details and tremendous pressure". The music magazine Spex criticized "apparently inevitable Bundeswehr carnival booze songs".
The album was awarded a gold record for more than 250,000 copies sold by 2004 .
New edition 2007
For the 25th anniversary of the band, a new edition was made, among others Damenwahl , all tracks remastered, the cover of the first vinyl LP redesigned and a completely new additional booklet designed. It contains an interview of the band with Jan Weiler . The CD also contains eleven additional pieces. This is mostly a demo recording for the album Damenwahl , including the cover of the Vibrators Disco in Moscow in English. In the plays curfew , disco in Moscow and Toyland is Jakob Keusen to hear, who was standing in for a few months on drums. The titles Das kleine ABC , Aufgabe (does not apply) and Gipfelstürmer were made as a demo recording for the album Kauf MICH! in 1993.
Additional title
- Practice makes perfect - 1:59 (from Holst / Campino)
- Zapfenstreich - 3:22 (text and music: von Holst, Campino)
- Disco in Moscow - 3:09
- Toy Land - 2:57 (Meurer / Campino)
- Bomb mood - 2:54 (Breitkopf / Campino)
- Large alarm - 3:54 (Breitkopf / Campino)
- Only in a dream - 2:39 (from Holst / Campino)
- Black Forest Clinic - 3:36
- The little ABC - 3:34 (from Holst / Campino)
- Surrender (does not apply) - 5:01 (Campino)
- Summiteer - 3:45 (Meurer / Campino)
Individual evidence
- ^ ME Sounds , October 1986 edition, p. 78.
- ↑ Bertram Job : Until the Bitter End ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, p. 157.
- ↑ Bertram Job: Until the Bitter End ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, p. 159.
- ↑ Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . P. 27.
- ↑ a b c d Hollow Skai: Die Toten Hosen. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , pp. 85-87.
- ↑ Questions to DTH - Part 41 with Campino. (No longer available online.) December 22, 2005, archived from the original on September 13, 2013 ; accessed on April 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b booklet for the album
- ↑ Conny Schnabel: Die Toten Hosen take off . Music Scene , Issue 10, October 1986.
- ↑ 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 3: Women's choice .
- ↑ WAAhnsinn - The Wackersdorf film from 1986 and 3 chords for a Hallelujah from 1989.
- ↑ Andrea Nieradzik: Tote Hose in Dortmund , in Metal Hammer , March 1, 1988, page 46.
- ^ Rheinische Post , October 4, 1986 edition.
- ↑ Jürgen Seibold : VIP Die Toten Hosen Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-552-05005-1 , page 49.
- ^ ME Sounds, October 1986 edition, p. 67.
- ↑ Hollow Skai: Sex, Love & Rock 'n' Roll. Hannibal, Höfen 2011, ISBN 978-3-85445-358-1 , page 173.
- ↑ Fryderyk Gabowicz : Die Toten Hosen. Live backstage studio: photographs 1986–2006 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-732-8 , pages 6-7.
- ↑ Teddy Hoersch: Die Toten Hosen - women's choice . ME Sounds, October 1986 edition, p. 94.
- ^ Die Toten Hosen "Ladies Choice" in the IFPI database DE AT CH
literature
- Jürgen Seibold : VIP Die Toten Hosen Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-552-05005-1 .
- Bertram Job : Until the bitter end ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-462-02532-5 .
- Kai Jessen: Forever Punk , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12889-3 .
- Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 .
- Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies ... Die Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens to 1982–2007 . Booklet for the new edition 2007, part 3: Women's choice .