That's not the whole truth ...

That's not the whole truth ...
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Publication (s)	April 19, 1988
Label (s)	CBS Records GmbH
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Punk rock
Title (number)	14th
running time	43:11
occupation	Guitar , bass , vocals : Farin Urlaub Drums , vocals: Bela B.
production	Uwe Hoffmann , The Doctors
Studio (s)	Preußen Studios, Berlin (Germany)
chronology 18+ (1987) That's not the whole truth ... After Us The Flood (1988)
Single releases March 25, 1988 I eat flowers April 8, 1988 Westerland April 28, 1989 Please please

This is not the whole truth ... is the fourth studio album by the German punk rock band Die Ärzte and the last one before their temporary breakup in 1988.

Emergence

production

The recordings for That's not the whole truth ... began at the end of 1987 in the Prussian recording studios in Berlin . The producer Uwe Hoffmann already had on the albums Is that everything? and from 18 worked. Manfred Praeker , who produced the album Die Ärzte , again applied for the job as a producer, but was turned down by the band. The album was mixed in the Berlin Hansa studios .

A special feature of the production is that all the songs on the album are linked to one another through fades , samples or the like. The idea for this came from Farin Urlaub, who originally wanted to use these transitions on the album The Doctors , but was unable to assert himself with this. The beginning of the album (consisting of a guitar chord followed by the question "Do you want to hear the truth?" And the answer "No!") Comes from the beginning of a song that was produced but was not released in full until 2018 called " The Truth About Girls ”.

It was not Hagen Liebing  - actually bassist for the Doctors - who played bass on the album, but Farin Urlaub. Liebing was not involved in the entire production. Farin Urlaub and Bela B. offered him that he could bring in his own composition; a work he wrote afterwards was rejected by the producer Uwe Hoffmann.

Elke

A special feature was the production of the song Elke . The song was created spontaneously while working on the album in the studio. The trigger was numerous calls from two female fans named Elke and Daniela, who had found out the phone number for the recording studio. The band felt very disturbed by the calls and Farin Urlaub threatened the callers that he would write a song about the two of them the next time they called, whereupon they immediately called again. Elke and Daniela had already sent photos of themselves in the fan mail to Die Ärzte and revealed that both are very overweight, which provided a starting point for the content of the song Elke, which deals extensively and exaggeratedly with Elke's obesity. The song Elke quickly became one of the songs that the band plays live most often after its release. Until 2006 Elke was part of the band's live repertoire. In 1999 the song was also released in a live version on single.

Music genre

Musically, the album offers a wide range of different styles of music. Overall, punk pop dominates (especially in Elke , but also extraterrestrials or Ohne dich ), but Die Ärzte also interpret unusual musical styles for you on the album, reminiscent of synth pop ( please, please ) or surf music ( Westerland ) . Lyrically, ridicule and sarcasm are in the foreground. Among other things, overweight (Elke) , vegetarianism (flowers) , BDSM (please, please) or the kidnapping of one's girlfriend by aliens (aliens) are processed.

Trivia

• The title of the album This is not the whole truth ... goes back to a saying by William Shatner in the film The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Spaceship , which the doctors found particularly absurd.
• The cover photo was made by Jim Rakete and was taken on Berlin's Wittenbergplatz . Around a dozen models were hired for the photo, and they were rewarded for their work with records and T-shirts.
• The song I ess' Flower was after someone tried to convince Farin that feces of vegetarians does not smell, but smells. Bela B. found the story so original that he wrote a song about vegetarians. Farin Urlaub, however, became a pescetarian from this point on .
• The hard-to-understand hum at the end of the song Please Please comes from a sample from the end of the Beatles song I'm So Tired . John Lennon took up the now difficult to understand text and thus provided the Paul is dead conspiracy theorists with new material. The Beatles biographer Mark Lewisohn interprets the mumbling as "Monsieur, monsieur, how about another one?"
• Tail down is a kind of hidden track , as it does not appear in the album's track list.
• The riff of the song Baby, ich tu’s is based on the Judas Priest song Breaking the Law .

Track list

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

That's not the whole truth ...   DE 6th 05/09/1988 (35 weeks)   AT 13 06/01/1988 (8 weeks)

Singles

Westerland   DE 34 10/17/1988 (9 weeks) Please please   DE 18th 05/29/1989 (15 weeks)

1. Without you (vacation) 2:49
2. Baby I'll do it (Felsenheimer) 3:00
3. Come back (vacation) 3:33
4. Wild World (Felsenheimer) 2:51
5. Westerland (vacation) 3:41
6. I want you (Felsenheimer) 2:18
7. Elke (vacation)
8. Flowers (Felsenheimer)
9. Aliens (vacation)
10. Winner (Felsenheimer)
11. Please please (vacation)
12. Pop star (Felsenheimer)
13. Good time (Felsenheimer)
14. Tail off (vacation)

reception

The album This is not the whole truth ... was released in April 1988 at a time when Die Ärzte had already announced that the band would split up after the upcoming tour. The album sold many times better than all previous albums. It reached sixth place in the German album charts and stayed in the charts for a total of 35 weeks. It was also awarded gold.

literature

• Markus Karg: The Doctors - An oversized guinea pig is eating the earth . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-369-1 .
• Hagen Liebing: The Incredible Hagen: My years with Die Ärzte . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-426-4 .

Web links

• Cover and lyrics on bademeister.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ release date "I eat flowers"
2. ↑ release date "Please please"
3. ^ Markus Karg: The doctors. An oversized guinea pig is eating the earth , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf; 2001, ISBN 3896023691
4. ^ Mark Lewisohn : The Beatles Recording Sessions . Harmony Books , New York 1988, ISBN 0-517-57066-1 , p. 160.
5. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT
6. ↑ Discography on bademeister.com ( Memento of the original dated June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
7. ↑ Search in the database on Musikindustrie.de