Dark place
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| publication | January 31, 2000 |
| length | 4:14 |
| Genre (s) | Rock , hard rock |
| text | Stephan Weidner |
| music | Stephan Weidner, Matthias Röhr |
| album | A bad fairy tale ... from a thousand dark nights |
Dunkler Ort is a song by the German hard rock band Böhse Onkelz . The song is the only single from their 13th studio album, A wicked fairy tale ... from a thousand dark nights and was released on January 31, 2000.
Content and background
The song is very critical of society and, according to Stephan Weidner, describes the environment of a person with the “dark place” , which he creates himself through the negativity of his thoughts. The text describes the life of an average person who wastes their time and only does what is expected of them until death because they are too cowardly to break out of the usual behavior. She distracts herself with money, but changes nothing in the world and disappears into oblivion after death.
Stephan Weidner said in the music magazine Rock Hard as follows:
“The text should encourage people to motivate themselves and set their own goals. The basic essence of the lyrics is that everyone can create their own world. The more positively I rate something, the sooner I am able to realize my own goals. "
production
The lyrics of the song were written by Stephan Weidner , the head and bassist of the band. Weidner also took over the production together with the Onkelz guitarist Matthias Röhr .
Music video
The music video from Dunkler Ort is the first professional video for a song by the Böhsen Onkelz. It was shot in the HR Giger Museum in Switzerland and in Berlin by the Swedish director Fred Gun. Axel Glittenberg and Edmund Hartsch wrote the script . The cost of the video clip was 250,000 D-Marks, for which the record company Virgin Records paid an advance. MTV showed the video twice in total and only during the weekly chart show.
It is about a young woman who tries to break out of her dreary everyday life with her family in a small apartment in order to escape reality. She puts on headphones, leaves the apartment and walks through town. The band plays the song in a parallel fantasy world, with Kevin Russell aggressively singing the lyrics into the camera. Shortly before the end of the video, the woman moves from her reality to the fantasy world where the band is playing.
single
Cover design
The single cover is sepia-colored and shows various semi-transparent shots, including a naked woman sitting at a bar. At the top of the picture is the Böhse-Onkelz lettering and the title Dunkler Ort .
Track list
In addition to the title track and its video, the single also includes the song Schutzgeist der Scheiße, also included on Ein böses Märchen , and a re-recording of Signum des Verrats , which originally appeared on the 1985 album Böse Menschen - Böse Lieder .
- Dark place - 4:14
- Guardian Spirit of Shit - 4:47
- Signum of betrayal (new recording) - 4:28
- Dark Place (video) - 4:14
Chart successes and awards
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Dunkler Ort entered the German single charts at number 2 on February 14, 2000 and was at number 6 in the following weeks; 2 and 8. Overall, the song stayed in the top 100 for ten weeks. In the German annual charts in 2000, the song was ranked 62nd. The single also reached the charts in Austria and Switzerland, reaching positions 17 and 22 respectively.
For more than 250,000 units sold, Dunkler Ort was awarded a gold record in Germany in the year of publication , making it the band's most commercially successful single.
Web links
- Lyrics with interpretations on genius.com
- Music video Dark Place on youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dark place on onkelz.de
- ↑ Lyrics
- ↑ dunklerort.net ( Memento from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Gonzo: The official and authorized biography of Matthias Röhr . Autobiography written with co-authors Dennis Diel and Marco Matthes, Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 1st edition, November 2019. p. 235
- ↑ Single cover
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Chart tracking Dunkler Ort on officialcharts.de
- ↑ Annual charts 2000: DE
- ↑ Dark place DE: Gold
