It doesn't matter but

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It doesn't matter but
Studio album from Tocotronic

Publication
(s)

July 28, 1997

Label (s) L'age d'or

Format (s)

CD, vinyl LP, MC

Genre (s)

Indie rock

Title (number)

18th

occupation

production

Hans Platzgumer

chronology
We Come To Complain
(1996) 		It doesn't matter but KOOK
(1999)

It doesn't matter, but is the fourth studio album by the German band Tocotronic from 1997.

On this album, Tocotronic moves away from the “raw sound of the early years” and arranges the songs more finely. This also manifests itself in the instrumentation, which is supplemented with synthesizers and string arrangements.

Reviews

A break from the previous albums is noted in some reviews. “Compared to its predecessor, We come to complain , we go to work in [...] more detail” can be read , for example, in a review on visions.de . The texts on everyday topics are partly registered positively, so the Visions review goes on to say: “Dirk von Lowtzow is probably the first and only musician who complains about pedestrians who are too slow, which is actually a good thing. Just like this record. "

In contrast, Stefan Merx, also from visions.de, criticizes the lyrics as "disturbed teenage lyrics" and is bothered by the great similarities to the previous albums: "Today Tocotronic only copy the zero concept that was surprisingly well received at the time. Infusion number four bores me. "

In a review on whiskey-soda.de , the everyday poetry in the texts is discussed. It is said that the album tells “stories directly from the lives of young adults” and offers “texts [that] for the most part contain short stories that were quite easy to experience”. But musically too, “the first breaks cannot be ignored”.

Christian Schröder writes in the Tagesspiegel : “[The comma in the title] marks the specific on the one hand-on the other hand in Tocotronic poetry of the world view. Youthful rebellion that immediately turns into precocious shrugs. That's how it is with growing up. "

successes

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
It doesn't matter but
  DE 13 08/11/1997 (8 weeks)
  AT 21st 08/17/1997 (9 weeks)
Singles
They want to tell us
  DE 65 06/30/1997 (1 week)
This year
  DE 90 10/20/1997 (1 week)

The album reached a remarkable 13th place in the German album charts and stayed there for a total of eight weeks. A chart placement was also achieved in Austria. The single You want to tell us was the first from Tocotronic to be placed in the German single charts and also the second release. This year entered the charts.

Tocotronic also performed well in the polls of various music magazines this year. In the visions and in the intro , It doesn't matter, but it is chosen as the sixth best album, in the Spex the sixteenth best and in the Rolling Stone a 25th place can be achieved. Very good results can also be achieved in the categories Best Band and Best Concert , for example as the second best band in the intro. In addition, you will want to tell us by the readers of Rolling Stone ranked 26th for songs and the video for This Year is voted ninth best music video in Spex.

Track list

  1. Go people
  2. They want to tell us
  3. I've been going with you for far too long
  4. An evening at the Rotary Club
  5. All I want is nothing to do with you
  6. Got to the dog
  7. It doesn't matter but
  8. My sister
  9. You and your world
  10. My new hobby
  11. Four stories from you
  12. You are always here for me
  13. The best day of my life
  14. So fast
  15. This year
  16. Your enemy forever
  17. Dear Diary
  18. To Bahrenfeld on the bus

Single releases

  • They wanna tell us ( Lado )
  1. They wanna tell us (album version)
  2. My new hobby (maxi version)
  3. In the majority
  4. Last on the bench
  5. Your party
  • This year (Lado)
  1. This year (single version)
  2. Diverse people in your city
  3. The Weather's Fine
  4. They want to tell us part II
  • You're always there for me / 4 stories from you Split 7 ″ with Fuck (Lado / Rhesus Records )
  1. You are always here for me
  2. Four stories from you
  3. Mighty Mouse, Sir (Fuck)
  4. Diapers (Fuck)

The Weather's Fine is a cover piece by the band Angst .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falk Sinß: Doubt after the surrender, kultur.ard.de ( Memento of March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), January 22, 2010
  2. ↑ a b review on visions.de
  3. ↑ Review ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2009 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. on whiskey-soda.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whiskey-soda.de
  4. ↑ Looking back 1997 ( memento from May 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on tocotronic.de
  5. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT
  6. ↑ Looking back 1998 ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on tocotronic.de