February (album)

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February
Studio album by Silly

Publication
(s)

1989

Label (s) Amiga / Ariola

Format (s)

LP / CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

10

production

Uwe Hoffmann

chronology
Battalion d'Amour
(1986) 		February Sons of Whores
(1993)

February is an album by the band Silly , released in 1989 . It was published by the GDR record label Amiga and by BMG Ariola in the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1989 it was voted " LP of the Year" in the GDR .

Cast and content

The album was recorded with Tamara Danz (vocals), Uwe Hassbecker (guitar), Thomas Fritzsching (guitar), Jäcki Reznicek (bass guitar), Ritchie Barton (keyboards) and Herbert Junck (drums). Stylistically, the album belongs to rock music . Tamara Danz's powerful singing is in the foreground.

The album contains ten songs, which are included in the two editions in different order. Tamara Danz and the songwriter Gerhard Gundermann wrote most of the lyrics together. From Silly's former copywriter, Werner Karma , only the lyrics to Über sie thawed das Eis und Everything is getting better come from. Half of the compositions are by Barton and Hassbecker, each together with Tamara Danz.

The song Verlorne Kinder is about young people in a high-rise estate in East Berlin who have no prospects, would like to move to warm countries, but still stay. In SOS , All against one and everything is getting better , criticism of the living conditions in the GDR is made. The Ice Thawed Above Her is about the suicide of a young woman.

history

The album was the first album in GDR rock history to be produced as a co-production with a West German record company. The recordings were made in the Prussian recording studio in West Berlin , with Uwe Hoffmann as the producer .

The album was originally supposed to be released simultaneously in both German states in February 1989 - this is what the name of the album referred to. In the GDR, however, the delivery was delayed, so that February appeared there in March; the order of the titles differs slightly between the two versions. February was voted LP of the year in the GDR . Because of its sometimes critical lyrics, February is occasionally counted among the “soundtracks of the Wende ”. In September of the same year, all Silly members were among the first to sign the resolution of rock musicians and songwriters , which criticized the GDR government policy.

In 1989 Ariola / BMG released the single Verlorne Kinder / Alles wird better und Paradiesvögel / So 'ne kleine Frau, the latter an older Silly song. In 2006 the album was released as part of an 8-CD box from Amiga. The titles are there, apparently due to an oversight, in the booklet in the order of the album released in the GDR, but on the CD itself in the order of the FRG version.

Playlists

Amiga

  1. A ghost is walking around (4:09)
  2. Lost Children (4:15)
  3. All against one (3:48)
  4. SOS (3:38)
  5. The ice thawed over her (5:20)
  6. Dream Devil (3:36)
  7. Landing cross on my soul (4:21)
  8. Everything is getting better (4:14)
  9. Men want women (4:06)
  10. Birds of Paradise (3:24)

BMG Ariola

  1. Lost Children (4:15)
  2. A ghost is walking around (4:09)
  3. Landing cross on my soul (4:21)
  4. SOS (3:38)
  5. The ice thawed over her (5:20)
  6. All against one (3:48)
  7. Dream Devil (3:36)
  8. Everything is getting better (4:14)
  9. Men want women (4:06)
  10. Birds of Paradise (3:24)

Videos

An elaborate, animated music video was shot from the song SOS . In the video of Verlorne Kinder , the band members move through the “streets of Berlin” (East Berlin). You can see old, dilapidated apartment blocks and row houses.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text in ostmusik.de ( Memento of 21 May 2012 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 14, 2014
  2. ↑ Christian Hentschel : You forgot the color film and other Ostrock stories. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-317-9 , p. 334
  3. ↑ "Back then, Silly succeeded in a stroke of genius". Ritchie Barton on the turning point, reunification and Magdeburg. In: Urbanite.net. October 3, 2010, accessed May 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Christian Hentschel: You forgot the color film and other Ostrock stories. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-317-9 , p. 335
  5. ↑ a b band history on sillyfanclub.de ( memento from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 14, 2011