Grönemeyer (album)
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| Studio album by Herbert Grönemeyer | ||||
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Publication |
1979 |
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| Label (s) | Intercord | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
36:37 |
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Horst-Herbert Krause , Ingfried Hoffmann |
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Studio (s) |
Tonstudio Cornet, Cologne (Germany) Tonstudio Bauer , Ludwigsburg (Germany) |
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Grönemeyer is the first studio album by the German composer and singer Herbert Grönemeyer .
background
The first recordings for the album took place in February 1978 at the Cornet recording studio in Cologne. The lyrics for the two recorded songs Pompeji and I am a player come from producer Horst-Herbert Krause . The music for Pompeii was composed by producer and arranger Ingfried Hoffmann and Jürgen Triebel . The other songs, which were only recorded by Carlos Albrecht in Cologne and Ludwigsburg in January and February 1979 after the interruption caused by shooting for Peter Keglevic's Home Among Strangers , and mixed in Ludwigsburg, are mainly written by Krause and Hoffmann. Grönemeyer only wrote the text for Guten Morgen and composed I am a player myself. The composition for Verflucht - it hurts me and Mein Konzert are by Hoffmann and Grönemeyer. Intercord released the album in 1979, but it was not a commercial success. The album was re-released after 10 years and is available in CD format in Intercord's back catalog .
Track list
| # | title | length |
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| 1. | Good Morning | 3:05 |
| 2. | Pompeii | 5:16 |
| 3. | Damn it - it hurts me | 2:23 |
| 4th | Man - I'm leaving | 2:40 |
| 5. | Jump into the wild life | 4:48 |
| 6th | Julie | 3:48 |
| 7th | Here in the bar | 3:33 |
| 8th. | I am a gamer | 3:33 |
| 9. | The stranger | 3:22 |
| 10. | My concert | 3:37 |
occupation
- Herbert Grönemeyer - vocals
- Kevin Mulligan - guitar, banjo, slide guitar
- Dave King - bass guitar
- Garcia Morales - drums, percussion
- Ingfried Hoffmann - keyboards
- Karlheinz Kästel - guitar (Pompeii and I am a player)
- Helmut Kandlberger - bass guitar (I am a player)
- Brigitte Witt - background vocals (Pompeii)
- Catrin Pröpper - background vocals (Pompeii)
- Hana Dölitsch - Background Singing (Pompeji)
- Hans von Hall - Backing Song (Pompeii)
- Howard Lovell - background vocals (Pompeii)
- Wolfgang 'Wolly' Emperhoff - background vocals (Pompeii)
- Carl Schäuble - background vocals (I am a player)
- Jürgen Triebel - background vocals (I am a player)
reception
The artist himself describes his debut album in the retrospective as “quite a compromise and at most consistent in its shrillness”. Music journalist Burghard Rausch sees the album as “a failed cross between songwriter, political bard and rock singer”. Prinz , a Bochum city magazine, described Grönemeyer as a “confused debut”.
Grönemeyer only achieved his national breakthrough in Germany five years later with the album 4630 Bochum and the single men . Grönemeyer is omitted both in his retrospective Alles and on the official homepage .
Web links
- Grönemeyer at Allmusic (English)
- Grönemeyer at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Christian Graf and Burghard Rausch: Rockmusiklexikon . Europe / Vol. 1, ABC – Kursaal Flyers. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12387-9 (pp. 1-750). , P. 574
- ↑ Why Grönemeyer withholds his first album , welt.de, December 19, 2016, accessed July 27, 2020