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April 22, 2002 |
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CD, LP |
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42:27 |
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Irres Licht is the sixth album by the Hamburg band Die Sterne . It was released on April 22, 2002 as the band's first album not by the L'age d'Or label , but by Virgin Records . Richard von der Schulenburg played the keyboards for the stars for the first time at Irres Licht .
Track list
- Flight only - 4:06
- Hang hard - 2:30
- What is true is what is true - 5:43
- If St. Pauli strikes you - 4:39
- I'll kill you both - 4:41
- Sheer heart attack - 4:58
- Wisp - 2:41
- You have the world in your hand - 2:22
- I don't want to hear from you anymore - 3:01
- We don't understand some things - 2:51
- Everything passes - 4:55
Track information
All lyrics for this album are by Frank Spilker. The music was written by the entire band. The strings for the songs When St. Pauli falls on your mind and everything passes , Richard von der Schulenburg arranged it. Micha Acher from The Notwist took over the arrangement of the wind instruments for True is what is true . Thomas Wenzel also played the piano for the title Everything passes away .
Publications
The song Wenn dir St. Pauli falls on the mind was released as a single from this album . In the same year the EP Nur Flug was released, which in addition to this title also contains the three previously unreleased songs Selten ist fair , Mechaniktage and Any Major Dude Will Tell You .
reception
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The album was largely well received by the critics. The magazine kulturnews emphasized that the sound of Irres Licht was rockier again. The album "... implements the stars' greatest strength: their live qualities." The lyrics were described as "... intelligent, never too concrete, wonderfully melancholy and always with a wink ..." . Overall, the album was rated 5 out of 6 stars.
Thorsten Thiel from Plattentests.de also praised the subtle humor of Frank Spilker's texts. He wrote about the music that while listening to the first two tracks one could get the impression that they were "... good, but by no means innovative songs, [...] the star standard ..." , but do the following Song True is what is true the new sounds of the stars clearly. The album was rated by Plattentests.de with 7 out of 10 points, the readers even awarded one point more.
The lack of quickly accessible hits was mentioned in the review by cdstarts.de. "They are replaced by indisputable gems of German pop music [...] which only reveal their class and beauty after listening to them several times. In addition there is a neat dash of straight rock songs [...], atmospheric radio pop [...] and a couple of darkly cynical ballads. " The compositions are "... never interchangeable or arbitrary, which is a clear advantage of the CD, but also makes it sound relatively bulky and not exactly easily accessible." In this review, too, the texts that "... invite you to listen" were highlighted . The album got 7.0 out of 10 points.
After the highest rating from the online magazine laut.de for the predecessor Where here was Madman light rated 3 out of 5 stars average. Rainer Henze wrote that the band was moving with this album "... after the (successful) electronic attempts of the previous album, this time in the context of 70s (glam) rock." Overall, it is less accessible and has less groove. Especially the song You have the world in your hand has been criticized. Henze summarized his review with the following words: "But a star record with weaknesses is still popular. Even if it takes several runs this time."
Irres Licht is the second album after Poznan with which the stars are included in the list of the 25 best German-language pop albums published by Musikexpress magazine in September 2003. It is listed there at number 17.
Chart placements
With this album, the band reached number 36 in the German album charts for one week in the year of its release. For the second time the band was represented in the Austrian charts. The album stayed there for three weeks at number 37.
Guest musician
The band worked with numerous musicians on this album. The guest musicians listed here are taken from the credits on the CD.
- Baul Muluy Pipeband: Bagpipes
- Gerhard Gschlößl : Sousaphone
- Micha Acher : Trumpet
- Ulrich Wangenheim : woodwind instruments
- Cordula Rhode: cello
- Julia Mensching: viola
- Peter Imig: violin
- Maceo Doctor: Percussion
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Album information on Discogs.com
- ↑ a b Chart position ( memento of the original from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Germany on musicline.de
- ↑ a b Chart position in Austria on austriancharts.at
- ↑ a b c Review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturnews.de
- ↑ a b review on Plattentests.de
- ↑ a b c d review from cdstarts.de (pdf)
- ↑ a b c review on laut.de.
- ↑ List of the 25 best German-language pop albums from Musikexpress 09/2003
Web links
- All publications of the band on the homepage of the stars