Kings for a day
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Compilation album of 
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March 21, 1994 |
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| Label (s) | Metal Enterprises | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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40:19 |
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| occupation | Singing: Kevin Russell Drums: Peter Schorowsky |
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Ingo Nowotny |
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Kings for a day is an unauthorized compilation album by the German rock band Böhse Onkelz . It was released on March 21, 1994 through the Metal Enterprises label.
background
The Böhsen Onkelz had already left the Metal Enterprises label in 1990 due to its growing neo-Nazi tendencies. Four years after the band's departure, Ingo Nowotny, owner of the label, was still trying to earn money with the group's material and published the compilation Kings for a day .
content
The ten songs selected for Kings for a Day were taken from the band's studio albums published on Metal Enterprises between 1988 and 1990 . Five songs come from the album Kneipenterroristen , three songs from Es ist So far and two songs from the EP Lügenmarsch .
Cover design
The album cover shows the letters Böhse Onkelz and Könige for a day in brownish tones as well as a double-headed eagle on a black background.
Track list
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| 1 | Suffer | 4:03 | The time has come |
| 2 | Necrophile | 4:03 | The time has come |
| 3 | Kings for a day | 4:08 | March of lies |
| 4th | Are you longing for the needle? | 3:51 | The time has come |
| 5 | March of lies | 4:26 | March of lies |
| 6th | Freddy Kruger | 4:13 | Bar terrorists |
| 7th | Good day | 4:35 | Bar terrorists |
| 8th | dance of the Devil | 4:15 | Bar terrorists |
| 9 | religion | 3:47 | Bar terrorists |
| 10 | A good friend | 2:58 | Bar terrorists |
Chart success
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Although the release was not authorized by the band, the album reached number 16 in the Austrian charts and stayed in the top 100 for seven weeks.
Sales ban
In 1994, the Böhse Onkelz succeeded in legally forbidding the distribution of kings for one day because the cover "gave a nationalistic impression" from the point of view of the band and numerous other viewers .
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Charts AT
- ↑ Kings for a Day - AT # 16, 7 weeks.
- ↑ Edmund Hartsch: Böhse Onkelz, thank you for nothing. Original edition, 1997, p. 230.
