Bar Terrorists (Album)
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| Label (s) | Metal Enterprises | |||
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9/10 |
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36:59 / 39:42 |
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| occupation | Singing: Kevin Russell Drums: Peter Schorowsky |
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Tarnith Studio Lindheim |
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Kneipenterroristen is the fourth studio album by the German rock band Böhse Onkelz . It was released on October 10, 1988 on the Metal Enterprises label . The album sold around 20,000 times in the fall of 1988. The sound carrier was re-recorded and re-released in 2018.
History of origin
With this album, conflicts arose with record company boss Ingo Nowotny, who wanted to continue marketing the Böhsen Onkelz as a skinhead band and began to convert his label Metal Enterprises into a right-wing rock label in the style of Rock-O-Rama . The recordings took place in the Tarnith Studio in Lindheim and there were always disputes with Nowotny, who was also the producer of the album.
After the album, the band started looking for a new record label. It is one of the albums whose exploitation rights the Onkelz were able to regain after years of litigation. Previously, the exclusive exploitation rights were due to the record deal with the producer Nowotny.
Music genre
The album is different from its predecessors due to the musical development of the band. Various songs in which z. B. Reference is made to horror films are kept quite gloomy. With the piece “So sind wir” there is also another typical Onkelz title. The song “A good friend”, a cover version of the song of the same name from the film Die Drei von der Gasstelle from 1930, is also kept in the typical Onkelz style.
Cover design
On the cover there is a comic motif from the Watchmen comic series, which shows Rorschach stepping through an open door. On the right above the motif is the lettering Böhse Onkelz and on the left edge is written from bottom to top, bar terrorists . The background is yellow.
Track list
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| 1 | Bar terrorists | 3:46 |
| 2 | religion | 3:44 |
| 3 | varnish and leather | 4:13 |
| 4th | So are we | 3:45 |
| 5 | dance of the Devil | 4:11 |
| 6th | 28 | 4:27 |
| 7th | Good day | 4:31 |
| 8th | Never again | 4:16 |
| 9 | Freddy Kruger | 4:09 |
| 10 | A good friend (CD bonus) | 2:43 |
Background information on individual songs
- Bar terrorists
The song is about a time when the Böhse Onkelz were often involved in fights. You ironically refer to yourself here as “bar terrorists”. The song gave the entire album its name.
- So are we
“Bad people, bad songs, Böhse Onkelz again and again” is a line of text from the song “ Nobody knew how it happened” from the album Böse Menschen - Böse Lieder .
- dance of the Devil
The name of the title is based on the film of the same name , but the lyrics have little to do with it. The song is about paranoia .
- 28
The instrumental piece was composed by Stephan Weidner and Matthias Röhr and is dedicated to Kevin Russell's old apartment at Weberstraße 28 in Frankfurt am Main , where the band celebrated with friends and Kevin Rusell also abused drugs. The song should reflect the mood experienced in the apartment. Stephan Weidner and the late friend of the band Andreas "Trimmi" Trimborn had the number tattooed on the inside of their lower lips .
- Freddy Kruger
The song is about Freddy Krueger , the main character of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror film series. In November 1988, for the television show Hard 'n Heavy radio station Tele 5 produced a video in which the band live the song on the roof of Munich skyscraper played.
- A good friend
A good friend is a cover version of a song from the movie Die Drei von der Gasstelle . The text is by Robert Gilbert , the music by Werner Richard Heymann . The song is a bonus track for the CD version of the album.
reception
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Edgar Klüsener from the music magazine Metal Hammer rated the album in his review of December 1, 1988 with two out of seven possible points. He wrote about the album:
“First of all, the good criticism: 'Religion' is a strong text, even if there is a small distinction to be made between the founder of the religion and those who have turned his teaching into the complete opposite. The bad criticism: Otherwise the Böhse Onkelz are just so dripping with blood and violence, playing (or are ???) the dumb bar terrorists with killers in their hands and air in their brains. Frankfurt street kids as they may actually be so bad, but how I can under no circumstances take them for full. Jesse James has long been dead, and the Dalton Brothers , even as jokes, are nothing but gloomy losers. So what about the Böhse Onkelz, who play roles here that they actually don't seem to fit into? Especially since they are more intelligent than they seem. Okay, they're over with the Nazi trip, but the bad guys next door are still playing them. Or should the whole thing be meant just 'ironically', did I not understand a good joke here ??????? Anyway, let's leave the lyrics where they belong, namely on the trash. But then not much is left. Because musically the offer is neither fish nor meat, rather uninspired, but still worth more than two with benevolence. Still, there's nothing more. Because of the lyrics. "
Republication
The album was re-recorded for the 30th anniversary and re-released on October 10, 2018. In addition to the ten regular songs, the new release also includes the songs Kings for a Day and Lügenmarsch , which were previously included on the EP Lügenmarsch from 1989.
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After the new release in 2018, Kneipenterroristen entered the German album charts at number 3 and stayed in the top 100 for seven weeks. In the German annual charts for 2018, the album was ranked 96th.
criticism
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Manuel Berger from laut.de rated the new release with only one of a possible five points. The album "from a direct comparison" with the original from 1988 "emerges as the qualitatively better product, but with such weak arguments that it never scratches the status of the document of time" and offers no real added value. The band “just play the old boot down” and move with some songs “on the level of a freshly founded pop punk band”, while doing without “all too obvious playful quality improvement”. laut.de titled the new release as one of the 30 worst albums of 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presley vinyl - album "Kneipenterroristen". Website accessed on August 16, 2010 ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2010 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.
- ↑ Edmund Hartsch: In: Böhse Onkelz, Thanks for nothing. Original edition, 1997, p. 124.
- ↑ Edmund Hartsch: In: Böhse Onkelz, Thanks for nothing. Original edition, 1997, pp. 121-122, 127-128.
- ↑ Edmund Hartsch: In: Böhse Onkelz, Thanks for nothing. Original edition, 1997, p. 133.
- ↑ a b c Edgar Klüsener: Album review: Kneipenterroristen auf metal-hammer.de. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT
- ↑ Chart tracking bar terrorists on officialcharts.de
- ↑ 2018 album annual charts
- ↑ a b Evaluation: laut.de
- ↑ Worst of 2018: Worst Albums of the Year. laut.de, December 4, 2018, accessed December 23, 2018 .
