Lenin (album)
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June 2, 2006 |
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April - August 2005, February 2006 |
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13 |
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50:18 min |
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Lenin is the ninth studio album by the Hamburg band Die Goldenen Zitronen . It was released on June 2, 2006 by the Hamburg record label Buback Tonträger , five years after the last album Schafott zum Elevators .
The album is named after the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov , or Lenin for short. The title song is a processing of the Eisler song Lenin (He touched the sleep of the world) with the text by Johannes R. Becher and is opened by Ernst Busch with the saying "Lenin".
The song Von den demonen des Wesley Willis deals on the one hand with the life of the American outsider artist Wesley Willis as well as Willis' tour with the Golden Lemons in 2001 through the USA. A documentary film, Golden Lemons , was made about this tour , from which the band later explicitly distanced themselves.
A music video was shot for the song Mila on Rügen in the summer of 2006. The directors were Schorsch Kamerun and Eva Könnemann. The song was also used and reinterpreted by Schorsch Cameroon in 2006, together with the title Das ich dich dich nicht, for the radio play "An image of man, which is zero in its sum". Both titles are characterized by stream of consciousness- like texts. The radio play was awarded the 2007 war blind radio play award.
The cover of the album is - as is so often the case with albums of the Goldene Zitronen (also with The Origin of the Night ) - a painting by the Hamburg painter Daniel Richter .
reception
Christian Preußler awarded the album 7 out of 10 points and writes on the website plattentests.de :
“Tricky rhythms, cerebral melodies and a highly frequented use of words. 'Lenin' offers a meandering interplay of electronic energy and driving rock elements. All lovers of the 'Porsche, Genscher, Hallo HSV' slogan thrashing, 'Lenin' will surely chisel horror in the face. If that should surprise you, unfortunately we have to assume that you have not been careful for the past 10 years. "
In the time it was written:
"Lenin is an avant-garde album, even if the lemons can be" cooler than the babyshambles " if necessary , as Cameroon emphasizes. Since the band's beginnings in fun punk, their music has become more and more complex without sacrificing compromise, and the social criticism has become finer. One also strikes where stereotypes condense into neo-philistineism: "I've been listening to a lot of German radio lately" - Cameroon sings it in such a way that one has to laugh about it.
The only thing that stands in the way of the great success of the Golden Lemons is their own super-cunning: Lenin is not a light punk rock record that you can play through TV shows, but an extraordinary, multi-layered and sometimes difficult work of art that skilfully captures the German present. "
Alexander Lazarek wrote in the intro :
“Lenin” is the fangest and most precise record since “Economy Class” [album of the lemons, 1996] and with all the organs, synths, bells and radio-playful background voices for Goldie standards actually accessible, yes, rich? Yes, but far from being a sing-along, and agitpop -Dancing certainly not, no. "
Track list
- Song of Mood Holders (3:09)
- Mila (3:54)
- From the Demons of Wesley Willis (3:54)
- If I were a sneaker (5:17)
- Mickeyrourkeske (2:49)
- Lenin (4:31)
- Complication (2:36)
- The Mayor (4:17)
- Out of class, back in class (3:33)
- I won't tell you (3:03)
- Terminator I and Sigmund Freud (3:36)
- European Branch Offices (3:12)
- Gevatter Böhm tells (3:03)
Web links
- LENIN (PDF; 2.6 MB) - Material from the Golden Lemons on Lenin
Individual evidence
- ↑ He touched the sleep of the world (Lenin) . erinnerlaces.de. Archived from the original on December 12, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Ernst Busch - Lenin (He touched the sleep of the world) . YouTube . Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Announcement of the GOLDEN LEMONS on the unpleasant theatrical release of the film. In: goldenlemons.de. Retrieved October 28, 2008 .
- ↑ Christian Preusser: Engels tongues . plattentests.de. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ The singer's low scream - The Golden Lemons uncover the mendacity of life with »Lenin« . In: Die Zeit , No. 21/2006
- ↑ Alexander Lazarek: The Golden Lemons: Lenin . intro.de. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. 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. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
