Love, death & the devil

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Love, death & the devil
Studio album by Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung

Publication
(s)

1987

Format (s)

LP, MC, CD

Genre (s)

Austropop

Title (number)

12

running time

40:47

occupation
  • Peter Skrepek - drum computer

production

Peter Müller (music producer) , First general uncertainty

Studio (s)

Soundmill Studio

chronology
Money or life! Love, death & the devil Neppomuk's revenge
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Love, death & the devil
  DE 3 11/16/1987 (53 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link December 01, 1987 (38 weeks)
  CH 1 11/29/1987 (34 weeks)

Liebe, Tod & Teufel is the sixth album by the Austrian rock band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung , released in 1987 .

History of origin

After the great success of money or life! and his single releases, the band continued to work on a new album. The release of Liebe, Tod & Teufel on October 26, 1987 was preceded by the single Küss die Hand, Schöne Frau on October 17 , An der Copacabana and Burli followed in early 1988. From February 18, 1988, the band toured the album.

title

  1. Three penguins in love (1) - 0:35
  2. Love, Death and the Devil - 5:02
  3. Kiss the hand, beautiful woman - 4:10
  4. Death - 5:41
  5. At Copacabana - 4:34
  6. Yes, that's Jazz - 0:19
  7. Tarzan and Jane - 4:10
  8. Burli - 4:03
  9. On the Nepperbahn - 2:22
  10. Sandler King Eberhard - 5:42
  11. Ear Troubles ( Prince Charles ) - 3:34
  12. Three penguins in love (2) - 0:35
  13. Kiss the hand, beautiful woman (uncensored maxi version) - 5:41

content

The album cover, which shows a penguin and a pink, female seal on ice floes, illustrates the song Kiss the hand, beautiful woman , which describes the adventures of an adulterous womanizer. Penguins also appear in two of the three short tracks ( Drei verliebte Pinguine (1) , Yes, that's Jazz and Drei verliebte Pinguine (2) ). Burli contains a caustic satire on the consequences of accidents in nuclear power plants. In Auf der Nepperbahn , the classic sung by Hans Albers, Auf der Reeperbahn, is parodied at half past twelve: a visitor to Hamburg's red light district experiences a nightmare in a state of intoxication, which he later glosses over. Further topics are the tragic love among the homeless ( sandlers ) and the big ears of Prince Charles ( ear troubles ).

particularities

  • The group name on the top of the record cover is written in bold red letters and just says “uncertainty” across the whole width. Very small is added in brackets and with a black line “(First General)”. The album title, which is placed below, was given the addition "(Part 1)".
  • The tour of the same name was presented by Erste Allgemeine Versicherung , which ten years earlier the band had wanted to sue for similar names.
  • The song Burli was boycotted by the radio station Bayern 3 and then played almost nowhere in Germany on the radio. A vicious rewrite called Kurti on Kurt Waldheim's SA past was played on the tour; this brought the band an advertisement.

reception

The Musikexpress praised the "outstanding text ideas of Kreisler's student Thomas Spitzer" and said that the music was "with various reservations [...] definitely the best accompaniment that has ever happened to a cabaret program".

In the Hörzu it was read: "Earwigs to clap and sing along - with thoughtful things through the back door." And more precisely to the texts: "They are bitterly angry, with a lot of depth and sometimes with very funny puns ."

The album received an average rating of 3.47 out of 5 on Rate Your Music .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
  2. ↑ a b EAV - biography. (No longer available online.) Official website, archived from the original on January 5, 2015 ; Retrieved January 5, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eav.at
  3. ↑ Frequently asked questions about EAV. (No longer available online.) Official website, formerly the original ; accessed on September 2, 2014 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.verunsicherung.de  
  4. ↑ Article archive of the Musikexpress , accessed on December 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ Daniela Hembd: And then everyone sings along: Tirili, Tirilo, Tirila . In: Hörzu , 18/1988 (May 7 - May 13, 1988), p. 10.
  6. ↑ Daniela Hembd: And then everyone sings along: Tirili, Tirilo, Tirila . In: Hörzu , 18/1988 (May 7 - May 13, 1988), p. 8.
  7. ^ Rate Your Music , accessed December 16, 2013.

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