Meanwhile (Celebrate-the-Nun-Album)

Meanwhile
Celebrate the Nun studio album
Publication (s)	June 12, 1990
admission	Summer 1989
Label (s)	Westside Music / EMI
Format (s)	CD , LP , MC
Genre (s)	Electropop
Title (number)	12
running time	50:46
occupation	Singing : HP Baxxter Synthesizer : Rick J. Jordan E-Drums : Britt Maxime Synthesizer , drums : Slin Tompson
production	Peter Siedlaczek (Co-Producer: Celebrate the Nun, Executive Producer : Achim Völker)
Studio (s)	Artlab Studios, Frankfurt am Main
chronology - Meanwhile Continuous (1991)
Single releases 1988 Ordinary Town 1989 Will you be there 1990 She's a secretary

Meanwhile ( English for: "meanwhile") is the debut album released on June 12, 1990 by the Hanoverian band Celebrate the Nun , from which Scooter emerged in 1993 .

About the album

Meanwhile is the first album by a then still young electro pop band, which was launched in Hanover at the end of 1986. The singer's sister, Britt Maxime, who followed her brother to Hanover to study English and politics in 1986, and Slin Tompson, whom she had met in a discotheque, completed the band, which was now working on their songs together. The debut single, Ordinary Town , released in 1988 , brought the band appearances on the TV shows “Spielbude” ( ARD ) and “ Musikladen Eurotops ”. "The creative band's first single was just as surprisingly good as their outfit," said EMI press information .

The musicians were signed to their music label , Westside Music, and sent to the recording studio in Frankfurt am Main to record an album . In the summer of 1989 all studio work was done, so that the long player could be released the following year .

Meanwhile contained twelve danceable, synthetic songs, of which apart from Ordinary Town , which formed the track No. 1, She's a Secretary and Will You Be There were released as singles. The last song came in at fifth place on the charts of the American magazine Billboard and She's a Secretary there at 12th place, which led to Meanwhile being published by the American Enigma label. There was also a video production for each single.

Due to musical differences, Slin Tompson left the band after the release of Meanwhile and devoted himself to solo projects.

Westside Music went bankrupt in 1991, so the band eventually broke up.

Meanwhile was remastered for the MP3 format in 2004 and has since been reissued several times. The last two songs are CD bonus tracks.

Track list

The compositions and arrangements are from Celebrate the Nun, the lyrics by HP Baxxter alone , except for Cry No More (by Britt Maxime, arrangement by Rick J. Jordan ).

1. Ordinary Town (4:15)
2. My Jealously (4:32)
3. Will You Be There (3:29)
4. Maybe Tomorrow (3:54)
5. Don't You Go (3:52)
6. She's a Secretary (3:07)
7. Cry No More (4:06)
8. Stay Away (4:34)
9. Could Have Been (3:48)
10. Sun (4:25)
11. Unattainable Love (4:35)
12. Strange (5:08)

Singles

Cover	Title (year)	Tracklist
	Ordinary Town ( 1989 )	Ordinary Town (6:34) Strange (5:12) Ordinary Town - Radio version (3:58)
	Will You Be There (1989)	Will You Be There (5:30) Unattainable Love (4:36) Will You Be There - Acapella (0:35)
	Will You Be There ( US , Canada ) (1989)	Celebrate The Nun mix (7:27) Devilish Dub (4:59) < 7-inch / LP version (3:34) Acapella (0:35) French Floor mix (6:07) French Floor Dub (3:39) 12-inch version (5:30)
	She's A Secretary (USA, Canada) (1989, 1990 )	She's a Secretary - Gothic mix (5:25) She's a Secretary - Gothic Dub (3:36) She's a Secretary - Nun mix (4:24) She's a Secretary - Monja mix (5:32) She's a Secretary - Spastic Dub (6:01) Strange (5:09) Will You Be There - 12-inch Version (5:30)

literature

• Matthias Blazek: The Lower Saxony Band Compendium 1963-2003 - Data and facts from 100 rock groups from Lower Saxony . Celle 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018947-0 , pp. 34-35.

Web links

• Meanwhile at Discogs (English)
• Meanwhile at Last.fm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cduniverse.com
2. ↑ thesecondfuture.net
3. ↑ thesecondfuture.net
4. ↑ thesecondfuture.net
5. ↑ Celebrate the Nun releases on Allmusic
6. ↑ ^{a b} Also released as a remix CD.