My eighth of the bay leaf
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| Studio album by Reinhard Mey | ||||
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Publication |
1972 |
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1972 |
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| Label (s) | Intercord | |||
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
40:04 |
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Walther Richter |
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Studio (s) |
Teldec-Studio, Berlin |
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My eighth laurel leaf is the fifth German studio album by German songwriter Reinhard Mey and was released by Intercord in 1972 .
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The album begins with the song Musikanten are in der Stadt , in which Mey sings about traveling musicians with a slightly ironic look . The song Sometimes I wish 'I is a love song in which the lyric self reflects on the time together with a loved one.
Annabelle, oh Annabelle is one of Mey's most controversial songs. The song describes a man's view of his student girlfriend, who is involved in the student and emancipation movement at the beginning of the 1970s. The song led to a high point of criticism. Thomas Rothschild wrote in the book Liedermacher : “With this caricature of a left student [...] Reinhard Mey finally turned out to be someone who sings by the mouth to his petty-bourgeois listeners who do not want to be stolen from their ideal world. [...] What even moderators apparently regard as humor is malicious ridicule of a minority. It's just a step from Annabelle, who never laughs, to the Russian with the knife between his teeth. Mey runs witch hunts in chanson form with Annabelle. " For the song, which, according to his own admission, had brought him" a lot of trouble, but also a lot of fun ", he wrote a kind of" excuse song "in 1998, decades later with Der Biker , in which he expresses his appreciation for Annabelle.
All I have is a friendship song to a cockroach who is the protagonist's only friend after all his other friends are "with the luck" away. In the song Shame That You Have to Go , the songwriter praises a deceased drinking brother. The hot battle at the cold buffet is satirically heavily exaggerated how people from the social upper class storm a cold buffet . My eighth bay leaf tells of the pressure and expectations that are exerted on the protagonist and how he deals with it.
Another love song can be found with autumn thunderstorms over roofs . The song In Tyrannis (From wall to wall, there are four steps) containing the inner monologue of innocent prisoners in solitary confinement . In the course of the song, he describes what happened to him there. Towards the end he chooses the path of false confession in order to escape the otherwise hopeless situation. Before I howl with the wolves is an individualistic commitment to swim against the current. In the song I always wanted to be a mannequin , Mey sings about the futile dream of a craftsman to finally walk the catwalk as a mannequin . Mey wrote the farewell song Gute Nacht, Freunde under his pseudonym Alfons Yondraschek for the duo Inga and Wolf , which he interprets himself here.
Track list
- Musicians are in town - 3:23
- Sometimes I wish - 2:57
- Annabelle, oh Annabelle - 4:02
- All I have - 1:57
- It's a shame you have to go - 4:21
- The hot battle at the cold buffet - 3:16
- My eighth of bay leaf - 3:29
- Autumn thunderstorm over roofs - 3:13
- In Tyranny (four steps from wall to wall) - 5:31
- Before I howl with the wolves - 2:54
- I've always wanted to be a mannequin - 2:10
- Good night friends - 2:51
Web links
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- Booklet My eighth bay leaf