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1977 |
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1977 |
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10 |
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39:14 |
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Walther Richter |
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Menschenjunges is the eighth German studio album by the German songwriter Reinhard Mey and was released in the summer of 1977.
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In the satirical song An Application for an Application Form , the protagonist desperately tries to obtain an application for an application form, and in the process rushes from office to office and from authority to authority. In the end he finds it in a box that is to be sent back to the head office for destruction. It is intended to point out the curiosity in the allocation of the responsibility of offices and the problem of finding their way around the quantities of forms as a person with no legal training. The subject is similar to that of the A 38 pass , which Asterix had tried to obtain the year before in his third cartoon.
The first sentence of the lyrics of Whom God wants to show the right favor is based on the poem Wem Gott wants show right favor by Joseph von Eichendorff . The song addresses Mey's tour through German cities. The cities where he was on tour are listed in humorous rhymes such as Insterburg & Cos's song I loved a girl .
In the almost eleven-minute ballad The Bear Who Wanted to Remain a Bear, which sets a picture book to music, an anthropomorphized bear wakes up from its hibernation and has to discover that a factory has been raised above its cave. The bear is persistently treated as a human until it conforms to the system and works in the factory. After almost a year, he was released due to his tiredness in winter and when he was looking for a place to sleep he was referred to as a bear by a motel owner. The bear leaves the motel, but no longer feels at home in its forest. He will ultimately hibernate or die.
Theme song
The topic of "children" comes into focus for the first time, with the theme song Human Young . Mey had just become a father for the first time and was even thinking of a second child (who would actually not be born until six years later, because after the initial euphoria, the realization prevailed that caring for the first baby would be labor-intensive for a long time). The satirical magazine Titanic compared the lyrics to a poem by Durs Grünbein . Looking back in 2013, Der Spiegel wrote that “Mey's overly sedate, patronizing lecture” kills “the actually empathic message” of this song.
Production and history
The birth of their son Frederik brought with it a new rhythm of life and, as a consequence, doubts about undisturbed work. However, it inspired Mey to have the newborn next to him in the crib, which - when he moved - enjoyed absolute priority, but allowed him to concentrate on writing new songs during his sleep phases.
The album was produced by Walther Richter . The lyrics and the music are from Reinhard Mey. The songs were arranged by Kai Rautenberg and Wilfried Grünberg . The RIAS dance orchestra provided the orchestral accompaniment .
Track list
- Whom God wants to show the right favor
- My first gray hair
- I am embarrassed
- To my sleeping dog
- An application for an application form
- Human cub
- All my ways
- The bear who wanted to stay a bear
- Your smile
- Before my hour strikes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beate Zimmermann: Reinhard Mey: "I've tried again" . He was away from the window for a long time. It took him two years for his new LP. He also went through a crisis in his private life. But now the sensitive songwriter is back - and is going on tour. In: Musik Joker . No. 19/77 , September 5, 1977, pp. 50-53 .
- ↑ Reinhard Mey (with Bernd Schroeder): What else I would have to say . 1st edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03622-X , p. 140 .
- ↑ The singing, sounding nothing. Titanic , accessed April 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte, Jan Wigger: Listened: The most important CDs of the week. Spiegel Online , December 10, 2013, accessed April 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Reinhard Mey (with Bernd Schroeder): What else I would have to say . 1st edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03622-X , p. 152 .
- ↑ Menschenjunges Discogs .com
Web links
- Reinhard Mey: Human Young | Reinhard Mey | Songwriter . Retrieved April 2, 2014 .; CD Menschenjunges on Reinhard Mey's website