Monarchy and everyday life
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World record EMI Electrola Vertigo Berlin (re-release) |
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39:10 |
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Horst Luedtke, Fehlfarben |
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EMI Studios, Cologne |
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Monarchy and Everyday Life is the debut album by the German rock band Fehlfarben and was released in October 1980.
The album has a key role in the development of German-language punk music and is an important reference work.
The album was recorded between June and September 1980 in the EMI Studios in Cologne. Two years after its release, the single Ein Jahr (Es gehtangs), which was decoupled from EMI against the will of the band , became a hit and reached number 22 in the German charts.
After a new edition ( Remixed & Remastered ) was released in 2000 , the album received a gold record in 2001 - 21 years after its first release - for 250,000 units sold.
Another remaster was released in May 2017 on the Vertigo Berlin label .
Track list
Texts and music by the band members at the time, Hein, Schwebel , Kemner, Bauer and Fenstermacher, with the exception of Militürk , whose text is by Gabi Delgado-López (singer of the friendly band German American Friendship ).
- Here and now (2:44)
- Gray veil (2:25)
- These are stories (3:21)
- All That Heaven Allows (3:37)
- Thank god not in England (2:40)
- Militurk (5:22)
- Apocalypse (3:11)
- One year (moving forward) (2:51)
- Fear (2:16)
- That was years ago (2:35)
- Paul is dead (7:56)
- Bonus title from the new edition published in 2000
- Adventure and Freedom (2:51)
- Great love / Maxi (2:51)
- Herrenreiter (live) (3:43)
- Paul is dead (edit) (5:33)
meaning
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The album is given great importance in the music press.
For example, the German-language Rolling Stone lists the album in the list of the 500 best albums of all time and at the same time as the best album by a German artist at all. The magazine also selected the album as number 1 of the 50 best German albums of all time .
Also in a ranking called The 100 records of the century by Spex , the album reached a top position in 15th place.
The Musikexpress voted Monarchy and Everyday Life at number 5 of the 50 best German records .
Markus Zinsmaier describes the album as a "revolutionary monument" at the time .
According to Michael Schuh, monarchy and everyday life are among the “best German-language albums of all time”.
In 2017, the German hip-hop band Antilopen Gang released an album entitled Anarchy and Everyday Life , as a reference to the classic, the Fehlfarben, published almost 37 years earlier.
style
The Rolling Stone writes about the musical aspect of the songs: "The songs are rough and exuberant, but they are not played in an amateurish way."
The texts are sometimes rich in political and socially critical metaphors. While some songs have a kind of self-contained plot (such as "Paul is dead" ), others are more a series of associations ( Militürk ; One year (It goes on) ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chart tracking Germany ( memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Hit balance German Chart LPs 1962–1986 , Günter Ehnert (Ed.), Taurus Press, ISBN 3-922542-29-8
- ↑ a b c "The only German punk record that counts." (Rolling Stone - Review in Rolling Stone in the German special edition of the 500 best albums of all time ; page 17)
- ↑ Review by Arne Willander, in: Rolling Stone 7/2017, issue 283, p. 98
- ↑ a b Review by Michael Schuh on Laut.de (accessed July 7, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Gabriele Meierding, in: Musikexpress 12/1980, issue 299, p. 53.
- ↑ The 50 best German albums of all time on rollingstone.de, accessed on July 7, 2017
- ↑ "The 100 Records of the Century"
- ↑ Made in Germany - The best 50 German records (Musikexpress, 2001) on indiepedia.de, accessed on July 7, 2017
- ↑ Markus Zinsmaier: Waste Your Myth (April 12, 2007) on Zeit.de, accessed on July 7, 2017
- ↑ "Gray B-film heroes (note: meant is Ronald Reagan ) will soon rule the world"
- ↑ "Shopping in Peanutland. What is left is called development aid. "
