Not just me alone

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Not just me alone
Studio album by Hannes Wader

Publication
(s)

1983

Label (s) Plans - ARIS

Genre (s)

Chanson / singer-songwriter

Title (number)

8th

running time

35 min 36 s

occupation
  • Bass : Hans Hartmann

production

Hannes Wader, Ulrich mask

Studio (s)

Recording and mixing Volksparkstudio Hamburg

chronology
That nothing stays as it was (1982) Not just me alone Embers on the Horizon (1985)

Not just me is an album by the singer and songwriter Hannes Wader from 1983.

Emergence

In contrast to Wader's other albums, the album contains a lot of modern elements. With the electric and slide guitar on “Die Mine”, it has become a tough album for the songwriter's standards. It was unusual and extravagant not just for himself, but for the entire songwriting scene. The album is a mixture of political, socially critical and two biographical titles. The title “Change” is based on a melody by Mozart , which also includes classical elements.

Track list

  1. The better time - 5:29
  2. Good to be back - 3:08
  3. We have no choice - 3:10
  4. Fulfilled Life - 6:09
  5. The mine - 3:45
  6. Pablo - 4:40
  7. Change - 2:08
  8. The Buffalo - 7:07

particularities

For the last time Wader produced his album himself. Ulrich Maske, who accompanied him on the percussions on this album, supported him. Already on the next album glow on the horizon was Detlef Petersen his producer until the early 90s.

As with several previous albums, Martin Berschel and Ben Ahrens were responsible for the sound.

Ten musicians supported Wader with the recordings. For the first time there was a drummer with Michael Clifton.

The penultimate time his band supported him. She only played with Wader on the album Glut am Horizont . Already on the tour for the 20th anniversary, on which the album Until now (1986) was created, the songwriter was only accompanied by Reinhard Bärenz (guitar, synthesizer).

The title The Better Time deals with the destruction of nature and the environment.

The song Good to be here again is about the relationship between Wader and his fans. It's about the joy of being on stage and having an audience that understands you and shares your concerns and views. Wader himself once said that he could not live without his music and his audience and that he draws strength from it.

The title Changes , like many of his songs, deals with the topic of interpersonal relationships and their problems.

Fulfilled Life deals critically with life and the illusory world as well as the character of prominent people. He suggests that these people live insatiable at the expense of other people and fool the public into thinking that they have a different personality who has nothing to do with them and is just a facade.

We have no choice in dealing with the dream of peace and the end of all wars. Wader calls for resistance to the war. According to the songwriter, a world without war is the only one. He calls for resistance and a courageous stand for peace. Wader once said: A war has no winners, only losers. The songwriter is still firmly anchored in the peace movement .

The mine is about a soldier under whose feet there is a land mine that goes off at the slightest wrong movement. The soldier has finished his life and no longer feels fear or anger. It is an unusual blues title for Hannes Wader , which comes along quickly, relatively loud for his terms and with a slide guitar played by Andreas Willers.

Pablo explores the feelings and fears of a little Indian who watches the murder of his parents. One more time, Wader was to deal with the expulsion and extermination of the Indians. With We see be on glow on the horizon (1985) suggests an edited speech by Chief Seattle to the US Congress to reflect on this topic.

The Buffalo is an autobiographical title that deals with the young Wader, with the difficulties he had with parents and in school, in which he was always an outsider. Wader burns a buffalo from clay that he wants to show his teacher, also to get recognition, which of course goes wrong. Due to unfortunate circumstances, he is late for school and is mocked. He doesn't dare to show his buffalo. He draws the following conclusion: What he has left are the longing for beauty and love and the greed for life. He suggests that he is satisfied with himself as he is. “This gives me strength,” he sums up optimistically, “which is often only considered a weakness”. The title can also be found on the album Never Go Back (1991).