Nothing stays as it was
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| Studio album by Goethe's heirs | ||||
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Publication |
November 12, 2001 |
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| Label (s) | Time bomb / Strange Ways Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD |
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Title (number) |
16 |
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running time |
66 min 28 s |
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| occupation | Singing: Oswald Henke | |||
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Jürgen Jansen |
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Studio (s) |
Candyland Studios (Hamburg) |
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Nothing stays as it was is the sixth studio album by the Bayreuth band Goethes Erben .
The cover of the album shows a doll child dressed in red lying in the ice. It is supposed to symbolize the detachment from childhood when the adult child moves out and leaves the doll behind.
History of origin
The existence of Goethe's heirs was previously on the brink, since the blue album and chess is not life did not meet the expected sales figures. Henke attributed this to the increasing number of unlicensed copies distributed on the Internet . The album was therefore conceived as the last of the band for the time being. The first edition of the album was therefore issued with copy protection that could not be played on the computer. However, it stayed with this one publication with copy protection, because the band assumed that unauthorized copying could not be prevented.
Henke commented on the uncertain future of the band in the booklet with the words:
- “And this is where the story of GOETHES ERBEN ends for the time being, because" Nothing stays as it was "can be seen as a question about the future or as a final statement. It only depends on the perspective. "
Music genre
In addition to quiet piano pieces, the album also contains metal borrowings ( nothing stays as it was , very gentle ), rhythm structures from the hip-hop environment ( glass garden , sky gray ) and technoid elements ( room 34 - part 2 ). Songs like Fleischschuld are a reference to the band's earlier history, while the quieter, catchier sounds show a new side of the band.
Track list
- The Ice Storm - 4:29
- Missing Dream - 3:22
- Very quiet - 3:59
- Paradoxical Silence - 3:48
- Glass Garden - 4:32 (with Peter Heppner )
- Nothing stays the same - 3:54
- Sky gray - 3:12
- Very gently - 4:00
- Glowing red once white angels - 4:18
- Meat Debt - 5:23
- Room 34, Part 1 - 6:53
- Room 34, Part 2 - 2:26
- Just a fool - 3:41
- What was left - 5:38
- Scream - 3:18
- Being human - 3:09
Songs 1 to 5 fall under the heading “Time to Reflect”, 6 to 12 under “Angry Utopias” and 13 to 16 under “Summary”.
Single releases
The songs "Der Eissturm" and " Glasgarten " were released as single . It exists as an ordinary single and as a maxi-CD, on which "The Door in the Past" and "Pascal laughs (live)" are still present. The Glasgarten single was later packed as a bonus on the new edition of the album.
The Eissturm single also features a new recording of the song "Schatten" with the name "Schatten II".
Song info
- The song Nothing stays as it was is a German setting of the song "Shockwaved", which Mindy Kumbalek recorded together with Project Pitchfork and published in 1996 under the project name Still Silent .
- The song What was remains is the new setting of the song of the same name from Erblast's debut album .
- In the song Glasgarten, Peter Heppner , the singer of the band Wolfsheim , acts as the duet partner of Oswald Henke .
- A video was also shot for the glass garden and room 34 .
- For the first time, the texts in the booklet are not translated into English as usual, but for the first time there is a foreword by Henke, where he briefly writes something for each song - well woven into the text.
DVD release
In 2002 a double DVD with the title "Was war remains" was released, in which all the songs on the album were reproduced in video clips. There has not yet been a visualization for every song on an album, Goethe's heirs proved to be pioneers here. The financial means for the double DVD were scarce, however.
In the song Fleischschuld , only the sound can be heard, while the picture remains black. The original video would have shown images of raw meat being cut, alternated with footage of a crying child. This caused the FSK not to give the video a youth release and not to classify it as FSK18. In the justification of the FSK's judgment, it was argued that the visual representation of the video clip "tends to be inhuman" . Oswald Henke later used this judgment as a template for the title of his book "FSK18 - tendency to misanthropy" . Due to the lack of age rating, it was decided not to publish the video including images. Otherwise, an age check would have been required for the shipment of the DVD , the laborious process of which one wanted to avoid. Instead, the video including the picture was later published on the Debilitas DVD , which was not approved for young people because of its main film and therefore did not play a role.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.goethesorben.de/german.php?action=artikel&artikel_id=24&quelle=Gothic%20No.53
- ↑ http://www.goethesorben.de/german.php?action=artikel&artikel_id=24&quelle=Gothic%20No.53