Nothing without a reason
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1991 |
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| Label (s) | Intercord (1991) / EMI , Universal Music (2002) | ||||||||||
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11 (1991) / 16 (2002) |
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47:27 (1991) / 74:06 (2002) |
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Studio (s) |
Sound and video studio Leonberg; Elk Studio Bietigheim-Bissingen; Hansahausstudio Bonn-Beuel; Hollywood Sound Studio Los Angeles |
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A music album by the group Pur was released in 1991 for nothing without reason .
Creation and publication
The album Infinite More , released in 1990, led the group Pur to the first chart position of their career and sold around 150,000 times by July 1991. Pur began to become known beyond the Stuttgart area, even if their level of awareness was significantly higher in the north than in the south of Germany.
The production of the new album Nothing Without Reason took about 3.5 months and took place in Germany and Los Angeles . Some sequences of the album were recorded by the musicians Jerry Hey , Dan Higgins , Gary Grant and Bill Reichenbach . The album was mixed in 1991 in Nashville, among others .
Already in June 1991, Lena, the first single on the album was pre-coupled, which was placed at number 50 in the German single charts and thus became the first chart entry of a pur single at all. Nothing Without Reason was released on August 22, 1991 and reached number 13 on the German album charts. Two days after the album was released, the record was presented to friends and the press on a small scale at Schloss Kleiningersheim .
From autumn 1991 Pur went on tour through Germany: The tour kicked off on October 14, 1991 at Scala Ludwigsburg . As part of the album tour, the record PUR live was created , which was released in 1992 and became a million seller . EMI re-released Nothing Without Reason in 2002, with the album being expanded to include four live tracks and an audio commentary.
Track list
| No. | title | Author (s) | Producer (s) | length |
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| 1 | Lena | Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl | Dieter Falk | 4:30 |
| 2 | Song for the forgotten | 4:43 | ||
| 3 | No war | 5:14 | ||
| 4th | Nothing without a reason | 4:04 | ||
| 5 | On a day like that | 4:51 | ||
| 6th | Kowalski III | Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl, Roland Bless | 3:01 | |
| 7th | My friend Rudi | Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl | 4:29 | |
| 8th | You know what | 4:16 | ||
| 9 | In the last rain | 5:04 | ||
| 10 | Without you | 3:31 | ||
| 11 | Weeping for happiness | 3:48 | ||
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| 12 | Do you remember (live) | Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl | Dieter Falk | 5:24 |
| 13 | My friend Rüdi (live) | 5:30 | ||
| 14th | In the last rain (live) | 5:12 | ||
| 15th | Kowalski III (live) | Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl, Roland Bless | 5:07 | |
| 16 | Nothing without a reason (audio commentary) | 5:25 | ||
reception
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The Stuttgarter Zeitung found that you had to listen to the album several times "to really like it". The songs Lena (“melodically pretty love song”), Kowalski III and Kein Krieg (“a song in which melody, text and dramaturgy are right: a great song”) were positively highlighted . Pure has become rockier compared to the previous album. The Musikexpress stated that Pur balances on the fine line between kitsch and art, whereby the lyrics are full of platitudes. Nevertheless, Hartmut Engler's “distinctive press song [...] is still believable even with a clenched moralist fist”.
Awards
Nothing without a reason received a gold record in 1994 for more than 250,000 units sold . Pur also won the German Record Critics' Prize for their album ; Hartmut Engler received the Fred Jay Prize in 1991 for special achievements as a German-language songwriter.
Web links
- Nothing without a reason at Discogs
- Nothing without a reason at Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 10, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Kai Holoch: Michael Jackson's winds are also there . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 30, 1991.
- ↑ a b Kai Holoch: With Kowalski in the Caribbean . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , August 24, 1991.
- ↑ Charts DE
- ↑ Pure: Nothing without a reason . In: Musikexpress , No. 10, October 1991, p. 104.
- ↑ Year of award according to http://www.musikindustrie.de
- ↑ Pur biography on laut.de .
- ^ Ellie Weinert: A new generation of German writers & producers makes marks the world over . In: Billboard , June 27, 1992.