Never again art (as always ...)

Never again art (as always ...)
Studio album by Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
Publication (s)	1994
Label (s)	EMI
Format (s)	CD, MC, limited LP record
Genre (s)	Pop rock
Title (number)	16
running time	56:52
occupation	Klaus Eberhartinger - vocals, choir Thomas Spitzer - guitar, vocals, choir Andy Töfferl - choir Studio musician: Kurt Keinrath - choir Brigitte Prybil - choir David Bronner - keyboards, choir Ken Taylor - bass Bernhard Locker - guitar Christian Leitgeb - guitar Thomas Lang - drums Stefan Maass - percussion
production	Thomas Spitzer, Klaus Eberhartinger, David Bronner
chronology Watumba! Never again art (as always ...) Hell is going on in heaven

Never again art (as always ...) is the ninth studio album by the Austrian pop group Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV) and was released on November 24, 1994 . The album reached number one on the Austrian album charts and stayed in the hit parade for 25 weeks. In Switzerland the album reached number 17, in Germany it was number 40. In Austria, Nie wieder Kunst also received double platinum for more than 60,000 units sold.

In 1995 the video Kunst-Tour '95 went on sale, which includes recordings of the concert tour. In the same year the live album Kunst-Tour '95 - live! .

History of origin

Klaus Eberhartinger and Thomas Spitzer chose Kenya as a place of retreat six years ago . Undisturbed by the side effects that a pop musician life , at least that of a multiseller , brings with it, the two of them were able to relax there and also let ideas arise. After the last release, the group had toured excessively and needed a break. In Kenya, regeneration and the gathering of ideas were ultimately followed by a thirst for action. In 1993 a studio was set up and set up in a do-it-yourself manner , whereby one had to improvise from time to time, as there were no soundproof windows in the African country, for example. Almost 40 sketches of ideas slowly crystallized - some of them were taken to Vienna to discuss and improve with bandmates - the 16 tracks on the album.

title

1. Art Never Again (3:58)
2. Airplane (3:54)
3. Cinderella (4:22)
4. The Frogs are Coming (1:07)
5. 300 hp (4:06)
6. Barbara (4:13)
7. The Time (3:55)
8. Edi (3:04)
9. Birthday (1:08)
10. Once I want to be a bad guy (3:47)
11. Hello (4:27)
12. Zwirch & Zwabel (3:34)
13. The Story (4:41)
14. Ibrahim (1:42)
15. Egghead Rudi (4:36)
16. Lick it mi (4:07)

The title track begins with a parody of the title song Hurra, hurra, the Pumuckl is there from the corresponding TV cartoon series.

illustration

The EAV live (2008)

The cover of the album shows one of Thomas Spitzer's cartoon characters. In her right hand she holds a banana that is slipping out of the skin. The title of the long player can be read in a speech bubble. The background of the motif is gray and the name of the music group can be read in yellow letters at the top of the picture. The CD from Nie wieder Kunst contains a booklet with the lyrics and various comic pictures of coatis , who have been the main characters in Spitzer's comic motifs alongside the penguins since the 1990 album Neppomuk's Rache .

Never again art is available as compact discs , music cassettes and, in a limited edition, as LP records .

Texts

300 hp The song is about a man who sees the real meaning of life in cars and gets one with 300 hp. When a car with 400 hp overtook him on the autobahn, a world collapsed for him. At the end of the song he ends up in a madhouse.

Hello Klaus calls various ex-girlfriends with whom he had relationships a long time ago and tries - unsuccessfully - to get them to go out with him. Most of them already have families or have changed in other ways. One of them has a son whose father disappeared after his birth - and Klaus has to find out that he is the father.

The time A man lies in bed and philosophizes about time. He always finds new reasons to go back to bed and break the ringing alarm clock. In the end, the day is over and he has hardly got up yet, so he falls asleep again and “looks forward to the new day”, when he breaks the alarm clock again and goes back to sleep.

birthday This short piece (1 min., 08 sec.) Is a birthday song that does not express congratulations, but rather hatred of the birthday child.

Egghead Rudi This song criticizes National Socialism and is about a neo-Nazi named Rudi . Because of their songs directed against National Socialism, the EAV has already received threatening letters and bomb threats.

Edi This song is about a dachshund named Eduard, who constantly causes difficulties for his master, but does not have to face the consequences. He is scolded in the chorus (Pfui! Edi, Pfui!)

criticism

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Never again art (as always ...)   DE 40 12/12/1994 (12 weeks)   AT 1 04/12/1994 (25 weeks)   CH 17th 12/18/1994 (10 weeks)

Singles

300 HP (car ...)   AT 5 11/13/1994 (12 weeks) I want to be a bad guy one day   AT 17th 03/19/1995 (8 weeks)

After a long time, Never Again Art is the first EAV album, the reviews of which were rather negative. On the band's unofficial website, the album was described as good lyrically, but rather weak musically. The primary use of synthesizers and computers instead of classical musical instruments also met with poor criticism, as did the lack of participation by Eik Breit and Nino Holm in the composition of the songs.

“ Unfortunately, as good as the album begins, it doesn't go on. For the first time there are weak points: songs that do not immediately settle into a catchy tune between hammer and anvil the first time [ ... ] Musically, the EAV has apparently also slimmed down. The computer has never been used so massively instead of self-played instruments, and the songs have never seemed so synthetic. Earthy pieces like “I want to be a bad guy once” or “Rudi Egghead” are the exception. "

- Criticism on verunsicherung.de

The Musikexpress made “an almost Dadaist streak”.

Web links

Commons : First general uncertainty  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of EAV and EAV fan club
• No more art on eav.at
• No more art on verunsicherung.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Issue date
2. ↑ Schizophrenic life with stupid hits . First general uncertainty. In: Music Week . No. 50/1994 , December 12, 1994, Szene, p. 8 .
3. ↑ Lengths of the pieces of music
4. ^ Threat letter from neo-Nazis - EAV band history 1980-89 ( Memento from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
6. ↑ criticism
7. ↑ (ww): First general uncertainty . The incorrigible and the evil. In: Musikexpress . January 1995, p. 17 .