police officers
| police officers | |
|---|---|
| Extra wide | |
| publication | 1982 |
| length | 5:09 |
| Genre (s) | New wave |
| text | Kai Havaii |
| music | Stefan Kleinkrieg |
| Publisher (s) | Metronome Records |
| album | What a country! - What for men: |
| Cover versions | |
| 2006 | Oomph! |
| 2013 | Heino |
| Michael nose tape | |
Police officers is a song by the German band Extrabreit .
Background and origin
The text is by Kai Havaii and the music was composed by Havaii and Wolfgang Jäger. The song is attributed to the Neue Deutsche Welle . It was released as a single in 1981 and on the album Welch ein Land! - What manner of men: . The song describes a number of well-known cop stereotypes.
Kai Havaii had already finished the text, the music came later in the former Oeger-Lux - Kino in Hagen district Hohenlimburg that by the new owners as a punk bar with a small concert hall under the name Rockpalast Hohenlimburg was operated. Extra-wide were allowed to use the hall as a rehearsal room for some time after a performance. When manager Jörg A. Hoppe came to the Rockpalast that evening , the group played him the finished piece, and Hoppe was later quoted as saying: "That's it guys, that's it".
Havaii related the creation:
“When I remembered the text, there had just been street battles in Berlin. Back then there was a saying "Skin the cops as flat as sandwiches!" I definitely didn't want to go in this direction with the song, I wanted to make the psychological tension clear what it means when a person is supposed to embody state authority and the fact that there was a steadily growing and often intimidating police presence at the time. "
Musically, the piece can be assigned to the New Wave . The song is considered a "document of a successful punk - reception in the German rock."
Remixes
In 1990, Oliver Momm made his first remix under the title Polizisten Remix '90 , which was included as the B-side on the maxi single of the song Hurra, hurra, die Schule brennt, which he had also remixed , and had a length of 6:45 minutes. A hardcore electro version of the song was released in 1995, the artist was “X-Brite Hits The GDP Feat. The FBR ". The Electro / Punk Remix by Marc Feind feat. Extrabreit was released in 2010. The maxi single contains two further remixes, of which the Berlin Remix was created by Rod Gonzalez ( Die Ärzte ) under the pseudonym General Mac Arthur. He also played guitar and bass for this version of the song. The Austrian musician Michael Kohlbecker published a remix of the song he created on his album End of Time in 2014
Cover versions
2006 covered Oomph! the song for her best-of album Delicatessen . In addition, a hit cover by Heino appeared on the bonus edition of his album Mit freundlichen Grüßen in 2013 . Another cover is by Michael Naseband with the show band Palazzo.
reception
The single appeared in the German charts on January 11, 1982. This first extra-wide hit stayed in the German single charts for a total of 21 weeks and reached number 27.
The song was not played in the Bayerischer Rundfunk program , allegedly at the instigation of the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz-Josef Strauss .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extrabreit - Polizisten Lyrics. In: musixmatch.com . Retrieved October 28, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Kurt Grosskurt's Extra Wide Story, Part 22 , accessed on January 10, 2020
- ↑ NRW-Tourismus.de , accessed on January 18, 2020
- ↑ a b Frank Apunkt Schneider: When the world was still down - from Punk to NDW, Ventil Verlag KG, 2007, page 173
- ↑ Extrabreit - Hurray, Hurray, Die Schule Brennt Remix 90 at Discogs
- ↑ a b Marc Feind Feat. Extrabreit - Policemen at Discogs
- ↑ Michael Kohlbecker - End Of Time at Discogs
- ↑ OOMPH! - Delicacies at Discogs
- ↑ Heino - police officers at laut.de.
- ↑ Naseband - Police officers at SoundCloud
- ↑ Extrabreit - Policemen - hitparade.ch
- ↑ Song information on 80s80s.de , accessed on February 8, 2020
- ↑ In good company with Sesame Street. Interview with Kai Hawaii. Rocktimes, July 11, 2007, accessed August 25, 2020