Pushed Again
| Pushed Again | |
|---|---|
| The dead pants | |
| publication | January 5, 1998 |
| length | 3:50 |
| Genre (s) | Punk , rock |
| text | Campino , TV Smith |
| music | Michael Breitkopf |
Pushed Again is an English rock song by the music group Die Toten Hosen . The music comes from Michael Breitkopf . The text, which is about oppression and the desire for self-determination, is a collaboration between Campino and the English musician T. V. Smith . The song was produced by Jon Caffery and released for the first time as a single by the JKP label on January 5, 1998. The title was number four in Germany, number twenty in Austria and number ten in the Swiss charts .
Emergence
Pushed Again developed Die Toten Hosen in the spring of 1997 during a concert tour in Argentina . Under the name My Head , the band presented the original version of the song on June 28, 1997 at their 1000th concert in the sold-out Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf . At this anniversary concert, a sixteen-year-old girl from the Netherlands suffocated in the crowd in front of the stage. After that, Die Toten Hosen temporarily withdrew from the public eye.
Before she appeared as a member of the Vans Warped Tour in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and the USA for the first time for fourteen concerts in front of a manageable audience in January 1998, the single Pushed Again was released in Germany on January 5, 1998 . The lyrics of the song had meanwhile been edited with the help of T.V. Smith. The song was recorded in the Skyline Tonfabrik in Düsseldorf; the mixing and the final mastering took place in Dieter Dierks' studio . As a further collaboration with T. V. Smith, the single contains the song Revenge and the two German-language songs flies and everything is one . The entire record is dedicated to Rieke Lax, who died on June 28, 1997 in the Rheinstadion.
text
Pushed Again is written from a first-person perspective . The lyrical ego feels pressured, cannot bear the pressure that weighs on it and does not want to be dependent any longer. According to Campino, Pushed Again is "[...] a hard psycho song about a guy who is in the hospital and doesn't feel like his old life anymore."
The song is structured according to the classic verse-chorus scheme, with the four stanzas and the chorus each consisting of four lines , and the closing syllables of the second and fourth verses rhyme ( cross rhyme ). The first, second and third verse is the chorus: “ I'm feeling pushed again - feeling pushed again. " attached.
The refrain always begins with the question: “ Why can't you just leave me alone? ”, But varies on the following lines. The first refrain after the second verse ends with: “ Solitude is a faithful friend. Turn the lights off - I'm not home, can't you see, I don't need your help? "When the chorus returns after the third verse, it says:" You're dragging me right to the edge. I've got to go when you jerk my rope, I don't know where the good times went. ”And after the last stanza the chorus ends with“ Solitude is a faithful friend. I'll sort my life out on my own, I just want this pressure to end. ”
A transition to the fourth verse, which says: “ It's getting more than I can take, it's like a band tightening around my head. If you keep pushing, something's going to break, it's making me think, I'd be better off dead. ”Form the sentences:“ And I'm sick of this pain in my head. And I'm scared, I'm being pushed - being pushed again. “These two sentences are taken up again at the end of the song and repeated twice.
music
The instruments used in rock music are used for the first release. The electric guitars are played by Michael Breitkopf and Andreas von Holst , the electric bass is played by Andreas Meurer and the drummer is Wolfgang Rohde . Campino's vocals are supported by the backing vocals by T.V. Smith. The band members sing the chorus together.
The three and a half minute song follows the classification: intro , first and second verse, first chorus , interlude, third verse, second chorus, transition, guitar solo, fourth verse, third chorus, coda . A simple riff in E minor introduces the song with four bars.
Campino then quietly sings the first verse with the words: “ Whispering voices in my head, sounds like they're calling my name. ”Begins. You can hear Campino's voice many times because the recordings in the recording studio were superimposed several times with slight delays ( automatic double tracking ). The riff from the intro accompanies the melody part in all stanzas and also forms a recurring motif in the interlude.
In the last four bars of the verses, a second electric guitar plays the chords C major and D 9 , supported by the drums. The riff is played from one verse to the other with increasing intensity, and in the course of the song it is doubled with a second, more distorted guitar. Campino's vocals also get louder and more aggressive from one verse to the next, supported by the choir of the entire band.
The nine-bar guitar solo, performed by Andreas von Holst, is based on a few notes that fade long after the attack. Due to the echo effect that is on the electric guitar, you can also hear up to five repetitions of the motifs. In the fourth verse, the band plays the same melody in unison ; the bass an octave lower than the guitars.
A version of Pushed Again with acoustic instruments, arranged by Hans Steingen , was created in 2005 for the MTV Unplugged series . In addition to the guitars , bass guitar and drums, which had meanwhile been taken over by Vom Ritchie , the band was supported at the events in the Vienna Burgtheater by guest musicians Esther Kim on piano and Raphael Zweifel on cello .
Video
For the 1998 music video Pushed Again, director Ralf Schmerberg cut a series of scenes in which people are kicked, beaten and mistreated. The pictures come from the archives of various news channels and show the brutal use of state power in different countries.
The video for Pushed Again - Live is an excerpt from the concert on August 28, 2009 in the Berlin Waldbühne , which was released in full on DVD. Directed by Paul Shyvers .
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Pushed Again was released as a single in Germany in 1998, and simultaneously on the EP Soul Therapy and in 1999 on the album Crash-Landing , which were mainly produced for English-speaking countries. The recording is also at the top of the compilation Reich & sexy II from 2002. An interpretation of the piece with acoustic instruments was published on the 2005 album Nur zu Visiting . Further live versions of the song were released in 1999 on the VHS Die Toten Hosen und die Roten Rosen live 1998 - We are waiting for Christkind , in 2009 on the album Machmalauter Live and in 2013 on the double album Der Krach der Republik . The single Pushed Again - Live was released as a sound carrier exclusively as a limited edition vinyl single. The DVD Noches como Estas - Live in Buenos Aires from 2012 also contains a version of the song.
T. V. Smith, who also included the song in his repertoire, released it as a purely acoustic version, produced by Jon Caffery, on the album Acoustic Sessions Volume 1 in October 2013.
Web links
- Lyrics on the official homepage of Die Toten Hosen
- Pushed Again at Discogs contains music video.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hollow Skai : Die Toten Hosen . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , p. 140.
- ↑ Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , p. 54.
- ↑ a b c Cover text from the single Pushed Again , 1998, 3984-21728-2.
- ↑ Quote from the original text, translation: "I feel under pressure again - I feel under pressure again."
- ↑ Quote from the original text, translation: "Why can't you just leave me alone?"
- ↑ Quote from the original text, translation: “Solitude is a loyal friend. Turn off the lights - I'm not home. Can't you see that I don't need your help. "
- ↑ Quote from the original text, translation: “You are dragging me straight into the abyss. I have to go when you pull on my leash. I don't know where the good times have gone. "
- ↑ Quote from the original text, translation: “Solitude is a loyal friend. I can get my life under control myself. I just want this pressure to be over. "
- ↑ Quotation from the original text, translation: “You ask for more than I can bear, it's like a ribbon that is stretched around my head. If you put me under further pressure, something will break and give me the idea that I should be dead. "
- ↑ Quote from the original text, translation: "The pain in my head makes me sick, I'm terrified, I am oppressed - I'm under pressure again."
- ↑ Quote from the original text, translation: "Voices whisper in my head, sounding as if they were calling my name."
- ↑ a b c Die Toten Hosen, adaptation by Hans Steingen : Reich & sexy II - The fat years. (Songbook) Bosworth Berlin, ISBN 3-937041-45-1 , pp. 6-9.
- ↑ DVD Die Toten Hosen: Reich & sexy II - Your most successful videos , comments from the band on the individual music videos.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH