Calm Before the Storm (Georg Danzer Album)

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calm before the storm
Georg Danzer's studio album

Publication
(s)

1981

Label (s) Polydor

Format (s)

LP (released in 1991 as CD; is available as download)

Genre (s)

Pop rock

Title (number)

9

running time

39m 32s

chronology
Danzer Live - Tour '79
(1980) 		calm before the storm Direct
(1981)

Calm Before the Storm is the title of a concept album by Austrian songwriter Georg Danzer . It is his most commercially successful release. 250,000 long-playing records were sold in Germany.

concept

In the calm before the storm , Danzer tells a story about the growing up of a teenager. At the beginning the early childhood of the narrator is explained. The song Fever is about childhood loneliness and lack of affection on the part of parents.

The second part of school deals with - as the name suggests - the time at school. The narrator seems disinterested in the lesson and largely only sees incidental things. The last part of the song says “ned for d'Schui, we learn for life”. This sentence forms the connection to the next song Bist 'what then have' what , in which the narrator thinks about his professional future, but at the same time about the ideas of his (grand) parents.

The next section deals with the narrator's wrath over a woman named Monika. He wants to take sleeping pills to relieve his pain and personally says goodbye to the world ( Monika ). But then the protagonist remembers the good things in life and decides to go on living ( Greece ).

The next song describes the mood before an uprising - the calm before the storm . According to the lyrics, hatred of the emperor is growing , an allusion to dictators and oppression. The uprising is nipped in the bud and thus prevented.

From the narrator's point of view, Frieden criticizes the Cold War that was going on at the time and at the same time calls for a ceasefire.

In conclusion, the narrator asserts his right to freedom in future life. He has a dream in which he is first on a leaky ship and then on a volcano that is about to erupt. Eventually the narrator wakes up feeling scared at first, but then he cries with happiness and his fear seems to have disappeared ( my life , dream ).

Track list

  1. Fever - 6:18
  2. School - 2:27
  3. If you are something, then you have something - 3:40
  4. Monika - 3:17
  5. Greece - 4:57
  6. Calm Before the Storm - 3:56
  7. Peace - 4:45
  8. My life - 6:30
  9. Dream - 2:43

Chart placements

year album D. AT
1981 calm before the storm 15th 8th

literature

  • Holger Stürenburg: Forever Young . Books on Demand, 2001, ISBN 3-8311-1616-4 , pp. 126-129 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kralicek: Nur a klana Bua in winter. Falter , June 27, 2007, archived from the original on January 3, 2009 ; accessed on February 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Excerpt: "... nobody hears me? Is kana do? ..."
  3. ↑ Excerpt: “… why are the lessons so bland? Why is Jelinek so blad? Is it true that the si mim meets the director? "
  4. ↑ Excerpt: “Where should i like? What do I know what my grandma likes? For example, I know becoming a politician who never does what he sucks. It's madness, what am I supposed to do that a grandpa doesn't scold? For example, I know a chemical. "
  5. ↑ “And when you decide to continue living, then the sky is full of stars. And there are wonderful times I like to remember. "
  6. ↑ Excerpt: "... four billion people, four billion dreams that you laugh at, four billion hopes that you destroy in one fell swoop and you build rockets and nuclear power plants ... finally give us peace! ..."
  7. ↑ charts-surfer.de ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Search required) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / charts-surfer.de
  8. ↑ austriancharts.at