Slime I

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Slime I
Studio album by Slime
Cover

Publication
(s)

1981

Label (s) Overexploitation, aggressive rock productions

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Punk , German punk , political punk

Title (number)

14th

running time

38:46

occupation
  • Guitar: Christian Mevs
  • Bass: Sven "Eddie" Räther
  • Drums: Peter "Ball" Wodok

production

Slime, Thomas Baur

Studio (s)

Overexploitation Studios, Hamburg

chronology
We Don't Want Bull Pigs
(1980) 		Slime I Yankees Out
(1982)

Slime I is the debut album by the Hamburg punk band Slime . It was initially produced in-house and was then reissued by Aggressive Rock Productions . The album was indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM) as part of the indexing decision for the song We don't want bull pigs in 2011, 30 years after it was released .

History of origin

Shortly after the release of the first extended play We don't want bull pigs (1980), Christian Mevs joined the band as the second guitarist. Spurred on by the success of the EP, it was decided to have an album follow suit. The band saved the 5,000 DM costs for recording and pressing and recorded the album within 10 days in the Raubbau Studios in Hamburg under the direction of studio owner Thomas Baur. The first 5,000 copies sold within the first few weeks. The band re-pressed 25,000 copies at their own expense. Then she met Karl-Ulrich Walterbach , who took her to his young independent label Aggressive Rockproduktionen. The deal was decided with a handshake . In the first time Walterbach sold about 50,000 copies of the album.

Seizure and repression

In spring 1982 the premises of the record store Rip Off were searched by Klaus Maeck on behalf of the Hamburg public prosecutor and copies of the album were seized. Maeck, whom they believed was a partner in the album, received a complaint for sedition . However, he was able to clear up the error. A little later, the entire inventory was confiscated from Aggressive Rockproduktionen as well as from the SPV sales department . The album was withdrawn from circulation. Walterbach released the album again a short time later. However, we don't want bull pigs with background noises was censored. The uncensored version was released on the later CD release. This was only confiscated in 2002 when Mayer's premises were searched and three copies were seized there. As a result, Weird System was re-released on LP again with a censored version, this time without background noise but with deleted text passages. However, the official indexing did not take place until 2011, exactly 30 years after the album was first released. The ban on Germany Must Die failed in 2000 before the Federal Constitutional Court.

Track list

  1. We Don't Need the Army - 4:11 (Michael Mayer)
  2. Artificial - 3:47 (Michael Mayer)
  3. ACAB - 1:46 (Michael Mayer)
  4. I Wish I Was - 2:17 (Stefan Mahler)
  5. They Don't Give a Fuck - 2:22 (Michael Mayer)
  6. Robot Age - 3:11 (Michael Mayer, Peter Wodock)
  7. Streetfight - 1:59 (Michael Mayer)
  8. Karlsquell - 2:47 (Christian Mevs, Stefan Mahler)
  9. Hey Punk - 2:00 (Michael Mayer)
  10. DISCO - 3:01 (Michael Mayer)
  11. VILLAGE - 1:57 (Dirk Jora, Michael Mayer)
  12. Germany - 3:43 (Dirk Jora, Michael Mayer)
  13. Bull Pigs - 2:39 (Michael Mayer)
  14. 1.7 ‰ Blues - 3:06 (Christian Mevs, Diek Jora, Sven Räther, Michael Mayer, Peter Wodock)

Bonus tracks from the 1998 version

  1. No leaders - 2:37
  2. Police SA / SS (uncensored) - 1:47

Bonus tracks from the 2007 version

  1. No leaders - 2:37
  2. Police XX / XX (censored) - 1:47
  3. Bundeswehr - 2:41
  4. We're Always Gonna Win - 3:18
  5. We don't want ... (censored) - 2:40
  6. Iran - 1:07
  7. Hey punk - 1:42
  8. Hate Them All - 2:42

Song info

The abbreviation ACAB for All cops are bastards (Eng. "All police officers are bastards") spread in Germany and is now a colloquial language in the left-wing extremist , the hooligan and the right-wing extremist scene and has also found its distribution in other subcultures. Not least because of the slime song. Whether it was ultimately spread in Germany by Slime or whether the English version of the 4-Skins was in charge here cannot be found out today.

I Wish I Was was written and sung by Stefan Mahler. He would play a role in the later history of the band, replacing Peter Wodok on drums in 1982 and becoming the main lyricist of the band. The hymn Karlsquell , an ode to the inexpensive Aldi beer Karlsquell , also comes from his pen.

Germany , also known as Germany must die (so we can live) is a reversal of a saying on the soldier memorial from 1936 in memory of the Hanseatic infantry regiment No. 76 from the First World War at Hamburg Dammtor station . There it says “Germany must live, even if we have to die”. The line comes from Heinrich Lersch's poem Vow of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . The text is an angry indictment against the German state. In a later trial against the song, the Federal Constitutional Court confirmed the artistic content of the piece in November 2000 and drew associations with Heinrich Heine's Die Silesian Weavers .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67653-4 , p. 47-50 .
  2. ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . Munich 2013, p. 42-43 .
  3. ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . Munich 2013, p. 42-43 .
  4. ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . Munich 2013, p. 51-54 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Dorner, Joachim Hentschel: Slime: Why was "bull pigs" only indexed in May 2011? A search for clues. Rolling Stone , July 5, 2011, accessed March 19, 2015 .
  6. ↑ "Germany must die ...": First biography examines punk band Slime and their effect , noz.de from May 2, 2013.
  7. ^ Carsten Dahms: Police, Protest & Pop . In: Sabine Mecking, Yvonne Wasserloos (eds.): Music, power, state: cultural, social and political change processes in the modern age . V&R unipress GmbH, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-872-0 , p. 311 f .
  8. ↑ "Germany must die ...": First biography examines punk band Slime and their effect , noz.de from May 2, 2013.
  9. ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . Munich 2013, p. 60-65 .
  10. ↑ "Germany must die ...": First biography examines punk band Slime and their effect , noz.de from May 2, 2013.