Jumps

Jumps
Studio album by Herbert Grönemeyer
Publication (s)	April 30, 1986
admission	September 1985 – February 1986
Label (s)	EMI
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	10
running time	45:10
occupation	Herbert Grönemeyer - vocals , keyboards Armin Rühl - drums , percussion Alfred Kritzer - keyboards Norbert Hamm - bass , rhythmic programs Jakob Hansonis - guitar Gagey Mrozeck - guitar
production	Herbert Grönemeyer, Norbert Hamm
Studio (s)	EMI Tonstudio II, Cologne (Germany)
chronology 4630 Bochum (1984) Jumps Ö (1988)
Single releases March 31, 1986 Children in power 1986 To dance

Sprünge is the sixth studio album by German rock musician Herbert Grönemeyer . It was published by EMI in April 1986 .

background

Grönemeyer was faced with the task of recording a successor to the successful album 4630 Bochum . The musician reacted skeptically to the increasing media hype and tried to shield his private life. In September 1985 Grönemeyer went to the EMI studio in Cologne with his band and the sound engineer Harald Lepschies . The bassist Norbert Hamm produced the album, which Grönemeyer wrote alone, together with him. The album was released in April 1986.

Jumps reached number 1 in the charts in Germany , Austria and Switzerland . The album reached platinum status on June 12, 1986, selling 500,000 copies. The jumps tour through Germany and Austria began on April 5, 1986 in Waldbröl and initially ran until June 1986. a. an appearance in front of more than 100,000 spectators at the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival against the nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf on July 26, 1986. In June and July 1987, more concerts were played before the tour ended on July 12, 1987 in the Xanten amphitheater.

The pink cover shows a laughing and jumping “ ink man ” on the lower right above the title line below.

Texts

Sprünge contains both personal considerations and relationship issues (unfortunately more is not possible, just like that, on the way) as well as political pieces. In the latter respect, Grönemeyer distinguished himself from songwriters who use music “only to support the lyrics”; for him, music and text must “form a whole”. The song Tanzen is about German national pride, whose “reawakening” Grönemeyer criticizes, the measure of all things is about apartheid in South Africa . Children in Power , on the other hand, is a hymn to the impartiality of children.

Track list

1. Children in Power - 3:53
2. Dance - 6:32
3. Unfortunately, more is not possible - 3:57
4. Measure of all things - 4:32
5. Just so - 3:41
6. On the way - 5:00
7. Smile - 4:12
8. Way too much - 4:07
9. Once - 4:34
10. Fear - 4:03

Chart placements

album

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	1 (42 weeks)	42
Austria (Ö3)	1 (40 weeks)	40
Switzerland (IFPI)	1 (22 weeks)	22nd

Single release

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1986	Children leaps to power	DE33 (11 weeks) DE	AT10 (10 weeks) AT	-	First published: March 31, 1986

Cultural meaning and impact

In November 2015, the German rapper Alligatoah released his single Denkt an die Kinder , in which he quotes a line of text from Herbert Grönemeyer's song Men and sings it in Herbert Grönemeyer's style. The word "men" was replaced by "children" and is an allusion to the song children in power .

See also

• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Roland Kirbach: Be careful that you don't take off, in: The time of July 25, 1986.
2. ↑ www.letzt-version.de: Sprünge Tour 1986/87
3. ↑ www.musik-base.de: Biography Herbert Grönemeyer
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH