Udopia

Udopia
Studio album by Udo Lindenberg
Publication (s)	April 13, 1981
Label (s)	Teldec
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Pop , German rock
Title (number)	10
running time	40:54
occupation	see # occupation
production	Dave King and Udo Lindenberg
Studio (s)	Power Station Studio, New York; Compass Point Studio, Nassau / Bahamas; Rüssl Studio, Eidelstedt; Teldec-Studio, Eimsbüttel
chronology Panic Times (1980) Udopia Club (1982)
Single release 1981 Can love be a sin?

Udopia is the twelfth studio album by the German rock musician Udo Lindenberg and the fifteenth overall release. It was released on April 13, 1981 by the record company Teldec .

background

In preparing for the names, Udo Lindenberg spent two months in New York City and tried to find new impulses there. He explored the local music scene and found studio musicians who supported his panic orchestra with the recordings. He also tried to take on new political and social perspectives. Accordingly, he intensifies his socially critical undertone on this album, especially in the songs Affenstern , Straßenfieber and Ali , which deal with the Cold War , the generation conflict and xenophobia . In New York City he also found the hat that has become characteristic of him. He visited Landen Worth & Worth on Madison Avenue there . Without this hat from the Open Road brand, it was hardly seen later. By contrast, he wore on the album cover of udopia but a flat cap .

The recordings for the album took place in the winter of 1980 / spring of 1981, with the majority of the songs being recorded in the Compass Point Studios on Nassau ( Bahamas ). The studio is owned by Chris Blackwell , the head of Island Records . Due to technical deficiencies and frequent power failures, only the material for the song Gegen die Strömung could be used. Further recordings took place in the Rüssl studios in Hamburg and the studio of the record company Teldec in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . The songs Straßenfieber and Grande Finale were recorded in the Power Station studios in New York. The album was produced by Udo Lindenberg and Dave King and released on April 13, 1981.

The album was accompanied by an aggressive marketing campaign. Udo Lindenberg appeared in the television programs Musicbox , Rockpop , 5 nach 10 , windshield wiper and Auf Los geht's los .

Track list

#	title	composer	Copywriter	length
1.	Street fever	Richard Supa	Udo Lindenberg	4:51
2.	With the jacket to Monakko	Udo Lindenberg	Udo Lindenberg	4:33
3.	Against the current	Udo Lindenberg, Dave King	Udo Lindenberg	3:36
4th	Monkey star	Udo Lindenberg, Dave King	Udo Lindenberg	4:14
5.	Sandman	Udo Lindenberg, Jean-Jacques Kravetz	Udo Lindenberg	3:39
6th	Grand finale	Udo Lindenberg, Dave King	Udo Lindenberg	5:12
7th	Ali	Udo Lindenberg, Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Steffi Stephan, Bertram Engel	Udo Lindenberg	3:37
8th.	Jonny Gigolo	Udo Lindenberg, Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Steffi Stephan, Bertram Engel	Udo Lindenberg	2:56
9.	Can love be a sin?	Lothar Brüne	Bruno Balz	3:37
10.	Bullet in the Colt	Udo Lindenberg	Udo Lindenberg	4:26

Remastered version

On October 28, 2002 a remastered version of the album was released. This contained the bonus track No Future? , which was previously only available as a supplement to the book Rock'n'Roll and Rebellion - Ein panisches Panorama , as a live version on Insivstations , on the compilation Die Sammlung 1971-1982 and on the rarities collection Rarities & Specialties .

#	title	composer	Copywriter	length
11.	No future	Udo Lindenberg	Udo Lindenberg	3:57

occupation

Lindenberg is musically accompanied on the album by his band, the Panikorchester, and there are also some guest musicians:

• Guitars: Elliot Randall, Peter Hesslein, Mike Miranda
• Bass: Dave King
• Keyboards: Thor Baldurson, Dave King, Thomas Sequi
• Drums: Thommy Price, Thomas Digi
• Clarinet: Bolle Burmeister
• Choirs: Rale Oberpichler, Freya Wippich , Elisabeth Richelsen

Lyrics and music

It is Udopia that broke out of the original Udo Lindenberg cosmos through its social criticism. Although he worked on political issues from time to time on his previous albums, politics is the dominant theme of the album this time. With the new, socially critical texts, Udo Lindenberg slowly managed to establish himself as a serious political rocker. In contrast to other musicians on the German rock scene, Udo Lindenberg was able to package social criticism with a wink, without being too warning or instructive. Musically, Udo Lindenberg showed the full range of his work. The opening song, Street Fever, quotes AC / DC and punk , is musically a bit harder than the usual style and is somewhat reminiscent of Street Fighting Man from the Rolling Stones . The song was allowed because of the critical text passage in the streets, the fever is rising. And what do they prescribe? Heavy stick therapy against light rioting will not be shown on Bavarian television .

The anti-war song Grande Finale is also tougher, more aggressive, but also clearly more pessimistic and full of fear of the future, entirely under the impression of the Cold War. In addition, there is the revision of Can love be a sin? by Lothar Brüne and Bruno Balz , originally written for Zarah Leander , also echoes of the German hits of the 1930s and 1940s. With Kugel im Colt , a typical Udo Lindenberg ballad can be found on the album.

Success and review

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Udopia   DE 5 04/27/1981 (47 weeks)

Udopia is one of Udo Lindenberg's most successful albums. It was in the charts for 47 weeks and was number 5 there. The album sold more than 250,000 copies and was therefore awarded a gold record in 1993 by the Federal Association of the Music Industry . In July 1981, the teenage magazine Bravo listed the Udopia album at number 9 on the readers ' charts and the song Straßenfieber also at number 9 on the singles charts. A great success for Lindenberg, as the Neue Deutsche Welle dominated the other charts.

For Werner Burkhardt from Die Zeit , the album creates little new. Udo Lindenberg may have reoriented himself and was in New York and the Bahamas, but still worked with the same people as before or was looking for people who would play exactly his sound. But he doesn't see this as a negative point:

“And so his new record again offers the tried-and-tested mixture of rocking aggressions and shy-restrained ballads, of slogans, cynical jokes and an ever more bluntly speaking, the bisexuality -“ I find stereo better than mono ”- more and more openly inclusive Eroticism. When asked about the conception, he said to me: “Look, the whole thing is built on contrast. Sometimes it is the turn of this groove, sometimes the other. ""

- Werner Burkhardt : The time

The album was positively discussed in Express , who praised the album with the words "refreshingly new in sound, delightfully 'tried and tested' in the word games, up-to-date around the world, amusing and in places more cheeky than the broadcasters allow". The magazine Stereoplay called the album "convincing".

"Udopia" tour

The tour of the same name for the album took place in October 1981. Inga Rumpf acted as a guest, the tour led through 27 cities:

• 08.10.81- Kaunitz, Ostwestfalenhalle
• 09.10.81- Essen, Grugahalle
• 10.10.81- Bebra, large sports hall
• 11.10.81- Hamburg, Congress Center
• October 12th, 81- Kassel, town hall
• 13.10.81- Offenbach, City Hall
• 14.10.81 - Münster, Halle Münsterland
• October 15, 81- Cologne, sports hall
• October 16, 81- Bremen, stadthalle
• 10/17/81 - Hanover, Eilenriedehalle
• 18.10.81- Berlin, ice rink
• 10/20/81 - Nuremberg, Hemmerleinhalle
• 21.10.81- Pirmasens, exhibition hall
• 10/22/81 - Mainz, Rheingoldhalle
• 23.10.81 - Freiburg, town hall
• October 24th, 81- Düsseldorf, Philipshalle
• 25.10.81- Trier, Europahalle
• 10/26/81 - Koblenz, Rhein-Mosel-Halle
• October 27, 81- Würzburg, Carl-Diehm-Halle
• October 28, 81- Munich, Circus Krone
• October 29, 81- Ludwigshafen, Eberthalle
• 10/30/81 - Ravensburg, Oberschwabenhalle
• October 31, 81- Karlsruhe, Black Forest Hall
• 01.11.81- Darmstadt, sports hall
• November 2nd, 81- Saarbrücken, Saarlandhalle
• 03.11.81- Siegen, Siegerlandhalle
• 04.11.81- Stuttgart-Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen exhibition hall.

As in previous concerts, the songs were staged and performed by small actors. A summary of the concert recordings from 1980 ("Die Heizerkommen") and 1981 ("Udopia Live") was released on March 1, 1982 as a double LP for intensive care units .

Web links

• Udopia on Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Loeck: Us Udo Lindenberg - or what? epubli, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-7126-3 , pp. 18 . , based on a 1981 interview with Ingo Seiff
2. ^ Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre : Hat . In: Udo Fröhliche . Axel Springer, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942656-98-6 , pp. 101 .
3. ↑ Günter Ehnert , Detlef Kinsler: Udo Lindenberg (panic orchestra) . In: Rock in Germany on CD-ROM . Taurus Press ( taurus-press.de ).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Udo Lindenberg & Panik Orchestra: Udopia. Officialcharts.de, accessed on May 8, 2017 . 
5. ↑ No future. Official website, accessed May 8, 2017 . 
6. ^ Holger Stürenburg: Forever Young . BoD - Books on Demand, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8311-1616-4 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Nothing new in the foreign mirror. Die Zeit , April 10, 1981, accessed May 8, 2017 . 
8. ↑ search query. Musikindustrie.de , accessed on May 8, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Thomas Loeck: Us Udo Lindenberg - or what? epubli, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-7126-3 , pp. 18 .
10. ↑ both quoted from Günther Ehnert, Detlef Kinsler: Udo Lindenberg (Panik-Orchester) . In: Rock in Germany on CD-ROM . Taurus Press ( taurus-press.de ).