Discomfort (album)
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1979 |
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LP, CD, MC |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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38:05 |
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Manfred Praeker, Bernhard Potschka, Herwig Mitteregger, Reinhold Heil, Ralf Nowy , Tom Müller |
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Hansa recording studios , Berlin |
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Unease is the second and last album by the Nina Hagen Band . It was released on CBS Records in 1979 .
History of origin
The material for the album already existed during the promotion tour for the first album in February and March 1979. After the tour and before the start of the recordings, singer Nina Hagen and her band were already falling apart. But since they owed another album by contract, they tried to work together one last time. The recordings therefore took place largely separately. First the band played the music, then Nina Hagen added her vocals, whereby the working atmosphere of keyboard player Heil is described in retrospect as "relatively good". The songwriting process was also divided: the lyrics are all by Nina Hagen, while the music was composed by the members of the band. The recordings took place between October and November 1979 in the Hansa recording studios in West Berlin . With the exception of Nina Hagen, all musicians took part in the production and were supported by the music producer Ralf Nowy and the sound engineer Tom Müller.
After the album, the band and Nina Hagen went their separate ways. While Hagen started a solo career, the remaining members formed the band Spliff .
Cover
The album was released with two record covers. The first version shows a drawn face by Nina Hagen with red hair, in the background a skyline can be seen at dusk. On the second cover there is only the lettering uncomfortable on a gray-white-mottled background, whereby the word component hagen is marked in red. Only the latter cover was used for the CD versions released from 1988 onwards.
Track list
All texts are by Nina Hagen, the composers of the respective song are given in brackets.
- African Reggae (Potschka, Heil) - 6:19
- Nightmare (Mitteregger) - 6:12
- We're still alive ... (Lucky Number) ( Lene Lovich , Les Chappell) 4:57
- If I were a boy (live version) ( Heinz Buchholz / Günter Loose ) - 2:19
- Herrmann was his name (Praeker) - 6:36
- Auf'm Rummel (Potschka) - 4:34
- Wau Wau (Potschka, Mitteregger, Praeker, Heil) - 2:09
- Fall in Love with me (Potschka, Mitteregger, Praeker, Heil) - 3:47
- No Way (instrumental) (Potschka, Mitteregger) - 1:05
Songs
There are two cover versions on the record, on the one hand a German-language version of Lucky Number , a song by Lene Lovich , which she composed in 1979 together with the guitarist Les Chapell as the B-side , and at the time a well-known New Wave - Was a disco hit. Nina Hagen met Lene Lovich while shooting the film Cha Cha .
On the other hand, the album contains the song If I Would Be a Boy , which Heinz Buchholz and Günter Loose wrote in 1963 for the Italian pop singer Rita Pavone . The live version was recorded during a performance on April 6, 1979 in the Saarbrücken Congress Hall. In terms of text, the version by the Nina Hagen Band differs from the original in two places. Nina Hagen sings, “And if I come home late, don't make a cock out of it” (in the original: “Daddy won't make a drama out of it.”) And “I would go into the gay scene and sexy boys turn your head. I would have enough traffic if I were a boy ”(in the original:“ There wouldn't be any more by the way, if only one was always loyal. It would be half as difficult if I were a boy! ”). The sociologist Karl Lenz chose the Pavone cover version to illustrate a change in values in the gender relationship. Nina Hagen's new versions of the text clearly show “borrowing from feminist positions” and, with reference to homosexuality, are an expression of a change in values in society.
success
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The album reached number 9 in the Austrian charts and was Nina Hagen's most successful album to date in the Federal Republic of Germany with number 2 on February 25, 1980. It was awarded a gold record in 1981. The album also sold well in France, so that Nina Hagen was able to give two sold-out concerts solo at the Olympia in Paris . She was then awarded a gold record by Eric Brucker (CBS France) for 150,000 units sold. The album also made it into the top 10 in Sweden and Norway.
Music genre
The album is very avant-garde and contains elements from reggae , dub , punk and rock . Nina Hagen's singing was extraordinary for this time, as on the debut album, and changed the nuances during the songs. She used a spectrum between crows screeching, brawling and yodelling and used stylistic elements of parody and satire . The lyrics of the album sing about beauty and ugliness and are characterized by many expletives.
reception
The last album of the Nina Hagen Band was, like its predecessor, an important work of early punk music in Germany and also marked the beginning of the New Wave . After the release, Hagen was by no means satisfied with the work and accused her accompanying band of "having pushed their own solos into the foreground", of having "mixed up their gags" and, not least, of having "totally castrated" them. In fact, you hardly noticed the separation on the album.
Single releases
- African Reggae (1979)
- Herrmann was his name (1980)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Reder: Reinhold Heil. DM - Deutsche Mugge, 2008, accessed on June 13, 2015 : “In February and March 1979 we toured Europe to promote the first album and test the second in front of an audience. "
- ↑ Sebastian Handke: A work of art turns 50. Tagesspiegel , March 11, 2005, accessed on May 14, 2011 .
- ^ Christian Reder: Reinhold Heil. DM - Deutsche Mugge, 2008, accessed on June 13, 2015 : "[...] therefore Nina let me at the mixer and the tape machine, and we recorded a lot of parts together."
- ↑ a b biography. simply-nina.de, accessed on May 14, 2011 .
- ^ Christian Reder: Reinhold Heil. DM - Deutsche Mugge, 2008, accessed on June 13, 2015 : "The relatively good atmosphere in the studio made it a really authentic and powerful album."
- ↑ a b c discomfort. Discogs , accessed May 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Denise Sullivan: Class of '78: Lene Lovich's “Lucky Number”. (No longer available online.) Crawdaddy.com, February 18, 2011, archived from the original on July 12, 2011 ; Retrieved May 14, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Michael Dreschel: Rita Pavone: If I were a boy (Buchholz / Loose 1963). (No longer available online.) German Music Database, archived from the original on September 7, 2011 ; Retrieved May 14, 2011 . 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.
- ^ Karl Lenz: Women and Men. On the gender typology of personal relationships . Weinheim / Munich 2003, p. 155 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE-AT / DE2
- ↑ a b Album: Unease (Nina Hagen). (No longer available online.) The 80s hit quiz, September 29, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 14, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nina Hagen in the IFPI database DE AT CH
- ↑ International . In: Billboard . November 22, 1980, p. 63 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Nina Hagen. Who's Who, accessed May 14, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c Nina Hagen as Mother of God . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1980 ( online ).
