Viva los Tioz
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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67:01 |
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| occupation | Singing: Kevin Russell Drums: Peter Schorowsky |
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Stephan Weidner and Böhse Onkelz |
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Dropzone Studios, Frankfurt |
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Viva los Tioz is the twelfth studio album by the German rock band Böhse Onkelz . It was released on September 4, 1998 on the Virgin Records label . The title “Viva los Tioz” comes from Spanish and means “Long live the Onkelz”. The different spelling of "Onkelz" was adopted in the Spanish title as "Tioz", actually correct "Tios".
The band experimented a lot on this album, including using computer technology to process the songs.
Cover design
On the left half of the album cover is a red heart with a wreath of thorns and a white wing, on a tape is the title Viva los Tioz . The background of the cover is gray, at the bottom right there is the “Böhse Onkelz” emblem in orange. Just like the cover of the previous album EINS, the album cover was designed by graphic designer Christoph Schnee, who used to be the singer of the punk band Middle Class Fantasies in Frankfurt am Main.
Track list
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| 1 | Matapalo - UN Party | 3:18 |
| 2 | Viva los Tioz | 3:56 |
| 3 | Empty words | 4:23 |
| 4th | Far away | 5:20 |
| 5 | The secret of my strength | 3:49 |
| 6th | shit happens | 4:27 |
| 7th | turpentine | 3:57 |
| 8th | Without me | 5:49 |
| 9 | The place next to me - Part I + II | 10:41 |
| 10 | The price of life | 7:04 |
| 11 | I am only happy when it hurts | 5:38 |
| 12 | If you really want to | 5:45 |
| 13 | Matapalo - Parte Dos | 3:02 |
Background information on individual songs
- Matapalo - UN Party
The spoken text at the end of the instrumental is taken from the Spanish version of Tim Burton's film “ Mars Attacks! “(1996) and represents an excerpt from the speech of the American president, which he broadcast on all US channels shortly after the flying saucers were discovered. It is spoken by the Spanish dubbing voice Jack Nicholsons, and the rustling in the background is also from the film.
- Viva los Tioz
The title track of the album is a typical song in which the band praises itself.
- Empty words
The song is about the madness of a night full of alcohol and other drugs . Only when you have got rid of the addiction do you see things with a sober look. ("My brain is in the fog, too much coke, too little sleep. [...] I was at the top and saw God at work. [...] I came, saw and won - and I ate shit.")
- Far away
The song is about an everyday situation in life. People fall apart through a superfluous, pointless argument. In the chorus the longing for the person left behind becomes clear. "Far away - from better days, far away - just with 1000 questions" . Stephan Weidner speaks of a "human theater" and criticizes the behavior of our society with the song.
- The secret of my strength
According to Weidner's various concert announcements, the core message of the song is that for him there is a subtle difference between anger, hate and blind hatred and that the last two should be left out, but the anger is “very, very healthy” and you can “everyone Tag out instead of lugging them around to explode at some point. "
- shit happens
With this song, the Onkelz want to express that bad things can happen to you, but that is not your downfall. ( "Shit happens, you win and lose - you eat or die!" )
- turpentine
Weidner tried to weaken the irony behind the “Onkelz myth” with the line “we go laughing in the cellar and we drink turpentine ” and to say that the Onkelz are not a band who think their word is “the real deal ". According to the band, turpentine was played on the radio seven times. In 2003 it was covered by the American band Pro-Pain for their album Run for Cover .
- Without me
With this song the band distances itself from extremist , political currents in both directions. The first stanza is directed against the antifa or left-wing extremists , the second against the right-wing extremists . Stephan Weidner justified his criticism of the Antifa with the fact that it left no stone unturned in order to keep the band “in the wake of the right-wing rock”. He also stated that he does not find the Antifa bad per se, but rather its methods are questionable. He added that "an anti-fascist struggle is important and the Onkelz are always ready to support it". At various concerts on the 1998 tour, visitors who reacted to the song with gestures or Hitler salutes were referred from the hall after the song .
- The place next to me - Part I + II
After only the best die young and Das Messer und die Wunde , it is the third song that the band dedicated to their friend Andreas “Trimmi” Trimborn, who was stabbed in 1990. The song was written from the perspective of someone who misses a good friend. “The place next to me” is the longest published Onkelz title with a playing time of 10:42. Furthermore, the song is divided into two parts: An approximately 3-minute fast part, which is followed by a longer, quieter part.
- The price of life
In every beginning there is not only a magic, but also the end. The song addresses the fact that all people are mortal. It is written from the perspective of "death" personified .
- I am only happy when it hurts
On the one hand, the piece deals with the search for the one woman who gives you everything you have always been looking for. The woman who enables one to live forever in one night. On the other hand, the question arises as to whether one can and wants to enjoy pain and grief - especially in relation to self-harming behavior .
- If you really want to
The song is about the strength that is in every person: “If you really want, you move mountains. If you really want to, giants will become dwarfs. If you really want, heal your wounds. If you really want to, hours become seconds ” .
At the end of the film Kombat Sixteen from 2005, which is about right-wing radicalism, this song can be heard. It stands for the will to leave the right-wing scene. Especially the passage “you are what you were and you will be what you do” in the song expresses this.
- Matapalo - Parte Dos
In the second part of Matapalo, the speech of the opener comes to an end and goes back to the instrumental. The voice that speaks at the end belongs to Pozo, a Latin American artist who also designed the cover of the last studio album, Adios , released in 2004 .
Chart successes and singles
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Viva los Tioz entered the German album charts at number 1 in the 39th calendar week of 1998, making it the Böhsen Onkelz's first No. 1 album. In the following weeks it occupied the position 2; 2 and 3. Overall, the album stayed in the top 100 for 24 weeks. In the German annual charts in 1998, the record was ranked 23rd.
The song Terpentin and the song Weit weg were decoupled as a single and supplemented with the instrumental 11/97 , which was not included in the album . The single entered the German charts at position 9, rose to number 7 in the following weeks and stayed in the top 100 for 11 weeks. The single sold over 200,000 times.
Sales figures and awards
The album sold more than 250,000 times in Germany on the day it was released, which corresponds to the sales figures for a gold record .
Viva los Tioz received a gold record in the year of publication in Austria for more than 25,000 units sold.
reception
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Rock Hard's Thomas Kupfer rated the album 8.5 out of ten. He writes that Viva los Tioz shows clear differences to previous Onkelz albums and thinks that the band seems “mature, has paid more attention to the arrangements and doesn't shy away from using samples.” The “balancing act between the tried and tested and the newer ones Sounds ”was“ quite successful ”and even hardcore fans would be“ well served with the very good title song and tracks like 'Turpentin', 'Empty Words' or 'The Secret of My Power' ”.
Trivia
- In July 2003 the band went on a club tour in Germany under the Spanish pseudonym Los Tioz , based on the name of this album.
- In 2005 the double concert to break up the band took place under the title Vaya con Tioz, referring to the farewell formula “Go with God”, Spanish “vaya con dios”.
- In 2007 the new edition of “Viva los Tioz” was inadvertently printed white instead of gray. The affected specimens were taken off the market a few days after their publication.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presley vinyl - album "Viva los Tioz". Website accessed on August 20, 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2010 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.
- ↑ Album cover on amazon.de
- ↑ Gonzo: The official and authorized biography of Matthias Röhr . Autobiography of the Böhse-Onkelz guitarist written with co-authors Dennis Diel and Marco Matthes, Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 1st edition, November 2019. p. 88
- ↑ Dunklerort.net ( Memento of 11 June 2008 at the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive
- ↑ VIVA LOS TIOZ: For the first time at number 1 in the charts and what exactly does “Matapalo” actually mean? On onkelz.de. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
- ↑ Dunklerort.net ( Memento from June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Chart tracking Viva los Tioz at musicline.de ( 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.
- ↑ DE: Annual charts # 23
- ↑ Chart tracking turpentine at musicline.de ( memento of the original from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article on dunklerort.net ( Memento from April 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive
- ↑ New Onkelz album is a top seller. On mediabiz.de, September 10, 1998. Accessed on August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Gold / platinum database at ifpi.at. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
- ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Album review: Viva los Tioz On: rockhard.de. Retrieved on: July 25, 2015.
- ↑ Matthias Weckmann: Album review: Viva los Tioz On: metal-hammer.de. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
- ↑ Stephan Weidner and others: Böhse Onkelz Fanzine No. 14 . 2004, p. 26.
