Walking on a thin line

Walking on a thin line
Studio album by
Publication (s)	February 3, 2003
Label (s)	Super Sonic
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Crossover , alternative rock
Title (number)	14th
occupation	Singing : Sandra Nasić Guitar : Henning Rümenapp Bass : Stefan Ude Drums : Dennis Poschwatta
production	Fabio Trentini , Guano Apes
Studio (s)	Area 51 Recording Studio, Celle (Germany) Studios 301, Hamburg (Germany) Horus Sound Studio, Hannover (Germany) HOME Studio, Hamburg (Germany)
chronology Don't Give Me Names (2000) Walking on a thin line Live (2003)

Walking on a Thin Line is the third album by the German rock band Guano Apes .

Emergence

Three years have passed before the third album Walking on a Thin Line was released. It was planned for summer 2002, but production was delayed and in February 2003 the album was finally released. In the summer of 2002 the Guano Apes were still on tour in Europe. The first songs were recorded in Hanover and Celle . At the end of July 2002 they finished the actual recordings for the album. They also played at some open air festivals in Portugal and Russia . In August and September 2002 the band finished their album in studios in Cologne and in the HOME studio in Hamburg. On September 12th they presented five completed songs from the album to some journalists.

Track list

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Walking on a thin line   DE 1 02/17/2003 (30 weeks)   AT 5 02/16/2003 (15 weeks)   CH 8th 02/16/2003 (18 weeks)

Singles

You can't stop me   DE 10 01/27/2003 (9 weeks)   AT 15th 01/26/2003 (12 weeks)   CH 69 02/02/2003 (4 weeks) Pretty in scarlet   DE 51 04/21/2003 (9 weeks)   AT 55 04/20/2003 (6 weeks) Quietly   DE 51 08/04/2003 (6 weeks)   AT 52 08/03/2003 (5 weeks)

1. You Can't Stop Me - 3:11
2. Dick - 2:43
3. Kiss the Dawn - 5:19
4. Pretty in Scarlet - 4:07
5. Diokhan - 3:33
6. Electric Nights - 3:27
7. Quietly - 3:38
8. High - 3:24
9. Sing That Song - 3:02
10. Scratch the Pitch - 3:48
11. Plastic Mouth - 4:04
12. Counting the Days - 3:39
13. Storm - 3:47
14. Sugar Skin - 4:11

Singles

You can't stop me

The first single is You Can't Stop Me and was released on January 6, 2003. In Germany she landed at number ten in the single charts. Additional songs on the single are Scratch the Pitch , Dick , Trumpet Song and Plastic Mouth as G-Ball & Kaa -Mix. There is also a multimedia part. The single was also released as a 3-track standard maxi. The first name of this song was Road Song , but was later renamed You Can't Stop Me . The video takes place in the Wilhelm circus near Berlin. The content of the video is to get a band to play where they would never actually play. The video shows the guano apes in different roles. Dennis is a knife thrower, Henning is a fire eater and Stefan jumps out of the ring at the end of the video. The director was Joern Heitmann .

Pretty in scarlet

With Pretty in Scarlet , the second single from Walking On a Thin Line was released on April 7, 2003 . The highest chart position in Germany was number 51. The additional songs on the single You Can't Stop Me as G-Ball & Kaa -Remix, Pretty in Storm as G-Ball & Kaa -Remix and Pretty in Scarlet as an album version . There is also a multimedia part. It was also released as a 3-track standard maxi. This song is one of the band's few ballads and was recorded in the home studios in Hamburg. It was one of the first songs on the album. At the end of the song, lines from three older Guano Apes titles are quoted and completely integrated into Pretty in Scarlet . The video was shot in March 2003 in Potsdam. Here, too, Joern Heitmann was the director.

Quietly

The third single Quietly was released on July 21, 2003. The highest chart position in Germany was number 51. The additional songs on the single Cream Over Moon , Allies , You Can't Stop Me and Pretty in Scarlet (Live) . A multimedia part is also available. It was also released as a 3-track standard maxi. The Guano Apes were in a songwriting phase after a six-week break after the 2001 Bizarre Festival in October. Quietly was created by mistake or a slightly out of tune guitar. Henning Rümenapp played the weird squeaker on the guitar, which is how he got the title "Quietschy". At the end of January 2002 they played the first Quietly demo to their producer Fabio Trentini. In the first session for the album in March 2002 in the Horus studio in Hanover, they recorded Scratch the Pitch and Diokhan . The video for Quietly was shot on a poppy field near Berlin. Again Joern Heitmann directed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH