Why am I so dirty?
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| Studio album by clay stones shards | ||||
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Publication |
September 1971 |
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| Label (s) | David Popular Production | |||
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CD, LP |
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"Agitrock" |
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running time |
42:45 minutes |
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Clay stones shards |
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Studio (s) |
Recording studio Admiralstrasse, Berlin |
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Why am I so dirty is the first album by the German rock band Ton Steine Scherben . It contains, among other things, the song Macht kaputt, what makes you broken , which expressed the pent-up anger of the youth of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The recordings
In 1971, the year after the first single “Macht kaputt, was dich kaputt macht” was released, the “shards” went to Klaus Freudigmann's studio in Berlin to record their first record. The shooting conditions were not ideal and the quality suffered as a result. This is not surprising, since the broken pieces always produced everything themselves. Accordingly, the admission sessions were also unsatisfactory. In June, Agit 883 and the Red Aid organized an "information event" about empty houses on Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg that had been approved for demolition. The broken pieces also played there. After the concert there was one of the first spontaneous squats in Berlin. The previous concert was recorded and used for the album, so the first side of the original LP consists of live recordings, while the remaining studio recordings were on the second side.
Track list
page 1
- I don't want to be what my age is (Ralph Möbius) - 5:05
- Why am I so dirty (R. Möbius, Ralph Steitz) - 5:08
- The fight continues (R. Möbius, Steitz) - 6:48
- Break what breaks you (R. Möbius) - 3:31
- The united front song ( Bertolt Brecht , Hanns Eisler ) - 3:26
Page 2
- My name is Mensch (R. Möbius) - 6:52
- Slave trader (R. Möbius) - 2:37
- Everything changes (Gert Möbius, R. Möbius) - 4:17
- Solidarity (R. Möbius, Steitz) - 5:01
occupation
- Ralph Möbius - vocals , guitar , piano
- Ralph Steitz - guitar, drums , percussion , choir
- Kai Sichtermann - bass , percussion, choir
- Wolfgang Seidel - drums, percussion
- Nikel Pallat - choir
- Gert Möbius - original cover
useful information
- The united front song is not listed on the back of the cover and cannot be found in the text insert.
- Ralph Möbius only called himself Rio Reiser six years later when he needed a good name for filming. Ralph Steitz hasn't used the name RPS Lanrue either .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A play on words from " Agitprop " and " Acidrock " according to Rio Reiser: King of Germany. Memories of clay stones shards and more , Cologne 1994/2016, p. 239, ISBN 978-3-462-04860-5 .