What a country! - What for men:
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1981/1991 |
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May / June 1981 |
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| Label (s) | Metronome Records | |||
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10 |
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Manfred Neuner, extra wide |
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What a country! - What for men: is the second studio album by the German rock band Extrabreit .
background
The first song the band wrote for the next album was Glück & Geld , whose riff, developed by Stefan Kleinkrieg , was inspired by a commercial for a cigarette brand.
The song Policemen was created afterwards. Kai Havaii had already finished the text, the music came later in former Oeger-Lux - Kino , which by the new owners as a punk bar with a small concert hall under the name Rockpalast Hohenlimburg was operated. Extra-wide were allowed to use the hall as a rehearsal room for some time after a performance. When manager Jörg A. Hoppe came to the Rockpalast that evening , the group played him the finished piece, and Hoppe was later quoted as saying: "That's it guys, that's it".
Havaii related the creation:
“When I remembered the text, there had just been street battles in Berlin. Back then there was a saying 'skin the cops as flat as sandwiches!'. I definitely didn't want to go in this direction with the song, I wanted to make the psychological tension clear what it means when a person is supposed to embody state authority and the fact that there was a steadily growing and often intimidating police presence at the time. "
The coverage of the assassination attempt on then US President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981 gave Havaii the idea for the text for the song The President is Dead . Havaii said:
“There was something immensely suggestive about these images, the closeness of the camera to the action, the blurring - a moment that was rewound again and again, in which the world held its breath. It didn't look as brutal as the pictures of the Kennedy murder, but it looked much more real. "
He wrote the text that same night, but did not name a location for the event, added some fictitious details to the plot, and let the president die in his text, so that in his opinion "the assassination attempt was the" assassination attempt par excellence "and the" President "could become the general metaphor of the (Western) political leader".
In May 1981 the band traveled to Hiltpoltstein to record their second album in Jonas Porst's recording studio , which was to be produced under the direction of producer Manfred Neuner. The band had carefully prepared for the recordings; some songs had already been tried out live, but there were still changes. For example, a string quartet was brought in for Annemarie for the song Allegro . In addition, a group of young people from Hagen, called the Buscheypfeifen , sang the choir for the song. Their vocal recordings were multiplied for the song. The synthesizer used , for example, for the intro of The President is Dead was played by Thomas Hermann.
The band also recorded a cover version . The song Salome, Most Beautiful Flower of the Orient by Robert Stolz and Arthur Rebner was originally written as a Foxtrot in 1920 and was re-recorded by Extrabreit as Salomé .
At the suggestion of her manager, the author of most of the songs for the publication was named as a band member who was not bound to Hartwig Masuch under publishing law . The band signed a publishing contract with him in 1979, and then he organized the record deal for the group. All texts (almost all of which came from Havaii) and the music (mostly written by Kleinkrieg) were registered with the collecting society under the name Jäger-Ramig . In this way, Masuch's publishing rights were limited to the first album, for which he also got a license share as a producer. An internal agreement by the band said that record licenses and author revenues from the second album would be shared.
Havaii and manager Hoppe came up with the idea of designing the cover using a stereoscopic three-dimensional photo. The technical advice came from Rainer Dieter Jänsch, a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. It was recorded in July 1981 by Karl-Ludwig Lange in Berlin . When the record came out, the first edition came with anaglyph glasses.
Track list
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| 1. | 3-D | Hunter Ramig | 2:14 |
| 2. | Get us out of here mom! | Horst-Werner Wiegand, Extrabreit | 3:43 |
| 3. | We live in the west | Hunter Ramig | 3:03 |
| 4th | police officers | Hunter Ramig | 5:22 |
| 5. | Luck & money | Hunter Ramig | 3:57 |
| 6th | The president is dead | Hunter Ramig | 6:24 |
| 7th | dance with Me | Hunter Ramig | 4:17 |
| 8th. | The Führer gives the clones a city | Hunter Ramig | 3:03 |
| 9. | Salomé | Robert Stolz , Arthur Rebner | 2:34 |
| 10. | Allegro for Annemarie | Schlasse , little one | 2:02 |
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While the police reached number 27 on the music charts in Germany, the album climbed to number 5.
The title of the album inspired Ina Deter to write her song New Men Needs the Land after she saw it on a record cover or poster in the southern part of Cologne .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kurt Grosskurt's Extra Wide Story, Part 22 , accessed on January 10, 2020
- ↑ NRW-Tourismus.de , accessed on January 18, 2020
- ↑ Extrabreit - The President is Dead - Lyrics. In: musixmatch.com . Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Kurt Grosskurt's Extra Wide Story, Part 24 , accessed on January 10, 2020
- ↑ The Extra Wide Story by Kurt Grosskurt, Part 28 , accessed on January 14, 2020
- ↑ Booklet of the CD
- ↑ The Extra Wide Story by Kurt Grosskurt, Part 4 , accessed on January 15, 2020
- ↑ a b Kurt Grosskurt's Extra Wide Story, Part 29 , accessed on January 15, 2020
- ↑ Awards for music sales: DE
- ↑ Chart placements: DE . Retrieved May 26, 2019
- ↑ Ina Deter - Songs live loud and quiet (DVD, 2005)