Interesting facts about Erlangen
| Interesting facts about Erlangen | |
|---|---|
| Foyer des Arts | |
| publication | 1982 |
| length | 4:43 min. |
| Genre (s) | Avant-garde pop, Neue Deutsche Welle |
| Author (s) | Max Goldt, Gerd Pasemann |
| Label | WEA Records |
| album | From Bullerbü to Babylon |
Things worth knowing about Erlangen is a pop song by the Berlin band Foyer des Arts from 1982 and is assigned to the Neue Deutsche Welle . The music comes from Max Goldt and Gerd Pasemann ; Max Goldt wrote the text. The text caricatures the course of a tourist city tour.
background
Max Goldt previously worked as a tour guide on city tours through West Berlin . His experiences flowed into the hilariously exaggerated description of these bus tours. The song appeared on the album Von Bullerbü nach Babylon and was also released as a single .
music
The instrumentation makes use of simple musical means. It is characterized by the almost variation loose drums - Backbeat , the bass line that Streicher - reef and a fanfare-like trumpets - motive . The piece is in 4/4 time and is characterized by the constant change of chords from B minor and A major . Ironically, the title begins with screeching seagulls and a foghorn signal , which is an unsuitable atmospheric introduction for Erlangen, which is located inland.
content
The stanza of the song consists of a rhythmic lecture by a tour guide who shows German-speaking tourists to Erlangen , but only makes statements that are without specific information content (“Here on the left is a church / It was built in the past […] / Now coming we to the market square / popularly also called the city center ”) There are also platitudes (“ This side of Erlangen is largely unknown ”or“ Here the past and present are close together ”). In the chorus, Max Goldt imitates a female tourist group who sings: “This is a nice young man / what he can remember! / There is so much worth knowing about Erlangen! "; The affected stretching of the first syllable in the word "Erlangen" is also striking.
The lyrics of the song are followed by a bourgeois chat between the tourists and the tour guide about German places, regions and excursions, with Goldt speaking all the voices himself. First, the townspeople are praised with phrases (“I love the Erlanger's humor, […] and Erlangen are so hospitable”), then the tone becomes increasingly harsh, and people are outraged by long-haired tourist guides wearing jeans and cigarette butts on the street. The conversations end with the tourists praising their respective hometowns ("Well, Martha, everything is much cleaner here in Bielefeld ." - "I'm from Wolfsburg , it's also very nice here.")
reception
The song reached number 36 in the German single charts, which made interesting facts about Erlangen the band's most commercially successful song. Foyer des Arts performed the song in music stores and in the ZDF hit parade, among other places . In 2001 Bürger Lars Dietrich published a cover version.
Individual evidence
- ↑ online.gema.de ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Ulli Wenger: Facts worth knowing about Erlangen (1982). In: Bavaria December 3 , 2010, archived from the original on February 4, 2013 ; Retrieved September 17, 2012 .
- ^ Foyer Des Arts, Worth knowing about Erlangen. In: charts.de. Media Control, accessed September 19, 2012 .
- ^ Citizen Lars Dietrich - Interesting facts about Erlangen. In: hitparade.ch. Retrieved September 17, 2012 .