Living room EP
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| Extended Play by Beatsteaks | |
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Publication |
December 21, 2002 |
| Label (s) | Epitaph Records |
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Format (s) |
Mini CD / EP |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
20:33 |
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Studio (s) |
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The Living Room EP is the second EP from Beatsteaks and marks the beginning of the band's collaboration with producer Moses Schneider .
The CD was distributed free of charge to the visitors of the Beatsteaks concert in the Columbiahalle in Berlin on December 21, 2002. The sound carrier is not available in the free trade, but remnants of the EP have meanwhile been offered in the band's official online shop. The circulation was around 3000–3500 pieces.
The CD contains six cover versions of pieces of music by various bands, such as Nine Inch Nails and Cheap Trick . The intro Attention was recorded with Seeed singer Demba Nabé .
The instruments of the songs on the Living Room EP were recorded together and not, as usual, individually in the studio, which the band considered their living room during the time. This type of recording was also used on the following album, Smack Smash .
Creation of the EP and its name
At the end of 2002 the Beatsteaks played a year-end concert. On this occasion, the Beatsteaks came up with the idea of giving every visitor to this concert “a CD for their ticket”. After their labels Epitaph and WEA had approved, the preparations began. During the production, the Beatsteaks came across Moses Schneider because they had already heard positive things from him.
Since they regarded the studio as their living room for the three days during the recording and also gave away the CD at their "living room concert", they named the EP Living Room EP .
Tracklist
- Attention - 1:07
- Hello There - 1:31 - Cheap Trick
- I Fought The Law - 2:45 - made famous by The Clash , written by Sonny Curtis
- Hey you - 4:03 - known from the musical line 1
- Just Like Heaven - 3:41 - The Cure
- Wish - 3:08 - Nine Inch Nails
- True Fine Love - 4:18 - Steve Miller Band
meaning
The two songs Hello There and Hey Du are also played on recent live performances by the Beatsteaks. Both songs are featured on the live album Kanonen auf Spatzen . Hey You has been selected as the second single of the album sledgehammer to crack extracted and is also on the B-side of hand in hand with the original name You're beautiful even if you cry (Mary's Song) included. Hey Du has been sung by Peter Baumann instead of the actual singer of the Beatsteaks, Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß , since the recording of the living room EP . Moreover, it is Farin Urlaub heard in the background vocals.
Reviews
Because of the low number of copies of the EP, the response was not nearly as great as with the studio albums of Beatsteaks such as Living Targets . Nevertheless, the few reviews were mostly positive.
Whiskey-soda.de gave the CD a 1 . Wasteofmind.de wrote about the EP: “Without question a nice EP and a must for every fan” . In-your-face.de wrote: "The CD alone is worth a visit" and gave 8 out of 10 points accordingly. The Fanzine Helldriver Magazine found all the songs as "really good" and gave 5.5 out of 7 points. Evilrockshard.net wrote that the EP was "nothing special" , but saw the free award of the concert ticket as positive.
Web links
- Review at whiskey-soda.de
- Review at in-your-face.de ( Memento from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of the Beatsteaks on laut.de.
- ↑ a b Barth: Review ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2013 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. on Whiskey-soda.de . (Accessed August 5, 2009)
- ↑ Musicbrainz information on the living room EP (accessed on August 5, 2009)
- ↑ a b B-side (DVD) in b-side - The film (43 min – 47 min)
- ↑ Studio diary living room EP ( 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. (Accessed August 5, 2009)
- ↑ Kai Wydra: Review on wasteofmind.de (accessed on August 5, 2009)
- ↑ Torben Schultz: Review on in-your-face.de ( Memento from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 5, 2009)
- ↑ Rolf Gehring: Review on helldriver-magazine.de (accessed on August 5, 2009)
- ↑ Nils Manegold: Review on evilrockshard.net (accessed on August 5, 2009)
