Back to Happiness (Die-Toten-Hosen-Album)
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Back to happiness is a studio album by the Düsseldorf rock musician Die Toten Hosen . It was produced by Jon Caffery and released on October 11, 2004 on the band's label JKP . The distribution of the sound carriers was handled by Sony Music .
Except for the song How Do You Feel? , a collaboration between the band and the British musician TV Smith , all lyrics are in German. The texts are about feelings , beliefs , values and the transience of being . Three other songs, as well as the title song of the album Back to Happiness , were created with the help of the satirist Funny van Dannen .
Back to luck , Die Toten Hosen's sixth album reached number one in the German charts and was already awarded a platinum record in 2004 for more than 200,000 copies sold in Germany .
Design of cover and booklet
The CD can be read completely with the PC and contains, in addition to the audio files, a virtual booklet with copy protection . The cover by designer Dirk Rudolph consists of black and white portraits of the individual band members in the form of a barrel of ink emptied over them, so that only parts of the faces can be seen. The album is also accompanied by a paper booklet that contains all the lyrics and photographs of Slavica Ziener's band members .
Emergence
The band initially rehearsed for six weeks in a rented house on Ibiza , after which they moved to the vacant complex of Julius Hackethal's former clinic in Bavaria for another four weeks to continue working on pieces of music for the new album. The musicians involved were singer Campino , guitarists Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf , bassist Andreas Meurer and drummer Vom Ritchie . The first recordings under the direction of Jon Caffery began in April 2004. The pieces of music Ich bin die Sehnsucht in dir and Goldener Westen were pre-produced by René Schulte in the Soundsolution 1 recording studio in Oberlahr . The final mixing and mastering of the entire album was done in the Monoposto Studio in Düsseldorf.
Subjects and title list
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As with all other productions by Die Toten Hosen, Campino wrote most of the lyrics. They are almost always written from a first-person perspective . He was supported in the songs Wunder , Walkampf and in the theme song Back to Happiness by Funny von Dannen. The text to How Do You Feel? comes from T. V. Smith, with whom the band has been friends since working on the album Learning English Lesson One . Arezu Weitholz worked as an editor for the title I am the longing in you .
In the song Alles wird gut from the album Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück from 1990, Die Toten Hosen sang “We are on the way into a new millennium. On the way - a crusade to happiness! We are on the way to a new millennium. On the way - it never goes back. "
In 2004 the band chose the slogan Back to Happiness as the album title because, in their opinion, it described the mood at that time in Germany: “Everyone is afraid of tomorrow, of the future. And everyone wants to hold onto what they had yesterday, back to the happier times. ”Accordingly, the song Back to Happiness says:“ Past suburban pubs, past state elections, past the upswing in the east, past red numbers. Woh - ho - ho - ho - ho, and completely past happiness, therefore: 'All hands back!'. [...] We are on the way back, on the way back to happiness. "
music
The instruments, electric guitars , electric bass and drums common in rock music were used on the album Back to Happiness . As in the albums Opium fürs Volk from 1996 and Immortal from 1999, Hans Steingen and his Big Noise Orchestra as well as the British musician Tim Cross support with classical instruments, some of which are simulated on the synthesizer. The cello in The Claim played Raphael Doubt .
Singles and music videos
The album was preceded by the single Ich bin die Sehnsucht in dir in September 2004 . The sound carrier also contains the song Fallen , and with the pieces It goes without and no man's song, two other songs in which Funny van Dannen was involved. The music video I am the longing in you by director Philipp Stölzl illustrates with numerous short recordings the diverse dreams that a person can have.
In December 2004, Walkampf was decoupled from the album and released as a single with the two new pieces The Last Victory and Die No.1 von Flingern , in which Campino's sister Beate Frege appears as a guest singer. The video clip for whale fight is a cartoon by Andreas Hykade .
The single Friends , which was released in 2005, contains as a B-side the track Anyone Just Not Me and a cover of The Clash's The Guns of Brixton . The video for friends of director Sven Bollinger shows a person whose appearance is constantly changing into a different band member and photos from the lives of the musicians are displayed. At the end, Die Toten Hosen play the song in a hall in an office building.
On the B-side of the fourth single, Alles will vorübergangs ( Everything will pass over), there is a longer than four-minute instrumental version of the piece of music, a cover version of the song Rockaway Beach by the Ramones . When the video became the single , a live version of the track Alles wird vorübergangs was shown , mainly on the music channels Viva and MTV . The film was recorded on June 6, 2004 at the Open Air Festival at the Nürburgring under the direction of Paul Shyvers . The entire performance of the band was released in August 2004 on the DVD Rock am Ring 2004 - Live .
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Chart successes and awards
The album reached number one in the charts in Germany, number two in Austria and number three in Switzerland. It was awarded a platinum record in Germany in 2004.
reception
Manfred Glamowski wrote in Rock Hard magazine in 2004 that the entire sound carrier was "an excellent production". The album "but mostly too poppy and polished" sounds. Alexander Cordas expressed the opinion on laut.de that Back to Happiness "was the logical consequence of the evolution from punk to rocker" and Die Toten Hosen sounded "more down to earth than ever after more than 20 years of band history". Birgit Fuß wrote in Rolling Stone in October 2004 that at least since the album Opium fürs Volk the band had "not succeeded in such an all-round convincing and not so hard album".
Henning judge noted in Music Express in November 2004 that back to happiness "offer exactly the mix that made their followers so far happy," and he turned on his album Back to happiness "pronounced three hard cracker", "usual brisk punk anthems", " a few Westkurven-Gröler ”and“ a bad joke song ”. Finally, he established that "Toten Hosen records are not bought because their followers expect surprises, but because they are looking for confirmation of musical tastes and worldview". Richter saw the statement confirmed by the fact that several concerts on their Christmas tour were sold out before the album was released. Thorsten Zahn expressed a similar criticism in the Metal Hammer in December 2004 and also stated that "the success unfortunately never says anything about the content". He judges the pieces of music as “Mitgröhl-Rocker”, “cliché feelings” and “fun carnival duty” and writes that when “the Düsseldorfers let the innovation flare up, it disappears just as quickly as it was mediocre . ”Still, he admitted to the band that they were“ a force live ”.
literature
- Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 .
- Die Toten Hosen: Back to happiness . (Songbook) Bosworth, 2005, ISBN 3-86543-145-3 .
- Thorsten Riewesell (Ed.): I believe it . Born-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-87092-374-1 , p. 7.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Die Toten Hosen "Back to Happiness" in the IFPI database DE AT CH
- ^ Friends of the House - Dirk Rudolph. Die Toten Hosen, November 2004, accessed on March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . Pp. 110-112.
- ↑ a b booklet for the album.
- ↑ Text of the piece “Alles wird gut” from the album “Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück”. Die Toten Hosen, accessed October 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Interview with Campino about the album Part 1 - Happiness is a totally prostituted and desecrated word. Die Toten Hosen, 2004, archived from the original on June 25, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen: Back to happiness . (Songbook) Bosworth, 2005, ISBN 3-86543-145-3 , pp. 44-47.
- ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . P. 149.
- ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . Pp. 150-151.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Manfred Glamowski: Die Toten Hosen - Back to happiness in Rock Hard , issue 211, 2004.
- ↑ Alexander Cordas: You pound almost all of the punk in the bin. laut.de, accessed on September 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Birgit Fuß : Die Toten Hosen - Back to Happiness in Rolling Stone , Issue 10, October 3, 2004, pages 108–110.
- ↑ Henning Richter: Die Toten Hosen - Back to happiness. In Musikexpress , November 2004 issue, page 110.
- ↑ Thorsten Zahn: Die Toten Hosen - Back to happiness. In Metal Hammer , December 2004 issue, page 106.