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The Eponymous Album [Editorial]

Vinylgewordene Anmaßung, als „Debüt“ gleich mit einer Doppel-LP auf den Markt zu kommen; von „Liberty / United Artists“ beauftragt und selbstbewusst selbstproduziert. Das Ergebnis: ein Klang, wie ihn sich die Band vorstellte und erträumte, aus den Eklektizismen und Ingredienzen, die Rock zum Lebensmittel machten.

        Titel
Hörprobe
Songtext
1) 
Doctor Bob Dylan
2) 
Pink Hawthorn
3) 
Johanna
4) 
If You Want To
5) 
Oedipus
6) 
Fudd McGorges
7) 
Thingamannalime
8) 
An Old Army Poem
9) 
Where Will The Salmon Spawn
10) 
To My Son
11) 
Shining Brightly In The Sun
12) 
It Is You (You Belong To Me)
13) 
Columbines, Violets And Daisies
14) 
I Am The Wolf
15) 
A Well-Respected Man
16) 
Drunken Mr. Hyde
17) 
A Soldier´s Songbook
(A special version can also be heard in the Constantin-Film „Wer im Glashaus liebt oder Der Graben“ by Michael Verhoeven)
18) 
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Thingamannalime

Once upon a time
The house of Thingamannalime
Did pass a bill
Of revolutionary thrill
Housewives stood and stared
While cautious pensioners got scared
As all the giant headlines read
Sensation!

Parliament abolished money!
Cheques unlawful! Clearing houses closed!
Young girls, old men danced together
Fireworks Champagne – they screamed together
Whoom bang wow

They did start anew
With big black coins
That felt like glue
Because they made ’em
Out of good old liquorice
You must understand
One got a sticky dirty hand
Through grasping after
Such a super coin

So posters read:
Please don’t use money!
Please do drop it – it soils everything!
After all it works out fine
With only kids to wait in line
For new cash
Whoom bang wow

One who had been rich
Had guts enough to ask a witch
Dear Marihoo
Of Hemlock Woods, what shall I do
All I had is gone
And every hard-earned little sum

Now melts away
On one hot summer day

Yeah fuck the socialists
She turned red
Man don’t worry,
Freeze your coins instead
One day his freezers got no juice
We know the rich man had no use
For liquid coins bang wow

Produced by
Improved Sound Limited


All songs written by
Axel Linstädt (music) and
Bernd Linstädt (words)
Arranged by Axel Linstädt

Personnel
Johnny Fickert:
vocals, percussion,
flutes and alto-sax

Axel Linstädt:
guitars and keyboards,
occasionally voc.

Uli Ruppert: bass

Rolf Gröschner: drums

Recording engineers:
Jörg Scheuermann, Thomas Kemt, Klaus Maier at Union-Studios
Munich Mixing: Jörg Scheuermann (except A Soldier´s Songbook
T. Klemt and J. Scheuermann)
Cover picture:
Michael Mathias Prechtl
Thanks to the brass, the strings and the choir.
We are deeply indebted to
Gillian Bebber-Luscombe

Digital remastering:
Jörg Scheuermann
Licensed by Improved Sound Limited P 1971, © 2001

 

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