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The Eponymous Album [Liner Notes]

Impudence in vinyl. That's what you call debuting with a 2 LP set, made for the Liberty/United Artists label und self-assuredly self-produced. The result: a sound that the band sought and dreamed of, composed of the eclectic ingredients which make rock music a basic provision of life.
        Tracks
Samples
Lyrics
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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To My Son

John, you’ll learn by the age of four
To name yellow, blue and green
You will have some yellow dice
Yellow like grapefruits

You’ll see yellow butter-cups
Poets need them badly
You will have some yellow dice
Yellow like grapefruits

Maybe I should paint your small dice
Sulphur yellow true
I don’t know if that’s the same hue
They call London fog

You will love Post Office red
Believe me that’s for sure
You’ll use mother’s red lipstick
Believe me that’s for sure

And some day they’re gonna send you
To a red-brick school
Maybe when they think you’re ready
You will act like a fool

John, you’ll learn by the age of four ...

Beware of the teacher
Beware of your mother
Beware of the priest
Beware of your father
Beware of the boss

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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