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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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Fudd McGorges

Some turned mustang ran with wild horses
Wanted to be free, tells Fudd McGorges
Breedin‘ horses takes a man you know
Was ‘bout fourty in the Great Depression
T’was all over horses out of fashion
It’s the legends that remain you know
It’s said –
Mustangs have rollers in their nose
Try again boy if you happen to get close
Mother nature shows

Chestnut brown or white as snow man
Sorrel red dappled palomino
Palomino – look it up in Webster’s please
They escaped them conquistadores
Defied the Indians and the saddle horses
It’s the gun the railroad the cities that killed ‘em
Oh man gone are them times
Maybe there is somethin‘ left
There’s a sayin‘ in the West

There’s nothin‘ so good for the inside of a man
As the outside of a horse

Rope a mustang and he’ll fight the rope man
It’s not easy when there is a slope man
He’ll run down don’t break your neck you know
Chestnut brown or white as snow man
Sorrel red dappled palomino
America’s become so small you know
Oh man gone are them times
Maybe there is somethin‘ left
There’s a sayin‘ in the West

There’s nothin‘ so good for the inside of a man
As the outside of a horse

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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