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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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Where Will The Salmon Spawn

They do scare me
These silent faces
Cramming pre-dawn
Commuter trains

You smell mothballs
Sweat and anger
Let ’em be man
And don’t tell jokes

Hey man they’ve taught me to feel
Green slime smeared on a child
Bloody scurf over my eyes
Where will the salmon spawn

The car rides smoothly
Turn on the radio
Well I’m sure man
You’ll feel much better

They’ve got music
Good-humoured DJs
Think of your off-time
And don’t ask why

Hey man ...

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

 

© 2004 IMPROVED SOUND LIMITED