Freezer Places

Great it is the pits. Large and thick and heavy: four kilos weighs the monster that fits into the drive bay with difficulty. Department vinyl LPs, even though it actually are CDs - but the format dictates inclusion in the cabinet with the large format LPs. Looks impressive, somewhat reminiscent of the packaging of a freezer locations, including cardboard sleeve. You need both hands to move the package accidents can. Come on what forth - there is even a plate cupboard where to extensive and corpulent boxes no shortage.
I hope so because I have invested a whopping 220 E for the part. Doubts plagued me but from the outset: Do I have to actually have a CD box, the contents of which I already have for the most part? After I have dealt intensively over the holidays with the seasons ", the answer can only be: No!
Actually, I had made up my mind, my anger for me to keep and the matter as soon as possible check off as bad buy ". After reading the majority of other reviews on this page I would like but the cheers arias oppose a more critical assessment. I am of the opinion that we have to do immeasurably overpriced product, before one can only warn anbeträchtlich the gap between expectations and reality - dealing with a totally botched, superfluous and - based on profit.
Unlike the first reviewer (who incidentally must have a postman who delivers at night in the middle, and also apparently has the gift, in a very short time to compose an equally extensive as knowledgeable, brilliant formulated and almost literary meeting. How else it may move that the text on the day of publication of the box early in the morning is on the side Unless had the reviewer prior to the released access to the product Yeah, I know -?.. press copy, but has universal actually free promos a such quality Edition shipped? If I am very surprised .....). Well, back to the topic: Unlike the first reviewer (and in full compliance with the meetings of Silkyway "and Fiesli") I am not of the opinion that "wails at a high level, when the lack of singles, B pages, other scattered "tracks and unreleased recordings complains. The hope of this very title was a reason to buy the box for me. Of course, I realized that only one edition of the original album was announced and that I could not expect to get more than promised. Nevertheless: What to think a record label when she pays tribute to an artist of the stature of Reinhard Mey for his service anniversary "with a mammoth box and does not consider the most interesting for true fans pieces What stopped them to settle for two or three more CDs? and so then actually cover the complete works of the artist's albums there's many years in every record store - the early singles and EPs, however lacking even longtime fans and they are surely there, which are addressed by such an edition..
The box attached (albeit incomplete) discography teaches us that even during the time when Intercord, ie after the publication of the first albums, further singles have appeared which were not included in the LPs. Man from Alemannia "is only the most prominent example - hard to believe that this classic and many other tracks, including probably an early version of the hot battle at the cold buffet" simply suggests! (After all: man from Alemannia "there's a TV recording on the accompanying DVD with old television appearances.) The in some comments to read notes on the publication of some rarities on various compilations not help us further - it can not be true that one for a lot of money to acquire an elephantine box and then still have to scrape together some songs otherwise.
Embezzling one also - as the Vorrezensent rightly points out - almost all unreleased recordings (apart from a few cover versions of the later stage). It is common in such luxury spending that one sifts the archives and interesting finds the public makes it accessible: Alternative Takes, demo versions, unreleased songs, different arrangements, etc. It would have been very exciting, a look at Reinhard Mey workshop " to throw, to be able to understand how to develop songs, change as in the studio - with band or orchestra - will be developed The Vorrezensent Silkyway "(reference is specifically made to the text) gets to the point. It is very unlikely that of an artist who takes up plates for 50 years, no outtakes exist.
Live recordings? Also does not register! Well, there are plenty of Mey live LPs, and that they would be left in the compilation of the box outside before, was known. But what about all the historic, previously unreleased concert documents? Why once again missing the entire castle Waldeck-recordings? (The Waldeck-Box, which was released a few years ago in Bear Family, contains only excerpts.) And the recordings from November 1989 of the first appearances in the East would certainly not only the former eye and ear witnesses like (yet) again fully listen.
I want about the lack of French, English and Dutch shooting me now do not get upset separately - any more than about the absence of instrumental albums. I ask only that: All what the fans have been waiting for years, because the items were to get anywhere and never appeared on CD shines on the box by its absence. By contrast, one finds only those images that have always been available anyway. (Admittedly, the remastering of the early records is quite successful and a significant improvement over the old CD-spending.)
The question arises: Why? Legal reasons? Adopt Hardly - if known, has the Intercord (today belonging Universal) already adopted early 70s the rights to the early recordings and then published a sampler. And a few years ago they found the girl in the taverns "on the 4-CD retrospective Above the Clouds". Legal barriers are therefore unlikely.
Or if the artist has perhaps even prevented the publication, as it prevents the publication of biographies and can be switched off fan sites? In any case, he realized that the box has gaps - in the editorial he wrote restrictive, it was just about anything to have "included what he had ever sung the other hand, he asserts, nothing omitted coyly." - But this statement relates clearly back only Material of the original albums. About the reasons for the lack of other pieces he is silent itself. Whether some of his youthful sins to him "but are embarrassed? Or if it bothers him that the song partially derived from other authors? He worried that his public image and his fans could be damaged? Questions that probably only the Meyster itself can answer.

We come to the next scandal: the companion book. 100 pages in LP size offer not about how one should wait to get a halfway complete and meaningful Mey-biography, but - along with many photos - only a practical information free speech of the recipient, who can look back on his career and surprise finds that it the audience still loves after all these years and that his songs are all grown fond of him - some more, some less. Also Hannes Waders eulogy "is nothing but an adulation, an evocation of the good old days and the eternal friendship. Why was not commissioned a capable journalist, even contribute a truly comprehensive, well-researched, fact-rich, possibly in places critical biography? Something there namely still not - really informative literature about Reinhard Mey in vain strange that one of the most popular musicians of the last decades has still not been honored with a comprehensive biographical works Why is it perhaps to himself: He has such a..? .. always suggestion by pointing back, he was still alive He also has years ago prevented the publication of a planned (and previously announced) Biography Possibly controlled Mey like yourself what is spread about him - so he has to be in 2005 public image through the largely unsubstantiated story collection What I would have to say "affected a second time in his spirit. He feared, the image of the friendly, down to earth, humble sympathy carrier featuring him for decades, could be damaged?
But back to the book that came with the CD edition. The greatest insolence is the alleged Mey Chronicle ", which occupies the majority of the 100 pages. This is not about an annotated discography, in which the various songs and albums (or other stations of Meys career) are discussed in detail in chronological order (what I expected). No, this is simply a very superficial, collected random list of political, historical and other more or less significant events from 1964 to 2013 which the politician Antje Vollmer has put together. We learn, among other things that Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1969 and that was in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell (Yes guckmalachneesiehmalda that I would have never thought ....) The whole thing is more reminiscent of the timeline "at the end of the history textbook for the eighth grade -. with the difference however, that there the facts are commonly consistent. The Mey Chronicle "but is full of factual inaccuracies: The round death days of Schiller and Ibsen in 2005 and 2006 are for birthdays" converted, Zooprofessor Bernhard Grzimek is in Gerhard Grzimek "renamed, and Rudi Carrell hit" When will it again correctly summer " 1975 is sometimes just shipped as 1978. Oh, and that not England, but the UK "in 1966 won the World Cup was the Scots and Northern Irish will surely subsequently delighted. Nitpicking? Maybe, but as said before (slightly modified) my old Bio-teacher? ! Too many peas spoil the Mey "What the latter has to do with all that reveals itself difficult - after all, the current Mey albums and tours are given for the respective years.
(By the way, was in advance the question of the publication of the box have been delayed because errors have crept into the booklet that had to be corrected If that's true, then obviously uncorrected copies are released for sale -. I have in any case one. Or, worse still: this is already the corrected version Hard to imagine how the original version may have looked like)..
In addition to the large "companion book's are four small, stuck in each of the cardboard suitcase with the CDs. Content: The Lyrics Again one wonders what is the Why does someone who hears the plates and halfway of the German language.. is powerful, the printed lyrics to sing along maybe you had here not detailed explanations and comments for each song, about the history, production, recording data, musicians involved and can provide more info All of this is completely absent in the complete box;??? one learns even after nearly 50 years, who else was not involved in the early recordings and how, for example, cooperation with the studio musicians and with producer Walther Richter designed in detail.
Speaking not know: The Box is an extra CD with songs by other composers that Reinhard Mey has edited and recorded. When and under what circumstances these (some hitherto unpublished) photos were taken, about the booklet silent just like the origin of the originals.

More Quengeleien (eg for accompanying DVD) I can save now. It is well known, held, the content of the panels discussed to take in the reviews also position. I will try.
I had not heard the albums for a long time and am now, enters the renewed listening to the old material that I really knew for decades about amazing results. May be that my personal perception has changed over time, but after an intense celebration daily check "of Mey albums I suddenly feel my long affection for the prominent bards could perhaps have been a misunderstanding. Or have I do not use them sooner certain songs, certain lines of text, certain statements note? Anyway, met me at the bye several passages mad at, and I wonder if the general popularity Meys is attributable also to its ability to always somehow on the side of the social mainstream to stand. If you listen to the lyrics and the particular political and social context thinks, then you already recognize that Mey always something "agrees with common sense, to opportunistically existing flows conform and adhere to an often only diffuse majority consensus oriented. Consistent Represented of resistant or non-conformist positions has always been alien to him. When he talks about in pacifist sense, either in general or in the context of a widespread social consensus (eg in connection with the upgrading or early 80s with the war in Iraq).
But more problematic seems to me that he has repeatedly and offensively served the Stammtisch when it seemed opportune. Examples? Please: Two chickens on the way to the day before yesterday "from 1974 is a satirical packaged, defamatory attack on the (then) contemporary director's theater, may also apply to certain forms of modern theater in general (Theatre of the Absurd, etc.) One can well imagine how. the middle-class traditionalists "then delight in the legs knocked because finally a truth," says The same goes for the notorious Annabelle. "- it is probably even today still in any male-dominated board for moral edification, and as a bulwark against relentlessly menacing women's quota played.

In the book to Box writes Reinhard Mey, he had every single song loved ", a word also take back today" and was admitted for each row "So for the following.:
But one has hired an artist from Greenland,
of there experimented with oil and Walfischkot.
I have nothing against Eskimos, I ask myself: Why
run at us so many unemployed sculptor rum?
Anyway, the art office has also for my tax money
the plastic, child and Chaos` erected on the lawn. "
Unquote.
Ironic? Not at all. The chorus states, based on the artist from Greenland ":
As for me, I'm sick of the fax.
Looks because here no one that the emperor has no clothes on?
This is neither new nor original, that's just stupid .... "

Can not be, something he would never publish. Really? But - nachzuhören in The Emperor's New Clothes "by 1980. The celebrated wordsmith Mey brings it here actually managed to grab three of the most popular Stammtisch wisdom in a single verse:
-Modern Art is rubbish
-Ausländer Take our jobs
-The Public administration wasted our tax dollars
(Quite remarkable that he apparently is not embarrassed now - go and catch the wind "but already.)
This slope, the people to look on the mouth "and confirm vague fears and resentments, runs through much of his work. I have a lot of albums (some for the first time after several years) belongs in the last days again, and I noticed it on how often Reinhard Mey slip into comforting nostalgia, in a Previously everything was better "attitude, coupled with a tendency to latent progress and technophobia. (Here as an example of many is done "led. And even classics like What can be more beautiful on earth as a politician to be a piece of music by Hand)" or an application for an application form "are of the style of course awesome, from the statement but unrestrained populist.
The problem is it also when Mey in the (at that time already heavily criticized) dustmen Blues "from 1981, a group of people who - certainly not always voluntary - the most unpleasant and equipped with the lowest social prestige perform work, is as merry fellows who, always in the fresh air, dancing and singing push a quiet ton "and above all - says the message - have absolutely no reason to complain about their working conditions.

These kinds of examples of questionable statements can be in Meys (almost) complete work many find, and when the seasons "box is good for something, then maybe as occasion may modify the image of the artist Mey in the public eye a little added.: These accusations are very old hat. Already in the 70s Mey was reprimanded and reviled for his part, indifferent, sometimes overt populist attitude. At that time, mostly of political activists who were unable to see that a songwriter must be a revolutionary agitator not necessarily . Criticism is - for lack of political activists - silent for a long time, and I must admit that I did about the attacks on the nice, funny and lovable Reinhard, where you now really could not be angry, even mild I smiled - true to the motto What Would a tree when a pig is scratching at it. " But now, the bye, but one wonders if there is not then perhaps wiped criticism somewhat premature from the table.

A Conclusion? Try wir`s: Who a representative Coffee Table Book "needed to impress visitors who may be well served with the box (However, should the coffee table." Be sufficiently stable.) Allen, which is located on the original albums , the four separately sold small CD boxes are recommended - they contain all 26 albums and taken together are much cheaper than the big-Edition. And all the fans who like the complete Mey would - well, who have to continue to wait. (But cheer up: In four years, he is 75, so there is hope!)
Who has the box (or even individual albums), perhaps should even take the time to the texts - beyond the undoubted puns and linguistic aesthetic quality - on the substantive messages abzuklopfen out. One comes to remarkable results.

PS: Oh yes - The time of the juggler's over, "remains one of the most wonderful farewell songs ever.