And voila, there bring this personally important for me German rock band for 30 year anniversary album called "Ballast of the Republic" out, it but actually manages to me both in the late 80's when I first heard as a 10-year Alex , as well as in the 90's when I was in my Revoluzzerphase by the "Buy Me" and "opium of the people", a German-language band had found, of which I felt understood me and I was able to, among other things inspire you to even up the guitar to take hands, and in the 2000s, when I was allowed to be happy as a student with my first "away" from their parents about the fact that the pants "Immortal" could return to their weak accrues to top form, and in the here and now, a time when the musical highlights are becoming increasingly rare and I am extremely on an ingenious line up with the perfect end to the Geburtstagsgigs the pants in my 13 Rock am Ring catapult.
After the song has "days like this" my current lifestyle with the anticipation of June 3, perfectly in tune I've been hoping for a lot of this record. But this enthusiasm? I would certainly not expect.
In my eyes, the trousers have exactly hit the mixture of political positioning, thoughtfulness, love, solemn hymn, pathos and melancholy, which she has always so excellent. I am quite sure that I "Is this our day" songs like "Days like these", "Sorry for one summer", "Old fever", "Too bad, how can that happen," "Oberhausen" and even in 10 years'll sing along, like I do that now one of the appropriate occasions with so so many hymns of the pants.
The songs that I prefer to hear at home behind closed doors as at parties or gigs could and can take me completely. My personal favorite is "Three Words", an absolutely brilliant intro that reminds a bit pants untypical of "Alice in Chains" in order precisely to lead to the typical trousers sound. In "The Man Outside" one gets the impression as a young Campino would sing about the difficult relationship with his father. Simply fantastic!
For this, a bonus CD with "spirits that we called" from their 15 covers can be described most of the old school 70's 80's punk, so pants from the 80s pur! Additionally poems by Hesse and Kaestner or the "Moorsoldaten song" of concentration camp prisoners from Börgermoor are set to music. A "cry for love" cover (a dream!) And wonderful to Campino and Co. so wonderfully appropriate folk song "Here today, gone tomorrow" there as well as an anti-Nazi Song of 1928 by Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish composer who the of Nazis murdered later. After repeated listening, you realize that the cover has been selected very carefully and you can see that although the band has its roots in the 70s, the Toten Hosen but now are much more than the then zeitgeist. Overall, one can say that everything is perfect rounded. So must look an anniversary CD, so they must listen to.
Are there any weak songs? Frankly I'm not interested that the bean! I belong to the generation that judged the artistic work of a band based an album as a whole. Therefore, there is nothing to criticize, because this album is a pearl in the ocean of music flooding the whole.
Conclusion:
Since it is now much more difficult to inspire me as in the 90s, I contend that the pants are as good as ever. They have all their best sides in the past 30 years mixed in a perfectly functioning unit to create an album that worry in the coming weeks and months will be a sensation and still remained in years in iconic memory. At least as far as I am concerned!
I am no 60
and I'm not even getting close
And only then I'd tell
what was once
Although Die Toten Hosen have not lost even on this album to look into the future, now that they are all around 50, the time has come, in the view of the past appear as important. From the Crusades time travel has become, and that's good!
Thank you dear pants, what you offer, you can not compensate with money ... :-)
