Reinhard's best - and not only for "Above the Clouds"

Reinhard Mey oeuvre is characterized among other things by the fact that it has kept its high level for a long time, with very few outliers downwards. Therefore, it also falls somewhat difficult to say which one because now is his best record, there are just too many good. Nevertheless, if I were to choose spontaneously, was my answer for sure: "As before year and a day". The LP is so good that a "century song" like actually do not particularly stand out "above the clouds" of the other titles that are of similar format: rare Mey is he anyway was a master form of mocking unmasking succeeded better than in the critically-evil but also devastatingly funny "classics" "What can be more beautiful on earth as a politician to be", "Two chickens on the way to the day before yesterday" and the "plumber", never came his compassion for animals touching expressed as the song of the "Old Bear", never the pain of parting was expressed poetically as the "jugglers", never fear environmental degradation discussed in more subtle than "Maikäfer song". And the title song finally is unquestionably one of the most beautiful love songs, which are available in German language.