This plate It's similar to me with the "Congratulations" [1982] Spliff, especially of course with the Mitteregger pieces there. E-Drums, bigots production, lyrics, the sound seldom after 80s Hipsprech and often this disillusioned, bitter, evil but totally have Unlarmoyante, which in turn fits splendidly to Mitter Eggers schneidener Martin-Semmelrogge voice ... This mixture fascinates me in a way that I ultimately even can not grasp quite. In those days, the age of 14, I always wanted to buy me the plate, it was then not made in the end. That would be finally completed 27 years later. "Cold wie'n stone" is the sober on the surface and yet bewildered state description of a failed relationship. In the category "drummer playing music on broken marriages" Mitteregger would allow the German answer to Phil Collins, even fits quite well with his peculiar sound and the production of this album. The eerie, directly hineinflüsternde in your consciousness "Rudi" is, however, to my knowledge, so far as autobiographical, as it contemporaries quoted Mitter Eggers who advise him of a solo record: "And another thing Rudi - let it be with the guitar .. . "It is not to be faulted Mitter Eggers guitar work and also on other craft. He has "No guts, no girl" completely recorded and produced alone. Besides shines "Kreuzberg" with this beautiful, above a disgusting DX-7 keyboard area opening chorus from a time when you could sing such things yet, because Berlin was still divided city and the "..." last exit from Kreuzberg. .. "yet opened Romantic rooms, dreams of escapes from the dystopia (Deckard and Rachael in" Blade Runner ", the caliber approximately). A lighter fare are the delightfully condescending, over superficialities funny-making and at the same time so coquettish "Either way" and "Ocean" (Why with "C"?), Unnecessary but interesting verbastelt to then but to sound in the chorus somehow to Matthias Reim. That Mitteregger actually Austrians, one hears in "marriages", a piece of dialect rock, and something's been everywhere back then more than now in the charts. - "Oh man," you think, "the Mitteregger has this Ösi dialect so well it managed to respect!" - Well, it comes from there, and yet it sounds somehow contrived because you associated with Mitteregger out of habit rather eschatological Berlin-coolness as alpine comfort. Nevertheless, quite funny. Properly doof is really just "German lice", a cover of AC / DC's "Crabsody In Blue" ("? Well, Fury How about a little ride ?!") Lustig meant but somehow superfluous. Mitter Eggers later solo albums trended significantly more convenience to German rock. "No guts, no girl", however, has at least locally a originality and subtlety, according to the German in most mainstream productions can look far out this time.
