After three terrific albums (Analyze This, a form of violence, the severity courage) this memorable '84 * work marks a turning point in Kunze's work. Musically an otherwise than insanely'll discuss balancing act between radio-friendly sing-along hits (A man must do, love the chord, Lola, Believe no singer) and - for the first time - purely synthetically produced Klanggebreughel which to his sinister evilness of his time trendy DAF honor would have been enough (The call, Cockchafer fly). In between: Grandiose ballads (Just being present, a shithole - input chords sound like Chopin's funeral march, call again on) and an "outlier" (distance).
No, Kunze was and is not a cool pop star (like the cover photo shows) - he just mutated from mustache-bearing Oberstudienrat contender for Business punk with glasses. "Slaughter the idols!"
* 84, which was to confirm the "conservative revolution" in 1983, implementation of the NATO Double-Track Decision (Pershing 2 in Germany), the year of Band-Aid. It should twelve years would pass before HRK demanded a quota for German-language music on the radio.
