Weiß & Schwarz
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| Weiß & Schwarz | ||
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| CD by Böhse Onkelz | ||
| Released | 1993 | |
| Genre | Heavy Metal | |
| Length | 104 min 15 sec | |
| Record label | Bellaphon Records | |
| Highest chart entry | 10 (Weiß) 12 (Schwarz) |
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| Producer | Stephan Weidner | |
| Böhse Onkelz chronology | ||
| Heilige Lieder (1992) |
Weiß & Schwarz (1993) |
Hier sind die Onkelz (1995) |
Weiß & Schwarz (German for White & Black) are in fact 2 albums by German Hard Rock band Böhse Onkelz. Both were released at the same time in 1993. The track numbering begins on Weiß with 1 and ends on Schwarz with 23.
[edit] Track Listing
[edit] Weiß
[edit] Lieber stehend sterben (Rather die standing)
Weidner says in this text, he want rather dying standing then live on the knees.
[edit] Entfache dieses Feuer (Candle this fire)
[edit] Das Wunder der Persönlichkeit (The wonder of personality)
No one should have an idol or make all things that his idol do, he should live his own life.
[edit] Fahrt zur Hölle (Go to hell)
Again a song against the press. The Spiegel had interchanged the bandphotos of 1984 and 1992, other newspapers and magazines would not believe that the Onkelz weren't and aren't nazis.
[edit] Alles F.a. M. (All bitches except mum)
Full length title: "Alles Fotzen außer Mutti" (All bitches except mum) A song that shows that a pervert man how hates women can't accept that he is the one who thinks wrong.
[edit] Willkommen (Welcome)
[edit] Für immer (Forever)
As Weidner says, this is a very personally song about the end of a love story.
[edit] Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in autumn)
This song was written as a reaction of the attacks from neonazis on asylum-seeker houses in Mölln, Rostock-Lichtenhagen and Hoyerswerda. The press had seen some photos of the attackers, who weared Onkelz merchandise and wrote that the Onkelz are guilty for this attacks. The band wanted to make clear, that they condemn such attacks.
The song introduces with a broadcast news message (translated):
- "Rostock. After the yesterdays excesses before the central approach place for asylum seekers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania today also battled around 1,000 mostly young right-wing extremists against the police on the road. By the - in parts - civil war similarly riots the rioters had thrown with stones, bottles and fireworks against the safety men. More than 110 officials were in parts heavily hurt. The right-wing extremists, which came from whole Germany, penetrated into the floor of the asylum-seekers home, and fired - by applause from around 2,000 merries - some appartements. The police arrested around 60 persons. The foreign countries reacted - in remembering to the national-socialistic Germany - to the continuous riots in the quarter of Lichtenhagen with concern about increasing stranger hate."
Lyrics from the song:
"I see brown* shit killing ..." "I hear stupid slogans from idiots and losers ..."
*brown was the colour of Hitler's NSDAP
[edit] Es (It)
[edit] Sie hat 'nen Motor (She has a motor)
A fun-song about Weidners Harley Davidson and his Chevrolet.
[edit] Tribute to Stevie
Gonzo and Weidner were fans of Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in 1990. This instrumental was composed by Gonzo, it's the only known track, which Weidner not composed.
[edit] Schöne neue Welt (Beautiful new world)
"Hear me, folks and small folks, hit on you, hate your neighbour, you want to be independent. Kill your brother, rape your wife. You speak the same language, but you can't trust each other. 'Beautiful' new world - our enemies are we self. So dreams are dying". The center message is to stop wars all over the world.
"Schöne neue Welt" rather means "Brave new world" (as the novel by Aldous Huxley). The translation "Beautiful new world" however is a kind of one-to-one translation, showing the exact meaning of the german words (for better understanding).
[edit] Schwarz
[edit] Erkennen Sie die Melodie (Do you recognize this melody)
[edit] Wenn wir einmal Engel sind (If we're once angels)
A song about sex as angels
[edit] So geht's Dir (Deine Hölle) (This is how you feel - Your hell)
Written for Trimmis murderer.
[edit] Der Himmel kann warten (Heaven can wait)
[edit] Ich bin wie ich bin (I am as I am)
A song about personal freedom, expressing the thought that no society should opress one's own personality.
[edit] Das Messer und die Wunde (The knife and the wound)
Another song to Trimmi's murderer.
[edit] 1000 Fragen (1000 questions)
[edit] Ich bin Du (I'm you)
[edit] Worte der Freiheit (Words of freedom)
Written to all former GDR-residents, who grumble and cry after the re-union of Germany.
[edit] Das Rätsel des Lebens (The riddle of the life)
[edit] Baja
Instrumental track.
