Mutter

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Mutter
Mutter cover
Studio album by Rammstein
Released April 2, 2001
Recorded Studio Miraval, France, 2000
Genre Tanz-Metall Industrial Metal
Length 44:54
Label Motor
Producer(s) Jacob Hellner with Rammstein
Professional reviews
Rammstein chronology
Live aus Berlin
(1999)		 Mutter
(2001)		 Reise, Reise
(2004)


This article is about the album by Rammstein. For the Philadelphian medical museum, see Mütter Museum.

Mutter (German for "Mother") is the German NDH-metal band Rammstein's third musical album. It was released on 2 April 2001.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All track written by Rammstein.

  1. "Mein Herz brennt" ("My heart burns") – 4:39
  2. "Links 2 3 4" ("Left 2 3 4") – 3:36
  3. "Sonne" ("Sun") – 4:32
  4. "Ich will" ("I want") – 3:37
  5. "Feuer frei!" ("Fire at will!") – 3:08
  6. "Mutter" ("Mother") – 4:28
  7. "Spieluhr" ("Music box") – 4:46
  8. "Zwitter" ("Hermaphrodite") – 4:17
  9. "Rein raus" ("In, out") – 3:10
  10. "Adios" ("Goodbye" (Spanish)) – 3:48
  11. "Nebel" ("Mist"") – 4:54

The Japanese version included the song "Halleluja" as a hidden track. A special tour edition was made with a second CD. This CD included live versions of "Ich will", "Links 2-3-4", "Sonne", and "Spieluhr".

[edit] Song information

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[edit] 1. Mein Herz brennt (My heart burns)

  • This song is about childhood nightmares. It makes reference to an old German childrens TV show named Der Sandmann. It was used as the introductory and the final song to the movie Lilja 4-ever.

[edit] 2. Links 2 3 4 (Left 2 3 4)

  • This song was written in response to the many claims that Rammstein are Nazis that badly influenced various school shootings. The song's chorus shows that the band's political views are on the left (2 3 4). This is made clear by the lines "Sie wollen mein Herz am rechten Fleck / Doch seh ich dann nach unten weg / Da schlägt es links" ("They want my heart on the right side / But when I look down / It beats on the left").

Links zwo, drei, vier (Left 2 (both zwo and zwei mean 2 in German but due to their similar sounds zwo is used here) 3 4)is also a German army chant. The music video shows an ant colony's struggle against three attacking beetles, with one ant acting as sort of the leader.

[edit] 3. Sonne (Sun)

  • This song was originally going to be used as heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko's entrance music, but was never used. The demo name of the song was Klitschko. Even without the use as Klitschko's entrance music, the song still references boxing through the verses and the counting to ten, as a referee does for a potential KO.

[edit] 4. Ich will (I want)

  • This song is about desire to be seen and heard and trusted, though the video deals with the media's obsession with a good story and their readiness to hail criminals as heroes in order to gain said story. The song itself speaks that such actions cannot be understood. And if you put the video with the song, it translates in that people have little problem believing what they see on t.v., and sometimes misconstrue the actions of real criminals when they are not aware of what is behind the scenes. (Note in the video that Till is speaking into the camera, but behind the camera there shows someones arm, with blood dripping down it, showing the brutality of the "criminals", unseen by the public).

This song can also be interpreted as a way of critisism of the way Rammstein is portrayed, and in what ways the wrong messages gets across. In this song and in the video they are hailed no matter what they do, and Rammstein themselves are critical of that kind of portrayal.

[edit] 5. Feuer frei! (Fire at will! or Open fire!)

  • This song is about pain; physical, phsychological and in the soul. It was used as the introductory song to the movie xXx. The literal translation of the title is Fire freely!, while a more idiomatic translation would be Fire at will! or Open fire!.

[edit] 6. Mutter (Mother)

  • This song is about a man who never had a mother because he was born from an experiment. The man in the song seeks revenge against the mother that never gave birth to him, while at the same time expressing love for the same mother, exposing the duality in some mother-son relationships in which hate and love exist in parallel to each other.

It also raises an important ethical question that was very relevant at the time. Where would a cloned/ genetically engineered baby feel at home. Who are its mother? What kind of identity issues does it raise?

[edit] 7. Spieluhr (Music-box)

  • A decidedly depressing song, this song is about a little child who wants to be all alone, so it plays dead. The people of the village take it for dead and quickly bury it under the sand. The cold air outside wakes the buried-alive child, who plays the music box it was buried with and sings from underground. It is eventually heard and the child is dug back out of the ground.

Hoppe, hoppe reiter is from a German childrens song. In Norwegian the same melody is called "Ride Ride Ranke".

[edit] 8. Zwitter (Hermaphrodite)

  • This song talks about narcissism and bisexuality through the point of view of a hermaphrodite. The chorus, departing from the Rammstein norm, is in a major key and is sung quite high.

[edit] 9. Rein, raus (In, out)

  • This song is about rough sex. In particular this song is about a man who uses women. There is a play on words how the singer is the rider, and the partner is the horse; he has the key she has the lock. They also joke in the song, "Der Ritt war kurz. Es tut mir Leid. Ich steige ab, habe keine Zeit. Muss jetzt zu den anderen Pferden. Wollen auch geritten werden." "The ride was short, I am sorry. I dismount, I have no time. Now have to seek the other horses. Want to be ridden too." Near the end they yell "deeper" and the sound of a whip cracks in the background.

[edit] 10. Adios (Goodbye (Spanish))

  • Although the title is Spanish, the song is German. The song, which mentions needles many times, could be looked at as being about heroin or euthanasia. Rammstein has also written a completely Spanish language song called "Te quiero puta," on Rosenrot.
  • The chorus features three lines of a verse from the song "Jeder lacht", an unreleased song that was played on a New Years event in 1994.

[edit] 11. Nebel (Mist or Fog)

  • One of Rammstein's few slow songs, this song is about a couple who takes their final walk together on the beach before the woman leaves the man. Before she leaves him, she asks for a last kiss. Years later, the man can't remember the last kiss for it is so long ago.

[edit] Singles

  1. "Sonne"
  2. "Links 2 3 4"
  3. "Ich will"
  4. "Mutter"
  5. "Feuer frei!"

'Feuer frei!' also appears on the xXx movie soundtrack, and Rammstein appears in the movie playing the song. It is the theme song of the movie, and was featured in trailers and previews.

[edit] Personnel


[edit] External link

Rammstein
Till Lindemann | Christian "Flake" Lorenz | Christoph "Doom" Schneider | Richard Z. Kruspe | Oliver Riedel | Paul H. Landers
Discography
Albums: Demos - 1994 | Herzeleid | Sehnsucht | Mutter | Reise, Reise | Rosenrot
Singles: Du riechst so gut | Seemann | Engel | Du hast | Das Modell | Du riechst so gut '98 | Stripped | Single Collection | Asche zu Asche | Sonne | Links 2 3 4 | Ich will | Mutter | Feuer frei! | Schtiel | Mein Teil | Amerika | Ohne dich | Keine Lust | Benzin | Rosenrot | Mann gegen Mann
VHS and DVDs: Live aus Berlin | Lichtspielhaus | Völkerball
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