Herz (album)

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Herz
Studio album by Rosenstolz
Released 22 March 2004
Recorded Hamburg
Genre Pop, rock
Length 47:52
Language German
Label Island (Universal)
Producer Ulf Leo Sommer, Peter Plate
Rosenstolz chronology

Live aus Berlin
(2003)		 Herz
(2004)		 Das große Leben
(2006)
Singles from Herz
  1. "Liebe ist alles"
    Released: 1 March 2004
  2. "Ich will mich verlieben"
    Released: 14 June 2004
  3. "Willkommen"
    Released: 13 September 2004
  4. "Ich komm an dir nicht weiter"
    Released: 22 November 2004

Herz (Heart) is the ninth studio album by the German pop duo Rosenstolz and was released in 2004 by Island Records. The album includes the hit singles "Liebe ist alles" and "Willkommen" and reached triple platinum status in Germany.

Composition

Herz deals with the various aspects of love, including happiness, sex and partnership ("Liebe ist alles"), pain ("Die Liebe ist tot"), loss, sorrow and hope ("Gib mir mehr Himmel"), and jealousy ("Das gelbe Monster").[1] Speaking in an interview before the release of Herz, Rosenstolz described their new album as being their most personal to date. They had not originally intended to make such an album, but after having written the first two songs, "Die Liebe ist tot" and "Ich will mich verlieben", they felt that both songs were of such a personal nature that it would not have been appropriate to complete the album with less personal songs.[2]

A range of song styles can be found in Herz, from ballads ("Liebe ist alles" or "Gib mir mehr Himmel") to pop ("Ich komm an dir nicht weiter") and rock ("Eine Frage des Lichts").[3] Speaking in an interview, Peter Plate of Rosenstolz revealed that the English singer Beth Gibbons of the band Portishead and the French singer Benjamin Biolay were a major influence on Herz and that the album was generally influenced by French pop music.[4] In a later interview in 2008, Plate remarked that Herz was the start of the second phase of Rosenstolz, forming a trilogy with Das große Leben (2006), the band's tenth studio album, and Die Suche geht weiter (2008), which was at the time the band's soon-to-be-released eleventh studio album.[5]

Release

Herz was released on 22 March 2004, and this was followed on 8 November 2004 by an expanded edition of the album containing five bonus songs. In addition, two limited edition albums were released, the first on 22 March 2004 and the second on 18 November 2005.[6] A video edition of Herz was also made, featuring a short film for each of the 12 songs of the album.[7]

Four songs from Herz were released as singles: "Liebe ist alles", "Ich will mich verlieben", "Willkommen" and "Ich komm an dir nicht weiter". All four singles entered the top 20 of the German singles chart.[8]

At the same time as the release of Herz, Rosenstolz went on a two-month concert tour, which started on 15 April 2004 in the Columbiahalle (Columbia Hall) in Berlin and ended on 12 June 2004 at Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide, an open-air venue in Berlin. The tour covered various cities in Germany as well as Vienna and Zurich.[9] The last concert at Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide was recorded and released as the video album Willkommen in unserer Welt (2004).[10] Later in 2004, Rosenstolz went on a second tour in November and December.[11]

Critical reception

Linus Schwanke of laut.de complimented Rosenstolz on their ability to always come up with something new and praised the band's creativity, self-will and positive energy.[1] The editorial team at AVIVA-Berlin.de were unanimous in their opinion that Herz was Rosenstolz's best and most personal album to date.[2] Johannes Mihram of bloom commented that Herz was both the most rocking and most intimate album by Rosenstolz.[9]

Trivia

  • "Willkommen", one of the songs from Herz, was used as the title song for the 2004 German film Sommersturm (Summer Storm). Scenes from the film can be seen in the music video for "Willkommen".[12]
  • "Liebe ist alles", another song from Herz, was covered by the French singer Grégory Lemarchal. His cover version is titled "Je Deviens Moi" and it appears in his 2005 album of the same name.[13][14]
  • In 2011, Peter Plate of Rosenstolz produced Melanie C's cover version of "Liebes ist alles". The English singer's cover version is titled "Let There Be Love" and is part of the German edition of her 2011 album The Sea.[15]

Track listing

All songs were written by AnNa R., Peter Plate and Ulf Leo Sommer, except where indicated.

  1. "Willkommen" – 4:19
  2. "Liebe ist alles" – 3:29
  3. "Ausgesperrt" – 4:06
  4. "Eine Frage des Lichts" – 3:47
  5. "Das gelbe Monster" – 2:22
  6. "Die Liebe ist tot" – 3:41
  7. "Ich will mich verlieben" – 4:38
  8. "In den Sand gesetzt" – 2:34
  9. "Ich komm an dir nicht weiter" – 4:40
  10. "Das Beste im Leben" – 5:27
  11. "Gib mir mehr Himmel" – 4:34
  12. "Augenblick (Dezember)" – 4:15

Bonus tracks

  1. "Der größte Trick" – 4:46
  2. "Alles über uns" (co-writer: Ralf Lübke) – 3:27
  3. "Ohne dich" (Christian Neander, Jan Plewka) – 4:47
  4. "Ausgesperrt bei Nacht" – 4:21
  5. "Als ich fortging" (Dirk Michaelis, Gisela Steineckert) – 2:36

Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart (2004) Peak
position
German Albums (Media Control)[ 1] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[ 1] 20
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[ 1] 55

Certifications

Region Certification
Germany (BVMI)[16] 3x Platinum

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schwanke, Linus. "Sie haben ihren Kosmos durchdrungen und sehen die Matrix" (in German). laut.de. 22 March 2004.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Adler, Sharon and Kesting, Anja. "Rosenstolz – Alles eine Frage des Lichts" (in German). AVIVA-Berlin.de. 15 February 2004.
  3. ↑ Ziemer, Claudia. "CD-Kritik – Rosenstolz: Herz" (in German). RP ONLINE. 31 March 2004.
  4. ↑ Döringer, Martin. "Rosenstolz-Interview zur CD "Herz"" (in German). Suite101. 23 September 2009.
  5. ↑ Loesl, Michael. ""Wir wollen einfach Mut machen"" (in German). Berliner Morgenpost. 27 July 2008.
  6. ↑ "Rosenstolz – Diskografie" (in German). musicline.de. PhonoNet GmbH.
  7. ↑ "Rosenstolz: "Herz"" (in German). derStandard.at. 4 October 2005.
  8. ↑ "Chartverfolgung / Rosenstolz / Single". musicline.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mihram, Johannes. "Rosenstolz – Herz " (in German). bloom. 24 March 2004.
  10. ↑ Mons, Nicole. "Erwartense was" (in German). laut.de. 18 November 2004.
  11. ↑ "ROSENSTOLZ" (in German). Rhein-Zeitung online. Archived 5 November 2004.
  12. ↑ Official Sommersturm website (in German)
  13. ↑ "Peter Plate – Biografie" (in German). Universal Music Group website. 18 January 2013.
  14. ↑ "Je Deviens Moi" (in French). Official Grégory Lemarchal website. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  15. ↑ [http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article2026055/Spice-Girl-Melanie-C-Frauen-sind-im-Pop-das-Ultimative.html, "Spice Girl Melanie C: "Frauen sind im Pop das Ultimative""] (in German). Hamburger Abendblatt. 14 September 2011.
  16. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Rosenstolz; 'Herz')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. 

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