Virus (KMFDM song)

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"Virus"

Single by KMFDM

Released

August 1989

Recorded

1988-1989

Genre

Industrial

Length

18:19

Label

Wax Trax! Records

Producer(s)

Adrian Sherwood, Sascha Konietzko

KMFDM singles chronology

"More & Faster"
(1989)

"Virus"
(1989)

"Godlike"
(1990)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

"Virus" is a KMFDM song from their fifth album, Naïve. In 2008, KMFDM Records re-released this as a 7" vinyl single, limited to 250 copies.

Reception

The original four track EP was called "easily their strongest" in 1996.^[2] AllMusic's Johnny Loftus described the title track as "innocent new wave gone very naughty in a PVC hell."^[1] Piero Scaruffi described the release as marking a turning point for the band towards the "violent, morbid, [and] macabre".^[3]

Track listing

Wax Trax! Records version
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Virus"	5:40
2.	"More & Faster" (only on CD)	3:35
3.	"Don't Blow Your Top" (only on CD)	3:41
4.	"High & Geil"	5:23
Total length:		18:19

Deutschland Strikeback Records version
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Virus"	5:40
2.	"Murder"	3:26
3.	"M & F 244 (High & Geil)"	5:21
Total length:		14:27

Promotional Cash Beat Records version
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Virus"	5:35
2.	"M + F 244 (High & Geil)"	5:21
Total length:		10:56

2008 7" reissue
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Virus" (12" Mix)	5:36
2.	"More & Faster" (High & Geil Mix)	5:22
Total length:		10:58

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Loftus, Johnny. "Virus Review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
↑ Graff, Gary (1996). MusicHound Rock: the Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
↑ Scaruffi, Piero (1999). "KMFDM". Retrieved November 17, 2013.

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Sascha Konietzko Lucia Cifarelli Jules Hodgson Andy Selway Steve White Mark Durante En Esch Bill Rieflin Günter Schulz Tim Sköld Raymond Watts

Studio albums	Opium What Do You Know, Deutschland? Don't Blow Your Top UAIOE Naïve Money Angst Nihil Xtort Symbols Adios Attak WWIII Hau Ruck Tohuvabohu Blitz WTF?! Kunst

Collaborations	KMFDM vs. Pig Skold vs. KMFDM

Remix albums	Ruck Zuck Brimborium Krieg

Singles	"Kickin' Ass" "Don't Blow Your Top" "More & Faster" "Virus" "Godlike" "Naïve/The Days of Swine & Roses" "Split" "Vogue" "Money" "Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away" "Sucks" "A Drug Against War" "Light" "Glory" "Juke Joint Jezebel" "Brute" "Trust" "Power" "Rules" "Anarchy" "Megalomaniac" "Boots" "Day of Light" "Krank" "Amnesia"

Live albums	Sturm & Drang Tour 2002 WWIII Live 2003

Videos & DVDs	Beat by Beat by Beat Sturm & Drang Tour 2002 20th Anniversary World Tour 2004

Compilations	The Year of the Pig Collection Retro Agogo 84–86 Extra, Vol. 1 Extra, Vol. 2 Extra, Vol. 3 Würst Greatest Shit

Guest musicians	Dorona Alberti Paul Barker Nicole Blackman Chris Connelly Free Dominguez F.M. Einheit Koichi Fukuda Nina Hagen Nivek Ogre Chris Shepard Abby Travis Cheryl Wilson William Wilson

Associated acts	MDFMK Excessive Force PIG Slick Idiot KGC Schwein

Related articles	MDFMK Don't Blow Your Cover: A Tribute to KMFDM PROLET•KULT List of KMFDM band members KMFDM discography List of KMFDM concert tours

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