Radio is the ninth album of the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 a cappella group Wise Guys

Wise Guys (band)

The Wise Guys are a band that began in early 1990 in Cologne, Germany. They are an a cappella group.-History of the Group:Apart from Ferenc Husta and Nils Olfert, the members all attended the Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium in Cologne from 1981 to 1990. With their schoolmates Clemens Tewinkel and...

. It is built in the form of a radio broadcast: between each individual piece come jingles and other small tidbits, such as the news or sports. This stands as the first concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 of the Wise Guys. The CD ranked #3 in the German album charts and stood for sixteen weeks in the top 100 of the charts.

Like its predecessor Wo der Pfeffer wächst, the CD is purely a cappella with no instrumentation and, with the sole exception of the "Mad World" cover, is entirely self-composed numbers. The majority of the songs were composed by Daniel Dickopf.

Extra features

• If one plays a few minutes after the last song on the CD, "Zwischenbilanz", one can find a so-called hidden track
  Hidden track
  In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...
  
   that plays for three minutes and thirty seconds; it is essentially a snippet from one of their concert performances ("Kein Ohrwurm").

List of tracks

Those entries marked with (A) are jingles and news bulletins.

1. "(A) Jingle A"
2. "Radio"
3. "(A) Jingle B"
4. "Denglisch"
5. "Jetzt und Hier"
6. "Das bedeutet Krieg"
7. "Sie bricht mir das Herz"
8. "(A) Die Nachrichten" - The News: a short funny news report
9. "Buddy Biber"
10. "Das fremde Wesen" *
11. "Romanze"
12. "(A) Klatsch und Tratsch" - Gossip: a parody on boulevard magazines
13. "Das Allerletzte"
14. "Tiefgang"
15. "(A) Der Sport" - Sports: a short sport news report
16. "Aber sonst gesund"
17. "Ruf doch mal an '06" **
18. "Mad World" ***
19. "Ja ja"
20. "Wir hatten den Moment"
21. "(A) Das Horoskop" - Horoscope
22. "Schunkeln"
23. "Ständchen"
24. "Zwischenbilanz"

* The song "Das fremde Wesen" includes a guest singer, Sonja Wilts from the group LaLeLu. She sings a duet piece with Eddi.

** The piece "Ruf doch mal an '06" is the new version of a song already extent on the 1997 album "Alles im grünen Bereich".

*** The cover of "Mad World" is borrowed from the version of the song that Gary Jules

Gary Jules

Gary Jules is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his cover of Tears for Fears' third single "Mad World", which he recorded together with friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko. It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003...

 sings. The original is from Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

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