Unlike A Virgin is the second album of Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

n band Silence

Silence (band)

Silence is a Slovenian electronic, synth pop and soundtrack music composing duo consisting of Boris Benko and Primož Hladnik . Their fanbase and their tours are currently limited to Slovenia, Germany and parts of Eastern Europe...

, released on October 18, 1999. According to the band, it covers about eight years of work. Most of the songs were actually written at the very beginnings of Silence (92-94) and labeled "too strange for publication" at the time. It was awarded "Album of the year" in "Orkus", one of the most influential German alternative music magazines. It received top reviews by "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung", "Ragazzi", "Online.de", "Wrath" and "Zillo" to mention a few.

Track listing

1. "Son Of Sin" – 4:38
2. "Drive" – 4:52
3. "Scream, Greeneyes" – 4:12
4. "Etwas" – 1:28
5. "The Fifth Elephant" – 4:03
6. "Barbara" – 4:27
7. "God Forsaken Country" – 4:10
8. "Heavy Straighter" – 4:36
9. "Nevermind The Bastard" – 4:28
10. "4-2" – 4:05
11. "P.S." – 5:49
12. "Tschudno" – 3:55*

• * Unlisted bonus track.

Personnel

• Silence is:
  • Boris Benko
  • Primož Hladnik

• All songs written by Boris Benko.
• All tracks produced by Peter Penko at Raingarden 9, Ljubljana
  Ljubljana
  Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
  
   except tracks 8, 9 and 12.
• Tracks 8, 9 and 12 produced by Gregor Zemljič and Miha Klemenčič at Microlab, Ljubljana.
• Mastering by Janez Križaj at Metro, Ljubljana.
• Editing by Aleš Dvoržak at Kif Kif, Ljubljana.
• Front cover and photos by Fred Stichnoth.
• Layout by Boris Benko and Carl D. Erling.

• Additional musicians:
  • Double Bass
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
    
    , tracks 5 and 12, by Žiga Golob.
  • Cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
    
    , track 10, by Barbara Jarc.
  • Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
    
    s by Peter Penko.
  • Strings
    String instrument
    A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
    
    , track 7, by Jelena Ždrale and Eva-Julia Rečnik.

• Special thanks to: Vera & Bogdan Benko, Metka & Boštjan Hladnik, Bajča, Zemljič & konjič, Katrin, Žare, Marta, Dalibor, Waldo, Grebo, Jure Novak, Rok Predan, Irena, Jani Novak and Pero "zmagovalec snemalec".

• Realized by: Carl D. Erling.

• Label: Chrom Records

External links

• Silence discography: Unlike a Virgin