Weiß & Schwarz
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Weiß & Schwarz are in fact two albums by German
hard rock
band Böhse Onkelz
. Both were released at the same time in 1993. The track numbering begins on Weiß with 1 and ends on Schwarz with 23.
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hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
band Böhse Onkelz
Böhse Onkelz
The Böhse Onkelz were a German rock group that existed from 1980 to 2005. Although being ignored by the mass media for their controversial past, since Viva los tioz in 1998 almost every album reached number one on the German album charts. According to record certifications and additional sources...
. Both were released at the same time in 1993. The track numbering begins on Weiß with 1 and ends on Schwarz with 23.
Weiß
- Lieber stehend sterben (Rather die standing)
- Entfache dieses Feuer (Spark this fire)
- Das Wunder der Persönlichkeit (The wonder of personality)
- Fahrt zur Hölle (Go to hell)
- Alles F. a. M. (All cunts except for mom)
- Willkommen (Welcome)
- Für immer (Forever)
- Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in autumn)
- Es (It)
- Sie hat 'nen Motor (She has a motor)
- Tribute to Stevie
- Schöne neue Welt (Beautiful new world)
Schwarz
- 13. Erkennen Sie die Melodie (Do you recognize this melody)
- 14. Wenn wir einmal Engel sind (If we're once angels)
- 15. So geht's Dir (Deine Hölle) (This is how you feel (Your hell))
- 16. Der Himmel kann warten (Heaven can wait)
- 17. Ich bin wie ich bin (I am as I am)
- 18. Das Messer und die Wunde (The knife and the wound)
- 19. 1000 Fragen (1000 questions)
- 20. Ich bin Du (I'm you)
- 21. Worte der Freiheit (Words of freedom)
- 22. Das Rätsel des Lebens (The riddle of life)
- 23. Baja
Das Wunder der Persönlichkeit
- No one should have an idol or make all things that his idol do, one should live his own life.
Fahrt zur Hölle
- Another song against the press. The SpiegelDer SpiegelDer Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
had interchanged the bandphotos of 1984 and 1992, other newspapers and magazines would not believe that the Onkelz weren't and aren't Nazis.
Alles F.a. M.
- Full length title: "Alles Fotzen außer Mutti". A song that shows that a pervert man who hates women can't accept that he is the only one who thinks wrong.
Deutschland im Herbst
- This song was written as a reaction of the attacks from neonazis on asylum-seeker houses in MöllnMollnMolln is a municipality in the district of Kirchdorf an der Krems in Upper Austria, Austria.-References:...
, RostockRostockRostock -Early history:In the 11th century Polabian Slavs founded a settlement at the Warnow river called Roztoc ; the name Rostock is derived from that designation. The Danish king Valdemar I set the town aflame in 1161.Afterwards the place was settled by German traders...
-Lichtenhagen and HoyerswerdaHoyerswerdaHoyerswerda is the largest city in the district of Bautzen in the German state of Saxony. It is located in Lusatia, a region where many people speak the Sorbian languages in addition to German.-Geography:...
. The press had seen some photos of the attackers, who wore Onkelz merchandise and wrote that the Onkelz were guilty for these attacks. The band wanted to make understood, that they condemn such attacks.
- The song introduces with a broadcast news message (translated):
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- "Rostock. After the yesterdays excesses before the central approach place for asylum seekers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania today also battled around 1,000 mostly young right-wing extremists against the police on the road. By the - in parts - civil war similarly riots the attackers had thrown with stones, bottles and fireworks against the safety men. More than 110 officials were partly heavily injured. The right-wing extremists, which came from the whole federal republic, broke into the floor of the asylum-seekers home, and ignited - with applause from around 2,000 merries - some apartments. The police arrested around 60 persons. The foreign countries reacted - in remembering to the national-socialistic Germany - to the continuous riots in the quarter of Lichtenhagen with concern about increasing stranger hatred."
- Lyrics from the song:
- "I see brown* shit killing ..."
- "I hear stupid slogans from idiots and losers ..."
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- *brown was the colour of Hitler's NSDAP
Tribute to Stevie
- Gonzo and Weidner were fans of Stevie Ray VaughanStevie Ray VaughanStephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...
, who died in 1990. This instrumental was composed by Gonzo and it's the only known track which wasn't composed by Weidner.
Schöne neue Welt
- "Listen, folks and people: Hit yourself! Hate your neighbour for you want to be independent! Kill your brother! Rape your wife! You speak the same language, but you can't trust each other. 'Beautiful' new world - our enemies are we self. That's how dreams are dying". The central message is to stop wars all over the world.
- "Schöne neue Welt" rather means "Brave new world" (as the novel by Aldous Huxley). The translation "Beautiful new world" however is a kind of one-to-one translation, showing the exact meaning of the German words (for better understanding).
So geht's Dir (Deine Hölle) & Das Messer und die Wunde
- Both are written for the murderer of Andreas "Trimmi" Trimborn, a good friend of the band, who was stabbed by a Bundeswehr soldier in June 1990.
Ich bin wie ich bin
- A song about personal freedom, expressing the thought that no society should oppress one's own personality.
Worte der Freiheit
- Written to all former GDR-residents, who grumble and cry after the re-union of Germany didn't went as well as planned (economically).