Released 1981 Alles ist gut
(1981) Gold und Liebe
(1981) Producer Conny Plank | Length 34:44 Release date 1981 Label Virgin Records | |
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Recorded Dec 1980 - Jan 1981
at Conny Plank's Studio, Neunkirchen, Germany Artist Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft Genres Electronic body music, Neue Deutsche Welle, Electropunk Similar Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft albums, Electronic body music albums, Other albums | ||
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Alles ist gut (Everything Is Fine) is the third album by the electropunk band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. It was released in 1981 and was the band's first album on the Virgin Records label. It includes the hit single "Der Mussolini". The album was a hit in Germany, charting for 46 weeks.
Contents
The album was reissued on Mute Records in 1998.
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Personnel
The album was the first recorded with the band reduced to the duo of Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl.
Sales
The album was in the German charts for 46 weeks, peaking at no. 15, and the Austrian charts for 8 weeks, peaking at no. 16. It received the German "Schallplattenpreis" award by the "Deutsche Phono-Akademie", an association of the German recording industry.
Reception
The Allmusic Guide to Electronica notes how the album worked musically: "keeping the electronic brutality that characterized them, but stripped down to nothing but Görl's massive drumming, electronic bass and synth tones, and Delgado's deep, commanding singing." Trouser Press notes that "typical funk rhythms are replaced by industrial pulses (trains, etc.)" and notes the pop potential of the vocal styles used.
Paul Morley in New Musical Express characterised the album as "slimy, steamy sex music", an evocation of "the rubbing, juices, pounding, striving, belching, stickiness ... the smells, the rhythms, the passions, the secretions, the darkness, the tears of S.E.X." Simon Reynolds, in Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, notes the influence Alles Ist Gut had on Morley's later marketing and image for Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Track listing
Side 1:
- Sato-Sato ("Sato-Sato") 2:43
- Der Mussolini ("The Mussolini") 3:50
- Rote Lippen ("Red lips") 2:41
- Mein Herz macht Bum ("My heart goes boom") 4:26
- Der Räuber und der Prinz ("The robber and the prince") 3:27
Side 2:
- Ich und die Wirklichkeit ("Me and reality") 3:05
- Als wär's das letzte Mal ("Like it was the last time") 3:24
- Verlier' nicht den Kopf ("Don't lose your head") 3:17
- Alle gegen Alle ("Everyone against Everyone") 3:55
- Alles ist gut ("Everything is fine") 3:25
Songs
1Sato-Sato2:50
2Der Mussolini3:55
3Rote Lippen2:43