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| 1. Leben Heißt Leben |
| 2. Geburt Einer Nation |
| 3. Leben - Tod |
| 4. F.I.A.T. |
| 5. Opus Dei |
| 6. Trans-National |
| 7. How The West Was Won |
| 8. The Great Seal |
| 9. Herz-Felde |
| 10. Jägerspiel |
| 11. Koza (Skin) |
| 12. Krst (Baptism) |
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Don't listen to it thinking "rock" or "metal", "techno" or "pop" this is in a category of it's own. Mixing rock, jazz and a host of other styles with orchestrations so good, Wagner himself would appraise it.
Onto the tracklisting itself:
Leben Heisst Leben: A great intro, a Deutsch version of track 5 with rearranged instruments. Great vocals and arrangments with a good guitar solo (which is meant to be OTT into the extreme).
Geburt Einer Nation: Got them banned, big time. Listen to it and you'll think you know why. Listen to it a few more times (or check whom actually wrote the song, and what it is a cover version of and you realise that the song is really a sheep in wolf's clothing. Awesome song though, trumps the original like most Laibach covers.
Leben-Tod: I prefer the Peel Sessions version but still it's a worthy song.
F.I.A.T.: Awesome. From the dramatic sweeping intro to the thundering beat and rythm. The vocals are haunting as well, and the message is so clear over the song.
Opus Dei: English language version and rearrangement of track one. This song introduced me to Laibach. Such a proud song, nay, anthem. This cover of a seemingly pointless song is so great it's almost unexplainable. It's akin to a national anthem, with lyrics about "when we all give the power..." etc and a stunning arrangement to match. You have to listen to get the full experience.
Trans-National: Thundering, pounding. Again, I prefer the Peel Sessions and Occupied Europe NATO Tour versions but still, the studio version is worthy. Imagine a bullet-train from Slovenia crashing through Western Europe and you're almost there.
How The West Was Won: A guitar riff that i think Queen would later steal from them for usage in Princes Of The Universe (or is it the other way around) introduces you to a pounding song with unrelenting imagery and an industrial landscape you can taste.
The Great Seal: Concludes the album perfectly. A fantastic instrumental that again could double as a national anthem. It sweeps through beautifully and gets to the end, where Winston Churchill's legendary "we will never surrender" speech is spoken before a final burst of music. This song has recently been used to great effect in an anti-Iraq war flash film.
The four bonus tracks (excerts from "Baptism Under Triglav") will not be reviewed, but they're good.
Laibach contended with a socialism draining through boredom rather than placing its citizens in gulags. Taking the regime at its word they called for and adopted the socialist realist perspective. When applied rigorously it turns into comic surrealism. As the regime shattered however, the petty nationalisms emerged in the wake and the social realism of the jackboot became the model uniform of young Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and people from the surrounding countries.
The music is a blend of hard rock, hunting sounds, deutsche kunste hystrionics, Churchillian speeches all spun into a classical industrial jackboot crunch towards enlightenment liberation. John Heartfield set to music. Laibach expose the sexual liberation of being restricted within a uniform rather than finding the freedom without. It is the antithesis of the 60's notion of long hair, dope smoking, blues loving liberation.
Laibach have a European sensibility, drawing on kitsch, sentimentality, pathos and violence, all of the dangerous elements which created the carnage of the 20th C.
When it emerged from the speakers it conjures death and night and blood. This could have been the direction for central europe in not appreciating the irony. Luckily everyone got the joke in time and turned back.
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