GRAUZONE needs a muthafuckin thread..

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hmmm, well I guess it makes some sort of weird sense. It's like if Nikki Sudden left Swell Maps and then became a Tony award winning singer in broadway musicals.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:47 (eighteen years ago) link

His first single 'Combien de Temps' might be worth checking out though. The type of elegant French pop Spencher Chow might dig.

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link

God, the more I think about it, it's even weirder than the path Scritti Politti's Green Gartside took.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link

It's sort of like how Nikki Sudden left Swell Maps, though, to become the kind of singer he is now.

"Combien de Temps" wasn't the first single, unless it was a remake like "Der Weg Zu Zweit" and I don't know about it. Wasn't the first solo single "Sweetheart"? I like "Sweetheart" quite a bit, but then I don't like any albums up until "My Place" and "Engelberg", which I think are okay.

― Pangolino 2, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

They should also be called "Käserock" instead!

― Pangolino 2, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah sorry, did some homework and according to AMG 'Combien de Temps' is off his third album. I guess it was the single that established him in France.

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't even remember how "Combien de Temps" goes - I bought that album in Germany to hear the remake of "Der Weg Zu Zweit", even though I really didn't like his previous album. I didn't keep it for so long because I was so disappointed.

― Pangolino 2, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Does that comp have "Träume Mit Mir"? A great track that might get folks on the dance floor if dropped at the right moment.

And Nikki Sudden is living in Berlin now.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's got everything except "Ein Tanz Mit Dem Tod" and I'm not sure if it has the version of "Schlachtet!" that's on the B-side of "Träume Mit Mir". "Träume Mit Mir" is my favourite Grauzone song.

― Pangolino 2, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

And do yourself a favour and try to find Berlin 80, a nice little anthology of films from the Berlin scene. Also comes with a CD.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm always holding Berlin 80 in the store before putting it back down at the last minute. It is pricey

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

What does Berlin 80 have on it? I've never heard of it.

― Pangolino 2, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Videos are Berlin 80 are fantastic.

"Eisbar" has gotten a lot of coverage miles -- Prisonshake, Giddy Motors and Sightings have all done that song, pretty good considering it's a tune about a polar bear.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks for the heads up on this record. just d/l 'ed it today off of a very fine fellow on slsk. is it still in print? suppose i will google it later on.

― william (william), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

baby baby baby baby, baby baby baby baby, Miniminiminiminijupejupejupe, oh Miniminiminiminijupejupejupe, i said baby baby sugar baby, sugar sugar sugar honey baby. i said Miniminiminiminijupejupejupe! Miniminiminiminijupe!

greatest song ever! sometimes!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:53 (eighteen years ago) link

William.. yeah, you can find it on amazon pretty easily new/used.. Play It Again Sam in Europe.. but you can find resellers in the states or Canada probably.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

there was a time when i couldn't go to a dance party without hearing this song. oh how i loved dancing to it. yes indeed.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Excuse me while i kiss you, Donut. I discovered Grauzone's Die Sunrise Tapes through this thread and it's been a complete and utter revelation! It blows me away, every day still.

― Gerard (Gerard), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't heard a whole lot of Grauzone, but I agree they're good.

― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

still good.

― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, 18 June 2007 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

heard 'Ice Bear' in a bar for the first time last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNgddDcwGJs

glad there's a thread

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link

you heard Eisbar for the first time ever, or it was the first time you heard it played in a bar?

great song

(first time I heard it was on Optimo's How to Kill the DJ)

― dmr, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

just heard it for the first time ever, I don't know all that much about music

my friend just sent me this in response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Mh9dK8fC0

Starter was a minimal synth group from Switzerland that featured Claudine Chirac from Grauzone, Francis Foss and Jet Harbour.

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(polar_bear)

― geeta, Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/grauzone

― wiki weimar germanyu (Call the Cops), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link

nine years pass...

An overdue revive to note both a regular version of the album

https://wrwtfww.com/album/grauzone

...and a fancier variants with live tracks

https://wrwtfww.com/album/limited-edition-40-years-anniversary-box-set

...are now both out.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link

Ooooooh, nice.

― emil.y, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link

^This (the fancy one) was delivered yesterday, what a great package! Poster is included twice, which is nice :)

― willem, Friday, 2 April 2021 07:59 (three years ago) link

https://thequietus.com/articles/29782-grauzone-review
Nice review with some appropriate context

― willem, Friday, 2 April 2021 08:08 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Very much enjoying the WRWTFWW reissue of 'Grauzone'. The liner notes emphasise how much the band were listening to The Cure at the time, and this always sounded very likely.

Belated recognition today for Stephan Eicher, who has been awarded the Grand Prix Music 2021 for his 'unmistakable voice'. This award is presented by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and is worth 100,000 Swiss francs.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-unmistakable--stephan-eicher-awarded-swiss-music-prize/46634342

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link

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