Adios

KMFDM | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B00000INY4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,889 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Adios

2. Sycophant

3. D.I.Y.

4. Today

5. Witness

6. R.U. OK?

7. That's All

8. Full Worm Garden

9. Rubicon

10. Bereit

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adios?, October 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Adios (Audio CD)

Adios, supposedly KMFDM's last album until they re-formed and released Attak, is hardly the bands strongest effort or best album as far as song structure goes, but it certainly stands on its own and is a great release, however distant from their old sound it may be. For one, there is hardly a live instrument to be heard on the album with the exception of a very few distorted guitar parts. The rest is made up of electronic beats, synthesizers and samples. While industrial music is supposed to be machine driven more than anything, I think KMFDM did their best when they let the guitars do a fair share of the talking. For evidence of just how creative of guitarists the crazy Germans are look on the albums Symbols and Angst, where riff-driven industrial rock prevails more than electronic techno pop. However, KMFDM don't necessarily do the electronic thing badly, as they come up with some wonderful synth lines that a lot of programmers are sure to envy. The techno influence is very obvious and its good to see that KMFDM really had a go at it during their career. I say that simply because KMFDM has brought in the influence of so many musical genres that trying pure, programmed techno rock seemed bound to happen eventually.

Thankfully, there are no bad songs on here as some might argue are scattered here and there across other KMFDM albums. The only ones which are slightly below the rest are "Witness", which is cool experimentally but suffers due to the inclusion of Nina Hagen's vocals. "Full Worm Garden" is also not as good as the other tracks but Ogre's low, distorted vocals certainly make it listenable. One of the best points of listening to Adios is that Tim Skold did the vocals for a good portion of the album; a fact which may irritate some fans but pleases me to no extent after hearing Skold's awesome voice on "Anarchy" on the Symbols record. The female vocals prevelant throughout the disc give the feel of the music a very house or trance-like vibe. As I said before, it's pretty obvious that the band members were listening to a lot of house, big beat, and trance at the time this was being written.

This may not be their best album, but it certainly is worth picking up. It does not lack creativity, is full of hooks and wonderful synths and sound effects and is an important step in the bands career. Start out with Angst or Symbols or maybe Nihil and then grab this. Standouts: "Adios", "Sycophant", "Today", "Bereit" (reminds me of "Lust"), and "R.U. Ok?"

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful last cd, January 7, 2006

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shog - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adios (Audio CD)

ADIOS was a wonderful last album for a pioneering band with an illustrious history. KMFDM was renowned for a new sound every album, but adios is amazingly unique. There is a much heavier emphasis on electronics that gives the music a smooth, quiet, and groovy feel. The song Sycophant is an example of the fruition of their flirtations with reggae, although its lyrics could have been more well-thought out. Skold worked very hard to ruin this album, but ogre stepped in with 'thats all' and 'full worm garden' to save the day. With cds like this, it breaks my heart that kmfdm broke up.

Oh well, that's life. Could be worse. Kmfdm could have reformed without Esch and Schulz, as a conventional american metal band, and Skold could use kmfdm as a stepping stone to get into a pop group. Thank god that didn't happen.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best KMFDM album, December 12, 2003

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mono "cl0ckw0rkeleven" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adios (Audio CD)

I see that alot of people don't like this album very much and i can't understand why. I think that this is their best. I think the electronics especially stand out more on this album than any other, and this album is one of the most diverse as well. You get everything from the frentic beginings of the song 'adios', to the AWESOME 'full worm garden' (i think this is the best KMFDM song as well as the best song i've ever heard ogre sing) - to the cool electronica of 'witness'. There are also a few "classic" sounding KMFDM songs like 'd.i.y.' and 'bereit.'
This cd is not as metal sounding as most of their others, but it is definately worth a listen if you want something a little more different.
I would rate this CD right up there with NIHIL and ANGST as my favorites (though it sounds very different to those two).