Gewinnt [Import]

Die Fantastischen Vier | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia/Sony Germany
• ASIN: B00000ATA4
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,138 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ausgezeichnet!, January 17, 2001

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John Ronald (Sugar Land, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gewinnt (Audio CD)

I heard the lead songs from this album on German radio and in Discotheques and parties while living as an exchange student in Germany in 1992-93, when this album came out. Of course I bought it over there and brought it back with me. The songs are funny, intelligent, and clever...Deutsches Rap... now that's something! My German Club friends back at TEXAS A&M loved it, too...we'd always crank this sucker up at our German Club parties, along with a little FALCO, etc. It never failed to get a laugh or make people wanna get up and dance. I still listen to it after all these years...haven't kept up with the band, so I don't know what they're doing these days.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eins, Zwei, Drei - VIER GEWINNT - A Masterpiece, January 17, 2001

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3rdeadly3rd (Brisbane, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gewinnt (Audio CD)

I've been learning German for 5 years and I was amazed when Rammstein came out with "Sehnsucht" because we were listening to it and translating it in class (going on the subject matter there, I don't think my teacher wants to do THAT again). Everyone in my class was absolutely rapt in the idea that Germans can and do perform music in German.

More than a year after, I downloaded "Thomas Und Die Frau'n", "Die Da" and "Vier Gewinnt" and ordered this album. Before I even got the album, the entire German class had fallen in love with the craziness of "Thomas Und Die Frau'n" and could recite whole passages of "Die Da".

Since that time, just about everyone I know has been subjected to this CD - most of them have liked it. I've played it at several parties and even the most hardened rap-haters were saying "this is alright you know".

Some of the more surprising things which have happened as a result of my purchase of this CD include: a fight over who could have "Smudo" (one of the rappers) on their Senior Jersey, various bits of lyric being quoted in end-of-year German exams and so on.

My personal favourite result would have to be in an assembly when the teacher taking it asked (don't know why) what our favourite song was. All of my friends wrote down "Die Da" or "Saft", the teacher was amazed.

In terms of what tracks are the best, the short answer is all of them. The longer answer is "Die Da", "Vier Gewinnt", "Saft", "Na Gut" and "Thomas Und Die Frau'n", if you like shorter songs "Hort Euch Den Hier An" is very creative as well.

This is more than German, more than rap - it's CRAZY. I only hope that I can see them live some day.

Ich fische frische Fische frische als der Fische Fritze fischt. If you like that, buy this!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smudo is the Bomb, August 16, 2007

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Ann Ruth (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gewinnt (Audio CD)

Fantastischen Vier is pretty much the best German hip hop group around. Even if you do not speak German you will appreciate this album. They're like the Deutsche Beastie Boys. HIGHLY recommended.