Haus der Lüge [Original recording reissued]

Einsturzende Neubauten | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Thirsty Ear
• ASIN: B0000057NV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,306 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prolog

2. Feurio!

3. Ein Stuhl in Der Hoelle

4. Haus der Luge

5. Fiat Lux: A) Fiat Lux B) Maifestspiele C) Hirnlego

6. Schwindel

7. Der Kuss

8. Feurio! [Caffery/Einheit Remix]

9. Partymucke

10. Feurio! (Tueren Offen)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Einstürzende Neubauten's sixth album, 1989's Haus der Lüge, is a real eye-opener as well as a turning point for the Berlin-based band. For one thing, you can hear how much more attention is being paid to rock idioms--clearly an influence from frontman Blixa Bargeld's moonlighting as Nick Cave's guitarist. More important, though, is that the metal bashing, glass breaking, and electric drilling--in many ways the be-all, end-all of the band's early, musique-concrète-influenced sound--is here harnessed in subservience to downright tuneful compositions. The unmistakable message: Hey, we're "real" musicians, too. Still, Neubauten neophytes will undoubtedly find listening to Haus der Lüge a bit like having a dentist clean their ears. The opener, "Prolog," sounds like a German poetry slam held in a subway tunnel, and "Fiat Lux," a 12-minute opus kicked off by 30 seconds of buzzing bees, is bound to get up your bonnet. Elsewhere it's a different story. The beat-heavy "Feurio!" projects an industrial-dance energy, and the lilting "Ein Stuhl in der Hölle" sounds like it was meant to be chanted in a beer hall. But the crowning achievement here is the title track, an epic, foot-stomping, Dantean allegory that culminates with God shooting himself. Simply awe-inspiring. --Steve Landau

Product Description

Thirsty Ear reissue of 1995 album.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, Bad Record Company, May 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Haus der Lüge (Audio CD)

If you plan to buy this album, please don't buy the version distributed by Thirsty Ear/Some Bizarre Records. The company has never paid the band for its recordings, and NONE of your purchase price will go to the creators of this exceptional music.

Another version is available through Indigo Records, and the group does get paid for those copies.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great albums, buy them from mute or directly from neubauten, November 4, 2004

By 

elwood80 (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haus der Lüge (Audio CD)

anything before tabula rasa the band hasn't seen a dime, go to mute or the band's website so they get paid for their art.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please do not buy this edition of this album!, December 18, 2006

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Maskello (QLD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haus Der Luege (Dig) (Audio CD)

Some Bizarre does NOT pay royalties to Einstuerzende Neubauten. If you buy this album absolutely none of your money goes to the band. You may as well just download it - it's stealing from the artists either way.

Any EN album or DVD with "Some Bizarre" or "Cherry Red" or "Thirsty Ear" on it is a release that is not authorized by the band.

Some Bizarre are reissuing EN's albums because band authorized reissues, remastered and in digipaks, have been available for several years. Some Bizarre's old editions looked shabby next to the official ones, and they are now trying to catch up and fool you into buying their editions instead. They have even tried to sue EN out of the rights to publish their own music, but were not successful. Rightfully so!

If you get any enjoyment at all out of EN's music, please make the effort to buy albums that will benefit the band. Who should get your money - the people that actually made the music, or a record company who cheated them?

If you can see "Freibank", "Potomak", "Indigo", or "Mute" on an EN release, then this is authorized by the band.

Five stars for the album, 0 stars for this edition.