Kollaps Re-issue [Extra tracks]

Einsturzende Neubauten | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 14, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Potomak
• ASIN: B00000APUA
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,274 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #62 in Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial > Industrial > General

Track Listings

1. Tanz Debil

2. Steh Auf Berlin

3. Negativ Nein

4. U-Haft-Muzak

5. Draussen Ist Feindlich

6. Schmerzen Hören

7. Jet'm

8. Kollaps

9. Sehnsucht

10. Hirnsäge

11. Abstieg & Zerfall

12. Schieß Euch Ins Blut [Live]

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Negative Nein, May 15, 2003

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"munnin93" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kollaps Re-issue (Audio CD)

Negative Nein stands for positive in mathematical logic; that is what this album is about. Building from destruction. It is an extreme research in noise, bringing us new rythms, scales and harmonies. What else need I say?
Everyone should have this album.
As simple as that.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the jackhammer stuff, November 6, 2001

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simpcity - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kollaps Re-issue (Audio CD)

This is one on their earliest works. Before Neubauten, noise was usually electronica or perhaps classical dissidence, Staukhausen say. In Kollaps, the creation of noise becomes a direct and barbaric pursuit, as angry as any punk but freed from the rules of rock and roll. Percussion becomes all.
This mainly means banging and slamming anything and everything. Blixa sings like he is trying to harm his vocal cords, and the synths fill the air with the crackling of the mad scientist's laboratory.
Plus, on this cd, you get a live version of Negativ Nein, a song where even the lyrics are merely percussive punning.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deconstruction Time Again, August 29, 2007

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Mark Champion "autumnfair" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kollaps Re-issue (Audio CD)

You know, sometimes you just end up getting yelled at no matter what you do. Well, Blixa Bargeld is more than willing to accommodate in that department. And he'll screech, scream, and caterwaul at you too. Occasionally, just to make sure you are paying attention, he whispers (ominously). (That he does so in German renders his harangues all the more perplexing if you don't speak the language. If you do, well, good for you.) All the while, he and the rest of the Neubauten Gang flail, pound, scrape and clang with all the subtlety of jackhammers and power tools. (Okay, so they actually USE such implements.) Which isn't to say this is all just a bunch of structureless noise - - far from it. Their take on "Je T'aime" (phonetically retitled "Jet 'M"), in fact, is almost tender; no wonder it's less than 1:30 long and an instrumental, sort of. You might not be inclined to dance to any of this, but it definitely makes for compelling listening. Far from any intended nihilism, far from sounding as if they are gleefully heralding any apocalypse, Einsturzende Neubauten on KOLLAPS actually sounds more like a crew of intrepidly industrious construction workers with a particularly unreasonable foreman. And that's what you get for listening, so there. Hor' mit ein Sense of Humor.