Nunsexmonkrock/Nina Hagen Band

Nina Hagen

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1982
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GN300
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,769 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best album of her career - essential, April 15, 2009

By	Jeremy Gloff (Tampa, Fl United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Length:: 1:52 Mins

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mother of Punk!, February 22, 2009

By	C. J. Clontz "Cult film fan" (Orlando, Florida United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This album by Miss Hagen is one of her earlier releases right before she went mainstream (for her) with Fearless and Ekstacy. This album has a more raw punk feel to it and not as electronic dance as her follow up albums....I would say it is her transition album...from early punk to 80s new wave dance...this one is the in between sound....i recomend it highly as it has a punk/new wave sound but you can hear the begginings of a new sound starting to bubble up from her warped, talented, brain!!! Love her and love this album!

4.0 out of 5 stars Brave Experimentation, June 28, 2009

By	Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This 1982 album with its religious themes doesn't quite live up to Nina's earlier German albums Nina Hagen Band of 1978 or Unbehagen of 1980. Gone are the superb melodies whilst the still striking vocal gymnastics get too complicated at times, but it's still a formidable listening experience and impressive when measured against the punk and rock of its era. Most of the tracks are bubbling fast-paced new wave numbers except the last three eerie ballads.

Antiworld opens the album, a structurally unhinged song about exorcism with initial English and later German lyrics in often weirdly contorted vocals. The arrangement of Smack Jack is even more varied with frequent tempo changes, frenzied and tranquil segments and extreme vocal variation. There's an oriental feel to Taitschi-Tarot that's more of a chant than a song, whilst Dread Love, though still fringe, approaches the traditional rock song structure.

Future Is Now starts off slow but soon mirrors the aforementioned by its tempo variations and blistering vocals. Next the listener tunes in to Radio Yerevan on the track Born In Xixax where Nina's alto and soprano vocals interweave wonderfully over an insistent beat, while the soprano dominates on Iki Maska, another one with mixed German & English lyrics. The closest English equivalent to this vocal exuberance would be Lene Lovich although she's tame compared to Nina.

Dr Art is an atmospheric, somewhat spooky track with multiple voices expressing a bewildering array of emotions by talking and singing over a gently lilting beat. Lydia Lunch comes to mind here, as well as in the following track Cosma Shiva, a mid-tempo excursion with similar strange vocals, mostly German. Nunsexmonkrock concludes with the hypnotic ballad UFO, a soulful song where the predominantly subdued and sometimes whispered vocals are occasionally pierced by fierce exclamations.