RAMMSTEIN SEHNSUCHT

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Great industrial Rock

First, let me explain what the term Industrial Rock means:
Industrial rock is basically heavy metal/hard rock, combined with elements from both techno and pop. When done right, as in this case, it creates not a cheezy, poppy effct, but an incredibly heavy rock song. Industrial rock is NOT Korn. Korn sucks. Industrial rock is Marilyn Manson, Rob/White Zombie, some Nine Inch Nails songs, Hanzel und Gretyl, some KMFDM, especially their latest, WWIII. And most of all, Industrial Rock is NOT David Bowie. (While that is occasionally good music) It's not even rock.

1) Sehnsucht (Longing)--the title track of this album is incredible. The vocals are great, the guitars are sharp, and the beat is fas and hard. A quintessential Industrial Rock song. The lyrics are about a guy who screws a girl while she's asleep.

2)Engel (Angel)--This song is good too, with a slower, hippier beat that makes the video's setting (a strip club) easy to believe. It also features a background singer, a woman named Bobo, who plays the voice of the angel, which is a nice contrast to Till Lindemann's harsh growl. Also notable about this track is that the instrumental version was combined with a rap song by Eminem called "Slim Shady," which was very cool. This song is about going to hell.

3) Tier (Animal)--This is an awesome song. It starts out with a trippy line on the accoustic guitar, then slams into the full fury of Rammstein. This song is about a guy who sleeps with his daughter until his wife kills him.

4)Bestrafe Mich (Punish Me)--This song is cool as well, with a slightly more poppy sond than some of the other ones. The song is about someone who wants to be punished, and I think with some religeous allegory.

5) Du Hast (You Have)--This song has a total of about ten words (Du -- du has t-- du hast mich. Repeated a lot of times, and then the chorus). It has a really cool guitar riff, and an awesome chorus that sounds like opera turned gothic, but there is an annoying techno blip to it. The song is about renouncing wedding values.

6) Buch Dich (Bend Down)--An awesome, really hard song with a slamming beat and guitars, sadistic vocals, and a cool 'solo' ish thing at the end. It's about homosexual rape.

7) Spiel Mit Mir (Play with me)--from the start of this song, it's apparent that it's going to be evil. It starts out with a low string line, a single note repeated many times, with children laughing barely audible in the background. Then the guitars kick in, and it's a mid tempo, pounding song, with more operatic vocals and a guitar solo that sounds like something you would hear in a murder scene of a movie. In fact, they should use the whole song in some horror movie. The song is about an incestuous relationship between two small children.

8) Klavier (Piano)-- this song is pretty good, as far as ballads go. It's pretty sad, but about halfway through it gets downright suicidal when the guitars start. It's about a guy who dates a girl who plays her piano in a locked room until her mother and father find out and beat him to death.

9)Alter Mann (Old Man)--this is the only REALLY bad song on the CD. I hate it; it's just a boring, pointless song that seems to go nowhere, with lackluster vocals and not enough tempo. It's about an old man who dies, basically.

10) Eifersucht (Jealousy)- This is a cool song, but not nearly as cool as any of the first seven songs. It has a low, pounding beat and evil, psychotic sounding vocals. It's about a guy who's making threats to someone who is jealous of him, telling him to remove whatever he's jealous of.

11) Kuss Mich (Kiss Me)--An okay song, but the vocals are too high, and not suited for the sadistic content. It's about rape, basically. And about killing someone by beating them to death with your tounge.

Overall, the album is great, even though it seems to lose much of its intensity after the first eight songs.

10/10


More "Sehnsucht" reviews:

[2005-01-06] Raw, driving guitars and melodic keyboards - brilliant! (10)
[2004-11-25] GREAT CD (10)
[2004-11-07] lost in translation (8)
[2004-10-26] Good melody and beat, but the lyrics kind fo turn you off (6)
[2004-10-23] Sehnsucht ist so grausam! (10)
[2004-10-15] Techno Metal aus Deutschland (10)
[2004-10-07] Love it ... (10)
[2004-09-25] no title needed (10)
[2004-09-15] Who cares about misconceptions, let's RAWK!!!! (10)
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[2004-09-07] Clearing up the misconsception in the misconception review (10)
[2004-09-03] Great Album (10)
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[2004-04-29] my favorite Rammstein (8)
[2004-04-27] Growling German Industrial at its best! (10)
[2004-03-24] Great Album (10)
[2004-03-23] rammsteins best ever. (10)
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[2004-02-14] DU HAST - does NOT mean YOU HATE (4)
[2004-02-06] Well.. Just look (6)
[2004-02-05] Kind of a bore (2)
[2004-01-02] BEST CD EVER!!! (10)
[2004-01-01] great music (10)
[2003-12-01] Rammstein = Awsome (10)
[2003-11-15] PURE BLISS (10)
[2003-11-14] Kicka** (10)
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[2003-10-18] In two words -- Hauntingly Beautiful (10)
[2003-10-14] best germany has to offer (10)
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[2003-09-05] Another Succsess! (10)
[2003-08-30] Good, clean (only if you don't know German), fun! (8)
[2003-08-29] Though this band is 'heavy metal'... (10)
[2003-08-28] ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! (10)
[2003-08-09] Alright (8)
[2003-08-04] industrial rock fans rejoice (10)
[2003-07-28] Very Good (please read if new to Rammstein) (8)
[2003-07-16] Heavy, Deep, and starkly beautiful.... (10)
[2003-07-05] Buy the CD already! (8)
[2003-07-04] Good,but Mutter was better! (8)
[2003-06-03] For The Cover... (8)
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[2003-05-23] Better than a jelly donut! (8)
[2003-05-13] Excellent (10)
[2003-04-22] rock music with keyboard (6)
[2003-03-13] "Ich hab das sehr gern!" (I like it very much!) (8)
[2003-03-10] refreshingly incredible! (10)
[2003-03-05] A Very Good CD (10)
[2003-01-23] Great CD, But Keep Your German-to-English Dictionary Handy (10)
[2003-01-21] Quite good (6)
[2003-01-19] Potent, and great introduction to Rammstien (8)
[2003-01-08] Ach du metal! (8)
[2003-01-01] Simply Amazing (10)
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[2002-06-07] Wicked but..... VOTE RAMMSTEIN VOTE RAMMSTEIN!!! (10)
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[2002-04-04] Einfach zu horen und macht viel spass! (10)
[2002-02-11] Buck Dich (10)
[2002-02-09] What can I say? They rock! (10)
[2002-02-02] Well, my friends... (10)
[2002-01-22] Ich hab Sehnsucht nach Rammstein! (well....) (8)
[2002-01-17] Getting confused (8)
[2002-01-12] My Favorite CD! (10)
[2002-01-11] Las Mich Steinen (10)
[2001-12-28] "Metal" isn't dead after all - - - Hu ?? What ??? (10)
[2001-12-20] WUNDERBAR! (10)
[2001-11-26] Second wave greatness (10)
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[2001-10-10] And that's even too much (2)
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[2001-06-14] 4 1/2 to be exact. (8)

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