- Spieluhr
Infobox Album | Name = Song from Mutter
Type =Album
Artist =Rammstein
Released =April 2 ,2001
Recorded = Studio Miraval, France, 2000
Genre = Tanz-MetallIndustrial metal
Length = 4:46
Label = Motor
Producer =Jacob Hellner withRammstein
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Aemh9kectsq7q link]
*"NME " rating-10|5 [http://www.nme.com/reviews/7941.htm link]
*"Q" Rating|2|5 [http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=138131&resource=138131&fixture_artist=143287 link]
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*"Rolling Stone " Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=2042100&cf=3683 link]
*"Winnipeg Sun " Rating|3|5 [http://www.canoe.ca/JamAlbumsR/rammstein_mutter-sun.html link] | Last album = "Live aus Berlin " (1999)
This album = "Mutter" (2001)
Next album = "Reise, Reise " (2004)Spieluhr (German for "music-box") is a song released by
Rammstein on the album "Mutter " (2001). The lyrics recall a German children's song with the lyric "Hoppe, hoppe Reiter" (slang for up and down, as riding a horse). The song entails a young child who pretended to be dead, because it wanted to be alone. So a group (presumably the townspeople) buried the child with a music box in its hands in a graveyard (referred to as "Gottesacker", or God's field) without ceremony. The child awakes, winds the music box, and sings with it from the ground, telling only that its heart beats no longer. While celebrating the holiday of "Totensonntag " (Sunday of the dead, a holiday taking place on the last Sunday before Advent in November. It's the day when Protestant Christians remember their dead), the townspeople hear the child's song, and come to its rescue, unearthing it and "saving the small heart."The chorus features a duet between Till Lindemann and Khira Li Lindemann, daughter of lead guitarist Richard Kruspe. Special features of the track are the pinging of a music box, and the faint thump of a heart, which begins when Till sings "...saved the small heart."
The song features a
Xylophone which can be heard during the intro and outro of the song.External links
* [http://herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/mutter#spieluhr Translation and Lyrics]
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