Ein deutsches album

Infobox Album | Name = Ein deutsches album
Type = Album
Artist = Peter Gabriel


Released = July 1980
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 45:32
Label = Charisma Records
Producer = Steve Lillywhite
Reviews =
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Last album = "Peter Gabriel"
(1980)
This album = "Ein deutsches album"
(1980)
Next album = "Peter Gabriel"
(1982)

"Ein deutsches album", released in July 1980, is a German language version of Peter Gabriel's third album, "Peter Gabriel" (1980). The record was released in Germany two months after the standard English language version. The German market was given a foretaste of the album with a February 1980 single that likewise contained German language versions of "Games Without Frontiers" and "Here Comes the Flood."

The main difference between "ein deutsches album" and the international version of "Peter Gabriel" is mainly that Gabriel redid all of his vocals in German. Since the vocals were overdubbed on top of the instrumental and backing vocal tracks, there are fewother differences. However, alternate takes of some of the instruments seem to have been used occasionally, and the mix is somewhat different.

The German lyrics are more or less straight translations from the English. Two years later, Gabriel released "deutsches album" (1982), a significantly altered version of his fourth album "Peter Gabriel" (1982) ("Security" in the United States).

The vinyl and CD versions do contain one minor anomaly, in that "Start" (the third track of the English language version) became the beginning of the German version of "I Don't Remember," rather than simply being the track that preceded it. Consequently, "Frag mich nicht immer" has the playing time of "Start" plus "I Don't Remember" from the English language version. In addition, the African song sung at the beginning and end of "Biko" is different from the English language version. The background vocals in "Biko" are different with an added, very noticable, higher harmony than in the english version, that sounds more like a doubling with one harmony.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel.

ide one

#"Eindringling" – 5:00
#"Keine Selbstkontrolle" – 4:00
#"Frag mich nicht immer" – 6:04
#*Combines the instrumental "Start" with the German version of "I Don't Remember".
#"Schnappschuß (ein Familienfoto)" – 4:26
#"Und durch den Draht" – 4:28

ide two

#"Spiel ohne Grenzen" – 4:07
#"Du bist nicht wie wir" – 5:32
#"Ein normales Leben" – 5:32
#"Biko" – 8:55

As listed on the album, the song titles do not follow standard German capitalization rules.

Personnel

Same as on the standard release of "Peter Gabriel" (1980).

External links

* [http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/2007/08/25/peter-gabriels-german-albums-melt-ein-deutsches-album/ Peter Gabriel sings in German]
*MusicBrainz album|id=fd523bae-f7a5-47cb-acbe-940f78cc9263|name=Ein deutsches Album
* [http://www.deltaforce.net/~jnu/pg/pgd/pgdiscography.html Peter Gabriel discography] (including 7" and 12" singles)