Radio (Wise Guys)

"This article is about a recorded album, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation)."Infobox Album
Artist = Wise Guys
Name = Radio
Type = studio
Genre = A cappella


Year = May 5, 2006
Label = Pavement Records

Format = CD
AnzahlTitel = 18 reguläre Titel, 6 kurze Einspieler und 1 Hidden Track
Length = 60:55
Language = German
Producer = Uwe Baltrusch, Daniel Dickopf, Edzard Hüneke
Studio = Pavement Sound Studio, Bergisch Gladbach
Jacobs Studios, Farnham, England
Last album = Wo der Pfeffer wächst
(2004)
Next album = Frei
(2008)

Radio is the ninth album of the German a capella group Wise Guys. It is built in the form of a radio broadcast: between each individual piece come jingles and other small tidbits, such as the news or sports. This stands as the first concept album of the Wise Guys. The CD ranked #3 in the German album charts and stood for sixteen weeks in the top 100 of the charts.

Like its predecessor Wo der Pfeffer wächst, the CD is purely comprised of a cappella with no instrumentation and, with the sole exception of the "Mad World" cover, is entirely self-composed numbers. The majority of the songs were composed by Daniel Dickopf.

Extra features

* If one plays a few minutes after the last song on the CD, "Zwischenbilanz", one can find a so-called hidden track that plays for three minutes and thirty seconds; it is essentially a snippet from one of their concert performances ("Kein Ohrwurm").

List of tracks

Those entries marked with "(A)" are jingles and news bulletins.
# ""(A)" Jingle A"
# "Radio"
# ""(A)" Jingle B"
# "Denglisch"
# "Jetzt und Hier"
# "Das bedeutet Krieg"
# "Sie bricht mir das Herz"
# ""(A)" Die Nachrichten" - "The News: a short funny news report"
# "Buddy Biber"
# "Das fremde Wesen" *
# "Romanze"
# ""(A)" Klatsch und Tratsch" - "Gossip: a parody on boulevard magazines"
# "Das Allerletzte"
# "Tiefgang"
# ""(A)" Der Sport" - "Sports: a short sport news report"
# "Aber sonst gesund"
# "Ruf doch mal an '06" **
# "Mad World" ***
# "Ja ja"
# "Wir hatten den Moment"
# ""(A)" Das Horoskop" - "Horoscope"
# "Schunkeln"
# "Ständchen"
# "Zwischenbilanz"

:* The song "Das fremde Wesen" includes a guest singer, Sonja Wilts from the group LaLeLu. She sings a duet piece with Eddi.:** The piece "Ruf doch mal an '06" is the new version of a song already extent on the 1997 album "Alles im grünen Bereich".:*** The cover of "Mad World" is borrowed from the version of the song that Gary Jules sings. The original is from Tears for Fears.