Hau Ruck

Infobox Album
Name = Hau Ruck
Type = Album
Artist = KMFDM


Released = September 13, 2005
Recorded = December 2004 – July 2005
Genre = Industrial rock Industrial metal
Length = 52:42
Label = Metropolis Records
Producer = KMFDM
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ylud6j2471q0 link]
* "ReGen Magazine" Rating|5|5 [http://www.regenmag.com/Reviews-455-KMFDM-Hau-Ruck.html link]
Last album = "WWIII" (2003)
This album = "Hau Ruck" (2005)
Next album = "Ruck Zuck" (2007)

"Hau Ruck" is the fourteenth album by KMFDM, released by Metropolis Records on September 13, 2005. It was recorded in Seattle, Washington.

The album had originally been titled "FUBAR", in reference to the military acronym standing for "fucked up beyond all recognition". However, in June 2005 the band announced they were abandoning that title, and on July 21, 2005, they announced the new title would be "Hau Ruck", the German equivalent of "heave-ho". "Hau Ruck" is the first KMFDM album without a five-letter word title since 1988's "Don't Blow Your Top". Likewise, none of the song titles are five-letter words.

According to Sascha Konietzko, "Hau Ruck" was created entirely using analog equipment.

Of some note is that the album features songs with significant portions in three different languages — the first KMFDM album to do so (not including "Adios", which featured the phrase "goodbye" in seven different languages on the title track). The band's cover of the French-language "Mini Mini Mini" by Jacques Dutronc is the first KMFDM song to be performed entirely in a language other than the usual English or German.

This album was remixed in the remix E.P. Ruck Zuck by themselves.

Track listing

# "Free Your Hate" – 4:59
# "Hau Ruck" – 5:22
# "You're No Good" – 4:59
# "New American Century" – 4:51
# "Real Thing" – 5:05
# "Every Day's a Good Day" – 4:44
# "Mini Mini Mini" – 2:56
# "Professional Killer" – 4:34
# "Feed Our Fame" – 4:31
# "Ready to Blow" – 4:28
# "Auf Wiederseh'n" – 6:14

All songs written by KMFDM, except for "Mini Mini Mini" (Jacques Lanzmann/Jacques Dutronc).

Personnel

* Lucia Cifarelli – vocals
* Jules Hodgson – guitar, bass, programming, engineering
* Sascha Konietzko – vocals, analogue synthesizers, sequencers, engineering
* Andy Selway – drums, programming
* Steve White – guitar, programming
* Mina Stolle – trumpet (11)

External links

* [http://www.kmfdm.net/discography/albums/hauruck.htm KMFDM DØTKØM] "Hau Ruck" lyrics at the official KMFDM website