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Roh & beliebt (Raw & popular)

by: Notdurft

Publication date: 2007-00-00

Topics: Punkrock, Punk, Deutschpunk

Notdurft was a punk-rock legend from Bielefeld/Germany. Their two albums from 1982 and 1996 both were not representing the real Notdurft as they should have. The first one got very soft and poppy and the second one got much harder but still very polished. So this anthology of demos and live-recordings from the archives of band members shows what kind of band Notdurft really was. So here is the rough energy that made them the most legendary punkrockers in this town.
For more Notdurft and other Überfall-Records releases go to www.ueberfall-home.de.
A new Notdurft-webpage is available at www.notdurft-punk.de.
Also see http://www.archive.org/details/MindOverboard for an anthology of material the Notdurft musicians have recorded with other singers.

Notes

Some translated lyrics:

Absoluter Stillstand (Total deadlock)

I roam the streets
without sense and aim
a day full of boredom and without an emotion
one day like the other and without an emotion

I look into the faces
of the people around me
their brains full of emptyness and wihtout an emotion

I lie in my bed
and close my eyes
I think of your body
and have no emotion
you have a beautyful body
but unfortunatly no emotion

I can't get to sleep
and stare into space
I gaze at my knife
and have no emotion
I drink a glass of vodka
and stare into space

Total deadlock is achieved
the future is fucked
I don't mind today

Im Himmel gibt's kein Pogo (In heaven there's no pogo)

I'm afraid to die
any child knows why
I have the fear
that only hippies are in heaven
they all have beards
and lutes in their hands
and the word peace
is written on the walls of every loo

In heaven there's no pogo
that is really true
Jesus only listens to Genesis
that's completely clear to me

I hell that's different
it's going on much rougher there
there they dance, laugh, fuck
there won't be calm
Satan looks like Johann
and has a giant bass
he can't play at all
but still it's fun

In hell there is pogo
that is really true
Satan only listens to Notdurft
that's completely clear to me

Was dann ...? (what then ...?)

What do you want to do if your time runs out
what if peace passes away
what if weapons solve problems
and if the next war is the last one

what then ...?

what do you want to do if death comes knocking
what if dread stuns you
if you can't scream anymore
and you don't see a way out