Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen Band/Unbehagen

If You Love Nina, You Love Nina

Unbhagen was great. African Reggae sparked great memories from the late 1970's when most of us first discovered Ms. Hagen. Wir Leben Immer Noch is a great rendidtion if Lucky Number One.. (lena lovich). Gotta say, I really enjoyed the hard edged cuts on Unbehagen a great deal. Love to know when she plans to tour again.... SEATTLE? May 20, 2008

Oooooh Smithers.... The Germans!

I thought this was some of the coolest music around when it came out. Sounding like a disturbed Rheinmaiden on acid (or a crazy witch, as an African-American friend once called her when he told me to: "Turn off that f****** crazy-a** witch!"); Nina manages to do to us what Mr. Burns only pretended was done to him: make us scared of the Germans. And somehow, in this exhilarating music, that's a good thing. It may even be that what we're really scared of is enjoying the songs because they might be politically incorrect.

The music accompanying Nina is not always raw (we can only imagine the full-on effect of a band like the Pixies backing her); but even the well-produced, Rocky Horror Picture Show-sounding songs work for me. People can argue that Nina's a poseur, but she demonstrates here that campy humor was the only thing saving punk from unbearable self-importance.

If Rupert Everett became convinced that Sharon Stone was a little crazy when she expounded her acting-as-possession theory, what would he make of Nina after hearing the orgiastic "Wer Leden Immer...Noch": a song where devils and angels are not only channeled, but also appear to be phoning and shooting at each other? Listening to these records I can imagine Nina leaping all around the studio like an angry little monkey. Is this anger that of a revenant spirit bemoaning the lost decadence of Weimar Berlin? I prefer to thing she's angry with the future knowledge that these performances would never receive anything like the recognition Sharon Stone did for her turn in Casino. December 3, 2006

GREAT KRAUT PUNK !!

Less artsy than their weirder,more eclectic debut album,this is an excellent sophomore effort by the diva?s band.More rock`n roll oriented in general and with Nina emphasazing the upper portion of her operatic vocal range this time (shrikier),with voice effects that make her voice cut your tympanae.It opens with an excellent reggae,and from that point the songs are frantic,fast paced punk `n roll affairs,with an incredibly lenghty and heavy solo in the middle of ?Fallin In Love Mit Mier? that has to be heard to be believed.The albums closes at a bare 38?with an instrumental rendition of ?My Way ?so deformed and sped up you would?nt tell it?s based on the original (and maybe it?s not !).One of the songs is a filler taken from some live recording you?ll be skipping after the first 30?but nothing?s wrong considering how good and anthologic this album is.The sound is very good despite a certain lack of upper treble (especially noticeable on the cymbals. April 11, 2006

Nina!

An excellent opportunity to get Nina Hagen's first two albums together in one set. Musically challenging, extremely offbeat and just downright weird, Nina Hagen has been setting stages and recording studios on fire for about 25 years now... hard to believe.

With tracks like "Alptraum", "Hermann Hiess Er" and "Auf'm Friedhof", Nina is definitely more palatable to those who understand German, however an understanding of the lyrics is hardly necessary to appreciate the music she and her band crafted in the late 70's and early 80's.

As a rule, I tend to prefer the earlier efforts of musicians, and Nina is no exception. Outside of "Nunsexmonkrock", which is much more polished, this double album set is her best work to date. Much more hard hitting than her later, more dance oriented works. The cover of The Tubes classic "White Punks on Dope" ("TV Glotzer" when Nina does it) is better than the original, in my opinion.

Nina Hagen remains one of the most unique characters in the history of rock and roll. These albums prove why. September 25, 2004

excellent CD but:

I have to set things straight. This CD is a combination of her first and second album/record released in 1978 and 1979 (shown on the cover of the CD). November 16, 2003

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