Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala

Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala (English: Five on the open-ended Richter Scale) is the fourth full-length studio album by the German experimental rock band Einstürzende Neubauten, released in 1987 through Some Bizzare Records in the U.K. and What's So Funny About GmbH in Germany. It was reissued in 2002 through the band's own label, Potomak.

Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala
Studio album by Einstürzende Neubauten
Released	1987
Recorded	1985–1987
Genre	Industrial experimental
Length	41:41
Label	Some Bizzare
Producer	Gareth Jones & Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten chronology
Halber Mensch (1985) Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala (1987) Haus der Lüge (1989)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Trouser Press, in an ambiguous review, described the album as "shockingly low-key." AllMusic described the album as "Einstürzende Neubauten at their unsettling, gripping, and tension-ridden best" and "the group's most subdued and measured work to that point, organic dark ambient that rarely utilized the chaos and cacaphony [sic] for which they had become known."

Track listing

1. "Zerstörte Zelle" ("Destroyed Cell") – 8:02
2. "Morning Dew" – 4:56
3. "Ich bin's" ("It's Me") – 3:24
4. "MoDiMiDoFrSaSo" ("MonTueWedThuFriSatSun") – 4:51
5. "12 Städte" ("12 Cities") – 8:38
6. "Keine Schönheit (ohne Gefahr)" ("No Beauty Without Danger") – 5:10
7. "Kein Bestandteil sein" ("Not Being Part of It") – 6:43
8. "Adler kommt später" ("Eagle Comes Later") – 5:42*

Track 8 is a bonus track only available on the remastered re-release on Potomak/Indigo and is an early version of "Zerstörte Zelle".

Personnel

Einstürzende Neubauten

• Blixa Bargeld – lead vocals, guitars
• Mark Chung – bass, vocals
• Alexander Hacke – guitar, vocals
• N.U. Unruh – percussion, vocals
• F.M. Einheit – percussion, vocals