Feuer und Flamme (German for "Fire and Flame", with the additional figurative meaning of "great enthusiasm"), released in 1985, is the third album by German pop band Nena and the fourth studio album of its singer, Gabriele "Nena" Kerner.[1] The album was a success, reaching No. 2 in Germany.[2]
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| Released | 24 June 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1984–1985 | |||
| Studio | Spliff Studio, West Berlin | |||
| Genre | NDW, pop rock, pop | |||
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| Language | German | |||
| Label | CBS | |||
| Producer | Reinhold Heil | |||
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Prompted by the success of 99 Luftballons (1984), which included English-language versions of songs from the band's first two albums, Nena recreated Feuer und Flamme in English as It's All in the Game (1985), with lyrics by Canadian singer Lisa Dalbello.[3] The experiment failed commercially and was not repeated with the band's next album. Gabriele Kerner recorded a new bilingual German-English version of "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime" with Kim Wilde in 2002. The duet became a big hit in many European countries, including Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
The fifth and final single from the album was "Du kennst die Liebe nicht", however, for the single release, the song was completely re-recorded. The single version was restructured and features different vocals as well as a different instrumental that just sporadically borrows motifs from the album version.[4] It was later included on the compilation Nena die Band (1991).[5]
Feuer und Flamme track listing
edit| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Utopia" | Rolf Brendel | Brendel | 3:40 |
| 2. | "Haus der drei Sonnen" ("House of the Three Suns") | Carlo Karges | Jörn-Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen | 4:46 |
| 3. | "Jung wie du" ("Young as You") | Karges | Fahrenkrog | 4:22 |
| 4. | "Es wird schon weitergeh'n" ("It'll Keep Going On") | Karges | Jürgen Dehmel | 3:38 |
| 5. | "Feuer und Flamme" ("Fire and Flame") | Karges | Karges | 3:31 |
| 6. | "Gestern Nacht" ("Last Night") | Karges, Nena Kerner, Fahrenkrog | Fahrenkrog | 5:18 |
| 7. | "Das alte Lied" ("The Old Song") | Karges | Dehmel | 4:27 |
| 8. | "Du kennst die Liebe nicht" ("You Don't Know (What) Love (Is)") | Kerner | Kerner | 4:14 |
| 9. | "Ein Brief" ("A Letter") | Kerner | Fahrenkrog | 4:52 |
| 10. | "Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann" ("Somehow, Somewhere, Sometime") | Karges | Fahrenkrog | 7:15 |
This track list represents the CD version of Feuer und Flamme. The LP edition has tracks 4 and 9 swapped.[6] Length of track 10 on LP is 5:14 due to the much shorter (partly edited out) instrumental intro. On some CD releases, length of track 3 is 5:09.
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| Released | 10 November 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1985 | |||
| Genre | NDW, pop rock, pop | |||
| Length | 46:11 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | CBS | |||
| Producer | Reinhold Heil | |||
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It's All in the Game track listing
editAll English lyrics are written by Lisa Dalbello, except for bonus tracks 11–13.
| No. | Title | Original title | Length |
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| 1. | "Utopia" | "Utopia" | 3:40 |
| 2. | "It's All in the Game" | "Haus der drei Sonnen" | 4:46 |
| 3. | "Young as You" | "Jung wie du" | 4:22 |
| 4. | "Auf Wiederseh'n" | "Es wird schon weitergeh'n" | 3:38 |
| 5. | "Warning Signs" | "Gestern Nacht" | 5:18 |
| 6. | "Woman on Fire" | "Feuer und Flamme" | 3:31 |
| 7. | "Let's Humanize" | "Das alte Lied" | 4:27 |
| 8. | "You Don't Know What Love Is" | "Du kennst die Liebe nicht" | 4:14 |
| 9. | "Are You Awake?" | "Ein Brief" | 4:52 |
| 10. | "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime" | "Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann" | 7:15 |
| No. | Title | Original title | Length |
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| 11. | "At the Movies" | "Kino" | 2:58 |
| 12. | "Just a Dream" (Mega Dream mix) | "Nur geträumt" | 6:41 |
| 13. | "99 Red Balloons" (club mix) | "99 Luftballons" | 4:43 |
| 14. | "It's All in the Game" (12-inch remix) | "Haus der drei Sonnen" | 6:32 |
Of the bonus tracks on the 2008 reissue,[7] "At the Movies" was first released in 1984 as a single coupled with its German original, "Kino", from Nena (1983); "Just a Dream" and "99 Red Balloons" are tracks from 99 Luftballons (1984), here remixed; and the remix of "It's All in the Game" reprises the title track of the present album.
References
edit- ^ Feuer und Flamme Archived 26 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine at the official Nena website, with complete lyrics and samples for music. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Holger Stürenburg (2001). Forever Young (in German). BoD – Books on Demand. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-3-8311-1616-4. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
Als eine Art deutsche Antwort auf Madonna sollte "Feuer und Flamme" der jungen Sängerin weiterhin internationale ... 1986 wurden Nena und ihr im Oktober gleichen Jahres veröffentlichtes Album "Eisbrecher" nur noch unter "ferner liefen" gehandelt. ... Bald darauf gab es neues Material, ebenfalls eine Art New Romantic auf Deutsch: Die Single „Nur mit Dir" (Februar 1985), auf die mit „Verliebte Jungs", ...
- ^ It's All in the Game Archived 26 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine at the official Nena website, with complete lyrics and samples for music. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "Du kennst die Liebe nicht" (single) Archived 26 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine at the official Nena website, with complete lyrics and samples for music. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ Nena die Band Archived 19 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine at the official Nena website, with complete lyrics and samples for music. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ Feuer und Flamme at Discogs. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ It's All in the Game, 2008 reissue (UK, Cherry Pop Records – CR POP 7) at Discogs. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
External links
edit- It's All in the Game at the Nena Fansite.