Comments on: MITTAGSPAUSE- Double 7"EP (CK, Germany, 1979)

By: MacDödel

MacDödel — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:28:59 +0000

Why “Intelnet” is missing? It’s one of the best Mipau songs….

By: Lars Dreiucker

Lars Dreiucker — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:02:29 +0000

HEY dudes,

such a great thing that youre talking about MIttagspause. I’m from Berlin and nobody is able to get the either double 7” or the red one with the riffle! How could I get the record? Where?
I’m writtin’ a paper on the influences on racisism in NDW New Wave and Early german punk…I need this record as you see….

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:12:00 +0000

When I moved to England from Germany about 13 years ago, one of my first friends at school was a punk called Joe. This being way before the day of MP3s, we used to make each other tape compilations – him introducing me to the likes of the UK Subs and The Exploited, me showing him the wonders of Devo and Pere Ubu – and I do remember once making a tape where I included “1979 Deutschland” and “In Der Tat” on it. Not that I wanted to ‘introduce’ Joe to German punk or anything like that -back then I was too young to be intelligent enough to concoct an agenda when it comes to these things- but because, hey, I liked the songs and thought he’d like them too – and he did! He even commented that, due to Mittagspause, he thought that German made a brilliant language for punk, even if he couldn’t understand a word of it.

On this note, it also bears mentioning that, every time I include a Fehlfarben or a Mittagspause song on a compilation for a friend, it gets a positive response, illustrating that great music does transcend language or other such bullshit cultural divisions.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:37:00 +0000

I have the CD version (Captain Trip) from the double 7" but I knew that the original "Militürk" had a diff. mix than the CD (some echo-effects disappear on the CD version). So I've checked these mp3 and yeah, the mix is clearly different. I've heard for the first time the tuning of guitars in Testbild (the CD starts with a fade-in).
The original mix is better, rawerrr
and more amateurish
Thanx for this

Fernando

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:59:00 +0000

Yeah, Militürk by Mittagspause and Fehlfarben and Kebab Träume by DAF. The 3 songs have different music, though; only the lyrics are the same. Wir sind die Türken von Morgen... To tell the truth I don't really get the message...

Here's a translation (my German has limitations, anyway)
"Kebab dreams in the wall city / turkish culture behind barbed wire / new izmir in the DDR / Atatürk the new lord / Miliyet for the Soviet Union / In every Imbissstube a spy / In the ZK, agent from Turkey / Germany, Germany, everything's through / We are the turkish of tomorrow"

Oh, and there was another band, OHL, who wanted to participate in the game and they used again the lyric in their "Türkenlied" (1981), again, with new music.

I love Mipau's amauterism. A couple of songs have a clear Neu!-influence, sorta Kraut-punk.
I love SYPH too, and Abwärts.

Fernando

By: h-bomb

h-bomb — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:37:00 +0000

i knew the song “innen stadt front” because it’s covered by Male, on one of their singles.
on that same 7″they cover die Toten Hosen too, they changed the lyrics from Jürgen Englers Party
into “die Toten Hosen Ihre party” (und wir kommen nicht rein)

By: Erich

Erich — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:41:00 +0000

Ich meinte den KZ36 I Sampler, Martin. Hab ihn heute morgen (noch vor dem Kaffee) mit dem SO36 live Sampler verwechselt.

By: martinf

martinf — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:39:00 +0000

KZ36 with Ätztussis, Betoncombo, Kondensators, Blitzkrieg or S.O.36 with PVC, Ffurs, Wall, Stuka-Pilot, Dub-Liners, Mittagspause, Male, Din A Testbild?

By: E.

E. — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:27:00 +0000

Ah, nice info Martin! Care to post that first KZ36 comp? Never heard it, dearly missin it.

By: martinf

martinf — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:16:00 +0000

yes, there is a recording from mittagspause with gabi delgado-lopez and peter hain both “Bendorf lügt/Marmor Stein und Eisen bricht/Industrie total/1978 Deutschland” live in 1978 on the legendary s.o.36-live-compilation.