Kollaps

notes

The first LP “Kollaps” (Collapse) was a component of Berlin’s big bang in the early 1980s – more radical than punk – which was meant to open completely new avenues for the younger generation to make music. The approach was anarchic, loud, undifferentiated and dilettantish. Correspondingly, its motto was “This record should be inaudible.” However, it wasn’t ruled out that previously unknown perspectives for musical work might develop from this sound mire. The first loose structures can already be heard on the next record.

(Karin Aderhold, Gerhard Paproth, Berlin, in November 1992)

Track Listing

  1. Tanzdebil
  2. Steh auf Berlin
  3. NegativNein
  4. U-Haft-Muzak
  5. Draußen ist feindlich
  6. Schmerzen hören
  7. Jet’m
  8. Kollaps
  9. Sehnsucht
  10. Vorm Krieg
  11. Hirnsäge
  12. Abstieg & Zerfall
  13. Helga
  14. Bonus: Schieß euch ins Blut
  15. Bonus: Stahldubversions
order

Tanzdebil

Pretend you’re dead / Pretend you’re dead
Greed!
Pretend you’re dead
Greed! Open my veins
just under my skin
you need thicker needles than me
Greed! / Greed! / Greed!
a thousand dead beasts
inside the head Greed! / Greed! / Greed!
I greed for you
greed for you
greed for drugs
greed for flesh
greed for you
debility dance / debility dance / debility dance Greed!
Only the weakest
survive the night
Greed! / Greed! / Greed!
Pretend you’re dead / Pretend you’re dead lie on my back
and pretend I’m dead
open my veins
just under the skin
I need thicker needles than you
greed for more greed for flesh
greed for drugs
greed for more
Greed! Greed! Greed!

Draußen ist feindlich

It’s getting light
outside is hostile
shut yourself in with me
here we are safe
I love you –
forget it

SCHMERZEN HÖREN

Listen with pain / listen with pain
listen to my wounds
listen with pain / listen with pain
we’ll beat you to death
listen with pain / listen with pain
listen with pain / listen with pain
negative
listen with pain / listen with pain
listen with pain
stop

Sehnsucht

Desire
desire
comes out of chaos
desire
desire
is the only energy
my desire
my addiction
desire
is the only energy

Hirnsäge

Brain saw – head saw
Brain saw – bomb scare
Brain saw – eye saw
Brain saw – bomb scare
Head saw – news bulletin
Brain saw – breath saw
Meat saw – transmission closedown
Head saw – brain saw – bomb scare
Brain saw – vitamin
Brain saw – brain saw

Abstieg & Zerfall

We are empty / Believe me
We are empty
Time has long since eaten its children
and it is sated
Come here come with
See how Time
declines before our eyes
Come here come with
We are empty — without fear
We are empty
finally / completely / empty
Decline and fall