THE YOUNG GODS

THE YOUNG GODS
PLAY KURT WEILL (1991)
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The songs may be Kurt Weill's, but The Young Gods delivered one of the most startling, original and powerful albums of the 1990s with these eight cover versions - covers unlike any others. "Salomon Song" veers from dream-like vaudeville to nervous edginess and back again. "Mackie Messer" is the famous Mack-The-Knife routine taken into punk-rock, speed-metal territory ( sampled of course ) with German lyrics intact. Franz Treichler gives one of his greatest vocals on "Alabama Song", omitting pure evil as he snarls "Show us the way to the next little girl..." - sounding like a killer or pedophile before the song is hurled into a thunderous chorus. "Seerauber Jenny" reminds us of the kind of music we might have heard in a Berlin theatre or nightclub in Weimar Republic years, the song descending into an overpowering darkness at its climax. And then there is the utterly haunting and evocative rendition of "September Song".
No one produces music like The Young Gods.

1. Prologue
2. Salomon Song
3. Mackie Messer
4. Speak Low
5. Alabama Song
6. Seeräuber Jenny
7. Ouverture
8. September Song