- Audio CD (Nov 15 1994)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Atlantic / Wea
- ASIN: B000002J2W
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | LP Record
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Track Listings
| 1. Learning English, Step One | |||
| 2. Blitzkrieg Bop | |||
| 3. Brickfield Nights | |||
| 4. No One Is Innocent | |||
| 5. New Guitar In Town | |||
| 6. If The Kids Are United | |||
| 7. Nasty Nasty | |||
| 8. Dirty Pictures | |||
| 9. Baby Baby | |||
| 10. Gary Gilmore's Eyes | |||
| 11. Diary Of A Lover | |||
| 12. Born To Lose | |||
| 13. Do You Remember | |||
| 14. Carnival In Rio (Punk Was) | |||
| 15. Richmond | |||
| 16. Whole Wide World | |||
| 17. Smash It Up | |||
| 18. Strangle Hold | |||
| 19. Love And A Molotov Cocktail | |||
| 20. Do Anything You Wanna Do | |||
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Product Description
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This loving tribute to the sounds of '77 by a veteran German band (translation: The Dead Trousers) will wring a nostalgic tear out of punk diehards everywhere. The 19 covers salute a motley crew of period luminaries--The Vibrators, The Adverts, The Damned, Eddie & The Hot Rods, and Sham 69 included--and each features a guest turn by the original artists. The late Johnny Thunders crooning "Born to Lose," Captain Sensible reviving "Smash It Up," and a killer "Do Anything You Wanna Do" are worth the price of admission alone. --Jeff Bateman
Album Description
The German punk/metal band's 1991 album features 24 tracks worth of cover songs by artists such as the Ramones, The Boys, Adverts, Damned & many others. Guests include Joey Ramone, Nick Cash (999), Wreckless Eric, Ronald Biggs & a host of others. Tocka Discos. 2003.
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4.1 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Punk was?, Dec 6 2003
By Patrick Stott - Published on Amazon.com
Cover albums are generally a cheap and easy way for bands to release an album when they have not gotten around to doing anything themselves. To keep fans hanging, they knock out a few songs someone else has written. Some work reasonably well ('Acid Eaters' by The Ramones), some are decidedly average ('Garage Inc' by Metallica, 'Undisputed Attitude' by Slayer) and some are outright rubbish ('The Spaghetti Incident?' by Guns and Roses). 'Learning English, Lesson One', however, is in a class of it's own.Die Toten Hosen were at one time the biggest punk band in the world, but were generally ignored by English speaking audiences because they performed in German. In their first crack at English, the band produced a highly entertaining album.
Moreover, what we have here is a delightful English language instruction tape, complete with Janet and John discussing the finer points of pronunciation, usage, taking dirty pictures, and making Molotov cocktails. It is a collection of a number of defining moments from the formative days of punk, along with a track written by the Hosen themselves. Most fans of 70s punk will be familiar with "Blitzkrieg Bop", "If The Kids Are United", "Gary Gilmore's Eyes", "Smash It Up" and "Stranglehold", and all are reproduced with great reverence, but with a nice clean 1990s production. There are short stories from the band members as to why the songs were included in the liner notes.
One of the cool things about this album is that musicians who originally recorded the songs made guest appearances on all of the tracks. Some have died since. Included are Joey Ramone, and the last recording of Johnny Thunders, who died just 36 hours after helping record "Born To Lose". Other legends of punk on the album include living fossil Charlie Harper, Captain Sensible, Jimmy Pursey, Handsome Dick Manitoba, and Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs. Biggs helped write the irreverent tribute to punk "Punk Was".
As you can probably see from the track listing, this isn't the sort of thing that would appeal to fans of Discharge, The Exploited or Agnostic Front. It is too pop-oriented. However, if you enjoy a fresh take on some old favourites, this is addictive stuff. It is almost impossible to listen to this album and not have one of the songs stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome!, Feb 18 2009
By Eriksandiego - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Learning English: Lesson One (Audio CD)
This is a neat album, and for a German band, they don't sing with thick accents like others do. I had not heard all the originals before, but now I am interested and will be checking out many of the ones i had not heard of before (like Dirty Pictures). The clips in between some of the tracks where amusing, and this is one cd definitely for perverts.
4.0 out of 5 stars
German punk!, Feb 29 2004
By Johnny Heering "trivia buff" - Published on Amazon.com
Die Toten Hosen (The Dead Trousers) are a German punk band. This CD here is their "covers" album. It features their cover versions of some of their favorite punk songs. The cool thing about it is that all the songs feature one of the original recording artists guest-starring on them. The songs are well performed and fun. I would recommend this album to fans of old school punk.
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