★★★★★
Udo Lindenberg embraced the 1980s a lot earlier than most people -- he was predicting some of the decade's more worthwhile fascinations a good five years before the calendar actually turned the page. By 1984, however, he was all but treading water, with Gotterhammerung the take-it-or-leave-it consequence of his apparent disinterest...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
1982's Odyssee is best known in the U.K. and U.S. as Udo Lindenberg's follow-up to his collaboration with Tom Robinson, the "Tango an Der Wand" single which picked up a little late-night airplay earlier in the year...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
Drohnland Symphonic is one of Udo Lindenberg's most ambitious albums, a conceptual piece that drops the Panik Orchestra off in the frozen wastes of Greenland, with just a string section and some penguins for company -- and then sets the huskies on them. You can hear the dogs approaching throughout the opening "Drohnland Ouverture, and it's almost a let down when normal service is resumed on the following, sort-of-Stonesy "Ole Pinguin". Almost...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
An album as ambitious as the double gatefold sleeve that accompanied the original German release, Sister King Kong is a concept album documenting the trials and tribulations of a rock & roll superstar -- a grindingly dull idea by modern standards, but all the rage in the mid-'70s, and executed here with such panache that you can almost feel Lindenberg's tongue sticking out of his cheek...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
Arguably, Udo Lindenberg's Anglo-American reputation rests on just three songs -- the brutal self-deprecation of "Germans", the violent denunciations of "Berlin", and "Americans In Europe", a club hit throughout the continent during 1986, and the still-stunning highlight of that year's Phoenix. Clashing "the Ride of the Valkyries" with a solid dance beat, a mocking lyric, and the regular interruptions of a host of American tourists ("how much is that in real money...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
It would not be stretching the truth to say that Udo Lindenberg predicted the nature of the German punk beast as it sprang to life in the late '70s. Lindenberg himself, however, was never one to stick around to watch the damage he'd wrought...
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2008-08-28
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