Nina Hagen Cue

Nina Hagen - Return Of The Mother (2000) {Orbit Records}
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© 2000 Virgin / Orbit | 7243 8 48869 2 9
Rock / Post Punk / Alternative / Indie

It had indeed been a few years since Nina Hagen's last regular album ("Freud Euch" and its English version "Bee Happy" in 1995), so there was reason enough to be curious about what the title of the new album, Return of the Mother, might portend. It turns out that the whole album is devoted to balancing the ambivalence contained in that title: the possible sinister undercurrent as well as the advent of sheltering care. The mother figure of the title track is revealed to mean a kind of caring divine principal, not bound to any one religion but common to all. Throughout the album (mostly sung in German but with English interjections) lots of well meaning good advice to humanity gets contrasted with none too clear warnings, all set on a musical backdrop of often sinisterly weighty and elaborate dance/rock arrangements.

This is a compilation of Nina Hagen's earliest steps in the pop business, when she was still in the former GDR with the Bands "Automobil" and "Fritzens Dampferband". She sounds relatively tame here, but her madness shines through now and then…

Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen (1989) {Mercury}
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© 1989 Phonogram / Mercury | 838 505-2
Rock / Post Punk / Alternative / Indie

At her best Nina Hagen was deliciously abrasive – an East German post-punk princess whose brash delivery was coupled with real musical talent and a wide vocal range. By the end of the '80s, however, she had descended into pop trash, rehashing the same kinds of synth-enforced songs again and again. Her self-titled album is no exception. Largely sung in English, it contains mostly questionable covers, including Janis Joplin's "Move Over," a version of the gospel classic "Hold Me," and a truly awful rendition of "Ave Maria." Two small bright spots on the album are a metal version of "Viva Las Vegas" and a odd rap song about Gorbachev called "Michail, Michail."

Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock/Nina Hagen Band (1978-82) {1991 Columbia Edition}
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© 1991 Sony Music / Columbia / Legacy | CK 46993
Rock / Post Punk / Alternative / Indie

This eccentric rock material, all in English, shows the diversity of her vocal instrument.

NUNSEXMONKROCK, hit the American shores and I was completely blown away by all of it. Even though I had many punk/New Wave albums in my collection, this was really, really different. It wasn't just punk, New Wave or pre-Goth. Even now after some 20 years, this album still sounds SO UNUSUAL and creative. When she wrote it, many of NSMR's songs had heavy political/social overtones and messages for its era. That Hagen then hailed from Communist East Germany informed her talent for satire that's heard all over this album. Anti-World which opens this cauldron of noise deals with religion vs. science. Smack Jack addresses heroin addiction which plagued both East and West Berlin through much of the 70s and 80s. On the songs Cosmo Shiva, UFO and Future Is Now, Nina sings of personal spiritual transformation. Born in Xixax decries the nuclear age.

Nina Hagen - Street (1991) {Mercury}
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© 1991 Phonogram / Mercury | 848 716-2
Rock / Post Punk / Alternative / Indie

Nina Hagen is like an exorcism put to a dance beat…and twice as fun. "Street" is possibly one of her most subdued releases. Her vocal quirks are more limited on some tracks like "In My World" but not totally forgotten as in "Nina for President". Although the music sticks to a danceable formula, it's not dated to today's ears.

"Blumen fur die Damen" is simply beautiful. Gorgeous German lyrics over a percolating beat. Listening to her wail the title's words in the background during the middle-eight bars (before the final chorus) gives me chills. But wait, after a few more Danceteria tunes we get "Berlin (Is Dufte)". Nina shows us that she hasn't forgotten her punk roots. And to continue the trend that started on the previous "Nina Hagen" album, we get her version of a classic hit - this time, The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations".
When a lot of established performers were struggling to stay "with-it" during the 80s, Nina released a satisfying record *and* had fun doing it.

Nina Hagen - Revolution Ballroom (1994) {Mercury}
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© 1994 Phonogram / Mercury | 518 233-2
Rock / Post Punk / Alternative / Indie

If you are a Nina Hagen fan, this is one of her best. This CD is probably the most commercial one she's done but also has excellent production, writing and of course, singing.
I've loved everything I could get of Nina's since the self titled album. This album is typically strange. Really it starts off with a country and western sound (in a kitsch way). Moving into ballad form with "King of Hearts", then pop trash "Pillow Talk", blues with "I'm Gonna Live the Life" and then finishing with I think the first of her Indian inspired work with "Omhaidakhandi".

Nina Hagen - Definitive Collection (1995)
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Rock, Punk / New Wave

Definitive Collection is a compilation album by Nina Hagen, released in 1995, featuring 17 of the German new wave chanteuse's best

Nina Hagen - Bee Happy (1996) {RCA-Ariola}
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© 1996 RCA / BMG Ariola | 74321 36936 2
Rock / Post Punk / Alternative / Indie

Nina is VERY eclectic. At all of the concerts that I have attended, she has sung punk, opera, rock 'n' roll, blues, krishna chants, big band, and other styles. If you enjoy music as music, no matter what the style, then this CD captures that character of Nina– minus the opera. The first version of this CD, the German, Freud Euch, has two opera-style songs on it that aren't on this CD. There are a couple of other songs on this CD and not on Freud Euch: "Born To Die In Berlin" and "Shiva." This CD also sounds more like how the music sounds in concert, having less overdubs and production tweaks than Freud Euch. It sounds like it was produced for the American audience to give them an idea of what to expect from a live performance by her.

The reputation that precedes her is more powerful than her already impressive vocal range. Nina Hagen, a self-confessed UFO believer and Mother of Punk, is known for making public appearances. That she is first and foremost an excellent musician (and actress) is often neglected. Wrong, as their new CD proves somewhere in the world. Together with the 13-member "The Capitol Dance Orchestra" she has achieved a masterpiece.

Nina Hagen - In Ekstase (German Version) (1985) {Columbia}
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© 1985 CBS / Sony | 477530 2
Rock / Post Punk / Alternative / Indie

This was one of my favorites in the mid 80's. I was disappointed that it was the German version and not the English. My fault entirely. I've nothing against the German language but I wanted to relive a specific time, track after track. But having said that and listening to it a few times I've grown to like it more and more. Nina is an amazing artist in any language so German, English, Bindi, Urdu, Ninaease, whatever, I'm good. 'In Ekstase' in any language embodies Nina at her most self.