Don't Blow Your Top

Don't Blow Your Top
Studio album by KMFDM
Released	1988
Recorded	???
Genre	Post-industrial
Length	32:48 (LP) 50:49 (CD)
Label	Cash Beat Records (Germany) SkySaw Records (UK) Wax Trax!/TVT
Producer	Sascha Konietzko
Professional reviews
Allmusic link
KMFDM chronology
What Do You Know, Deutschland? (1986) Don't Blow Your Top (1988) UAIOE (1989)

This article is about the album. For the single see Don't Blow Your Top (single).

Don't Blow Your Top is Industrial rock group KMFDM's third album, released in 1988.

The album was recorded in Hamburg, Germany, with Adrian Sherwood and released in Germany by Cash Beat Records (Hamburg), in the UK on SkySaw Records and on Wax Trax in the US.

A digitally remastered reissue of Don't Blow Your Top was released September 12, 2006, along with 1986's What Do You Know, Deutschland? and 1989's UAIOE.

Track listing

Vinyl release

1. "No Meat-No Man" (Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts, En Esch) – 3:52
2. "Don't Blow Your Top" (Konietzko, Watts, Esch) – 3:40
3. "Disgust (12" Version)" (Konietzko, Watts, Esch) – 4:28
4. "Oh Look" (Konietzko, Esch) – 2:40
5. "King Kong Dub (Rubber Mix)" (Konietzko, Esch, Jr. Blackmail) – 2:02
6. "Killing" (Konietzko, Esch) – 5:20
7. "What a Race" (Konietzko, Esch) – 3:37
8. "No News" (Konietzko, Esch) – 4:30
9. "Oh Look II" – 2:38

Alternate Cover

CD release

1. "No Meat-No Man" – 3:49
2. "Don't Blow Your Top" – 3:37
3. "Killing" – 5:23
4. "Disgust" – 5:25
5. "Oh Look" – 2:37
6. "King Kong Dub (Rubber Mix)" – 2:00
7. "What a Race" – 3:35
8. "No News" – 4:30
9. "Tod Durch Bongo-Bongo" (Konietzko, Esch) – 6:33
10. "Killing (For Your Sampling Kit)" – 8:32
11. "Oh Shit" (Konietzko, Esch) – 4:48

• "Don't Blow Your Top" borrows lyrics from Frank Zappa's "Are You Hung Up?", "Dirty Love", and "I'm the Slime".
• "Tod Durch Bongo-Bongo" is the punch line, rendered here in German, of a well known, off-color joke.
• "Disgust (12" Version)" is only available on the vinyl release.
• "Oh Look II" is only available on the vinyl and cassette releases.
• The music for "Killing" is a faster version of the music from the song "Conillon" from the album What Do You Know, Deutschland?
• "Oh Shit" Contains lyrics from the Song "Don't blow your top"

Personnel

• Jr. Blackmail – vocals, producer
• Fritz Brinckmann – photography
• Brute – cover art
• Brutefish – digital artwork
• En Esch – guitar, drums, programming, vocals, producer
• Rick Fisher – digital remastering, re-equalizer
• Blank Fontana – engineer
• Justin Gammon – layout design
• Sascha Konietzko – synthesizer, bass, guitar, programming, vocals, producer, digital remastering, re-equalizer
• Adrian Sherwood – producer
• Patrick Volkmar – project manager
• Nainz Watts – programming, vocals, producer, engineer

Singles

• Don't Blow Your Top

External links

• KMFDM DØTKØM Don't Blow Your Top lyrics at the official KMFDM website