Five on the Open-Ended Richter-Scale

• Artist: Einstürzende Neubauten
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• Release Date: 1987
• Total Time: 41:41
• Genre: Rock

Review

Like watching a stalker cleverly follow its prey for miles, only to watch it shy away just short of lodging a knife into the back of the followed, Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala (Five on the Open-Ended Richter-Scale) is Einstürzende Neubauten at their unsettling, gripping, and tension-ridden best. It was also the group's most subdued and measured work to that point, organic dark ambient that rarely utilized the chaos and cacaphony for which they had become known. You expect the big release during the closer, "Kein Bestandteil Sein," but you don't get it. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Zerstoerte Zelle [Destroyed Cell]	Mark Chung, Alexander Hacke	Einstürzende Neubauten	(8:03)
Morning Dew	Tim Rose, Bonnie Dobson	Einstürzende Neubauten	(4:55)
Ich Bin's [It's Me]	Mark Chung, Alexander Hacke	Einstürzende Neubauten	(3:22)
Modimidofrsaso [Montueswedthurfrisatsun]	Mark Chung, Alexander Hacke	Einstürzende Neubauten	(4:52)
Zwoelf Staedte (Twelve Cities)	Mark Chung, Alexander Hacke	Einstürzende Neubauten	(8:38)
Keine Schoenheit Ohne Geahr [No Beauty Without Danger]	Mark Chung, Alexander Hacke	Einstürzende Neubauten	(5:07)
Kein Bestandteil Sein (To Be No Part of It)	Mark Chung, Alexander Hacke	Einstürzende Neubauten	(6:44)

Credits

Einstürzende Neubauten (Composer), Einstürzende Neubauten (Producer), Einstürzende Neubauten (Writer), Einstürzende Neubauten (Main Performer), Tim Rose (Composer), Tim Rose (Writer), Bonnie Dobson (Writer), Gareth Jones (Producer), Dave Ogilvie (Engineer), Fritz Brinckmann (Art Direction), Fritz Brinckmann (Photography)