Money

Money
Studio album by KMFDM
Released	September 17, 1992
Recorded	???
Genre	Industrial rock
Length	54:42
Label	Wax Trax! Records
Producer	???
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KMFDM chronology
Naïve (1990) Money (1992) Angst (1993)

KMFDM's sixth album, Money, was released in 1992. The album was originally supposed to be named Apart, as Sascha Konietzko and En Esch would break up during the tour with My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult in 1990. With the budget split in half, Konietzko and Esch made five songs each for the album. However, Esch's half was rejected by Wax Trax! Records. The record company gave them more money and Konietzko finished the album by including new remixes of previously released material. The album was recorded in Hamburg, Germany.

A digitally remastered reissue of Money was released on November 21, 2006, along with Naïve and Angst.

This album makes two references to the book 1 Peter of the Bible, though it is not known whether this is a mere coincidence. The title of the track "Spiritual House" appears in verse 5, "and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." A lyric from "Sex on the Flag" appears in verse 9, "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."^[1]

"Spiritual House" is also an unusual KMFDM song in that it has a 5/4 time signature.

Track listing

1. "Money" (KMFDM) – 5:31
2. "Vogue" (KMFDM) – 4:07
3. "Help Us/Save Us/Take Us Away" (KMFDM) – 6:03
4. "Bargeld" (KMFDM) – 7:15
5. "Spiritual House" (KMFDM) – 5:23
6. "Sex on the Flag (Jezebeelzebuttfunkmix)" (KMFDM) – 4:25
7. "I Will Pray" (Konietzko, Esch) – 6:01
8. "We Must Awaken" (KMFDM) – 5:02
9. "Under Satan (Dub)" (KMFDM) – 4:14
10. "Vogue (2000)" – 3:01
11. "Money (Deutschmark-Mix)" – 3:38

• Track 2 is a different version of "Vogue" than the one from Vogue.
• Track 6 is a different version of "Sex on the Flag" than the one from Vogue.
• Track 7 is a remix of "Godlike", from Godlike and Naïve.
• Track 8 includes several guitar samples from Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)".
• Track 9 is a remix of "More & Faster" from UAIOE, with elements of other songs including "Spiritual House".
• Track 10 is a remix of track 2.
• Track 11 is a shortened, mostly instrumental remix of track 1 with four verses of German lyrics.

Apart tracklist

According to Sascha, Apart would have included:

• "Thank You" – the leadoff track, in the spirit of Naïve's "Welcome", later included on Agogo.
• "Split" – version released as "Split-Apart" (that is, the Apart album version of "Split"), which appeared on the Vogue single.
• "Blood" – original version that was later released on the A Drug Against War single.
• Various En Esch tracks later released on Cheesy.

A stolen test-pressing of the Apart album featured all of the above KMFDM material, as well as a version of "Vogue" that was not released anywhere else.^{[citation needed]}

Personnel

• Sascha Konietzko – Vocals, Programming
• Günter Schulz – Guitar
• Christine Siewert – Vocals
• Dorona Alberti – Vocals

Singles

• Split
• Vogue
• Money
• Help Us/Save Us/Take Us Away

External links

• KMFDM DØTKØM Money lyrics at the official KMFDM website

References

1. ^ http://nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/1peter/1peter2.htm 1 Peter text from the New American Bible, retrieved 20 April 2008