What Do You Know Deutschland?

• Artist: KMFDM
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1986
• Total Time: 57:37
• Type: Contains explicit content, Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

This 1986 debut by the Sascha Konietzko-led KMFDM features some of the better industrial/dance experiments recorded by the one-time media artist between 1983 and 1985. Plodding and repetitive tracks like "Conillon" and "Positiv" render What do You Know, Deutschland? less energetic than later releases as they lack the guitar fury that figures prominently in KMFDM's better mid-career work. There are still plenty of tasty synth flurries within the disc's more dance-oriented industrial material. Violent and perverted lyrical themes ("Itchy Bitchy") occasionally give way to the scathing political commentary ("What do You Know") that helped define the group's subversive identity. Featuring Aidan Hughes's first contribution to what would eventually be one of rock music's most memorable cover art collections, What do You Know, Deutschland? has enough industrial grit to keep KMFDM fans interested in, if not awed by its dark intentions. ~ Vincent Jeffries, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Kickin' Ass	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(4:08)
Me I Funk	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(8:24)
What Do You Know? [Instrumental]	Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(5:36)
Zip	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko	KMFDM	(5:11)
Conillon	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(5:58)
Itchy Bitchy [Dance Version]	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(3:37)
Deutsche Schuld [Instrumental]	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(4:48)
Sieg Sieg [Instrumental]	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(5:36)
Positiv	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(3:31)
Lufthans		KMFDM	(4:48)
Itchy Bitchy [Dance Version]	En Esch, Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(3:58)
The Unrestrained Use of Excessive Force	Raymond Watts	KMFDM	(7:14)

Credits

KMFDM (Producer), KMFDM (Main Performer), En Esch (Guitar), En Esch (Drums), En Esch (Programming), En Esch (Vocals), En Esch (Producer), En Esch (Mixing), En Esch (Group Member), Sascha Konietzko (Synthesizer), Sascha Konietzko (Bass), Sascha Konietzko (Guitar), Sascha Konietzko (Programming), Sascha Konietzko (Vocals), Sascha Konietzko (Producer), Sascha Konietzko (Mixing), Sascha Konietzko (Remastering), Sascha Konietzko (Re-Equalizer), Sascha Konietzko (Group Member), Brute (Cover Art), Günter Schulz (Group Member), Nai0nz Raymond Watts (?), Raymond Watts (Programming), Raymond Watts (Vocals), Raymond Watts (Producer), Raymond Watts (Engineer), Raymond Watts (Mixing), Raymond Watts (Group Member), Jr. Blackmail (Vocals), Jr. Blackmail (Producer), Jr. Blackmail (Mixing), Jr. Blackmail (Group Member), Christopher J. Hanke (Engineer), Justin Gammon (Layout Design), Brutefish (Digital Artwork), Alice Truzynski (Photography), Patrick Volkmar (Project Manager)