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01. Hans-A-Plast - Rock'n Roll Freitag
02. Hans-A-Plast - Lederhosentyp
03. Hans-A-Plast - Für 'ne Frau
04. Hans-A-Plast - Monopoly
05. Hans-A-Plast - Teenage Traum
06. Hans-A-Plast - Rank Xerox
07. Hans-A-Plast - Es brennt
08. Hans-A-Plast - Starfighter
09. Hans-A-Plast - Polizeiknüppel
10. Hans-A-Plast - Man Of Stone
11. Hans-A-Plast - Amerikaner
12. Hans-A-Plast - Hau ab du stinkst
13. Hans-A-Plast - O, O, O
ARTIST
TITLE
Hans-A-Plast
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TR 533CD TR 533CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/4/2023

Reissue, originally released in 1979. "The year is 2014: a sharp cry leaps out of my laptop's speakers. 'Ace!' the young punk girl yells into the microphone, 'Let's get this disco started.' She's wearing leather trousers with back to front braces as she sings about hot boys with similar dress sense. The band play fast, their sound is clear, curt, and catchy. What is this and where did it come from? Hans-A-Plast is what it is, straight out of Hanover . . . The year is 1978, fifteen years before I was born. 56 years earlier, the first self-adhesive plasters went on sale in Germany. A gang of four: two young women, two young men -- Bettina, Renate, Jens, and Micha -- form a group and name themselves after the aforementioned plasters (Hansaplast) . . . Annette takes 'Man of Stone' (one of their own) with her when she joins Hans-A-Plast, the band she meets in November 1978 at the first No Fun Festival, where Hans-A-Plast and Slime play together. Bettina asks Annette if she would like to sing for them -- yes, she would. Fast forward to the rehearsal bunker as Bettina hands Annette the lyrics to three songs: 'Lederhosentyp', 'Rock 'n' Roll Freitag' and 'Hau ab du stinkst'. The creative spark ignites and the three songs soon become 13. A few festivals follow, including the January 1979 event 'Into The Future' at the Hamburg Markthalle. In September of the same year, the band record their eponymous debut album in just four days, at the Toncooperative studio in Hanover, ably assisted by Rainer in his first encounter with punk. Emulating her idol Poly Styrene, Annette adds a wonderfully off-key alto saxophone to the mix: tracks like 'Für 'ne Frau' fizz with charisma and chutzpah, flying in the face of 'good girl' expectations, just as one might expect . . . One thousand copies represented the break-even point, but the album sold ten times that before the year was out. Although bigger labels came knocking, the group chose to set up their own record company under the name of No Fun..." --Max "Drangsal" Gruber