Opus Dei

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共12首歌曲

艺人: Laibach
语种: 英语
厂牌: Wax Trax!
发行时间: 1987年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Ned Raggett

Having gained a fair amount of underground attention throughout Europe, particularly in both Germany and England, Laibach made its first attempt at crossing over -- in a way -- with Opus Dei. An alliance with Mute records led to Rico Conning handling the production, while the group decided to spell out the connections between mega-arena rock & roll and fascist spectacle all the more directly. Two brilliant singles were the end result, the first being &Geburt Einer Nation,& a German-language cover of Queen's then-recent smash hit &One Vision,& transformed into a Wagner-ian stompalong that remained as catchy as the original but with far more disturbing overtones. Hearing guttural voices talking about &one world, one people& over stomping drums and dramatic horns makes for pure Big Brother nightmares -- undoubtedly the point. Arguably even more fascinating was &Life Is Life,& a hippie-ish song by the German group Opus that was reworked by Laibach into two different versions -- the German-language &Leben Heisst Leben& and the English &Opus Dei.& Both are amazing, dramatic, and, thanks to some soft keyboards, even beautiful -- imagining a strutting, face-to-the-sun group of party members sweeping over the globe with these as accompaniment takes no effort at all. The dumbass metal soloing on the German-language version is especially hilarious. The other tracks on Opus Dei are a mixed but worthy bunch, showing the group trashing stylistic boundaries with more classical/hard rock/martial/dancefloor combinations. The results can be weirdly sweet like the start of &F.I.A.T.& or explosive like &Leben-Tod& or the quick, nervous bombast of &Trans-National,& but they're all good in their own ways. The CD includes four selections from Baptism as a bonus, that particular recording having not yet been released at the time of Opus Dei's appearance.

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