Fool's Garden (album)

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Fool's Garden
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Studio album by
Released1991
RecordedJune 1990 – August 1991
Genre Alternative rock, pop rock, indie pop
Length50:21
Producer Claudia & Gunter Koch
Fool's Garden chronology
Fool's Garden
(1991)
Once in a Blue Moon
(1993)
Singles from Fool's Garden

Fool's Garden is the first studio album by the rock band Fool's Garden. It was released in 1991. The album is one of two records where singer Peter Freudenthaler and guitarist Volker Hinkel share lead vocals equally. The album is dedicated to John Winston Lennon.

Contents

Track listing

Music & lyrics by Volker Hinkel, otherwise stated.

  1. "Awakenings" (4:34)
  2. "Man In A Cage" (3:42) (Hinkel, Claus-Dieter Wissler)
  3. "Scared" (1:24)
  4. "Careless Games" (3:58)
  5. "Sandy" (5:49) (Peter Freudenthaler)
  6. "One Way Out" (6:34) (Hinkel - music, Hinkel & Wissler - lyrics)
  7. "Cry Baby Cry" (Lennon, McCartney) (2:29)
  8. "Spirit Of The Disappeared" (4:22) (Hinkel, Wissler)
  9. "Lena" (4:50) (Hinkel - music, Freudenthaler - lyrics)
  10. "No Flowers By Request" (2:24)
  11. "Tell Me Who I Am" (3:09) (Freudenthaler)
  12. "The Part Of The Fool" (4:23)
  13. "You're Not Forgotten" (2:43)

Singles

  1. "Tell Me Who I Am / Careless Games" (double A-sided single released in 1991)

Musicians

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