| Laibach | ||||
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| Studio album by Laibach | ||||
| Released | April 27, 1985 | |||
| Genre | Martial industrial, industrial | |||
| Length | 40:59 | |||
| Label | ŠKUC (Student Cultural Centre) | |||
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Laibach is the debut album of the Yugoslavian (now Slovenia) industrial group Laibach. It was first released on LP in 1985, and reissued on CD in 1991 with two extra tracks composed by Laibach's sub-group 300.000 V.K. Another CD reissue in 1999 featured further bonus material.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Cari Amici Soldati (Dear Soldier Friends)" | 1:51 |
| 2. | "Sila (Force)" | 4:03 |
| 3. | "Sredi Bojev (In the Midst of Struggles)" | 8:09 |
| 4. | "Država (State)" | 4:20 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 5. | "Dekret (Decree)" | 4:26 |
| 6. | "Mi kujemo bodočnost! (We Are Forging the Future!)" | 4:45 |
| 7. | "Brat moj (My Brother)" | 5:59 |
| 8. | "Panorama" | 4:57 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 9. | "N.Y. 1984 - Policijski hit (The Police Hit)" | 3:27 |
| 10. | "Prva TV generacija (The First TV Generation)" | 3:02 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 11. | "Der Zivilisation (The Civilisation)" | 4:50 |
| 12. | "L'Homme armé (The Armed Man)" | 4:19 |
| 13. | "One Plus One" | 9:05 |
Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) collective, a group which Laibach helped found in 1984. "Laibach" is the German historical name for the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, itself an oblique reference to the Nazi occupation of Slovenia in World War II.
Neue Slowenische Kunst is a political art collective that formed in Slovenia in 1984, when the Socialist Republic of Slovenia was part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. NSK's name was chosen to reflect the theme in its works of the complicated relationship Slovenes have had with Germans. The name of NSK's music wing, Laibach, is also the German name of the Slovene capital Ljubljana. The name created controversy because some felt it evoked memories of the Nazi annexation of Slovenia during the Second World War. It also refers to Slovenia's previous seven centuries as part of the Habsburg monarchy.
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Nova akropola is the second studio album by Laibach. It was released in 1986.
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Opus Dei is the third studio album by Slovenian band Laibach, released in 1987. It features "Geburt einer Nation", a German language cover version of Queen's "One Vision", and two reworkings of the Austrian band Opus' sole international hit single "Live Is Life". The Opus song became the German language "Leben heißt Leben" and the English language "Opus Dei". "The Great Seal" is the national anthem of the NSK State, the lyrics taken from Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. A new arrangement of the song appears on Laibach's album Volk, with the title "NSK". On Volk, the song is credited to Laibach and Slavko Avsenik, Jr.
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Sympathy for the Devil is a compilation album by Laibach and follows on from their The Beatles cover album Let It Be. Sympathy for the Devil features seven cover versions of The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil" and one original Laibach track. The tracks are recorded both by Laibach and a variety of side projects with Laibach members.
Macbeth is a 1990 album by Slovenian avant-garde music group Laibach. It consists of music composed and performed by Laibach for a 1987 production of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth by Wilfried Minks at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany in 1987. It is the second Laibach album consisting of music written for a play, after their 1986 album Baptism.
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WAT is the sixth studio album by Slovenian music group Laibach, released September 8, 2003.
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Anthems is a compilation by the Slovenian industrial music group Laibach. It was released in 2004 as a double album. The first CD contains a collection of Laibach's best tracks throughout the years, while the second disc accommodates remixes of Laibach songs by different artists. Besides the CDs, the Anthems box also contains a 44-page booklet with a history of Laibach plus several paintings and photographs by and of the band.
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