#Ich tu dir weh

[warminthewintersblog]

Rammstein - Ich Tu Dir Weh (Official Making Of)

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Ich tu dir weh - Rammstein

[darvstein93]

[endlich-allein]

Day 3 — Favorite Single

My favorite single is Ich Tu Dir Weh. I love this song.

I think it represents the band's sixth album very well. Dark song, explicit lyrics and omnipresent guitars. The balance between the hard choruses and the dancing verses is perfect. The perfect recipe for a headbang !

I liked the games between Till and Flake on stage when they performed this song, you know : the fake fight, Till lifting Flake like a sack of potatoes but putting him gently in the bathtub before spilling sparks on him… true love. And also the little improvisations of Till, when he changed the lyrics according to the cities where they played as for example during the concert in Frankfurt in 2009 :

So yes, I love this song !

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Babies

I was busy thinking ‘bout…

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[meinewellemeinstrand]

Day 1 - FAVOURITE SONG

Now that my hyperfixation is at its peak or getting near that I finally feel ready to do this.

So this starts off with an incredibly hard one. Honestly my favourite song strictly depends on my mood, but if I were to choose one and only one it would be Ich tu dir weh.

Trigger warning here because I'm going to talk about some shit.

I know this song is supposed to be about extreme bdsm or whatever but my mind just keeps wandering to self harm. To me this song is entirely about self harming and all the Stacheldahrt im Harnkanal and so on is just a metaphor for finding new ways to hurt myself. Exactly like I have been doing for years. I've struggled with cutting for a few years and when that became too much and not enough at the same time I turned to eating disorders (I understood that was a form of self harming later on) to destroy my body and soul in another way.

Ich tu dir weh is an inner conversation between two sides of myself I equally hate and try to accept. They expressed in words what I've been feeling for the past 15 years. That's also why I chose a verse of this song to have tattooed on me which is: erst stirbst du doch dann lebst du weiter.

One may or may not agree with my interpretation of this song, but this is the main reason I love their lyrics, they can be read in so many ways.

And besides, from a musical point of view, this song is just perfect. It might not be their best, but it's the best to me. And can we talk about how cool it is live? I'm really sad they don't play it live anymore.

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

I finally remembered that i wanted to ask you something for a very long time:

Is it richard who does the back up vocal in deutschland?

And are there any other songs where you can hear that it is him in the background? (Apart from doing it together with paul like in mann gegen mann for example) Sometimes I think that he does the backup in giftig as well.

I don't listen to emigrate so i don't really recognize his voice all the time

Yes, for Deutschland we have confirmation that Richard does backing vocals, together with Meral Al-Mer, this is from the Untitled leaflet:

I think usually on songs the backing vocals are Till's, like when i was looking stuff up for this ask, i came across this talk (Amsterdam 2017) by Jacob Hellner, producer of several Rammstein albums, about the recording proces and a.o. how he tracks the vocals

It's quite long, but in the info you can find the timestamps where he addresses certain topics 🌺

i don't have an example with both Paul and Richad doing backing, but i love when they do so live, with Paul's voice usually being the lower and Richard's the somewhat higher vocals 🌺

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I know many people don't really like Richard's vocals, i think including himself (that's why he has many guest vocalists on Emigrate), but i think he's getting better over the years, i think my favorite is "I'm still alive", and think he sounds especially good in the, for him, higher registers 🥰

[armand-dearest]

What if I prefer Lord of The Lost's cover of Cha Cha Cha........ What then.....?......

[megustacat]

Here’s the link to the Spotify playlist ~ There are additional songs in the original list, but those are the “core” songs

I did a thing (again)!! I still have my dads iPad, so after making the playlist for Ais I decided to do one for all the other LIs as well. Here is Leander’s, in which i tried to combine songs that fit his vibe just as much as songs that fit the opinion about him from the other LIs (+ I added songs I thought might fit the sus vibes a lot of people have diagnosed for Leander’s full character arc in the full game). I hope you like it and if you have any suggestions for further additions let me know!!! ^-^

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[bianca-mii]

Guitarists being cute

Sweet moment between Paul and Richard during Ich tu dir weh

Richard wants his Paulchen sooo badly...

Source: Youtube

[marimayscarlett]

LIFAD turns 15 years old today 💿🎶

On this day, the 16th of October 2009, the album 'Liebe ist für alle da' was released. The work for this album started the year prior, as the preproduction for the album took place from February to October 2008. The focus of the band in the beginning period of the production lay on learning how to work together again, playing songs together and gather ideas. In Hermannshagen, over the course of about one month, the band came up with up to 90 recordings of little snippets (like choruses and riffs), which they recorded for later.

After this brainstorming period, the band moved to the Beesenstedt castle in Sachsen-Anhalt to rehearse. The process apparently was less than easy due to tension in the band. The individual members seemingly first had to reconnect with each other, since the last production had been some time ago. Richard described the process of working on the album as difficult at times: "Everyone was involved and interested in everything, which meant the decision-making power was practically zero because everyone wanted to go in a different direction. Six people on the boat and everyone playing captain – that's really tough."

After the work period in Germany, the band moved over to the US for recording. Drum recording took place in the Henson Studios located in Los Angeles, and the final destination were the Sonoma Studios in San Francisco. The studio they had booked there fell far short of their expectations – the band felt cramped and not as comfortable as they had hoped for a successful recording of their new album. Paul describes it as follows: "There we ended up in a studio that was in the middle of a retiree resort. We had imagined that differently, because actually the area was quite cool. There were cougars and deer running around, but we were in the middle of nowhere, and when we booked, we couldn't see the barbed wire that fenced off all the paths. We felt cramped, and on top of that, the studio wasn't exactly inviting. The owner had hung unsightly things everywhere that we had to take down first. However, after de-cluttering the rooms, we started to feel better."

In total, about 20 songs were recorded, of which 18 songs were published (15 on the special edition of the album, plus Mein Land and Vergiss uns nicht on the single for Mein Land, and Gib mir deine Augen on the single for Mein Herz brennt.)

The promotion for this album was done by advertising clips, for example an old lady enjoying "Frühling in Paris" and a bodybuilder lifting weights while listening to "Mehr".

Eugenio Recuenco was the artist behind the album aesthetic - he shoot the pictures for the booklet as well as for the cover of the album. Richard mentioned a similarity to the painter Hieronymus Bosch regarding the style and arrangment in the pictures. In the US, the cover was censored - an additional inlay paper on top of the usual cover showed the cover picture, but without the woman on the table

Less than a month after the album's release, it was placed on the German index. The reasons given for this were the song Ich tu dir weh, which was seen as glorifying violence, as well as this particular image of Richard:

Due to these reasons, from November 11, 2009, the original version could only be sold upon request to adult customers and was no longer allowed to be advertised. On the re-release of the CD following the indexing of the album, there is only a several-second pause in place of the song. On the cover, Ich tu dir weh is crossed out in red and marked with the footnote "Removed after censorship by the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany." The letters of the song lyrics in the booklet were replaced with Xs except for brief excerpts.

After a lengthy legal dispute, the album was finally removed from the index in October 2011 and can once again be distributed with Ich tu dir weh.

Nevertheless: The album, like its predecessors, entered directly at number 1 on the German charts and stayed there for two weeks. In total, it was in the Top 100 for 83 weeks. It also held the number 1 spot for several weeks in Austria and Switzerland, and even reached the Top 20 of the album charts in the USA and the UK. In the ranking of the best-selling albums in Germany in 2009, Liebe ist für alle da ranked 7th.

Some additional facts surrounding the album:

During their tour for the album, Rammstein performed Ich tu dir weh with altered lyrics.

The album was originally supposed to be called Wiener Blut – like the Rammstein song about child abductor Josef Fritzl. However, they decided against it because there was already a Falco album with the same name.

Richard about the album title: '"Liebe ist für alle da" (Love is there for everyone) is a very Christian thought. Of course, one must ask, is love really there for everyone? I would hope that it is. Can we forgive those who have misunderstood love? I often think about that, and I fail, then make some progress, only to go back again.'

The chorus of Frühling in Paris is inspired by Edith Piaf's chanson Non, je ne regrette rien.

Four years after the album's release, Führe mich was used as a soundtrack for Lars Von Trier's controversial film Nymphomaniac.

The song Haifisch is inspired by Mack the Knife from Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.

Sources: rammwiki metalhammer rammstein.de welt.de noz.de

[tenebris83]

I hurt you

I'm not sorry

It's good for you

Listen how you scream

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Till Lindemann in the Ich Tu Dir Weh music video

[dandysnob]

When Paul randomly shit on Flake during the Ich Tu Dir Weh Making Of 💀

Flake's reaction never fails to crack me up! 👑