Interzone - Interzone (1981)

Interzone was a German blues-rock group, founded in the beginning of 1979, headed by vocalist Heiner Pudelko. In the beginning Pudelko was not writing his own lyrics, but was fascinated by the poems of Wolf Wondratschek, the great poet for all eccentrics and loners. .

In early 1981, Interzone went into the Berlin 'Audio' recording studio and recorded with co-producer Udo Arndt their first album, still unsigned. Shortly before the end of the production, it came to an agreement with a record company and mid-June 1981, the self titled debut album was released. . Shortly thereafter Interzone played live at Berlin Waldbühne in front of 22,000 fans and were broadcast live on TV. 

Montezuma wrote in 2014 about this album:

Times were pretty easy then: the west was shiny and rich, the east was dark and dirty. Colorbright the west, grey the east. Was it? 
No! There was more between the different sectors. Something between "Die Zone" - how the east was called - and "Der Westen". The Interzone!!

I remember holding this album in my hands for the first time. The angry man on the front - all back & white - with red letters on top: "interzone"

I remember putting this album on my turntable for the first time. Hard blues guitars and a voice killing me immediatly:

"Du verstehst nichts vom Business
sagt der Hintermann"

Shock and awe! And then the refrain came:

"und er kommt dir entgegen
und haut dir mit vergnügtem sinn
in die schnauze rin"
("and he comes towards you
and beats you with a jolly sense
into your trap")

I never heard something like that from a German band. The lyrics felt the same.

I could quote most any song on this album to highlight the lyrics on this. Never had a band such a language of gutter to tell songs from the gutter.

"Kinderlied"("Children's song") is a song about a child who's parents are addicted to drugs and whos mum works as a prostitute too.

And Heiner Pudelko was the perfect singer to this songs.

Interzone didn't sing about the good life, they weren't on the sunny side. Everything was grey and muddy. Like it's been in Berlin, east and west. This was about "blnw".

Tracklist:

Hintermänner 3:59
Blues 3:14
Kinderlied 3:30
Blnw 2:50
Jobs 2:51
Rita & Klaus 3:18
Dilettanten Des Wunders 3:28
Die Lebendigen + Die Toten 4:17
Liebeslied 4:01
Glotze 4:00
Karl 3:59

Interzone - Interzone (1981)

(320 kbps, cover art included)