What Do You Know, Deutschland?

Infobox Album
Name = What Do You Know, Deutschland?
Type = album
Artist = KMFDM


Released = 1986
Recorded = The Building Site & Zitty Sound, Hamburg, West Germany
Genre = Industrial rock
Length = 40:50 (Z Records)
48:13 (SkySaw Records)
57:47 (Wax Trax!/TVT)
Label = Z Records
Producer = KMFDM
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2c8j1vjjzzma link]
Last album = "Opium"
(1984)
This album = "What Do You Know, Deutschland?"
(1986)
Next album = "Don't Blow Your Top"
(1988)

"What Do You Know, Deutschland?" is a 1986 album by KMFDM. Indicative of the band's early style, the music is relatively crude, with a strong drum beat and synthesizer. The title track is a lengthy montage of spliced samples parodying US involvement in Europe post World War II. The songs on "What Do You Know, Deutschland?" are rarely played live. The album was recorded in Hamburg, Germany.

Originally released by Z Records in Germany in 1986, the album was re-released, with several additional tracks but without "Conillon", in 1987 by SkySaw Records in the United Kingdom. In 1991, Wax Trax! Records released "What Do You Know, Deutschland?" in the United States without "Zip" but with the additional tracks "Lufthans" and "Itchy Bitchy (Dance Version)".

A digitally remastered reissue of "What Do You Know, Deutschland?" was released September 12, 2006, along with 1988's "Don't Blow Your Top" and 1989's "UAIOE". The re-release includes the track "Zip", marking the first time all tracks from the various versions of the album were available together on the same disc.

Track listing

Z Records release (1986)

# "Zip" (En Esch, Sascha Konietzko) – 5:11
# "Deutsche Schuld" (Konietzko, Nainz Watts, Esch) – 4:45
# "Sieg Sieg" (Konietzko, Watts, Esch) – 7:00
# "Positiv" (Konietzko, Watts, Esch) – 3:25
# "Conillon" (Konietzko, Watts, Esch) – 5:50
# "What Do You Know?" (Watts) – 6:25
# "Me I Funk" (Konietzko, Watts, Esch) – 8:14

kySaw Records release (1987)

# "Kickin' Ass" (Konietzko, Watts, Esch) – 4:01 (The Skysaw LP contains an edited version with additional samples, 3:01)
# "Me I Funk" – 8:24
# "What Do You Know?" – 5:56
# "Zip" – 5:12
# "Itchy Bitchy" (Konietzko, Watts, Jr. Blackmail) – 3:33
# "Deutsche Schuld" – 4:48
# "Sieg Sieg" – 5:36
# "Positiv" – 3:31
# "The Unrestrained Use of Excessive Force" (Watts) – 7:12

Wax Trax!/TVT releases

# "Kickin' Ass" – 4:03
# "Me I Funk" – 8:19
# "What Do You Know?" – 5:34
# "Conillon" – 5:57
# "Itchy Bitchy" – 3:35
# "Deutsche Schuld" – 4:49
# "Sieg Sieg" – 5:33
# "Positiv" – 3:28
# "Lufthans" (Jr. Blackmail) – 4:44
# "Itchy Bitchy (Dance Version)" – 3:54
# "The Unrestrained Use of Excessive Force" – 7:11

Metropolis reissue (2006) (MET439)

# "Kickin' Ass" – 4:01
# "Me I Funk" – 8:14
# "What Do You Know?" – 6:25
# "Zip" – 3:12
# "Conillon" – 5:50
# "Itchy Bitchy" – 3:33
# "Deutsche Schuld" – 4:45
# "Sieg Sieg" – 5:33
# "Positiv" – 3:25
# "Lufthans" – 4:48
# "Itchy Bitchy (Dance Version)" – 4:00
# "The Unrestained Use of Excessive Force" – 7:03

*"Zip" is also found on the rareties compilation album "Agogo".

Personnel

*Sascha Konietzko
*En Esch
*Raymond Watts
*Jr. Blackmail

ingles

*"Kickin' Ass"

External links

* [http://www.kmfdm.net/discography/albums/wdykd.htm KMFDM DØTKØM] "What Do You Know, Deutschland?" lyrics at the official KMFDM website