Flores

However, due to the destructive practice of local fishermen using bombs to fish, and locals selling shells to tourists, the reefs are slowly being destroyed. The cover art uses the same source image as that of Rosenrot. There is good snorkelling and diving on several locations along the north coast of Flores, most notably Maumere and Riung. Reportedly, the first 38 seconds (as the introduction in the American version and "easter egg" in the European version) of the title track were removed for the Japanese Edition in deference to the JAL Flight 123 disaster. The latest colours (late 2004) were said to be turquoise, brown and black. However, it was too late to change it so they decided to use it for Japanese version. These coloured lakes change colours on a regular basis. It has two bonus tracks, a bonus DVD and different cover art.Rammstein stated that they came out with a different cover/theme for the Japanese CD because they no longer liked the original cover of Reise, Reise, but preferred this cover.

The most famous tourist attraction in Flores is Kelimutu; three coloured lakes in the district of Ende. In May 2005 Rammstein released a special Japanese version of Reise, Reise. In other places in Indonesia, such as in the Malukus and Sulawesi the divide is less stark and has created bloody conflict. On this release, the easter egg fragment is placed at the beginning of "Reise, Reise" in normal playback and not hidden. Flores is almost all Catholic and represents one of the "religious borders" created by the Catholic expansion in the Pacific and the spread of Islam from the west across Indonesia. In fact, the strongest metaphor in the song is the comparison of love to a wild animal that many try and fail to tame. Their influence is still dicernible in Sikka's language and culture. Amour has a rather mellow beat and lyrics that deal with love and the pain that goes with it.

Portuguese traders and missionaries came to Flores in the 16th century, mainly to Larantuka and Sikka. It shows the band members climbing and hiking. Locals would probably also add So'a and Bajawa to this list, which anthropologists have labeled dialects of Ngadha. The video was filmed in the Kaun Valley and on the Pitz Valley glacier in Tyrol, Austria. These are from west to east: Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio and Palu'e, which is spoken on the island with the same name of the north coast of Flores. Much of the instrumentation is the same for both versions, and Lindemann's voice is softer in the current version. At least six separate languages are identifiable. Both versions, the current and the beta version, are very similar.

Within this area there are slight linguistic differences in almost every village. Indeed, Ohne dich was planned for Mutter, but then dismissed. In the centre of the island in the districts of Ngada and Ende there is what is variously called the Central Flores Dialect Chain or the Central Flores Linkage. The single includes as its 6th track the so-called beta version of what should have been part of Mutter. There are many languages spoken on the island of Flores, all of them belonging to the Austronesian family. The central motif is Without you, I cannot be, without you..., With you, I am also alone, without you.... [1]. It follows a slow, even romantic balladic style.

The discovery has been published in the October 28, 2004 issue of Nature magazine. Other countries' releases followed up from that date. Local reports of elf-like people, the Ebu Gogo, or the Orang Pendek of Sumatra, have caused speculation that Flores man may have survived into the historical period, or even to the present. "Ohne dich" was released as a the third single from the album on 22 November 2004 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. They may have existed until as recently as 11,000 BC. The song is a slow and brooding monologue of someone building a little house to entomb his victim alive - a possible interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. Homo floresiensis, affectionately termed hobbits, appear to be miniaturized versions of Homo erectus standing about one metre tall. The song refers to the Russian capital of Moscow and features two perspectives on the city: its beauty and culture, and the undercurrents of corruption.

In September 2003, at Liang Bua Cave in western Flores, paleoanthropologists discovered skeletons of a previously unknown hominid species. Rumored to have originally been intended as a duet with Julia Volkova of Russian pop duo T.A.T.u., it instead features the vocals of Viktoria Fersh, whose voice bears a strong resemblance to Volkova's. The Flores giant rat is also endemic to the Island. This caused concerts scheduled in Asia to be canceled. The west coast of Flores is one of the few places, aside from the island of Komodo itself, where the Komodo dragon can be found in the wild. During a concert in Gothenburg, Sweden on July 30, 2005, Till Lindemann suffered a knee injury when Flake accidentally ran into him with the Segway. Flores has several active and dormant volcanoes, including Egon, Ilimuda, Lereboleng, and Lewotobi (see the full list). This parodies the ticker-tape parade.

The island is split into five regencies (local government districts); from west to east these are: Manggarai, Ngada, Ende, Sikka and Flores Timur. During live performances of this song, Flake is often seen riding around on a Segway HT; confetti cannons, with red, white and blue confetti in them, are also used. Flores is part of the East Nusa Tenggara province. Till Lindemann, Rammstein's lead singer, wears a space suit with the name "Armstrong" on it - an obvious reference to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon. . The end of the video shows that the band have actually been in a fake Moon set in a studio, complete with film crew, as a reference to Apollo moon landing hoax accusations. To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi. The video shows the band in Apollo-era space suits on the Moon with shots of other cultures acting like Americans.

To the southeast is Timor. The band view it as a satirical commentary on Cocacolonization. Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor archipelago. It has received mixed reviews: some perceive it as anti-American, others as being opposed to globalization. Flores (Portuguese for "flowers") is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. It is sung largely in German with a chorus partly in English: We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar, We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika. Flores Man special at Nature.com. It deals with the worldwide dominance of the culture of the United States of America.

"Amerika" was the second single released from Reise Reise. It was due to be released as the fifth single from "Reise, Reise" but it was cancelled following the release of the first single, Benzin, from the next album, Rosenrot. Los is almost complete acoustic, featuring a bluesy electric guitar solo and harmonica. On the video "The Making of Keine Lust", guitarist Richard Kruspe-Bernstein discussed the meaning of the song and video.

The Video was up for a nomination for the MTV European Music Awards in November 2005. At the end of the video, the rest of the band abandons Flake, after he arrives late. Flake appears in a motorized wheelchair. The video, filmed in January of 2005 and released a month later, portrays a visibly aged and fat future version of the band, playing a reunion of sorts.

Keine Lust, also released as a single, digipack and two-track, describes the band's disaffection with fame and money. The alarmed father rides for help, holding the child in his arms, only to find that his son is dead; Rammstein replaces this with a typically morbid twist: after running into a storm sent by the "king of all the winds" which threatens all the passengers, the terrified father suffocates the child by holding him too tightly and the child's soul joins its "brothers" in the winds. In the poem, the child cries out that the Erlkönig is abducting it. Rammstein's version differs markedly from Goethe's original in describing the fate of the child.

As in the poem, the travellers are menaced by a mysterious spirit which "invites" the child to join him (though only the child can hear the spirit's invitation). The song replaces Goethe's travelling man and child on horseback with a man and child on an aircraft, and the Erlkönig himself with the "king of all the winds". Other than this somewhat oblique reference, the song does not have anything to do with Tibetan Buddhism or the Dalai Lama. "Flugangst" ("fear of flying", or more loosely "flight fright") was also considered as a name before Rammstein settled on "Dalai Lama" in reference to the current Dalai Lama's well-publicised dislike of air travel.

The band apparently considered calling the song "Erlkönig" in homage to Goethe's poem. Dalai Lama is an adaptation of der Erlkönig, a poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) in 1782 and subsequently set to music by many composers, including Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) in 1815. This content led to its airing on TV being restricted to after 11pm. The video shows Till eating and copulating with an angel; Flake performing ballet; Richard wrestling his twin, Oliver writhing on the floor in a spasm; the whole band fighting in a mudpit; and five of the band members crawling out of a Berlin U-Bahn (subway) station while held on leashes carried by "Frau" Christoph Schneider, who is dressed as a woman.

Flake escapes from the pot and starts running around the stage with flames erupting from his arms and legs, while chased by a knife-wielding Till. After the second chorus, Till takes a flamethrower and roasts the bottom of the pot, "cooking" Flake. Keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz appears in the pot, with metal cylinders attached to his arms and legs, and plays the keyboard during the song. He pulls out a giant cooking pot with a portable keyboard attached to one side.

In live performance, Till Lindemann appears dressed as a blood-stained chef holding a microphone with a large butcher's knife attached to the end. The song has also been remixed by Arthur Baker and Pet Shop Boys (these are included on the CD single). Mein Teil attracted considerable controversy in Germany, with the media dubbing it the "Kannibalensong", and this helped to boost it to second place in the German music charts after its release in early August 2004. It was written after one of the band brought a newspaper with the story to a rehearsal.

Mein Teil ("My part", German slang for "my penis") was inspired by the 2001 Armin Meiwes cannibalism case. The American version has this "hidden" track on the beginning of the album with no rewinding involved.). (This can only be done on the European version of the album. Easter egg: If the CD is rewound back 38 seconds into negative time at the beginning (right before Reise, Reise) and then played, a fragment of the flight recorder of the aforementioned aircraft disaster can be heard.

¹"Teil" means "part" or "piece", but it is also a slang word for penis, similar to the English word "thing". 520 out of the 524 passengers and crew died, and it is still the worst single aircraft disaster in history. A Boeing 747, Japan Airlines Flight 123 took off from Haneda airport, Tokyo, and about 30 minutes later, crashed into the side of a mountain. The airplane accident on which the album is based occurred on the 12 August 1985, very nearly 20 years ago exactly.

There is a video for the title track found here [1] combined with clips of The Day After Tomorrow. It is also suggestive of the overarching 'travelling' theme of the album. The whole cover art is an allusion to the song Dalai Lama, which deals with an airplane accident. All versions include a booklet with the lyrics.

The CD itself has a silver matte/reflective relief surface which depicts a radar. The inner part of the Digipak edition case shows a picture of the six members in suits wielding suitcases and weapons leaving from a crashed airplane. Its caption ("Flugrekorder//nicht öffnen") means "Flight recorder//do not open". The case cover shows a damaged airplane blackbox (which are painted orange to enable quick location among crash debris) depicted on the front and back covers.

. Given Rammstein's propensity to use puns, a double meaning could well be intended, in which case the title would also translate to 'Journey, Journey'. Hence the translation of the title would be Arise, Arise, as seen in the song of the same name. As used in Reise, Reise aufstehen! Kommt hoch nach alter Seemannsart, the album name is an old sailor's expression to wake or rise other sailors.

The album ranked at #67 for Top 100 Albums of 2004 by Rate Your Music. It has been in the Top 10 in several European charts and a number 1 hit in Germany. It was released in North America on 16 November of the same year. Reise, Reise was Rammstein's fourth studio album, released on 27 September 2004 in Germany, followed shortly by its release in the rest of Europe.

"Keine Lust", released in February 2005. "Ohne dich", released in November 2004. "Amerika", released in September 2004. "Mein Teil", the first single, released in July 2004.

"Amour" - French for "Love". "Ohne dich" ("Without you"). "Stein um Stein" ("Stone by stone"). "Morgenstern" ("Morning star").

"Moskau" ("Moscow"). "Amerika" ("America"). "Los" ("(Let's) go" or "-less"). "Keine Lust" ("No desire").

"Dalai Lama". "Mein Teil" ("My part"). "Reise, Reise" ("Arise, arise" or "Journey, journey" / "Travel, travel").