The band Lustfinger was founded in Munich in 1981, has had quite a few successes throughout its history, and now has a new album out. Although the term "band" is somewhat questionable here, as time has taken its toll, and singer Fock is the only remnant from earlier times. In the current Taugenix fanzine, I read him talking in an interview about "hired musicians." Well, everyone likes it their own way, and others like it how it tastes to them... The advantage of "hired musicians" seems to be that they master their instruments to perfection. Musically, the album has quite a lot to offer, and it is extremely well-produced, along with hefty promotion, strong distribution, and all that jazz. As a Southern German punk band, it also reminds one of bands like Normahl and so on. Additionally, of course, it reminds me of Hosen, and I even felt a bit reminded of Extrabreit. And I like the songs of these bands, some more than others, but in the end, I like all three. The problem is: Lustfinger lacks the hardness and lyrical sharpness compared to these bands. And that’s a tough pill to swallow... Sure, on this album, there are decent songs like "Heilig," "Millionär," and "Soviele Träume," which you can play in the background while working, philosophizing, or having sex, and I can certainly imagine that they come across differently live (I remember the Nürnberg X-Mas Festival 2006, I think it was like that...), but what punk rock means to me does not come across on this album! This is the kind of music you find at Saturn between Planlos and Massendefekt in the Tralala punk corner. If you don’t know where that is, it’s somewhere near Cuddle Metal; otherwise, just ask the salesperson... The problem is that some verses can be quite enjoyable, but then the chorus drifts back into a schlager-like sound. This is most evident in "Sterne auf Maria." Lyrically, it does convey a certain kind of positive fighting spirit that one expects from a punk rocker like Fock, who deserves more than respect despite all the differing opinions about his band! But overall, it feels too much like rebel romance without any substantive depth or too much party music ("Geburtstags-Song"), and sometimes it’s just damn cheesy, too vividly expressed. And I don’t want to hear anything about "Sabine Christiansen," I’d rather marry Anne Will! But I must say, if you had sent a one-song CD like Zaunpfahl with "Märchenland" and the chorus wasn’t so poppy, you would have almost become a record tip here ("You should swallow everything just because profit rules / And nothing will change because no one risks anything / In France, the sky is burning because the youth is rebelling / The weak get kicked even harder when they no longer resist (...) They pocket the money / And suddenly you should be "Germany" "). Instead, you had to press one song too many on the CD - "Mia kumma wieda." Nothing against a football song about 1860 Munich; one is tolerant as a Cologne fan - but that’s not punk, that’s not rock, that’s not pop, that’s just Bavarian schlager!!! And that’s just not acceptable!!! Never! Fucking crap!!! Now there’s one point less...
Andy
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