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"Du riechst so gut" (German for You smell so good) was the first single Rammstein released, and the first from the album Herzeleid. It describes a predator seeking its victim and features themes of insanity and obsession in a stalker. The song might be inspired by the novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind, one of Till Lindemann's favorite books. It was re-released in 1998.
[edit] Music video
A music video was released for this single, depicting the band members shirtless in an all white environment. The video opens with a Doberman Pinscher walking across the screen, with repeated cuts throughout of the dog looking curiously at the camera along with flowers shown in the Herzeleid album cover and this single. Till Lindemann is portrayed in simple close-up shots, sternly singing the lyrics and at one point sporting a menacing pair of goggles. These are strikingly similar to Till's eyepieces shown on the Sehnsucht cover.
[edit] Live story
The song was first performed during the very first Rammstein show, on April 14th, 1994 in Leipzig, Germany.[1] A fan favorite, it was used as the last song of the show during many of the Herzeleid tour concerts. During live concerts in the Sehnsucht tour, Till usually simulated firing rockets over the audience with a bow (actually propelled sitting on a string) and then the bow started to propel sparks in all directions as Till rotated it. During some concerts, he used it during different songs, like Laichzeit at the Bizarre Festival in 1997, or Du hast, during the Family Values tour in 1998. Guitarists Paul and Richard would conduct the audience during the extended solo. The song wasn't played at all during the whole 2001-2002 Mutter tour, but it returned to the setlists on their Reise, Reise tour. This time Richard and Paul wore jackets that shot flames/sparks from one of their sleeves, running from the shoulder down to their forearms;[2] one would stand facing away from the audience, the other would stand facing the audience, and then the pyrotechnics would be activated simultaneously while the two performed the tapping hammer on solo.[3]
[edit] Track listing
- Du riechst so gut (Single Version) - 4:50
- Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen? (Album Version) - 5:19
- Du riechst so gut (Scal Remix by Project Pitchfork) - 4:45
[edit] 1998 re-release
On April 17, 1998, "Du riechst so gut" was re-released as a single under the title, "Du riechst so gut '98". The song is exactly the same as the original, except the start is longer and it features a new music video. It describes a predator seeking its victim and features themes of insanity and obsession in a stalker. It was released only a few months after Rammstein's second studio album, Sehnsucht. Despite the release of several singles, the re-release makes "Du riechst so gut" both the first and last single from Herzeleid.
[edit] Music video
The music video depicts the band members as some sort of Werewolf creatures, who look like albinos and follow a young woman to a castle, infect her, then escape.
[edit] Track listing
- Du riechst so gut '98 - 4:24
- Du riechst so gut - 1:58 (Remix by Faith No More)
- Du riechst so gut - 4:07 (Remix by Günter Schulz (KMFDM) & Hiwatt Marshall )
- Du riechst so gut - 4:47 (Remix by Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM) )
- Du riechst so gut - 4:45 (Remix by Olav Bruhn (Bobo In White Wooden Houses) )
- Du riechst so gut - 3:53 (Remix by Sascha Moser (Bobo In White Wooden Houses) )
- Du riechst so gut - 4:34 (Remix by Jacob Hellner / Marc Stagg )
- Du riechst so gut - 5:18 ("Migräne-"remix by Günter Schulz (KMFDM))
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