39 Clocks

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DNS 03:32 Tools
Shake The Hippie 03:39 Tools
Psycho Beat 02:52 Tools
Test The Beat 02:51 Tools
Twisted & Shouts 02:57 Tools
39 Explosion Heats 02:28 Tools
Heat Of Violence 03:31 Tools
stupid art 02:48 Tools
A Look Into You 07:08 Tools
78 Soldier Dead 05:20 Tools
Out Of Sight 02:22 Tools
Radical Student Mob in Satin Boots 02:43 Tools
Rainy Night Insanities 07:08 Tools
My Tears Will Drown The World 02:50 Tools
Psychotic Louie Louie 02:59 Tools
Dom (Electricity Elects The Rain) 07:27 Tools
Plo 03:55 Tools
You Can't Count The Bombs (It's Zero) 03:53 Tools
fast cars 03:43 Tools
Past Tense Hope & Instant Fears On 42nd Street 06:22 Tools
78 SOLDIERS DEAD 06:22 Tools
New Crime Appeal 03:13 Tools
aspettando godot 05:26 Tools
A Touch Of Rot 02:21 Tools
Three Floors Down 03:50 Tools
Aspetando Godo 03:51 Tools
past tense hopes & instant fears on 42nd street 06:21 Tools
Virtous Girl 02:21 Tools
Virtuous Girl 02:21 Tools
Eternal Yesterdays 03:12 Tools
What Never Happened 04:04 Tools
Eve of Destruction 02:52 Tools
Art Minus Idiots 03:37 Tools
Mr. Diamond 03:10 Tools
Il Ne Porte Pas Ses Nylons Négligés 04:20 Tools
But You Know 07:07 Tools
(They Don't Dance Much) The Violent Ones 05:30 Tools
I'm Not Alone Without You (Ce N'est Pas Pervers) 01:51 Tools
Shake Ghaddafi's Blues 04:32 Tools
Dom 00:30 Tools
P.L.O. 04:23 Tools
I Love A Girl - Bonustrack 03:35 Tools
39 Progress Of A Psychotic 04:19 Tools
Signs & Toys 04:50 Tools
Your Prick Makes Me Sick 03:12 Tools
Dom - Electricity Elects the Rain 07:31 Tools
Shadow Or A Man 02:30 Tools
Cold Steel To The Heart (& it beats no more) 05:24 Tools
I Love A Girl 03:35 Tools
Beat Your Brain Out 01:00 Tools
The Great Chomeini 04:00 Tools
Past Tense Hopes & Instant Fears on 42nd Street - Live at the Markthalle 06:31 Tools
Radical Students In Satin Boots 02:44 Tools
I Love a Girl (Bonus Track) 03:35 Tools
I Love a Girl - Bonus Track 02:47 Tools
The Violent Ones 03:00 Tools
Cold Steel To The Heart (And It Beats No More) 05:28 Tools
Past Tense Hopes & Instant Fears on 42nd Street (Live) 03:32 Tools
Radical Student Mob In Satin 05:28 Tools
Psychotic Louie Louie / 39 Clocks 03:00 Tools
twisted and shouts 03:00 Tools
twist and shout 03:35 Tools
Aspetando Godot 00:00 Tools
PLO (Album) 03:00 Tools
Past Tense Hopes & Instant Fears on 42nd Street (Live at the Markthalle) 03:00 Tools
Past Tense Hopes & Instant Fears on 42nd Street - Live 03:00 Tools
I Love A Girl (Bonustrack) 03:35 Tools
Past Tense Hope & Fears On 42nd Street 06:17 Tools
Fast Cars (Album) 03:35 Tools
You Can't Count The Bombs 06:17 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_02 06:17 Tools
Heat Of Violence - 1982 03:00 Tools
Explosion Heats 03:32 Tools
DNS [Bonus] 03:32 Tools
Art Minus Idiots [Bonus] 03:32 Tools
Shake The Hippie - 1981 00:00 Tools
DNS (Album) 06:17 Tools
Untitled 03:32 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_03 03:32 Tools
Realities Are A State Of Mind 03:32 Tools
Louie Louie 03:00 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_01 03:00 Tools
Twisted Shouts 00:00 Tools
DNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 03:00 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_04 03:00 Tools
Electricity (Elects The Rain) 03:00 Tools
Shake Ghaddafis Blues 04:31 Tools
DNS (45 Version) 04:31 Tools
Aspettando Godo 04:31 Tools
Cold Steel to the Heart 04:31 Tools
Radical Student Mob in Satin Boots - 1981 02:47 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_08 03:00 Tools
Shake The Hippe 04:31 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_06 04:31 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_10 04:31 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_09 02:47 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_11 02:47 Tools
39clocks_coldsteel_07 02:47 Tools
39 Clocks - DNS 03:36 Tools
Past Tense Hope & Instant Fears On 42nd St. 03:36 Tools
Twisted & Shouts (45 version) 03:36 Tools
Past Tense Hopes & Instant Fears On 42nd Street (Live) (Bonus Track) 03:36 Tools
Mr Diamond 03:36 Tools
Twisted & Shouts [Live] 04:31 Tools
the-39-clocks_07_my-tears-will-drown-the-world 00:00 Tools
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The 39 Clocks were an underground band from Hannover. Together with Nova Express, The Beauty Contest, Shiny Gnomes, Multicoloured Shades, Kastrierten Philosophen (Castrated Philosophers) and Yellow Sunshine Underground they contributed to the German underground neo-psychedelic scene of the 1980s. In 1976, Jürgen „J.G.39“ Gleue (guitar, bass, vocals) and Christian „C.H.39“ Henjes (guitar, orgal, vocals), both from Hannover, played together under the name Killing Rats, and later Automats (trans: "Machines"). The nucleus of the band was soon expanded with the addition of drummer Claudius Hempelmann (he later joined labelmates and new wave proponents Der Moderne Mann) and Rüdiger Klose, also known for his work with Die Kastrierten Philosophen. In the studio they were joined by, amongst others, Süsskind from Kosmonautentraum (Spaceman Dream) on the melodica, and Emilio Winschetti, singer with labelmates Mythen In Tüten, later in Mint and The Perc Meets The Hidden Gentleman, on synthesizer. In 1980, a 7" of 'DNS' was released through the independent record label, No Fun Records, as was their 1981 LP, 'Pain It Dark'. For their second record, Gleue and Henjes founded their own record label, Psychotic Promotion, through which Die Kastrierten Philosophen also released their first record. In 1983, the duo split and Henjes founded The Beauty Contest, who released records through the Hamburg label, What's So Funny. Visually, the band were reminiscent of the Velvet Underground, and musically, they were influenced by the American garage rock of the 1960s with a psychedelic direction and its comparable simplistic production techniques, along with a bastardised use of the English language, somewhat similar to what we know today as "Denglisch" (the German equivalent of Franglais). They were always dressed in black, wearing sunglasses, and coined phrases such as "black and white TVs show better films than colour sets." Rather than melodic psychedelic rock, they called their music "psycho-beat". Many speak retrospectively of thegroup as "the German Velvet Underground" - a comparison that the duo always rejected. The Clocks never had an entry into the Hannover rock hall of fame, however they've not quite been forgotten. For example, in 1998 one of the Clocks' songs found its way onto the soundtrack of the film, "23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint" ("23 - nothing is quite as it seems"). In addition, many remember them as the forerunners of the German psychedelic renaissance in the attempt to stylise Hannover to the coming pop and rock domination, through which the Clocks were lumped in with mainstream bands such as Scooter and Mousse T, a particularly strange mixture. (This bit makes little sense in English or German). Diskographie (excerpt) Pain it dark (1981), NO Fun record, LP Subnarcotic (1982), Psychotic graduation-re+publishes 1988 on What's so funny about, LP Blades in your Masquerade Best OF (1983), Flicknife Sharp, LP Cold Steel ton the Heart demo & Outtakes (1985), What's funny about in such a way, LP 13 more protest Songs (1987), What's funny, LP about in such a way The original Psycho Beat Best OF (1993), What's funny about in such a way, CD Diskographie Christian Henjes (excerpt) THE BEAUTY CONTEST Feel putrefies (1984), to What's in such a way Funny About, LP THE BEAUTY CONTEST No. 6 1985, What's so Funny About, Maxi THE BEAUTY CONTEST town center Lights 1984, What's so Funny About, Maxi Diskographie Jürgen Gleue (excerpt) EXIT OUT Peruse Prankster (1985), What's so Funny About, LP THE COCOON While The Recording Engineer Sleeps (1987), William realm acoustic memory, LP THE COCOON Stretching Things (1992), What's so Funny About, LP/CD THE phantom PAYN of volume. 1 Dig The Squares - They're Ugly (1991), GB 45, LP+EP THE phantom PAYN ACT Trouble with Ghosts " (1992), Glitterhouse record, CD THE phantom PAYN ACT Trouble with Ghosts (revised version) (1993), Hidden record, LP THE PHANTON PAYN ACT bath Vibes Anyone?? (1994), Hidden record, LP/CD A phantom PAYN SEANCE Telegraphic Grooves From A DEAD mailbox (1995), Hidden record, LP THE phantom PAYNS More phantom Than Ever (1997), toasters in test, LP J.G.39 Afternoon Non happening (2000), NO label record, CD Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.