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band,

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. It was released in March, 2000 on

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and follows the band's debut release ''

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'' in 1997 on XNO Records. The album contains an interesting half acoustic

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of a song by heavy metal band,

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, "Kings of Metal". The band stayed with

for their next release, ''

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'', in 2002.

Track listing

*All songs written by

unless stated otherwise #"Panic" – 2:38 #"We Have to Figure It Out Tonight" – 1:36 #"Shut Up Stand Up" – 2:44 #"Shiny Shoes" – 2:59 #"2 O'Clock" – 2:58 #"Happy Now?" – 3:51 #"Mietzi's Song" – 2:44 #"Excited" – 1:24 #"...And Wait" – 3:45 #"Filter" – 2:20 #"Fake" – 3:14 #"Go" – 2:09 #"Kings of Metal" (

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) – 4:35 #"Schluß mit Rock 'n' Roll" – 12:54 *Track 14 is only actually 3:12 – the rest of the track starts at 4:15 and is taken from rehearsals

Credits

*Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß – vocals, guitar *Peter Baumann – guitar *Bernd Kurtzke – guitar *Alexander Roßwaag – bass *Thomas Götz – drums * El Köfte and Holly – guest musicians on "Mietzi's Song" and "Schluß mit Rock 'n' Roll" * Recorded in 1999 at K4 (Elektro Automatisch),

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* Produced and engineered by Uwe Sabirowsky * Co-produced by

* Mixed at Nucleus Studio,

* Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk,

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, USA

External links

Beatsteaks official websiteEpitaph Records album page
{{Authority control 2000 albums Beatsteaks albums Epitaph Records albums