Das Model

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"Das Model"
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German sleeve
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from the album The Man-Machine
LanguageGerman, English
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Released22 September 1978
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"Die Roboter"
(1978) 		"Das Model"
(1978) 		"Neonlicht"
(1978)
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"The Model"
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UK sleeve
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from the album Computer World
B-side"Computer Love"
Released7 December 1981
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(1981) 		"Showroom Dummies"
(1982)

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"Das Model" ("The Model" in English) is a song recorded by the German group Kraftwerk in 1978, written by musicians Ralf Hütter and Karl Bartos, with artist Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics. It is featured on the album, Die Mensch-Maschine (known in international versions as The Man-Machine).

In 1981, the song was re-released to coincide with the release of the studio album Computerwelt (Computer World in English).[6] It reached no. 1 in the UK singles chart. Both the German and English versions of the song have been covered by other artists, including Snakefinger, Hikashu, Big Black and Robert.[7]

Background

The lyrics were written by Emil Schult, who was in love with a model when he wrote the song. He also composed music for the song, though it was too guitar-heavy for the musical concept of Kraftwerk and it was rewritten by Bartos and Hütter to fit the sound of the band.[8]

As with all of the songs on The Man-Machine, The Model was released in both German- and English-language versions. The lyrics are very close between two versions, with the exception of a guttural-sounding "Korrekt!" added after the line "Sie trinkt in Nachtclubs immer Sekt" in the German version. (The English lyric is "She's going out to nightclubs, drinking just champagne.") This was an in-joke by the band. In his autobiography, I Was A Robot, former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür explains:

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Our favourite discothèque, the Mora, lay in the Schneider-Wibbel Gasse in the middle of Düsseldorf's old town, and there was a waiter who worked there who always greeted new guests with the words "Hallöchen! Sekt? Korrrrrrrekt!" You didn't have the chance to contradict him, because he always answered himself. He loved selling champagne to the guests, largely because it was the drink on which he earned the highest commission, and he forced it on everyone.

We'd heard him so often, and he was such a fine example of Düsseldorf chic, that we invited him into our studio when we were recording "The Model" so that he could speak his smug slogan directly into the microphone. That's why his pithy "Sekt? Korrrrrrrekt!" appears in our most famous song.[9]

Charts

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Chart (1978) Peak
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[10] 33
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[11] 20

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[12] Gold 500,000 

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Rammstein cover

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"Das Modell"
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  • "Kokain"
  • "Alter Mann"
Released1997
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"Du hast"
(1997) 		"Das Modell"
(1997) 		"Du riechst so gut '98"
(1998)

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German rock band Rammstein covered the German version of "Das Model" in 1997 as "Das Modell". It was released as a non-album single. "Das Modell" is introduced by a French phrase spoken by film editor Mathilde Bonnefoy. The single contains three non-album tracks taken from the Sehnsucht recording sessions. In the special version of "Alter Mann", Bobo (Christiane Hebold) sings alongside Till Lindemann in the chorus.

Track listings

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Enhanced CD

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Charts

Weekly charts

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Chart (1997–1998) Peak
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Year-end charts

Chart (1998) Position
Germany (Media Control)[13] 96

See also

References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Reynolds, Simon (2009). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-5712-5227-5. A few weeks later, another song from 1978 – Kraftwerk's 'The Model', the catchiest song on The Man-Machine – was released as a single and, as if to proclaim the Düsseldorf group's ancestral centrality for synth-pop, promptly soared to number 1
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Owen, Tom (30 April 2024). "The top 25 greatest 1980s synthpop songs ever". Smooth Radio. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Edwards, Luke (17 July 2021). "Why were Kraftwerk so influential? Behind the electro pioneers' legacy". Dig!. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s". Pitchfork. 23 June 2004. Retrieved 16 April 2023. But the inhumanity is suddenly broken towards the end with the wry, pop-art commentary of "The Model"...
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Edwards, Luke (17 July 2022). "Best Kraftwerk Songs: 20 great tracks from the electro-pop godfathers". Dig!. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kraftwerk International Discography: Great Britain". Archived from the original on 6 February 2006.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bussy, Pascal (2004). Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music. SAF. p. 106. ISBN 9780946719709. Being their most accessible song it has been covered on a number of occasions by other artists. A notable early version being by long-time Residents' collaborator Snakefinger (Philip Lithman). Other versions include one by the Japanese band Hikashu, a rock version by Big Black on their Songs About Fucking LP and the French female singer Robert who recorded a version in German.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview".
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flür, Wolfgang (2017). Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 9781783239269.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 170. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Kraftwerk". Sisältää hitin – 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in suomi). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 136. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  12. ^ Script error: No such module "cite". Select singles in the Formats field. Type Computer Love/The Model Kraftwerk in the "Search:" field.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jahrescharts – 1998" (in Deutsch). Offiziellecharts.de. GfK Entertainment Charts. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015.

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