Birth Control
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This was really right on the button of the German teenage scene during the late Sixties, which was definitely politically charged: fancy using BIRTH CONTROL as a group name, the Pope must have panicked! But this should not distract from the core business of "our" once Berlin based band: The Birth Control boys succeeded in creating their very own brand of Rock - with international sophistication and universal energy. There are haunting monster ballads like "Another Death", driving rock anthems like "Greedy Eyes" and the band's best known title "Gamma Ray" and head banger friendly workouts in "Nuclear Reactor", where Bruno Frenzel may sound a little bit like Ritchie Blackmore, not as a Deep Purple clone but more like the supplier of a friendly piss take. "The King Of An Island" shines as a Fantasy story with surreal lyrics, their piece de resistance "Hoodoo Man" clocks in at more than 15 minutes, and "America" is a very special studio encore produced by Frenzel & Noske in 1982: an open letter to former US president Reagan commissioned by the German section of the Blackfoot Indians - seriously - about imperialism which has lost none of its attack.