Return of the Mother

Return of the Mother
Studio album by Nina Hagen
Released	March 28, 2000
Genre	Punk, Industrial
Length	45:06
Label	BIEM
Producer	Nina Hagen, Ingo Krauss, Reinhold Heil
Nina Hagen chronology
Om Namah Shivay (1999) Return of the Mother (2000) Big Band Explosion (feat. Leipzig Big Band) (2003)
Singles from Return of the Mother
"Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt" Released: 2000

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Return of the Mother is the eleventh (ninth studio) by Nina Hagen, released in 2000.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nina Hagen; except where indicated

1. "Return of the Mother" – 4:36
2. "Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt" (Lothar Brühne, Bruno Balz) – 3:50
3. "Schachmatt" – 5:06
4. "Frequenzkontrolle" (Hagen, Keith Forsey) – 4:55
5. "Poetenclub" (Hagen, Zeus B. Held) – 5:02
6. "Höllenzug" – 3:21
7. "Schüttel Mich" (Hagen, Reinhold Heil) – 3:52
8. "Yes Sir" (Ralph Benatzky) – 4:05
9. "Handgrenade" – 4:32
10. "He Shiva Shankara" – 5:47

The fifth song on this album, "Poetenclub" is a homage to the Austrian popstar Falco who died two years before. In the song Nina Hagen sings over samples from interviews with Falco, thus creating a post-mortem duet.
"Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt" and "Yes Sir" were previously sung by Zarah Leander. Nina Hagen also covered Zarah Leander's "Ich weiß es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen" on the album Angstlos.
"Return of the Mother" is sung in English, "He Shiva Shankara" in Sanskrit, "Handgrenade" is an English version (with a different backing track) of "Höllenzug".

References

1. Severa, Alan. "Return of the Mother - Nina Hagen | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 December 2011.