"PerfektBreitHimmelblau" ("Perfect Stoned Sky-blue") are three songs and a triple A-side-single by the German rock band

Die Ärzte (; ) is a German rock band from Berlin. It consists of guitarist Farin Urlaub, drummer Bela B and bass player Rodrigo González (musician), Rodrigo González. All three write and perform their songs. The band has released 14 studio albums. ...

. The songs are tracks 8, 3 and 1 of their 2007 album ''

Jazz ist anders ''Jazz ist anders'' ("Jazz is different") is the eleventh full-length studio album by German rock band Die Ärzte. It was released on 2 November 2007. The album has a bonus- EP with three songs about the band and a hidden track. This is the fi ...

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Track listings

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/ref> On the back cover the songs are in this order: # Perfekt - 2:35 # Himmelblau - 3:16 # Breit - 3:14 # PerfektHimmelblauBreit (Flash game with the music-video)

Other track listings

# Perfekt # Breit # Himmelblau # Himmelblau # Perfekt # Breit # Himmelblau # Breit # Perfekt # Breit # Perfekt # Himmelblau # Breit # Himmelblau # Perfekt

Video

The video is divided into three parts; there is a separate video for every song, but they all follow the same concept: They are set in

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in the year 2046, in a modern

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. Bela is 84, Farin 83, Rodrigo 78 years old. The videos can already be distinguished at the beginning: In "Himmelblau" there is a turquoise jet-car, in "Breit" a dark green one, and in "Perfekt" a dark red one.
All three videos start with two doctors pushing a trolley up to a door and then entering a code. When the door opens, you see a computer with name, age and status. Instead of the actual status, there is the title of the song. Then two doctors give a medical ampoule to the performers. "Himmelblau" stars

Farin Urlaub Jan Vetter (born 27 October 1963), better known as Farin Urlaub. (from the German ''Fahr in Urlaub!'', "Go on holiday!"), is a German singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist/vocalist for punk rock band . He has also ...

, "Perfekt" Bela B., "Breit" Rodrigo González as old men. The two names of the doctors are "Bernd" and "Mandy". * Bernd refers to the line: "...Doch dann kam Bernd mit dem Zeugs verbei..." (''... but then came Bernd with the good stuff...'') in the song "Breit" * Mandy refers to the line: "...Oh, Mandy. Die kleine Candy-Mandy..." (''...Oh Mandy, the little

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-Mandy!...'') in the song "Perfekt" The video premiere was on 17 November 2009 at 5.30 pm on

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Flash game

In the flash game one is able to select a musician ''(Farin Urlaub=light, Rodrigo González=medium, Bela B.=difficult)'' and with a right-click the musician attacks a doctor with his instrument ''(Farin with his guitar, Rod with his bass, Bela with his drum sticks)''. At the end you stand in front of the door to your room and the score is shown on the door.

Vinyl version

The vinyl is a 12-inch

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with a built-in "random generator". Instead of a usual single groove that spirals from the rim to the middle of the vinyl, this is a triple

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-groove, i.e. three parallel grooves, each consisting of one song. If the listener has the cartridge, he can not control what song is played. On the B-side is the video in "

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version" which means that there is print a screenshot of the video.

Track listing

A-side # PerfektBreitHimmelblau (mit eingebautem Zufallsgenerator) ith built-in random generatorB-side # PerfektBreitHimmelblau video (Standbild-version) still image version"

Other names

Because of the front cover and the different track listings the single is called by different names: * PerfektBreitHimmelblau * PerfektHimmelblauBreit * HimmelblauPerfektBreit * BreitHimmelblauPerfekt The video is in the order: "Perfekt", "Himmelblau", "Breit"

Personnel

Perfekt

* Bela B. - vocals, drums *

- guitar * Rodrigo González - bass

Breit

* Rodrigo González - vocals, bass *

- guitar * Bela B. - drums

Himmelblau

- vocals, guitar * Bela B. - drums * Rodrigo González - bass

Charts

References

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