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''Radio'' is the ninth album of the German a cappella group Wise Guys. It is built in the form of a radio broadcast: between each individual piece come jingles and other small tidbits, such as the news or sports. This stands as the first
concept album A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. This is typically achieved through a single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical. Som ...
of the Wise Guys. The CD ranked #3 in the German album charts and stood for fifteen weeks in the top 100 of the charts. Like its predecessor Wo der Pfeffer wächst, the CD is purely
a cappella Music performed a cappella ( , , ; ), less commonly spelled acapella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term ''a cappella'' was originally intended to differentiate between Rena ...
with no instrumentation and, with the sole exception of the "Mad World" cover, is entirely self-composed numbers. The majority of the songs were composed by Daniel Dickopf.


Extra features

If one plays a few minutes after the last song on the CD, "Zwischenbilanz", one can find a so-called
hidden track In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as t ...
that plays for three minutes and thirty seconds; it is essentially a snippet from one of their concert performances ("Kein Ohrwurm").


List of tracks

Those entries marked with ''(A)'' are jingles and news bulletins. # "''(A)'' Jingle A" # "Radio" # "''(A)'' Jingle B" # "Denglisch" # "Jetzt und Hier" # "Das bedeutet Krieg" # "Sie bricht mir das Herz" # "''(A)'' Die Nachrichten" - ''The News: a short funny news report'' # "Buddy Biber" # "Das fremde Wesen" * # "Romanze" # "''(A)'' Klatsch und Tratsch" - ''Gossip: a parody on boulevard magazines'' # "Das Allerletzte" # "Tiefgang" # "''(A)'' Der Sport" - ''Sports: a short sport news report'' # "Aber sonst gesund" # "Ruf doch mal an '06" ** # "Mad World" *** # "Ja ja" # "Wir hatten den Moment" # "''(A)'' Das Horoskop" - ''Horoscope'' # "Schunkeln" # "Ständchen" # "Zwischenbilanz" :* The song "Das fremde Wesen" includes a guest singer, Sonja Wilts from the group LaLeLu. She sings a duet piece with Eddi. :** The piece "Ruf doch mal an '06" is the new version of a song already extent on the 1997 album "
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". :*** The cover of "Mad World" is borrowed from the version of the song that
Gary Jules Gary Jules Aguirre Jr. (born March 19, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, known primarily for his cover version of the Tears for Fears song " Mad World", which he recorded with his friend Michael Andrews for the film '' Donnie Darko''. ...
sings. The original is from
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.


Charts


Certifications

During 2012, ''Radio'' was certified Gold in Germany.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radio (Wise Guys Album) Wise Guys albums 2006 albums