1. Allgemeine Verunsicherung
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1. Allgemeine Verunsicherung is the first album from the Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
The EAV is an Austrian band that got together in 1977....

. It is actually self titled as in written German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, cardinal numbers with a full stop after them are converted to being ordinal numbers
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, therefore 1. in German actually relates to first as opposed to the number 1.

The album, like the rest of is mainly in German
German language
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 with a few English
English language
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 words or phrases here and there. Some of the titles are actually in English
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, however they are still mainly in German
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German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

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As mentioned in the main Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
The EAV is an Austrian band that got together in 1977....

 article, the band often changed their members, suffice to say that the material on this album differs considerably from the music the band later went onto produce.

The album was released only in Austria
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 in 1978 and only on vinyl, catalogue number EMI Columbia 12C 054-33230. Original copies are very hard to find. It was not reissued and it is hard to even find bootlegs versions. No songs from this album were released as singles.

The song entitled "Pustel Gunkel" makes some reference to Helena Rubinstein
Helena Rubinstein
Helena Rubinstein , a Polish born Australian-American business magnate. She is the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women.-Early life:...

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Track listing

This listing lists the tracks only and does not indicate which songs appear on which side, however they are in the correct order. Titles in brackets are for rough translation purposes only.
  1. Life is a Dog-Boogie
  2. Hereinspaziert (Come)
  3. Horrortraum einer jungen Dame (Young Lady's Nightmare)
  4. Pustel Gunkel
  5. Billy Beinhart
  6. GTX de Luxe GS (GTX Deluxe GS)
  7. Umberto e Sophia (Umberto and Sophia)
  8. Model Todel Klimbim Samba
  9. Disco Dillo
  10. Uschi
  11. Disco Queen

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