Mexico (Album)
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Mexico is a mini-LP and the 3rd album of the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 Hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Böhse Onkelz
Böhse Onkelz
The Böhse Onkelz were a German rock group that existed from 1980 to 2005. Although being ignored by the mass media for their controversial past, since Viva los tioz in 1998 almost every album reached number one on the German album charts. According to record certifications and additional sources...

. It was released in 1985. After "Mexico" the band left Rock-O-Rama and the skinhead attitude.

Track listing

  1. Mexico
  2. Das Tier in mir (The animal inside of me)
  3. Stöckel & Strapse (Stilettos and hats)
  4. In jedem Arm ne... (In every arm a ...)
  5. Gesetze der Straße (Laws of the Street)

Mexico

After "Frankreich '84" was embargoed, the band wrote a new song according the 1986 FIFA World Cup
1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but, largely due to economic reasons, was not able to do so and officially...

. "Señoritas in arm, Tequila lukewarm / troubled by diarrhea and hunted by flies / In the land of the cactus, we will be - you will see - world champion, world champion again." Mexico is one of the biggest countries. The song is often sung by German soccer fans by matches, so for example at the World Cup match Germany - Sweden in 2006.

Stolz (schnelle Version) (Pride - fast version)

This song is the same as on the album Der nette Mann
Der nette Mann
Der nette Mann is the debut album of German hard rock band Böhse Onkelz. It was released in 1984. "Der nette Mann" is considered the first album of the German skinhead subculture....

, but it's a harder and faster version.

Gesetze der Straße

A song about violence on the street.
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