Mittageisen
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| Single by Siouxsie & the Banshees from the album The Scream |
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| B-side | "Love in a Void" | ||||
| Released | September 1979 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | 1978 | ||||
| Genre | Post-punk | ||||
| Length | 03:00 | ||||
| Label | Polydor | ||||
| Writer(s) | Siouxsie Sioux John McKay |
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| Producer | Steve Lillywhite | ||||
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"Mittageisen" is a single by the English band Siouxsie & the Banshees. Originally appearing on the band's 1978 debut album The Scream as "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)", the track was released as a single the following year with a newly-recorded non-album B-side "Love in a Void".
The original album version has the lyrics sung in English, while the single release has the track re-recorded in German. The title "Mittageisen" is a nonsense term based on the German word "Mittagessen" (literally: "noon meal") for lunch and can be translated as "noon iron". The song was inspired by John Heartfield's work Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! ("Hurray, The Butter is Finished!").
"Mittageisen" was composed by Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux and John McKay and was produced by Steve Lillywhite.
Although assigned to the single's B-side, "Love in a Void" has become the better-known of the two tracks. Written by Sioux, McKay, Steven Severin, and Kenny Morris, produced by Nils Stevesson and John Stavrou, "Love in a Void" appeared on the singles compilation album Once Upon a Time: The Singles in place of "Mittageisen", while "Mittageisen" appeared on the B-side compilation Downside Up.
[edit] Charting
The single peaked at number forty-nine in the UK singles chart.
[edit] Covers
"Mittageisen" was covered by electronic group Massive Attack as "Superpredators (Metal Postcard)" in 1997 on the soundtrack to the film The Jackal. The black metal band Darkthrone covered the b-side, "Love in a Void," on their 2006 EP Too Old, Too Cold.
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