release date: Jul. 27, 1998
format: cd
[single rate: 3 / 5] [3,15]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany
Tracklist: 1. "Stripped" (3 / 5) - 2. "Stripped (Psilonaut Mix by Johan Edlund - Tiamat)" (2,5 / 5) - 3. "Stripped (Heavy Mental Mix by Charlie Clouser)" (3 / 5) - 4. "Stripped (Tribute to Düsseldorf Mix by Charlie Clouser)" (2,5 / 5) - 5. "Stripped (FKK Mix by Günter Schulz - KMFDM)" (2,5 / 5)
Single release by Rammstein, which had no official album release except from being part of the Depeche Mode compilation tribute album For the Masses (1998) - it may, however, also be found as a "hidden track" on certain German reissues of Rammstein's second album Sehnsucht (1997). The original song is featured on the Depeche Mode album Black Celebration from 1986.
I don't find this cover particularly successful - not that it's bad, but it's more of a peculiarity to listen to Till Lindemann's English and the other remixes of the track are really not that fine. The official video was one of a few points that had critics link Rammstein with neo-nazism as the video-footage is from Third Reich director Leni Riefenstahl's film "Olympia" from 1938. All suggestions to the band's sympathy for the political far right have been officially denied, although, the band members also have declared their admiration for Riefenstahl's style.
[ "Rammstein - Stripped (Official Making Of)" music video ]
