The Best of DIE KRUPPS

On October 26, after a career of 25 years, Germany’s electro/industrial veterans Die Krupps shall release a retrospective via Premium/Soulfood Music.
Entitled “Too Much History” (view cover in the left), the compilation will come out both as double CD and two separate editions, respectively entitled “The Electro Years” and “The Metal Years”.

Here’s the issues’ complete tracklist:

Too Much History, Vol. 1 – The Electro Years

1. Machineries of Joy (1989 single, feat. Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb)
2. Fuer einen Augenblick (off “Volle Kraft voraus”, 1982)
3. Volle Kraft voraus / Goldfinger (off “Volle Kraft voraus”, 1982)
4. Gladiators (off “Entering the Arena”, 1985)
5. Der Amboss (cover version of Visage’s “The Anvil”, feat. Client)
6. Germaniac (1990 single)
7. Hi Tech Low Life (off “I (One)”, 1991)
8. Alive (off “Odyssey of the Mind”, 1995)
9. 5 Millionen (2005)
10. The Great Divide (2007)

Too Much History, Vol. 2 – The Metal Years

1. Metal Machine Music (off “I (One)”, 1991)
2. The Dawning of Doom (off “I (One)”, 1991)
3. Crossfire (off “II – The Final Option”, 1993)
4. Fatherland (off “II – The Final Option”, 1993)
5. Bloodsuckers (off “II – The Final Option”, 1993)
6. To the Hilt (off “II – The Final Option”, 1993)
7. Isolation (off “Odyssey of the Mind”, 1995)
8. Scent (off “Odyssey of the Mind”, 1995)
9. Odyssey of the Mind (off “Odyssey of the Mind”, 1995)
10. Black Beauty White Heat (off “Paradise Now”, 1997)
11. Ich bin ein Auslaender (Pop Will Eat Itself cover version)
12. The Great Divide (2007)