Alles ist gut

Alles ist gut (Everything Is Fine) is the third album by German electropunk band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. It was released in 1981 and was the band's first album on the Virgin Records label. It includes the hit single "Der Mussolini". The album was a massive hit in Germany, where it charted for 46 weeks.

Alles ist gut
Studio album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
Released	1981
Recorded	December 1980 – January 1981
Studio	Conny Plank's Studio, Neunkirchen, Germany
Genre	Neue Deutsche Welle electropunk EBM
Length	34:44
Label	Virgin
Producer	Konrad "Conny" Plank
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft chronology
Die Kleinen und die Bösen (1980) Alles ist gut (1981) Gold und Liebe (1981)

The album was reissued by Mute Records in 1998.

Recording

The album was the first recorded with the band reduced to the duo of Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl.

Commercial performance

Alles ist gut was on the German charts for 46 weeks, peaking at No. 15, and the Austrian charts for eight weeks, peaking at No. 16.^[1] It received the Schallplattenpreis award from the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of the German recording industry.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

Reviewing the album for NME, Paul Morley characterised Alles ist gut as "slimy, steamy sex music", an evocation of "the rubbing, juices, pounding, striving, belching, stickiness ... the smells, the rhythms, the passions, the secretions, the darkness, the tears of S.E.X."^[3] It was ranked the eighth best album of 1981 by NME.^[4] Simon Reynolds, in Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 (2006), notes the influence the album had on Morley's later marketing and image for Frankie Goes to Hollywood, a band signed to Morley's label ZTT Records.^[3]

In the All Music Guide to Electronica, Ned Raggett describes how Alles ist gut worked musically: "...keeping the electronic brutality that characterized them, but stripped down to nothing but Görl's massive drumming, electronic bass and synth tones, and Delgado's deep, commanding singing."^[5] Trouser Press observed that "typical funk rhythms are replaced by industrial pulses (trains, etc.)" and noted the more pop-oriented vocal styles on the album.^[6]

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Sato-Sato" ("Sato-Sato") – 2:43
2. "Der Mussolini" ("The Mussolini") – 3:50
3. "Rote Lippen" ("Red lips") – 2:41
4. "Mein Herz macht Bum" ("My heart goes boom") – 4:26
5. "Der Räuber und der Prinz" ("The robber and the prince") – 3:27

Side 2

1. "Ich und die Wirklichkeit" ("Me and the reality") – 3:05
2. "Als wär's das letzte Mal" ("As if it were the last time") – 3:24
3. "Verlier' nicht den Kopf" ("Don't lose your head") – 3:17
4. "Alle gegen Alle" ("Everyone against everyone") – 3:55
5. "Alles ist gut" ("Everything is fine") – 3:25

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1981–82) Peak position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[7] 16 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] 15

Year-end charts Chart (1981) Position German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9] 50