page_title: Trio (Trio album)
section_title: Musical style and lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: Trio (Trio album) / Musical description / Musical style and lyrics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Trio (Krawinkel, Behrens, Remmler)
context_page_description: Trio is the first studio album from the German band of the same name. It was released on October 27, 1981 by Mercury Records. It included a bonus single and has a handle attached to the cover.
  The commercial success of the album only started in 1982 with the release of the third version, which included the song Da Da Da, this being previously available on a separate single before.
  After April 1982, as part of the Neue Deutsche Welle the song became a national and then an international hit. The album reached #3 on the German charts. The album Trio contains 14 songs in all, most of them with drums, electric guitar and vocals. The majority of songs describe failed relationships and occasionally include media criticism.
context_section_description: The album opens with the 30-second song "Achtung Achtung", which was made especially for this album and was not part of any of Trio's live performances. Accompanied by drums and a guitar solo, Remmler shouts through a megaphone: "Attention Attention! Don't be fooled! Although it looks like it is about your entertainment, in the end, it is about giving your sympathy and money to the Trio. Let's go."
  The song ends abruptly, swiftly followed by Remmler shouting "Ja Ja Ja", which forms the introduction to the album's second title Ja Ja Ja. This hard rock song is the live recording of a 1981 performance in Stade. "Ja Ja Ja"' is a very fast song with a tempo of 220 beats per minute (bpm). Remmler sings the first two verses and choruses in German. Then, as the guitar stops playing, Remmler switches to  English, accompanied only by the drums. Remmler's voice is further altered by the use of a throat microphone. Towards the end of the song, Remmler imitates the sounds of an anti-aircraft gun and a grenade.
  Following the very quick and aggressive "Ja Ja Ja" is the extremely slow (around 80bpm) Kummer, which begins with church bells. After a few seconds the drums and electric guitar are added, whose key of E-major is not the same as the G-major of the bells and so a dissonance is created. After a few bars Remmler begins to sing in a very deep voice and the bells die away. In a few lines the song describes the pain of separation of the singer after a failed relationship. The song ends with the bells once more where the dissonance is amplified by a solo on a children's guitar.
  The rock song "Broken Hearts for You and Me" begins with marching band music, which is played solely on a bass drum. Remmler uses a mega-phone to invite listeners to a flash mob:
  Women on the inside, men on the outside, march in opposite directions!
  After around half a minute the tempo switches to a 4/4 beat, the guitar kicks in and Remmler sings in English about trying to end a relationship on good terms. While Krawinkel and Behrens continuously sing the chorus including the title of the track "Broken hearts for you and me"
  In the song "Nasty" Remmler repeatedly insults his ex-girlfriend in English and shows that he, after the obvious break-up, can no longer understand that he ever got involved with her. The song does not have a refrain but rather begins with a strong, dissonant guitar solo after two verses, which is then followed by another verse. The end of the song rises to a crescendo, in which Remmler repeatedly sings "I can't go on with this feeling 'bout you" with rising pitch. In the outro of the song Remmler bursts into laughter.
   The electric organ contributes to the calypso rhythm of the song Energie instead of the drums. In the opening, there is the sound of waves and a strong guitar solo can be heard. The intro creates a tropical atmosphere and then Remmler speaks an introduction in German:
  Brown guys play their handmade folklore instruments on the beach. Smooth bodies sway in the moonlight.
  After the guitar solo and the sound of waves have ended, the lyrics continue in English with Remmler asking his girlfriend to lift his mood. First, he only sings to the rhythm of the electric organ, then later the guitar and choir join in. There are no drums in the recording. The song closes with finger clicking and the lines
  Too nervous, too nervous,
  
  give me energy
  
  too nervous, too nervous,
  
  oh woman rescue me.
  The ending of the A-side of the album is the punk song "Los Paul", which begins with the striking line "Go Paul, you have to really hit him in the balls!". In the verses, Krawinkel plays a single repetitive chord on the electric guitar, accompanied by a quick beat from the drums. Remmler sings a couple of phrases which are taken from the commentary of a football match. After the second chorus, the vocals stop. In the left stereo channel, clips of a real football commentary can be heard, in which video replays are analysed. At the same time, in the right stereo channel, multiple news readers are reporting one after the other about the attack on Ronald
caption: Trio 1982 (from left to right: Kralle Krawinkel, Peter Behrens, Stephan Remmler)
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