Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away

"Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away"
Single by KMFDM
Released September 15, 1992
Format Single
Recorded 1990-1991
Genre industrial rock, industrial dance
Length 39:44
Label Wax Trax! Records
Writer(s) Sascha Konietzko, Günter Schulz
Producer(s) Sascha Konietzko
KMFDM singles chronology
"Money"
(1992)
"Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away"
(1992)
"Sucks"
(1992)

"Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away"[1] is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM from their 1992 album Money. The "Schnitzel Mix" on the single is identical to the album version.

Reception

The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock described the singing of Dorona Alberti on the song as "Nietsche-goes-disco chant[ing]" and the song's steel guitar as "lonesome".[2] Jeff Bagato of Option magazine called the song "a fascinating and oddly beautiful concoction".[3]

Track listing

1992 release

No. Title Length
1. "Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away (Wiener-Mix)"   4:12
2. "Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away (Schnitzel-Mix)"   6:02
3. "Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away (Jäger-Mix)"   5:25
4. "Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away (Meister-Mix)"   5:17
5. "Help Us—Save Us—Take Us Away (Oktoberfest-Mix)"   5:13
6. "Bargeld (Money-Mix)"   7:14
7. "Bargeld (Cashflow-Mix)"   6:21
Total length:
39:44

2008 7" reissue

No. Title Length
1. "Help Us / Save Us / Take Us Away (Wiener Mix)"   4:16
2. "Help Us / Save Us / Take Us Away (Schnitzel Mix)"   5:59
Total length:
10:15

References

  1. Discography - Help Us – Save Us – Take Us Away
  2. Strauss, Neil (1997). Robbins, Ira A.; Sprague, David, eds. The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock. Simon & Schuster. p. 398. ISBN 978-0684814377.
  3. Bagato, Jeff (1992). "KMFDM: Money". Option: Volumes 42–47. Scott Becker: 111.
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