Udo Lindenberg & Das Panik-Orchester - No Panic On The Titanic (Remastered) (1976/2026)

Originally released in 1976 – now finally available for the first time as a 24-bit remaster – “No panic on the Titanic” by Udo Lindenberg and the Panik Orchestra!

Udo Lindenberg is one of Germany’s best-known and most significant musicians. He has won numerous awards for his music, and his records, which have sold in their millions, have frequently achieved gold status.

Born in 1946, Udo Lindenberg made his breakthrough in 1973 with his third album “Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria”. The singer, with his characteristic hat, sunglasses and mumbled pronunciation, has achieved cult status; many songs by the self-proclaimed “Panik-Rocker” have attained legendary status. After things had gone quiet around him for a while, he made a sensational comeback in the late 2000s. In 2011, he gave an “MTV Unplugged” concert in Hamburg. His collaboration with rapper Apache 207, “Komet”, released in 2023, became an absolute smash hit and spent longer at the top of the charts than any other German-language song before it.

AllMusic Review by Frank Eisenhuth
The project to take the best songs from Udo Lindenberg's German masterpiece trilogy Alles Klar auf der Andrea Doria, Ball Pompös, and Votan Wahnwitz, translate them to English, and try to conquer the Anglo-Saxon market was conceived in 1975 after the release of Votan Wahnwitz, but the actual record No Panic, the fruit of these attempts, was only released in 1977 in the U.S. and the U.K. Apart from the fact that it was a flop in both countries (Lindenberg's strength was his German lyrical backbone), it also divided his huge fan community in Germany. Some regarded this record as embarrassing and tasteless; others thought it was as exceptional and authentic as Lindenberg's other work. Be that as it may, this record is a quirky attempt to get a foot into a market Lindenberg wasn't destined for, and after decades it pays off to listen to these English songs and compare them with their German counterparts. Unlike the releases No Panic was based on, however, it is not a must-have in an album collection of German rock. For people interested in translation, it is definitely informative to see how Udo Lindenberg's relentlessly funny word games were transposed to English, and the record drew the attention of a limited English-speaking audience to this German rock icon.

Tracklist
01 The Conductor
02 Votan Wahnwitz
03 Nothing but a Vacuum
04 Daniel's Time Machine
05 It Was All so New
06 Rudi Ratlos
07 Elli Pyrelli
08 0-Rhesus-Negativ
09 Look at It My Way
10 Jonny Controlletti
11 Jack