WAT
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| WAT | ||
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| Missing image Wat_album_cover.jpg Album cover | ||
| compact disk and LP by Laibach | ||
| Released | September 8 2003 | |
| Recorded | ?? | |
| Genre | Industrial | |
| Length | 58 min 23 sec | |
| Record label | Mute (record label) | |
| Producer | Iztok Turk & Laibach | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Q | 4 stars out of 5 | (10/03, p.108) (http://www.buy.com/retail/proreviews/product.asp?sku=60613372&loc=109&PageFormat=7) |
| Mojo | 4 stars out of 5 | (10/03, p.110) (http://www.buy.com/retail/proreviews/product.asp?sku=60613372&loc=109&PageFormat=7) |
| Allmusic.com | 2.5 stars out of 5 | link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040403251443301584&sql=Abu62mpvk9f5o) |
| Laibach Chronology | ||
| Jesus Christ Superstars (1996) | WAT (2003) | |
WAT released September 8 2003 is an album by Slovenian industrial/techno music group Laibach.
The CD included a bonus video of "Tanz Mit Laibach" and the vinyl LP and promo CD "Reject or Breed".
While the topics referred to in many songs - religious intolerance, war, globalization - might suggest that the title is an acronym of "War on Terror" (an interpretation rejected by the band, but quite obviously, in typical Laibach-esque fashion, intended), it actually means "We Are Time" as the title track reveals, and in its lyrics presents a roundabout rejection of the values and motives that have become more prominent since 2001, embracing instead freedom and power of the individual, the unity of humankind and an utopian globalism. "The point of WAT is not what Laibach is, or what it wants, but what you are and where you stand".
Track Listing
- "B Mashina" performed by Laibach / Tomi Meglič - 3:50
- "Tanz Mit Laibach" (Laibach/Meglič/Turk/Umek) - 4:19
- "Du Bist Unser" (Laibach/Mlakar/Umek) - 5:38
- "Achtung!" (Laibach/Mlakar/Turk) - 4:06
- "Ende" (Laibach/Turk/Umek) - 3:45
- "Now You Will Pay" (Laibach/Turk) - 6:07
- "Hell: Symmetry" (Laibach/Turk) - 5:02
- "Das Spiel Ist Aus" (Laibach/Turk) - 4:21
- "Satanic Versus" (Laibach/Umek) - 4:52
- "The Great Divide" (Laibach/Turk) - 5:11
- "Wat" (Avsenik/Laibach/Turk/Umek) - 5:33
- "Anti-Semitism" (DJ Bizzy/DJ Dojaja/Laibach/Temponauta) - 5:39