Live at SO36
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| Live album by Nena | ||||
| Released | 4 March 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 4 March 2015 | |||
| Venue | SO36 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 88:32 | |||
| Language | German | |||
| Label | The Laugh and Peas Company | |||
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Live at SO36 is the 6th live album of the German pop singer Nena. It comprises the recording of most of her concert performed at the SO36 club in Berlin on 4 March 2015 and is released exactly one year later on 4 March 2016.
Nena's association with the SO36 club goes back to the early 1980s when she lived in Berlin prior to becoming famous. In her 2005 memoirs "Willst du mit mir gehn", she describes it as being one of the three main places where she spent her weekends.
The sold-out concert on 4 March 2015 was part of a "clubtour" of smaller venues for audiences of 500 to 700 people aimed at promoting Nena's album Oldschool which had been released the previous month. Extracts of the video from the second single released from Oldschool, "Berufsjugendlich", had also been filmed at SO36.Live at SO36 reflects this with 11 of its 21 tracks being from Oldschool, the remainder being mainly Nena's most well known songs from the 1970s and 1980s and only one track ("Willst du mit mir gehn") from the intervening quarter of a century. Six tracks performed at the concert (including the other 5 tracks from Oldschool) were not included in the album.
Live at SO36 was made "CD of the week" by Alster Radio but was negatively received by the music review website 'Laut.de' which gave it 2 out of 5 stars. Describing Nena concerts in the 21st century as, "nothing more than nostalgia trips", and referring to her, "unabated artistic decline continuing", Michael Schuh wrote of the enthusiastic audience, "It's like staring at the home shopping channel QVC, when you always ask yourself, 'How can they fall for this?'"
A more positive review in 'Leute.de' concludes that the album "is a fascinating live document ... that demonstrates the many facets of the NDW icon who stylistically oscillates here between pop, rock, indie and electro and who, with her outstanding live qualities, knows how to pamper in an intimate setting".v
The SO36 concert on 4 March 2015 received generally positive reviews from local media at the time but the reception to the album a year later was more mixed.
For the Berliner Zeitung, Aleksandar Zivanovic wrote, "When it comes to not getting older, even Madonna can only look up to Nena... She jumps from left to right, her songs much better live than in any disco. The band play very precisely, Nena matches it and the audience have a good time, some cuddling, some already knowing the lyrics of her new songs."
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