from the LP Alles Ist Gut, Virgin Records, 1981If you happened to have been granted access inside any urban, BDSM dungeon during the early ‘80s, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re already well familiar with this album---you probably also have a panoply of fascinating stories to share about said underground clubs, but we’ll save those for another day, or blog, or whatever. Fascism never sounded so sexy (wink), and the fallout from Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft’s (DAF, which essentially means ‘German American Friendship’) commie-centric image is hard to overstate, as suddenly Marxist symbology became something of a calling card for hardcore industrial and EBM crews; groups like Nitzer Ebb or Front 242 would have surely looked different had DAF not expanded the template before them. The title of this song means “as if it were the last time”, and yes, if your mind went right into the gutter with that one you were correct---the gist of the lyrics being to kiss, rub, & fuck as hard as one can with your respective ‘liebling’ (darling), like you might never get the chance to again. You can almost smell the leather…
