Reissue of the classic second NICHTS album from 1982! After the success of the debut, the single "Radio" and the German tour, NICHTS went straight back into the studio and recorded the second album.

Besides the title track and NICHTS' biggest single hit "Tango 2000", the also released "Licht Aus", "Schwarze Gedanken", "Nachts" and "Weisse Wände" as well as a cover of tango standard "Hernando's Hideaway" ("Gitarrero Adé") stand out.

Colour vinyl and digipack CD of the '82 Wave/NDW classic for the band's 40thanniversary as a remastered deluxe edition with bonus track, photo booklet and lyrics! Original album tracklist plus Tango 2000 single B-side "Nichts Ist Ewig".

Remastered 2020/21 by former studio session engineer/sound engineer Dieter Joswig. The lavishly and faithfully restored artwork is accompanied by a booklet with rare and unpublished photos and pictures from 1982.

NICHTS performed "Licht Aus" on ZDF (Music-Box) in 1982, their album "Tango 2000" climbs to No.

22 in the German charts and has a Top 20 hit with the single of the same name, which lyrically points to changes in social values: "Schaut mich an, ich bin die Schönste / Schaut mich an, ich tanz' am besten" ("Look at me, I'm the most beautiful / Look at me, I dance' best"), such a saucy egocentric appeal as a refrain to a dark, parodic tango beat, hardly any pop band had dared to do that before.

"Ein Deutsches Lied" (A German Song) addressed possible German-language forms of expression and culture.

The lyrics has been discussed ever since, triggered a debate at the time, which was even carried out in Bravo (issue 13/82).

"[_] a band with a sense of style [_] a music [_] that is simple and obliging and still says something about Germany '82." - Musikexpress 1982 - "the rest of the record also stands out pleasantly from the Schlager-NDW sound that was popping up everywhere at the time.

This is real New Wave, which can easily compete with the English bands dominating the music scene at that time" - Backagain 2002 - After a big and sold-out tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Meikel Clauss and Chris Scarbeck left the band, the chapter of NICHTS was apparently closed - only apparently, but those are other stories...

Reminiscent of The Cure's A Forest in mood and sound, Tango 2000 has since become a classic of today's dark wave and gothic scene, similar to Eisbär by Grauzone.

The post-punk sound of the first two NICHTS albums still reverberates today with Die Nerven, Human Abfall, Die Arbeit or Messer.

NICHTS 1981/82 were: Vocals: Andrea Mothes - Guitar: Meikel Clauss - Bass: Chris Scarbeck - Drums: Tobias Brink CD first pressing is ltd to 1000 copies worldwide.