Naïve (album)

The album was out of print for over a decade due to copyright infringement: the seventh track "Liebeslied" used unauthorized samples from a recording of "O Fortuna", from Carl Orff's 1930s cantata Carmina Burana. The album was recalled approximately three years after being released. Copies today are rare and considered collector's items.[4] In addition to this, "Godlike" samples "Angel of Death" by Slayer.[5]

All of the tracks on the album, except for the original mixes of "Die Now-Live Later", "Liebeslied" and "Go to Hell" were subsequently available on other discs. The album was re-released as Naïve/Hell to Go, with some songs remixed, in 1994. A digitally remastered reissue of Naïve was released on 21 November 2006, along with Money and Angst. It was reissued with an edited version of the track "Liebeslied" without the offending sample. It also features the remixes that initially appeared on Naïve/Hell to Go.

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Naïve received excellent reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Naïve "one of [KMFDM's] strongest releases."[6] Ned Raggett of Allmusic began his review by saying, "KMFDM brought it all together on the brilliant Naïve", doing "everything from four-to-the-floor beats to Wagnerian epic metal and back again".[1] He went on to call it "one of industrial/electronic body music's key albums", and said that KMFDM was a band "so ridiculously good that everything they touch pretty much turns to gold".[1] He also said that while the title track was "fantastic", the "total standout" of the album was "Liebeslied": "Outrageously interpolating Carl Orff's noted vocal piece Carmina Burana into a bombastic explosion of mechanical rhythms, orchestral hits, and an increasing amount of hero guitar feedback slabs, not to mention the husked, desperate lead vocals, it's a jawdropping masterpiece that demands and gets total surrender."[1] In 2019, Pitchfork magazine ranked Naïve at number ten on its list of the thirty-three best industrial albums of all time, with writer Susan Elizabeth Shepard noting that the album combined "hip-hop beats and metal riffs into deep, big-beat anthems".[7]

• Sascha Konietzko – vocals, bass, synths, programming, guitars
• En Esch – vocals, drums, guitars
• Günter Schulz – guitars
• Rudolph Naomi – drums (1–4, 6–10)

Naïve/Hell to Go
Studio album by KMFDM
Released	1 March 1994 (1994-03-01)
Recorded	1989–90, 1993
Genre	Industrial rock
Length	50:30
Label	Wax Trax!/TVT

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]

Naïve/Hell to Go is a modified and remixed version of Naïve, with five of the original songs re-recorded, including "Liebeslied", which contained an unlicensed sample of "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana.[8] After Orff's publisher threatened the band with legal action,[9] the original album was recalled.

• KMFDM DØTKØM Naïve lyrics at the official KMFDM website
• KMFDM DØTKØM Naïve/Hell to Go lyrics at the official KMFDM website