Tensongs

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::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]

Field	Value
name	Tensongs
type	Album
artist	Hubert Kah
cover	Hubert-Kah-Ten-Songs-Album.jpg
released	1 July 1986
genre	Synthpop, new wave
label	Blow Up, CBS, Sony, Curb Records, Polydor
producer	Michael Cretu, Armand Volker
prev_title	Goldene Zeiten
prev_year	1984
next_title	Sound of My Heart
next_year	1989
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| name = Tensongs | type = Album | artist = Hubert Kah | cover = Hubert-Kah-Ten-Songs-Album.jpg | alt = | released = 1 July 1986 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Synthpop, new wave | length = | label = Blow Up, CBS, Sony, Curb Records, Polydor | producer = Michael Cretu, Armand Volker | prev_title = Goldene Zeiten | prev_year = 1984 | next_title = Sound of My Heart | next_year = 1989

Tensongs is the fourth studio album by the German synthpop band Hubert Kah, and their first English language album, released in 1986. It was produced by Michael Cretu and Armand Volker. Three singles were released from the album: "Limousine", "Something I Should Know" and "Love Is So Sensible". The opening track "Pogo the Clown" is based on the American serial killer John Wayne Gacy. "Get Strange" featured on the 1986 film Rad.

Track listing

| title1 = Pogo the Clown | writer1 = Markus Löhr, Nikolai Karo, Hubert Kemmler, Klaus Hirschburger, Ken Taylor | length1 = 3:30 | title2 = Lonesome Cowboy | writer2 = Löhr, Karo, Kemmler, Hirschburger, Taylor | length2 = 4:06 | title3 = Drowning | writer3 = Löhr, Karo, Kemmler, Taylor | length3 = 3:47 | title4 = Something I Should Know | writer4 = Karo, Kemmler, Taylor | length4 = 3:29 | title5 = Explain the World in a Word | writer5 = Löhr, Karo, Kemmler, Taylor | length5 = 4:11 | title6 = Love is So Sensible | writer6 = Ulrich Herter, Matthew Peevers | length6 = 3:48 | title7 = Get Strange | writer7 = Löhr, Karo, Kemmler, Richard Palmer-James | length7 = 3:06 | title8 = That Girl | writer8 = Karo, Kemmler, Taylor | length8 = 3:51 | title9 = Limousine | writer9 = Löhr, Kemmler, Hirschburger, Susanne Müller | length9 = 4:02 | title10 = Under My Skin | writer10 = Löhr, Kemmler, Palmer-James | length10 = 4:24

| headline = 1986 Japanese CD reissue bonus track | title11 = The Picture (remix) | writer11 = Kemmler, Löhr, Hirschburger, James, Killer | length11 = 3:25

Chart performance

Album

::data[format=table] | Chart (1986) | Peak position | |---|---| | German Albums Chart | 35 | | Swiss Albums Chart | 21 | ::

Singles

Limousine ::data[format=table] | Chart (1986) | Peak position | |---|---| | German Singles Chart | 8 | | Swiss Singles Chart | 25 | ::

Something I Should Know ::data[format=table] | Chart (1986) | Peak position | |---|---| | German Singles Chart | 49 | ::

Personnel

;Hubert Kah

• Hubert Kemmler - vocals, backing vocals on "Love is So Sensible", arrangement
• Markus Löhr - guitar, keyboards, arrangement
• Klaus Hirschburger - bass, arrangement

;Additional personnel

• Curt Cress - drums
• Lothar Krell - keyboard arrangement on "Limousine"
• Eddie Taylor - saxophone on "Something I Should Know"
• Ken Taylor - voice on "Lonesome Cowboy" and bass on "Explain the World in a Word"
• Thomas Dörr - backing vocals on "Love Is So Sensible"
• Judy Cheeks, Patricia Shockley, Victoria Miles - backing vocals on "Limousine"
• Michael Cretu - producer, arranger, digital and conventional keyboards
• Armand Volker - producer, arranger, guitar solo on "Love is So Sensible"
• Mike Schmidt - artwork

References

References

1. "Hubert Kah - Limousine / Drowning - Blow Up - Germany - INT 110.575". 45cat.
2. "Hubert Kah - Something I Should Know (Remix) / Lonesome Cowboy - Blow Up - Germany - INT 110.598". 45cat.
3. "Hubert Kah - Limousine / Drowning - Curb - Netherlands - 884 965-7". 45cat.
4. "Rad - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
5. Steffen Hung. "germancharts.com - Hubert Kah - Tensongs". Germancharts.de.
6. Steffen Hung. "Hubert Kah - Tensongs". hitparade.ch.
7. Steffen Hung. "germancharts.com - Hubert Kah - Limousine". Germancharts.de.
8. Steffen Hung. "Hubert Kah - Limousine". hitparade.ch.
9. Steffen Hung. "germancharts.com - Hubert Kah - Something I Should Know". Germancharts.de.

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