Radio (Wise Guys album)

Radio is the ninth album of the German a cappella group Wise Guys. It is built in the form of a radio broadcast: between each individual piece come jingles and other small tidbits, such as the news or sports. This stands as the first concept album of the Wise Guys. The CD ranked #3 in the German album charts and stood for sixteen weeks in the top 100 of the charts.

Like its predecessor Wo der Pfeffer wächst, the CD is purely a cappella with no instrumentation and, with the sole exception of the "Mad World" cover, is entirely self-composed numbers. The majority of the songs were composed by Daniel Dickopf.

Extra features
If one plays a few minutes after the last song on the CD, "Zwischenbilanz", one can find a so-called hidden track that plays for three minutes and thirty seconds; it is essentially a snippet from one of their concert performances ("Kein Ohrwurm").

List of tracks
Those entries marked with (A) are jingles and news bulletins.
 * 1) "(A) Jingle A"
 * 2) "Radio"
 * 3) "(A) Jingle B"
 * 4) "Denglisch"
 * 5) "Jetzt und Hier"
 * 6) "Das bedeutet Krieg"
 * 7) "Sie bricht mir das Herz"
 * 8) "(A) Die Nachrichten" - The News: a short funny news report
 * 9) "Buddy Biber"
 * 10) "Das fremde Wesen" *
 * 11) "Romanze"
 * 12) "(A) Klatsch und Tratsch" - Gossip: a parody on boulevard magazines
 * 13) "Das Allerletzte"
 * 14) "Tiefgang"
 * 15) "(A) Der Sport" - Sports: a short sport news report
 * 16) "Aber sonst gesund"
 * 17) "Ruf doch mal an '06" **
 * 18) "Mad World" ***
 * 19) "Ja ja"
 * 20) "Wir hatten den Moment"
 * 21) "(A) Das Horoskop" - Horoscope
 * 22) "Schunkeln"
 * 23) "Ständchen"
 * 24) "Zwischenbilanz"


 * * The song "Das fremde Wesen" includes a guest singer, Sonja Wilts from the group LaLeLu. She sings a duet piece with Eddi.
 * ** The piece "Ruf doch mal an '06" is the new version of a song already extent on the 1997 album "Alles im grünen Bereich".


 * *** The cover of "Mad World" is borrowed from the version of the song that Gary Jules sings. The original is from Tears for Fears.