Song · Helloween
“I Want Out” by Helloween
From the album Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part II (1988)
“I Want Out” by Helloween appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1988 on the album Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part II. Its best result is #684 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,843 hard rock song of all time.
Kai Hansen wrote "I Want Out", words and music, and Helloween released it on Noise in 1988 as a single from Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II. Hansen denied that the song hinted at his own exit, but he did leave the band a few months after the single came out. Michael Kiske sings lead, Hansen and Michael Weikath play the guitars, Markus Grosskopf is on bass and Ingo Schwichtenberg on drums, and Tommy Newton mixed it and engineered with Tommy Hansen.
Storm Thorgerson directed the video, which MTV aired, and the Guardian held it up as a gleaming, well-coiffed model of the 1980s hair-metal clip. The song has become one of the German power metal band's best known, a live regular for Helloween and for Gamma Ray and Unisonic, the bands Hansen and Kiske went on to.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 684 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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