“Welcome Machine Gun” by Hubert KaH

"Welcome Machine Gun" was one of three singles Hubert KaH pulled from Sound of My Heart, the German synthpop act's fifth studio album and only their second sung in English, released in 1989 with Michael Cretu in the producer's chair. Hubert Kemmler wrote the music and shared the lyrics with Klaus Hirschburger.

Billboard filed it as an early dance hit, and warned that it and "So Many People" made a slightly misleading doorway into a record that leaned more toward techno and modern rock. Barry Walters of The San Francisco Examiner was sold on the album all the same, singling out Kemmler's high-flying tenor and the rich, bracing sheen Cretu gave the whole thing.

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