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* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Much like his previous album Nomi again mixes opera and pop music.
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* CoverVersion: "Wayward Sisters" and "Death" are lifted from Henry Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas". "Ding Dong" is a cover from the Harold Arlen and Y. "Yip" Harburg song from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. "From Beyond" and "Return" are based on compositions by John Dowland. "Just One Look" is a cover by Doris Troy.

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'''Simple Man''' is a 1982 album by Music/KlausNomi, the second and final album in his catalogue released during his lifetime. "Simple Man" and "Falling In Love Again" were released as singles.

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'''Simple Man''' ''Simple Man'' is a 1982 album by Music/KlausNomi, the second and final album in his catalogue released during his lifetime. "Simple Man" and "Falling In Love Again" were released as singles.



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'''Simple Man''' is a 1982 album by Music/KlausNomi, the second and final album in his catalogue released during his lifetime. "Simple Man" and "Falling In Love Again" were released as singles.

Sadly Nomi died two years later, casting [[HarsherInHindsight an eerie shadow over the final track of this album, which is called "Death"]].

'''Tracklist'''

[[AC:Side One]]
# "From Beyond" (2:51)
# "After the Fall" (4:43)
# "Just One Look" (3:19)
# "Falling In Love Again" (2:39)
# "ICUROK" (4:24)
# "Rubberband Lazer" (4:20)

[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Wayward Sisters" (1:43)
# "Ding Dong" (3:03)
# "Three Wishes" (3:18)
# "Simple Man" (4:18)
# "Death" (4:18)
# "Return" (2:07)

!! ''Rubberband Troper''
* AfterTheEnd: "After the Fall".
--> ''But I'm telling you hold on, hold on''
--> ''Tomorrow we'll be there''
--> ''After the fall we'll be born, born, born again''
--> ''After it all blows away''
--> ''After the fall, after the fall''
--> ''After it all blows away''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''D'''ing '''D'''ong"
* AsTheGoodBookSays: "After The Fall" mentions that "the freak will inherit the Earth", which is a pun on "the meek" in the original sermon of the mountain given by UsefulNotes/JesusChrist.
* BilingualBonus: "Falling In Love Again" is sang partially in English, partially in German.
* CoverVersion: "Wayward Sisters" and "Death" are lifted from Henry Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas". "Ding Dong" is a cover from the Harold Arlen and Y. "Yip" Harburg song from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. "From Beyond" and "Return" are based on compositions by John Dowland. "Just One Look" is a cover by Doris Troy.
* ClassicalMusic: Two tracks are by composers Henry Purcell and two others by John Dowland.
* DeathSong: "Ding Dong" and "Death"
--> ''But death invades me''
--> ''Death is now a welcome guest''
--> ''When I am laid in earth''
--> ''May my wrongs create no trouble''
--> ''No trouble in thy breast''
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "From Beyond"
* FaceOnTheCover: Nomi's face in a frame.
* TheFutureWillBeBetter: Contrary to "Total Eclipse" from his previous album ''[[Music/KlausNomiAlbum Klaus Nomi]]'' "After The End" has a more hopeful message for people on Earth after the nuclear explosion. Well, kind of:
--> ''Well, the freak shall inherit the earth now''
--> ''No matter how well done or rare''
--> ''But I'm telling you hold on, hold on''
--> ''Tomorrow we'll be there''
--> ''We'll build our radioactive castles''
--> ''Out in the radioactive air''
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Simple Man" a song about a simple man "doing the best he can".
* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Much like his previous album Nomi again mixes opera and pop music.
* OneManSong: "Simple Man"
* [[OneWomanWail One Countertenor Wail]]: "From Beyond" and it's reprise, "Return."
* OneWordTitle: "Death" and "Return"
* {{Opera}}: Just like his previous album.
* ThePowerOfLove:
** "Falling In Love Again".
--> ''Love's always been my game''
--> ''Play it as I may''
--> ''I was made that way''
--> ''I can't help it''
--> ''They cluster to me''
--> ''Like moths around a flame''
--> ''And if their wings burn''
--> ''I know I'm not to blame''
** "Just One Look"
--> ''Just one look''
--> ''And I knew I'll get you some day''
* RecordProducer: Ron Johnsen.
* SingleMaltVision: "ICUROK"
--> ''I see double, you are two''
* SongOfSongTitles: In "After the Fall":
--> ''So I told you about the total eclipse now, but still it caught you unawares...''
* ThreeWishes: "Three Wishes"
--> ''In a flower there was a fairy''
--> ''And the fairy said: "3 Wishes!"''
--> ''Mother got a pool''
--> ''Daddy got a horse''
--> ''And I got a dress''
--> ''Sailing in the blue ocean''
* TitleTrack: "Simple Man"
* TouchedByVorlons: "Rubberband Lazer"
--> ''Travelling through the galaxy''
--> ''Looking for a home''
--> ''Interstellar tragedies''
--> ''Living like a gnome''
--> ''Stretching like a comet trail''
--> ''From star to star and back''
--> ''Intergalactic happy trails''
--> ''Keep me on the track''
* WordSaladLyrics: "ICUROK"
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