XXXIII differences

This page lists all the differences found between the box set XXXIII and the original releases of the singles.

General

All designs were created and/or reworked by Dirk Rudolph who also created the lettering and logo of the band.
All singles have a white border around the artwork.
All artworks have either been cut off or extended on the sides which is due to the original releases usually not being square as the vinyl artworks.

The promotional text for the box set said "Where special radio or promo edits exist, they are included" and "The B-sides match the original releases". This list points out when this is NOT the case and whatever radio or promo edits could have been included.

Du riechst so gut

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides.
The flower itself has been edited a little bit. Some spots and imperfections have been removed.
The band name uses a new version of the logo which has a bigger spacing between the letters.
The band name is a silverish grey, as opposed to a dark grey on the original.
The name of the single has been moved a little closer to the band name.

Back

The term Single Version is redundant, since it is the normal album version. But it was also called Single Version on the original release.
The release date in the credits is said to be 24 August 1995, which is wrong. The single was released on 28 August 1995.

Inner sleeve

The band members are shown in separate photos. The original single used a merged photo which was also used for the North American version cover of the album Herzeleid. The standalone photos were used in the booklet of the album.
The lyrics have been changed on three little parts: The vinyl uses "Verrat mich nicht" while the album used "Verrate mich nicht". On the single it is "und wehr dich nicht" where the album has "und wehre dich nicht". And on the single it says "auseinanderbricht" and in the album booklet it says "auseinander bricht".

Content

Vinyl debut for the Scal Remix.

Seemann

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at top and bottom.
The band name uses a new version of the logo which has a bigger spacing between the letters.
The band name has a much more blurry drop shadow now. The original used hard black lines.
The name of the single does not have any type of shadow anymore.

Back

The term Single Version is redundant, since it is the normal album version. But it was also called Single Version on the original release.

Inner sleeve

The photo used on the inner sleeve is the same as on the back of the single, just a little less cropped.
The lyrics now also writes out all repetitions in the song.

Engel

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at top and bottom.
The band name uses a new version of the logo which has a bigger spacing between the letters and has been moved down a bit.

Back

The term Single Version is redundant, since it is the normal album version. But it was also called Single Version on the original release.
- This could've been an opportunity to use the extended version of the song and have it released on vinyl for the first time.

Inner Sleeve

The photo is the same as on the original single but less cropped.
This is the first time that the official lyrics for Wilder Wein are printed on a Rammstein release.

Content

The single uses Wilder Wein on its b-side, which was not used on the original single, but on the Fan-Edition.
The release date in the credits is said to be 28 March 1997, which is wrong. The single was released on 1 April 1997.

Du hast

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at the top.
The band and single name, aswell as the scratches, were placed differently to fit the new artwork format.

Back

The term Single Version is redundant, since it is the normal album version.
- This could've been an opportunity to use the extended version of the song and have it released on vinyl for the first time.

Inner Sleeve

The photo used here was not used on the original release.

Content

Vinyl debut for Jacob Hellner Remix.
The release date in the credits is said to be 18 July 1997, which is wrong. The single was released on 21 July 1997.

Das Modell

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at the top and bottom.
The band and single name are now much bigger.
Some scratches have been shortened.

Back

The term Single Version is redundant, since the song was never released on an album.

Inner Sleeve

The photo is cut off on the sides.
One scratch has been mirrored.
This is the first time that the official lyrics for the song are printed on a Rammstein release.
This is the first time that the official lyrics for Kokain are printed on a Rammstein release.

Content

Vinyl debut for the original version of the song, since XXI uses a different version.

Du riechst so gut '98

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and the top.
The band and single name are placed a little bit higher and the band name is a little bit smaller.
The band name is now in sliverish grey instead of a dark grey.
The flower has a more blue-ish tone to it instead of the original purple.

Back

The term Single Version is redundant, since the song was never released in any other version.

Inner Sleeve

The photo is cut off on the sides.
The inverted flower is used for the full picture. On the original the inverted flower was placed small next to the tracklist.

Content

Vinyl debut for the '98 version of the song.
Vinyl debut for the Faith No More Remix.

Stripped

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides but extended on top and bottom.
The band and single name are placed a little bit higher and the band name is a little bit smaller.
The band name is now in sliverish grey instead of a dark grey.
The flower has a more blue-ish tone to it instead of the original purple.

Inner Sleeve

This is the first time that the official lyrics for the song are printed on a Rammstein release.

Content

Vinyl debut for the single version of the song.
Vinyl debut for the Heavy Mental Mix.

Asche zu Asche

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at top and bottom.
The microphone has been edited. It is now a bit smaller and the flames have been moved a little to the left.
The smoke in the background has been mirrored and edited.

Inner sleeve

The inner sleeve uses the photo that was used on the cover of Live aus Berlin.

Content

Vinyl debut for the live version of Asche zu Asche.

Sonne

Cover

The artwork is cut on the right side and the bottom but extended on the left and top.
The band name is placed differently due to the square format.
The single name is now placed right under the band name.
All of the red has been removed.
- The straight lines are now white and the DNA strings have been edited.
The Rammstein logo has been added in a green box at the top left, which was not present on the original single.

Inner Sleeve

The photo is mirrored and less cropped.
This is the first time that the lyrics include the counting in the intro.

Content

Vinyl debut for the Clawfinger K.O. Remix.

Links 2-3-4

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at the top and a little bit on the bottom.
The band name is placed differently due to the square format.
The ant was moved away from Schneider.
The DNA waves were edited in the same was as for Sonne.

Inner Sleeve

This is the first time that the official lyrics for Halleluja are printed on a Rammstein release.

Ich will

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at the top.
The band and single name are placed differently due to the square format.
The DNA waves have a less saturated color.
The vertical line where the DNA waves end is shorter.

Content

Vinyl debut for the Paul van Dyk Mix.

Mutter

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides and extended at the top and bottom.
The cover has a more yellow-ish tone compared to the strong orange color.
The band and single name are placed differently due to the square format.
The DNA waves have a less saturated color.
The vertical white lines have different sizes compared to the original single.

Inner Sleeve

This is the first time that the official lyrics for the radio edit are printed on a Rammstein release.
This is the first time that the official lyrics for 5/4 are printed on a Rammstein release.

Content

Vinyl debut for the Radio Edit.
Vinyl debut for 5/4.

Feuer frei!

Cover

The artwork is cut on the sides but extended a little bit on the bottom.

Back

The term Single Version is redundant, since it is the normal album version.

Content

Vinyl debut for the Junkie XL Remix.

Mein Teil

Cover

The edges of the artwork are not curved anymore.

Inner Sleeve

The inner sleeve uses the photo that was printed on the CD.
The lyrics are for the album version of the song.

Content

Vinyl debut for the single version of the song.

Amerika

Cover

The cover has been cut at the right side and slightly at the bottom.
- The band name is looking weird on the cover. The T and E are merged and the sharp edge on the middle line of the E is cut off.

Content

Vinyl debut for the single version of the song.
Vinyl debut for the Western-Remix.

Ohne dich

Cover

The cover has been cut off on all four sides.
The band logo is missing the spray-paint effect.

Inner sleeve

The photo used on the inner sleeve was cropped on top and right but extended on bottom and left.

Content

Vinyl debut for Mina Harker's Version.