So yeah, "99 Red Balloons" and all that and I just kept thinking 'one hit wonder' for no good reason without considering what else they might have but DJP and ENBB are showing me the error of my ways on the Cure Top poll thread. Thus, among other things:
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
I keep forgetting about "Nur geträumt", I don't really know why
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
Nur Getraumt is amazing. Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann is very good too.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
she's on this
― coal, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
"We are the old school" beat me too it!
― mmmm, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
TBH Nur geträumt is one of my top 10 all time favorite songs. She recorded it again in the early 2000s but it was not nearly as good.
Oh once when I was visiting my aunt and uncle in Germany I bought a Nena CD and was telling my aunt about how much I loved her and that I was excited to have found this particular CD and my aunt was very confused and after a good five minutes of back and forth broken English (hers) and German (mine) we figured out she thought I'd been talking about Nina Hagen.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann is very good too.
YES! <3
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh hahahaha
obv I like Nina Hagen, too
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Leuchtturm ftw you guys
― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
So were they almost like the German Blondie in terms of range/impact?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
NENA DOES NOT FUCKING DESERVE HER OWN THREAD YOU MEMORY-LANERS
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
OMG STOP IT RIGHT NOW BEFORE YOU MAKE ME CRY
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
AEROSMITH DA NENA COMPLAINA
― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
had no idea that was her on 'oldschool, baby'! thats awesome
― just sayin, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
He can try and pop our Luftballons, but we'll still have 98 left
― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol'd so hard
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
you have obviously never been to das Land der Elefanten
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
Aerosmith is absolutely correct.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Nope. Wrong.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
Might be pushing it a little but she definitely helped popularise the NDW sound.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
I wrote about her here, fwiw:
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/spotlight/new-wave-uber-alles-nena-falco-trio-and-the-80s-german-invasion/:
― xhuxk, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
Casually tossing Falco into an article about the German New Wave scene (and xhuxk does it with slightly more awareness than most) is like tossing Rush into a discussion of hard rock bands from Detroit.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
Well, maybe if Rush were from Windsor. (Anyway, yeah, I'm well aware Falco's from Austria. But he sang in German, and his career depended on Germany -- when you're talking hits in the U.S., I'd say that's close enough. It would've been weird to leave him out.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
I assume, xhuxk, you know about this thing. Saw it many years ago, still surprised they did an English dub for it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089162/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
And hey, if anyone wants to see it!
Not the dub, sadly.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
Falco sang in a Viennese dialect that's incomprehensible to a lot of, maybe even most, Germans. He also came out of the vibrant Austropop (that phrase, which is now used as a marketing gag for any music of Austrian origin, used to mean a very specific sing-songwriter rock scene, sung in dialect) scene as a bassist with the Hallucination Company, and most of his songs (including Der Komissar) were about the Viennese drug scene. Vienna's about 6 hours by car to the nearest German city that's even one third as big as it is. Some suburb.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
I mean it's legit to talk about Falco as part of a brief flare-up of receptivity to German-language pop in the 80s, but he had nothing to do with the so-called Neue Deutsche Welle -- which was a fake construct of the record companies, anyway (I'd refer people to Jürgen Teipel's book Verschwende deine Jugend, but it will never be available in English, which is a shame.)
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
And his producers were Dutch.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh and
http://jonathanbogart.tumblr.com/post/38400993250/tomewing-0-this-is-the-first-time-in-20
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 December 2012 20:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
Aerosmith is wrong, wrong, sadly misguidedly wrong. Aerosmith the band are, were always have been a spile of steaming turd.
― OutdoorFish, Friday, 29 March 2013 14:03 (1 month ago) Permalink
engel der nachtKinoLeuchtturmIrgendwo, Irgendwie, IrgendwoWillst du mit mir gehenThe one she did with Westbam
All great
― OutdoorFish, Friday, 29 March 2013 14:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
Going to buy the new album now, just to spite the retards
― OutdoorFish, Friday, 29 March 2013 14:09 (1 month ago) Permalink