Nena

Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann is very good too.

YES! <3

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh hahahaha

obv I like Nina Hagen, too

― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Leuchtturm ftw you guys

― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

So were they almost like the German Blondie in terms of range/impact?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:57 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

OMG STOP IT RIGHT NOW BEFORE YOU MAKE ME CRY

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

AEROSMITH DA NENA COMPLAINA

― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

had no idea that was her on 'oldschool, baby'! thats awesome

― just sayin, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:05 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

AEROSMITH DA NENA COMPLAINA

lol'd so hard

― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

you have obviously never been to das Land der Elefanten

― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Aerosmith is absolutely correct.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

Nope. Wrong.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

So were they almost like the German Blondie in terms of range/impact?

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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

And hey, if anyone wants to see it!

Not the dub, sadly.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:20 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

And his producers were Dutch.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:02 (1 year 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 (6 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 (2 months ago) Permalink

engel der nacht
Kino
Leuchtturm
Irgendwo, Irgendwie, Irgendwo
Willst du mit mir gehen
The one she did with Westbam

All great

― OutdoorFish, Friday, 29 March 2013 14:06 (2 months ago) Permalink

Going to buy the new album now, just to spite the retards

― OutdoorFish, Friday, 29 March 2013 14:09 (2 months ago) Permalink