Thank Fritz it’s Friday.
In support of our beleaguered brothers and sisters in Austria, this week I want to know: what’s your favourite song sung in German?
Here’s mine.
Alas, there’s still no voucher – but them’s the breaks.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close Midnight SUNDAY.
Nick says: Good luck.
Meanwhile…
Last week my esteem was won by Will for his choice of song about the ocean.
Will wrote:
“Tom Waits’ All The World Is Green from the album Blood Money. Containing the most delicious key change with marimba and bass clarinet solo.
“The gorgeous lyrics: ‘I fell into the ocean, when you became my wife; risked it all against the sea, to have a better life’.”
Nick says: Thanks Will and to everyone who entered.
Pic: Steamboat Vinyl, Limerick
Mmf….(should be a German word, maybe it is!!).
I love this song, I’ve posted it before but you asked for my favourite so I’m answering honestly ….
I tschü … tschü .. tschüss:
Trost – In Diesen Raum :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8A6cOl3SFA
Heroes – Bowie. (Helden)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb6Gbi1MpoE
Top one, M…!
Motorhead did a creditable cover, as did Blondie (almost).
tho the 1977 original is streets ahead.
Sounds like a winner…!
Haven’t heard either of those.
Will check em out
Kraftwerk – Neonlicht
https://youtu.be/iPDCiHLsFMU
Heart-stoppingly gorgeous. Drifting through my head as I make my way unsteadily home from another nocturnal jaunt. Brings a tear to the eye.
And the original version of The Model…
Kraftwerk – Das Model
https://youtu.be/OQIYEPe6DWY
Yay. Ralph Hütter reminds me a bit of Dominic Cummings in this video
A pop classic for the ages – 99 Luftballons by Nena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5a0Bl8eY
Ok this only has a smattering of German but is a great karaoke option for those of us who can’t sing.
Ian Drury & The Blockheads.
Hit me with you Rhythm Stick.
Ich leibe dich (snigger)
https://youtu.be/0WGVgfjnLqc
Speaking of which, here’s Mick Harvey, long-time Nick Cave collaborator making a decent fist of Ich liebe dich… ich dich auch nicht.
https://youtu.be/0AVw7HAAQCg
The classic 99 Luftballoons from Nena.
https://youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY
English version
https://youtu.be/hiwgOWo7mDc
Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst…)
https://youtu.be/KQRaj1vcnrs
Qualität!
https://youtu.be/YTO5Hwu9PmQ
With an added bonus of a John Peel intro
Kraftwerk – Autobahn – Because, come February that’s where I’d be heading, out of Austria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLoqr70JvVU
BAP featuring Nina Hagen – Weihnachtsnaach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoyDhe_2udA
Frohe Weihnachten mein Arsch
Einstuerzende Neubauten – Nagorny Karabach
https://youtu.be/hd-6WweqD0Y
I am picking some emotional ones tonight. Blixa Bargeld and the boys perform this in a way that it could only have grace and meaning. That Teutonic stillness.
Wunderbar
If you like that, maybe you’ll like this
Einstuerzende Neubauten feat. Meret Becker – Stella Maris.
https://youtu.be/BCX2lnxa_g8
A love song, not a tribute to a famous Dublin schoolboy football club.
Thank you I did like it, who would have thought the Germans were so romantic.
From 1939, Lale Andersen – Lili Marlene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXC4N1HXf0
Originally titled ‘ ‘Lied eines Jungen Wachtpostens’ (Song of a young sentry)
Only 2 German words in this but still…
Dead Kennedys- California Über Alles
https://youtu.be/jrWflCJPM4w
https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA
Dada says
Manic Street Preachers – Europa Geht Durch Mich
https://youtu.be/4Ro4iZg2i3M
Nina Hoss, that’s all I’ll say.
Having to learn how to play this on the tin whistle in second class, obviously no lyrics, but seeing the movie and everyone knows this
https://youtu.be/2B4w6OPZwGs
Edelweiss.
Erika by the 39th Panzer Grenadier Division of the Wehrmacht. You can almost smell the gasoline from the Panzers going over the Polish border. Maybe the ECJ should adopt it as an anthem ?
I once played this in French class & the flag turned white as it was the theme for the 1940 Tour de France..
Hearing it is as joyful coming home to a full mousetrap or asking an Argentinian great grandfather his SS rank. Just don’t ask him to design a summer camp for the kids. Stick it on when your running a marathon & you’ll be the be in the master race or when your eating Luftwaffles for breakfast. Yes truly the tune for those who regard the former East Germany as middle Germany. It inspired the Ramones to write Blitzkrieg Bop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcVb6l4TpHw
Grow up stephen.
The 2nd World War was over before you were born.
This thread is about German MUSIC.
CAN, Kraftwerk, UFO and Boney M, etc…
UFO are from London. Saw them in the National Stadium aeons ago ? I assume you are referring to or the Scorpions or MSG. Boney M are from Jamaica , Aruba & Montserrat ?
Boney M are just as German as Milli Vanilli.
Rather scarily my third class teacher made us learn this as gaeilge! There was a class of 40 (seriously) 8 year olds belting out “Erika!” every day for two weeks! We even used to listen to the German version blared out by a military band (on vinyl) to help. Ah, the eighties… Great times.
Ha, hilarious, you ought to pitch that to TG4, that’d make a great short movie!
https://youtu.be/C4uXGzFZjqw
Sportfreunde Stiller – Ein Kompliment
Mireille Mathieu – Muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvy9JGyudwo
etonnant…!
Helene Fischer – Stille Nacht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohhXZtgO3J8
erstaunlich…!
Now this will give you nightmares.
And it should.
https://youtu.be/8s22PZRXAIY
Shouting Schlager! Schlager! Schlager!
His teeth hurt my eyes.
The late great John Prine had an album called German Afternoons, but I guess that wouldn’t qualify.
This is totally in German.
Totally.
You should totally listen to it as of it was.
Too many zoos.
https://youtu.be/sz0RxiLSUcI
Nice one Papi…
Teutonic…
Supersonic…
It’s pretty nice, isn’t it?
Good choice.
A beautiful version of Ave Maria auf Deutsch by Shubert.
https://youtu.be/HMf7bxkXS4I
This is definitely my favourite. It’ll put the hairs up on your neck.
Listened to that going to sleep last night.
Sweet dreams.
Laibach – Tanz mit Laibach
https://youtu.be/Glu9wA4HjE0
Serious industrial disco that will pound you into submission and teach you to count from 1 to 4 in German at the same time.
Where is DAF?
…scorpions…
..milli vanilli…
Und alles de udders
Falco – Ganz Wien (All of Vienna) 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mCu6S-V5ww
…in light of what’s currently happening in austria here’s
Falco living large back in the day.
Personally speaking I’d take high camp over mein kampf every time…
Falco – Rock Me Amadeus (Official Video)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA
Ah Rock me Amadeus
I’d forgotten about this original version in German
Class stuff
The Beatles – Sie liebt dich
https://youtu.be/3vx8qpaKmlk
Surprised no one has suggested Der Kommissar by that leading exponent of the German- Austro rap crossover movement the late Johann “Hans” Hölzel better known as Falco, the Godfather of Deutsche-rap which is either sad or light years ahead of its time ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM
Time for some prime krautrock/kosmische from a collaboration between members of Cluster and Neu!
Harmonia – Deluxe (Immer Weider)
https://youtu.be/Fd1BH7Nbk8c
First time hearing this. Der absolute cracker!
Bitte sehr!
Random German dude re-interprets a Simon and Garfunkel classic. Silence may indeed be preferable.
Thomas Rothfuß – Ein Traum der Liebe
https://youtu.be/QISwbbYS5nw
I fell out of a tree one time listening to the mighty KMFDM on my blaster, up a tree.
https://youtu.be/p511mTLz2qU
Die Fantastischen Vier – Einfach Sein (Original HQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hoZervGXQyI
Sie ist weg- Die Fantastichen Vier was a track I loved back in 1995 when I lived in Switzerland. Good times.
https://youtu.be/3vP2T9nTZtw
And Ich find dich Scheisse (I find you shit) is also another late 90s fun track https://youtu.be/P7HyGa2YFg4
Ah sure, while we’re at it;
Die Fantastischen Vier – Die Da ?! (Original HQ)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUosAGDM8Sg
Wir brauchen mehr Frauen!
Kleenex – “Nice” 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp8NYBUBnss
(girls just wanna have… Gotterdammerung!)
:-)
Excellent!
Vor der Kaserne
Vor dem großen Tor
Stand eine Laterne
Und steht sie noch davor
So woll’n wir uns da wieder seh’n
Bei der Laterne wollen wir steh’n
Wie einst Lili Marleen.
https://youtu.be/7heXZPl2hik
It’ll have to be Falscher Hase ‘Nachstenliebe’
https://youtu.be/wE9sKJiwNEs
It’s a mix from 2013 by the German DJ Hase.
…. probably not technically within the rules, but… ah :)
And if any one can tell me what yer man is on about, in German, on the intro to this, that’d be nice :)
https://youtu.be/wE9sKJiwNEs
Did someone mention ‘Die Toten Hosen’?
Die Toten Hosen – Arschloch
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBQskOxLltE
Only benblack could have posted this.
Aus den Nebeln der Zeit,
aus einem goldenen Zeitalter
das fur immer vergangen ist.
Ein Lied fur heute!
Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft – “Der Mussolini” , 1981,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yldR0TcbML0
Lauter!
Lauter!
Soundiva Classical Choir – O Tannenbaum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJp0XWSsGS0
Flashmob Flash Mob – Ode an die Freude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
I’m not sure if these qualify as ”German”, but even Hitler wasn’t German and he almost got away with it.
I’s worth a shot or two.
Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wSk1j02_4
The Fall – Bremen Nacht (Alternative)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dMeifN9QSs
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft – Der Raeuber und der Prinz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDQPVXUegPs
Sleep well.
Seriously though…
Sleaford Mods were in the Olympia last night. (Sunday)
I couldn’t afford to go so I listened to this on repeat for 80 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Mr9BH8JUY
It’s the same.