Nena

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Tk5b1CVzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nevUMEnncwk

I keep forgetting about "Nur geträumt", I don't really know why

Nur Getraumt is amazing. Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann is very good too.

she's on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgG5U9ohngk

"We are the old school"
beat me too it!

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.

Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann is very good too.

YES! <3

oh hahahaha

obv I like Nina Hagen, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt7F997Adwc

Leuchtturm ftw you guys

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

NENA DOES NOT FUCKING DESERVE HER OWN THREAD YOU MEMORY-LANERS

OMG STOP IT RIGHT NOW BEFORE YOU MAKE ME CRY

AEROSMITH DA NENA COMPLAINA

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

He can try and pop our Luftballons, but we'll still have 98 left

AEROSMITH DA NENA COMPLAINA

lol'd so hard

you have obviously never been to das Land der Elefanten

Aerosmith is absolutely correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4v8h1nwyvI

Nope. Wrong.

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.

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/:

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.

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.)

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/

And hey, if anyone wants to see it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpEzxSxaaQ&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL426AFAE18E099902

Not the dub, sadly.

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.

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.)

And his producers were Dutch.

Oh and

http://jonathanbogart.tumblr.com/post/38400993250/tomewing-0-this-is-the-first-time-in-20

http://25.media.tumblr.com/2da9b4f1402c50e98f229a18f04a10c4/tumblr_mfc9zwgfc91qznhs5o1_1280.png

Aerosmith is wrong, wrong, sadly misguidedly wrong. Aerosmith the band are, were always have been a spile of steaming turd.

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

All great

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

Touring the US -- for the first time ever, it turns out!

Sept 30 – SAN FRANCISCO – Regency Ballroom
Oct 2 – LOS ANGELES – The Regent Theater
Oct 4 – NEW YORK CITY – PlayStation Theater

oh wow deep memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuvegK4pz44