I used to share a flat with Nina Hagen in Camden and she used to make pizza out of dead cats....

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dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

That song is fucking funny. It's like a "Losing My Edge" for the Hoxton art world.

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

If someone suddenly discovered that the music was made in 1983 and the vocals are by Genesis P. Orridge, I would probably believe them.

StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

(ok, I mean the other three tracks)

StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nobra.co.uk/quicktime/munchausen.html

dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I really really like this song but have assumed that everything else they do is dreadful - it just seems that kind of thing - if anyone wants to correct me, go nuts

Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Haven't heard the album so I can't (yet). But, I know what you mean. Still a refreshing little blast of misanthropy though!

worst handle ever (fandango), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Funny song. Heard it on Resonance FM on Sunday. Not sure I need to hear it again though. I liked that the vocalists sound so genderless.

Why aren't you posting on my thread, daria?

Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

She supported me on Thursday night at the Spitz, ladz, where were you?

Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://imomus.livejournal.com/219897.html

Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

tour outside London folx!

worst handle ever (fandango), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I really really like this song but have assumed that everything else they do is dreadful - it just seems that kind of thing - if anyone wants to correct me, go nuts

having just listened to the four songs on myspace, it seems your assumption was 100% right.

still, "munchausen" is absolutely fucking brilliant :)

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

my sister found out last year lives in foetus's old house (she was told so by a fan tourist standing outside in the street gawping at her door) -- nothing untoward has been discovered to date :(

happy new year momus!

mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Kind of adorable in her DDR days...

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

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link

Her East German singing career was very different too. In a subtle dig at how boring life was in the GDR, Nina berates her boyfriend Micha for forgetting to bring a colour film for the camera, so that their holiday on Hiddensee could only be captured in black and white. In 2003, it was estimated that around 40% of East Germans could sing the song's lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L9b2ifwqlQ

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 18 August 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link

Very interesting backstory of her father being DDR's leading folk/protest singer and how she ended up in the West.

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link

wow dance dance revolution had its own protest singer?

THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link

Omg this song

Afaik this video is the longest a penis has been on youtube without being moderated

flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link

The No Bra song that is

flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link

Afaik this video is the longest a penis has been on youtube without being moderated


nah the ben shapiro show’s been on for years iirc

THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link

tralala, lololol

flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link

(X-post) Nina always wanted to be an actress like her mother, Eva-Maria Hagen, who had been marketed as a kind of socialist Brigitte Bardot before falling from grace with the East German régime for starting an affair with Wolf Biermann. As As a result of this, Nina was prevented from going to acting school and went to study music instead.

I've seen the film you've linked to, Heute ist Freitag, and Nina was pretty good in it. It reminds me of other East German films of the early 1970s (such as 'Die Legende von Paul und Paula') where GDR film directors were testing the waters of the perceived liberalism after Erich Honecker came to power in 1971. Ironically, it was Honecker's decision to strip Hagen's step-father Wolf Biermann of his citizenship when he was on a concert tour in West Germany in 1976 which brought an end to this misplaced optimism - and also led to Eva-Maria and Nina Hagen moving to the West immediately afterwards.

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 18 August 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link

Her daughter is an actress. I've got to say they are one very attractive family.

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link


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