hAS THERE BEEN ANY GREAT GERMAN MUSIC SINCE FALCO ?

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― geordie RACER, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Obviously yes. Especially since Falco was Austrian. ;)

― Omar, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

falco was austrian

― gareth, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

damn, omar! you beat me to the punch.

great austrian music since falco:

gimmik.

erm, thats it

― gareth, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm trying to think of a way of mentioning Mark Falco here which would be at once relevant and funny.

I have failed.

― the pinefox, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

No you haven't :P

― Dave M., Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Sorry about that Gareth. :) Great Austrian Music since Falco: Kruder & Dorfmeister and their blunted cronies. Dj Martian will provide us with a nice list of the latest amazing Austrian records in a short while. Bless him.

― Omar, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

mouse on mars

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― norman fay, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Lots of great electronica acts have come from Germany in recent years - Porter Ricks, Maurizio, Various Artists, Thomas Brinkmann, Pole, etc. etc. The new Continuous Mode alb is pretty good on the one hearing I've given it so far; not so sure about the new Mouse on Mars.

― Andrew, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Or, if we're sticking to Falco's fellow countrymen, Fennesz, Pita and others on the Mego label (best label in the world at the moment? One of 'em, anyway) are all Austrian.

― Andrew, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Isolee - and stuff on playhouse - Losoul Mouse on Mars, of course. DJ Hell. Loads of one-off tracks with Compost- eg Beanfield, Four Ears Basic channel Chain Reaction Mille Plateaux - loads of german artists Stephan Betke - Pole Too many, but were there any German artists before Krautrock?

― K-reg, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Austrian music try the esteemed Mego label - The Wire had a Vienna electronic music special a couple of years ago.

― DJ Martian, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

OK - so I wanted to see whether people came up with the usual litany but no, some surprises as usual with ILM - any more ?

― Geordie loves Tresor II, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

As I posted on the Krautrock post...Barbara Morgenstern and Komeit...also Lali Puna and Frederik Schikowski.

― james e l, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm not sure I'd call them "great," but Atari Teenage Riot and Ec8or are both German...and are at least amusing (intentionally or not).

― alex in nyc, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Bodenstandig 2000, on Rephlex.

― Tom, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

I guess this thread is as good as any to revive, although I am primarily speaking about indie-pop. A few years ago I was immediately transfixed upon hearing "Mussen Wir Wollen" by Wir Sind Helden (and just as immediately burned by the second single (Guten Tag) off their album, which was exactly the kind of comedy rock that gives the Germans such a bad name.

Today my Russian friend asked me to find her some 2raumwohnung, who - judgding by the three songs I've heard so far - are a bit more club-oriented but still very listenable for the boys with guitars set. I'd recognized the name but had never heard any of their stuff before. Anyone else?

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

sure! its all good! Melancholisch Schön is probably a goood starting point for guitar aficionados, its the least dance-y 2raumwohnung album

― fez, Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

plz ignore the third "o" in "good", its not that great a starting point.

also, i wholeheartedly second the Bodenständig 2000 recommendation!!

― fez, Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

best thread ever!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I've enjoyed what I've heard from Element of Crime. Die Alben is the newest, from 2005. Not jokey at all. More for the boys with guitar set .

― patita (patita), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

In the austrian section upthread Cheap Records and Patrick Pulsinger are sorely missing.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

jam and spoon/west bam/sven vath and less commercial loads of decent hard trance stuff

― harbourlights (harbourlights), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Blumfeld
Die Golden Citroenen
Tocotronic
Notwist
RAMSTEIN!

― js (honestengine), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:26 (twenty years ago)

scooter.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Second for RAMMS+EIN--the only great rawk band left.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

WHAT ABOUT THE PEACE ORCHESTRA? HOT DAMN! AND THE SCORPIONS~ AND THE LIARS RECORDED MOST RECENT ALBUM STILL LIVE DRUM IN BERLIN! AS DID U2 ACHTUNG!

― goethe von hansenferfel, Friday, 14 April 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

LOL this thread.

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

Have there been any great Argentine footballers since Falcao. :)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

Paulo Roberto Falcao was Brazilian.

I want more German music. Or "sounds like it might be German" music. For a playlist. I have loads of CAN, Notwist, Mouse On Mars, the first Neu album, couple of Kraftwerk albums, but what else is good?

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 10:50 (seventeen years ago)

If this was still 2001, I would have been all Kreidler and To Rococo Rot.

― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:02 (seventeen years ago)

scorps. "winds of change"

― kamerad, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:06 (seventeen years ago)

Aye, that too, but it's no 'Live is Life'

― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:11 (seventeen years ago)

Nick you should get the compilation "Verschwende Deine Jugend: Punk und New Wave in Deutschland 1977-83". It's really good and will introduce you to Malaria, Andreas Dorau, Palais Schaumberg, Der Plan.

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:53 (seventeen years ago)

I think you'd really like Observing Systems by Tied & Tickled Trio, Nick. Headed by Notwist's Markus Acher.

― willem, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:43 (seventeen years ago)

i am currently jammin krysmopompas, cold punky neu wave stuff

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

WHAT ABOUT THE PEACE ORCHESTRA? HOT DAMN! AND THE SCORPIONS~ AND THE LIARS RECORDED MOST RECENT ALBUM STILL LIVE DRUM IN BERLIN! AS DID U2 ACHTUNG!

― braveclub, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

Malaria!

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

i listened to falco last night :-/

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

Well, the "Neu Deutche Welle" stuff (like Malaria) is actually pre-Falco/(Nena/Trio) not post, right?

Big Cat put out an OK CD comp of early/mid '90s German alt rock stuff in 1996 called Sturm Und Twang!: A Private Collection Of German Underground Pop -- Huah!, Die Goldenen Zitronen (who put out an OK album called Punk Rock around the same time), Ostznonensuppenwurfelmachenkrebds (!), etc.

And some stuff on these threads applies (though most of it is also pre-Falco, too):

Mostly German Old Used 45s That Metal Mike Saunders Mailed To Me

I Have Never Heard Entire Albums By These Bands Who Have Excellent Songs On Late '70s/Early '80s European K-Tel-Style Compilations

Also, there is KMFDM, I guess. And Beanfield. And Blumfeld (who made at least one good single.) And Mo-Do (whose "Eins Zwei Polizei" was probably the most Falco-like thing I heard in the '90s; whole Was Ist Das album -- also c. '96 -- is wacky too).

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

Fwiw, the best early '80s Neu Deutsche Welle comp I know of is a vinyl one from 1982 on Cachalot Records called Deutschland Deutschland, if you can find a copy -- Pyrolator, Der Plan, Einsturzende Neubauten, Malaria, Ja Ja Ja, Die Krupps, Palais Schaumburg, Xao Seffcheque, alles das greats.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

Gas
Gas
Gas
Gas
Gas
Gas
Gas

and Marz too.

― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

Well, the "Neu Deutche Welle" stuff (like Malaria) is actually pre-Falco/(Nena/Trio) not post, right?

― xhuxk, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

That's right.

Has anybody heard the "Hit Oder Niete" compilation?

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2Oyq8O2OA

― ☆, Friday, 2 April 2010 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

New York Times, a few days ago:

"The shift is evident on the airwaves, where German songs are staging a comeback against the dominance of American pop...Between 2000 and 2009, the share of German-produced acts in the Top 100 album charts rose to 36.7 percent from 19.5 percent. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/europe/11germany.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

I had no idea. So what German pop music are they referring to, exactly? And is any of it as good as Nena, or Trio, or Mo-Do?

― xhuxk, Monday, 13 September 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

There has been a resurgence in German-language rock/pop in the German charts in recent years. None of it particularly great. some of it awful. Off the top of my head: bands/artists such as "Wir Sind Helden", "Juli", "Silbermond", "Ich+Ich" and (most recently) "Lena". There are doubtless many more examples -- I live in Germany, but keep forgetting what's in the charts.

― Duke, Monday, 13 September 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-YcwDVL7j4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4janyg4Dsvc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSHEOud2PE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9VOo112F7M

― Duke, Monday, 13 September 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

Oops, managed to post the same song twice. no matter.

― Duke, Monday, 13 September 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

I posted "Ich + Ich", as it is the newest project of Annette Humpe ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Humpe ), founder member of NDW group "Ideal" (and sister of Inga Humpe of "2raumwohnung")

Not that this makes "Ich + Ich" any good, mind....

― Duke, Monday, 13 September 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)

eight months pass...

2000 or so words I wrote on Nena, Falco, Trio, and early '80s German new wave

http://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2011_201106-german-new-wave.html

― xhuxk, Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:27 (fourteen years ago)

ZOMG

xhuxk I have been looking for the title of "Das Land Der Elefanten" for about THREE YEARS now

was a big hit at the dances we had in German camp

― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:30 (fourteen years ago)

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