Rules:
- Over 30 years old
- Should be a HUGE hit everyone in your country remembers to this day
- Preferably something that is relatively unknown outside of your country
- Preferably sang in your native tongue
Legendary you say? Relatively unknown outside of Germany (and other German speaking countries) you say?
Let me introduce you to Dschinghis Khan by Dschingis Khan
(99 Luftballons, which was mentioned here before, is arguably the bigger hit that really everyone knows. But I couldn’t resist throwing this out there. It was a huge hit and is still known.)
I’ve never seen this video but I know Moskau. They look like they’re having so much fun lol, and the Tony Iommi lookalike has a real cool hair/moustache combo, and the girl in white is a smokeshow!
Oh, the first one is a legendary classic. Finland has got the “do direct covers of all the German hits from the 70’s” - scene well covered:
That also is true for Germany. There’s for example a song using Black Sabbaths Paranoid melodies with some German lyrics about the Hound of Baskerville https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnFX0_H-rA
This is without a doubt the best cover version of “Paranoid” I have ever heard.
Didn’t Finland have an entire culture of doing spoofs on old German shit, like TV series? I’ve seen Die Kühe and I think it’s absolutely awesome. (The Dutch also did a good impression in Jiskefet.)
And I remember watching / listening to lots of M. A. Numminen. Not sure if that’s just the stuff that found its way back to Germany and me… But nonetheless…
The thing with the tv series might be a thing of the past, though. I’m not sure if anyone still remembers “Der Alte” or “Derrick”. It’s probably not that funny without the context. And how we watch TV has certainly changed during the last decades.
Dschingis Khan is very well known in the US AFAIK
American here. Never heard of it.
Schrei nach Liebe by die Ärzte from 1993, German punk band. Everybody that ist Like 60 or younger knows that song. Well, maybe not if you’re in your teens…
I would have said Westerland is even more well known
I would say, that even the teens know it, but considering how a lot of them lack even knowledge about some of Germans most iconic cultural achievements(I literally know people that didnt even heard about “Werner”) I’m not to sure about it. But I can agree, its an absolute Banger Song.
Wanted to complain, but damn already over 30 years indeed
DAD - Sleeping my day away.
They have made some very memorable song and have become even better since then!
Also note the left handed base player with the
fourtwo string base. He has had some very unique basses made through his careerI thought these were AI images for a moment
Another odd thing: those all look like they only have two strings.
My bad. Of course! I mentioned 4 strings but all basses have 4…
He only plays with 2 strings! Good spot!
Hell yeah, that’s weird lol I like it. These dudes kinda rule btw, I’m gonna be adding them to the 80s metal rotation with Savatage and Judas Preist and all that sort of stuff.
You may also like a band called
dizzy mizz lizzy
Cool I’ll check em out thanks! I like the name already lol.
Germany: Die Fantastischen Vier - Die Da!?!
From 1992, German rap with funny guys moving stupidly in the video
Random question, but how well known is my old German teacher’s favorite techno song: Eine Insel Mit Zwei Bergen? To which I still remember all the words 15yr later lmao.
I’d say pretty much everybody between 40 and 45 remembers that song
It is super catchy to be fair! And the puppets are just the right amount of creepy to still be fun haha.
I had the Single when I was a kid
Holy shit they have it on 12"! I need to track down a copy lol.
Hallo Thomas!
Hallo! Alles klar?
Klar!
Germany
The title of this song from 1974 became a German saying.
Udo Lindenberg, originally a jazz drummer, was the first German to make authentic German rock and pop music, in the German language, without it being “Schlager”.
Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria (All clear on the Andrea Doria):
Nena - 99 Luftballons comes to my mind. Guess the country
Bavaria?
Schwurbelstan?
Interesting. How do you guys feel about Bruttosozialprodukt?
We steigern it.
Butr only when the Werksirene dröhnt
And The Stichel lustvoll stöhnt
And the gabelstapelfahrer mit der stapelgabler prahlt
Use https://radiooooo.com and cheat
Here comes the hotsteppers, ini kamoze !
Still slaps 33 years later.
Can’t believe no one mentioned this beauty! Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei
You have given my husband a new headache, I thank you dearly
Charles Aznavour - Emmenez moi
Become an instant fan no matter your language
I have no idea how well known this is outside of Scotland, or at least the UK, but it meets all the other requirements: I’m Gonna Be by the Proclaimers, probably better known as 500 Miles
It was fairly popular here in the US. Landed in some movie soundtracks. Nothing else by them did though.
Plenty of their other stuff did pretty damn well here, it’s just that I’m Gonna Be did so much better than everything else that it would feel wrong to pick another song. It’s the one everyone still sings at sports events
iTS a somewhat offen used Wedding and football Song in germany
My favorite song is 500 Miles by Peter, Paul & Mary, and everyone thinks I’m talking about the Proclaimers version unless I specify, so I think it’s pretty well known.
France, Chanson de Prevert from 1962 : https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=5DeA8FPqWwc
I dont think Gainsbourg got much audience outside of France, but he was THE french singer for almost half a century
The english version from Mick Harvey is probably better: https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=6J_ls-1FYuk
I was expecting Robin Sparkles - Let’s go to the mall