On 21 Mrz., 08:50, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
. Maybe the new sound to hit the
> airwaves will be a revival of some Bavarian Folk music with a Rock
> spin.
Hendrix preserve us! There is actually a good German music scene, has
been since the beginning of the eighties. In fact, I think innovation
in rock may be more prevalent in other language-culture groups than
the English-speaking one. There are all kinds of things happening in
Africa, for example. Peter Gabriel's "realworld" project keeps
bringing really good stuff to a wider audience. But the English-
speaking world is sometimes isolated in its own dominance.
Ever since "die neue deutsche Welle" [New German Wave] (reaching a
wider world with Nena's "Nine and ninety red balloons") an indigenous
German scene has been thriving, a scene where the artists sing in
German - when you think about it, it does seem more sensible to write
songs in your own language(!). This has expanded into all sorts of
areas, like hip hop (Fanta Vier, Sido, Bushido) and bombastic heavy
rock groups like Rammstein, who have a respectable international
following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w9EksAo5hY
Other examples of good popular German rock (come on, gabby, contradict
me here, please!) are
Bap, a band from Cologne who sing in the local dialect and thus have
to be translated so that other Germans can understand them. I would
claim that every German between five and fifty would recognise this
song, and most of them could sing along with the chorus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkVV3QGJpA
Die Toten Hosen are a punk group who've been around forever. They are
also wildly popular in Argentina for some reason:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15apenkfeF8
Die Ärzte are punks for intellectuals, with lyrics unsurpassed in
cynical cleverness. The video isn't bad either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJ0Inxfmyk&feature=related
Wir Sind Helden are one of the younger groups to have become very
popular in the past few years (they were one of the acts at the Live 8
Berlin concert):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0FBBKT65s&feature=related
(Yeah, I know I've left out Grönemeyer and Westernhagen and Die Böhze
Onkels and Silbermond and Rosenstolz, etc., etc., etc. But I also left
out Pur. On purpose.)
Francis
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