LIST 52 - 08/10/10 ("Remember this problem? The German language...")

...Thus began both the FSK album "The Sound Of Music" and the splendid German language music compilation "Wo ist Zuhause, Mama - Perlen Deutschsprachiger Popmusik" 18 and 15 years ago respectively. When I first started considering this week's list, it seemed too good a phrase not to recycle!

So, yes, herewith 20 tracks from German language performers (the presence of the likes of the astonishing Austrian punk-folk duo Attwenger prevents it from being considered a list of German performers), singing more or less all auf Deutsch. "More or less" because, ironically give the opening, the FSK track included contains more than a smattering of English!

It's all in context, though, and the track, "I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch", will be remembered very fondly by those of you who were mid-1980s devotees of the John Peel Festive 50. The clip I've found of the track does indeed include the great man before and after, briefly.

Inevitably there were things I found myself leaving out in trying to straddle over three decades' worth of highlights even without pinching any of the sort of stuff a million Neue Deutsche Welle or Darkwave compilations already cover and cover rather better (that's a thought: wonder if Zillo is still going?); and I don't doubt there'll be another list of this nature in 2011 to accommodate the overspill.

In the meantime, and in the words of Nina Hagen in the closing track, "Ich wünsche Ihnen einen recht guten Empfang"...


TOCOTRONIC – Aber hier leben, nein danke (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu_EXn9Kfkw

SUPERPUNK – Das Feuerwork ist Vorbei (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlxOagUeHiQ

WIR SIND HELDEN – Guten Tag (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8qY5KY9dQ

ATTWENGER – Rahm (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUFwmdm5hjM

ELEMENT ART – Die Eistänzerin (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5V5QDgMPAU

SAMBA – Aus den Kolonien (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kB932Vcx8g

BARBARA MORGENSTERN – Der Augenblick (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjlnhotzH4

1000 ROBOTA – Er sagt (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPedlXWbbnA

DER ELEGANTE REST – Hardcore (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba_7Y0UMNN0

SLUT & JULI ZEH – Wächterhauscollage (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsS2g4yAPGA

DIE ÄRZTE - Junge (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2VnPOIBVt0 (censored)

DIE ÄRZTE – Westerland (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sUh5I6kx1w

DIRK DARMSTÄDTER & BERND BEGEMANN – So geht das jede Nacht (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZ0LoZmAjY

FSK – I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTO5Hwu9PmQ

OSTZONENSUPPENWŰRFELMACHENKREBS - Respekt vor dem eigenen Hau (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izp9L3G1wbg

SPILLSBURY – Sturzflug (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZhMUzGTpgk

LYDIA DAHER – Flüchtige Bürger (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drUC2NV_PDw

DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN – Das bisschen Totschlag (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Hxq-PFOlc

PETER HEPPNER – Alleinesein (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOYXxZXJS18

NINA HAGEN – TV-Glotzer (White Punks on Dope) (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPQB-mtQDY