The 1980s was a fun time for me, with many bars and Discos laid waste to my vodka and OJ drunken escapades. It was fun dancing the night away and I got a kick out of the many German songs that made it big during this decade. Some were good but some are just ...dumb as dumb can be. It's freebie week over at Monday Music Moves Me and I movin' to German songs baby..
1. DA, DA, DA BY TRIO-1981
I first heard this song when I was in Austria in 1982 and just thought it was the stupidest song I ever heard. That assessment has not changed. It took a while to make it here...still dumb as fu#$&. There was a commercial that used this song and it was funny.
2. 99 LUFT BALLOONS BY NENA-1983
This is a pretty cool song that still gets airplay in both the German and English language. What I find funny is how many guys found her sexy only to have their illusion shattered when she lifted her arms over her shoulders showing her hairy armpits. I don't know what it's like now, but the European gals never thought of shaving ...anything. I'll leave you with that.
3. ROCK ME, AMADEUS SUNG BY FALCO-1985
This was a big hit for Falco who was inspired to write a song about this great composer after he saw the film about Mozart that starred Tom Hulce as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as the jealous Salieri. I just recall dancing to it more than once. The Simpsons did a great parody of a musical Planet of the Apes with the words, “ Rock me, Dr. Zaius.”
What fun music did you rock to that came from another country?
I grew up in when Swedish dance group Ace of Base was popular for a hot minute. I found their music bad back then, and I find it downright awful now.
ReplyDeleteI was very big into Scandinavian symphonic metal when I was younger, like Nightwish and Rhapsody. Right now my playlist is full of Japanese pop and metal music (and the best stuff are the bands that combine both!)
Hi, Birgit!
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I enjoyed your club playlist of German dance songs. I don't remember "Da Da Da" but, then again, the entire 1980s decade is a blur because of my own drunken escapades. I see that "Da Da Da" only made it to #33 on the US Dance Club Play chart, explaining its relative obscurity in this country, whereas it shot to #1 on the main hit parade charts in 4 other countries.
At the MTV station where I worked in the 80s, our veejays played the big Nena hit "99 Luft Balloons" heavily. Frankly, I got tired of hearing it so often, but viewers kept calling in to request the song vid. Our station also played Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" in heavy rotation and I eventually grew equally tired of hearing it. I was more fond of two of his other hits, "Der Kommissar, and "After The Fire." Let those two songs serve as my contributions to your discussion. I played both of those records at private parties when I worked as a freelance DJ. Poor Falco died young, just before his 41st birthday, when the car he was driving crashed into a bus.
I will add one more recommendation of a hit by an artist from another country-- the wild and wacky "Hocus Pocus" by the Dutch rock band Focus, a 1973 US single that actually performed better in this country than it did back home in The Netherlands upon its release two years earlier.
It was wonderful seeing you at Shady's Place yesterday. In my reply, I forgot to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I'll be back here tomorrow, sitting in the balcony and waiting for you-- "At The Movies!"
Ich lieb' dich, dear friend BB!
Know a couple of those songs, although for the time period, I'd go with the Scorpions.
ReplyDeleteI was in the Navy in the 1980s. What's more, I was a young man in the Navy in the 1980s. You can imagine what that was like...lol.
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I know the last two, but not the first. Probably won’t be rushing to listen again!
ReplyDeleteI remember all of these! They were fun, although 99 Luftballons became an earworm after a while. Here's a couple more you might enjoy: Falco's Der Kommissar and Boney M's Rasputin
ReplyDeleteOMC you're absolutely right about that first song, that Granny remembers very well, the only thing Granny loved about it, was that the singer was obviously thinking the same about it, when you look into his eyes, it's like he's making fun of it too😹Nena is still going strong, she's a wonderful woman with a great purrsonality and Falco, oh, how we loved his songs❤️Double Pawkisses for a Happy Day, sweet doggie and your mommy too🐾😽💞
ReplyDeleteOMG you just took me back with that Da Da Da song. I remember it being part of a soda commercial in the 90's, so I was hearing it everywhere as a kid.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the Da Da Da song . For some reason it reminds me of Yello's Oh Yeah, which is up there in the Best Stupid Songs category (maybe that's a theme for a future post of mine?) Songs so bad they are good. Both 99 Luftballoons (English and German) and Rock Me Amadeus got heavy airplay here in the United States and I like both songs despite them being overplayed.
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