It’s back to the eighties again, considering the complete and utter collapse of the Anglo-American financial world and the sombre news from the budget in Den Haag: can mass unemployment be far behind? If so, this old classic by the Janse Bagge Bend is shockingly relevant again.
Music
AAAAAHHHHH …. It’s Helloweeen!!!!!!!!
It’s not the album version, but it’ll do. Germany’s favourite power metal band Helloween with their classic (for some values of classic) song “Halloween”.
My current obession
Musically speaking.
Yes, I know. But it’s just so perfectly eighties naff and I’m not ashamed for liking this. Better this than Tokio Hotel.
Sci fi songs: Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst)
A thread on rec.arts.sf.fandom reminded me of that classic of the Neue Deutsche Welle, Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst) and I was wondering if Youtube would have a video of it. Couldn’t find the original, German video, but there was a nice fan made video of the song with visuals from 2001. There’s also the official English language version of the song, but that’s too horrible to link to. I’d rather show another fan made video, which has the lyrics of the original German language song, handy for you karaoke fans at home:
Of course, if you mention Neue Deutsche Welle and sci fi, Peter Schilling might not be the first thing that springs to mind. You might instead be reminded of a quaint little outfit called the Deutsch-Österreichisches Feingefühl and their hitsingle Codo (Und ich düse-düse-düse im Sauseschritt):
Good? Bad? It doesn’t matter, as you’re sure not to forget this in a hurry…
De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig goes international
You thought all Dutch rap is shit? Think again: check out De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig Amsterdam Noord’s finest:
This single was the big Dutch Summer hit of 2005 and now they hope to repeat this in Germany and the UK.