Best/Worst of the "German Invasion"

[Parche]

:shrug: :hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Were's the picture of Stormpi, the Jew Bashing Polar Bear?

Somebody posted a picture of him a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot to ask for a sauce.

[SoxFan]

8. Herr Stompi

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Ah, that's great.

Where's it from?

[SoxFan]

23. No idea

I sent a link to this pic when it first showed up on DU, and I happened to have the email in my "Sent" folder.

I'd love to hear the back story.

[quip]

2. Nice post, Hitler

[underpants]

3. Best

[LeftCoast]

4. I love that album.

I can still remember the day that I realized I was fluent enough in German to fully understand that song. Was a happy day. Cool song too. Much better lyrics in German.

[Javaman]

5. What???? they attacked Pearl Harbor again????? nt

[Dr. Strange]

6. Kraftwerk

I'll leave it to you to figure out if that's the best or worst...

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. I love Kraftwerk

and their realization of the man/machine conundrum. Absolutely brilliant on multiple levels, especially sound design and deceptively minimal composition. It's Lang's "Metropolis" for the ears.

You have to like them better than Heino, "The gift for the entire year 'round" :rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. That wasn't the reply you were expecting, was it?

[Dr. Strange]

16. I had no expectations when I brought up Kraftwerk.

I was just fahren auf der autobahn.

Upon edit, I have never heard of Heino, much less listened to his music. I should keep it that way?

[CGowen]

17. Heino is folk music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX57N5ORqvg

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. See post #7.

I haven't heard his music, but am typically averse to records made for the artist's mother, that are fun all year-round. I just have my standards.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Heino is clearly the best ...

[CGowen]

12. THE GERMAN INVASION; British One Got Better Press, But the Teutonic Influence Endures

The Washington Post

January 21, 1996, Sunday, Final Edition

SECTION: SUNDAY ARTS; Pg. G05

LENGTH: 1637 words

HEADLINE: THE GERMAN INVASION; British One Got Better Press, But the
Teutonic Influence Endures

BYLINE: Mark Jenkins, Special to The Washington Post

BODY:

The Beatles are back on the charts again, but to the international
pop music market it's almost as if they never went away: The Anglo-
American alliance that began its dominance with "I Want to Hold Your
Hand" is as secure as ever. Countries as diverse as India, Japan and
Argentina have developed their own pop stars, but few have proved
exportable. Globally, the history of popular music during the last 25
years is an account of just three nations: the United States, the United
Kingdom and, well, Germany.

If judged strictly on Billboard chart position, of course, the
latter wouldn't make the list. The occasional Teutonic commercial
success -- Nena's chirpy 1984 hit, "99 Luftballons," say -- is just the
sort of forgettable fluke that proves that Germany (like such occasional
hit-makers as Sweden or Brazil) is not a serious contender. Indeed, of
the '70s-vintage German bands that are (once again) being discovered,
only Kraftwerk ever entered the American Top 40: An edited version of
the 22-minute "Autobahn" made it all the way to No. 25 in
1975. Yet Capitol, the same label that's put the Beatles' leftovers in
play, has also recently reissued such Kraftwerk albums as "Trans-Europe
Express" and "The Man Machine."

Even less known in the United States is Can, perhaps the best of
the spacey, early '70s German ensembles that combined elements from
avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and the Velvet Underground
with jazz, funk, dub and other influences. This style is often called
"Krautrock," after a song from 1973's "Faust IV," the final album by
Faust, another German group of the period.

Though discs by Faust and such other contemporaries as Neu are hard
to find, Can's catalogue is again available through an alliance between
Spoon, a French label, and Mute, an English one with American
distribution. Spoon/Mute began reissuing the Cologne jam band's albums
in 1989, although they didn't become widely available in the United
States until recently. Its latest projects are "Can: Anthology 25
Years," a two-CD set, and "Cannibalism 3," the third sampler of solo
work by the former band members.


...



http://www.arm.ac.uk/~ath/music/td/articles/td_washpost.html







I don't know

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. Faust, Can, Neu, Cluster/Kluster, TD, Klaus Schulze, Anthony Rother, Popul Vuh

all great stuff.

[CGowen]

14. What is Trio-DaDaDa ? Something like a Japanese soldier defending an island 20 years after the war?

A hit in Europe in 1982, it became popular 15 years later when it was used in a Volkswagen commercial. The single was rush released in 1997 to capitalize on new found popularity.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1083

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Absolutely! Time for them to update that web entry to include the facts.

I still love Trio.

[edbermac]

19. Springtime for Hitler and Germany.

We're marching to a faster pace, look out, here comes the master race!

[kwassa]

20. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and some other guys

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. Just to name a few -- and a sample of artists ---

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS243US243&q=german+artists+20th+century

[Perseid]

22. Oont now ve dance nt