Rules:
- Over 30 years old
- Should be a HUGE hit everyone in your country remembers to this day
- Preferably something that is relatively unknown outside of your country
- Preferably sang in your native tongue
Germany: Die Fantastischen Vier - Die Da!?!
From 1992, German rap with funny guys moving stupidly in the video
Random question, but how well known is my old German teacher’s favorite techno song: Eine Insel Mit Zwei Bergen? To which I still remember all the words 15yr later lmao.
I’d say pretty much everybody between 40 and 45 remembers that song
I had the Single when I was a kid
Holy shit they have it on 12"! I need to track down a copy lol.
Hallo Thomas!
Hallo! Alles klar?
Klar!
Here comes the hotsteppers, ini kamoze !
DAD - Sleeping my day away.
They have made some very memorable song and have become even better since then!
Also note the left handed base player with the
fourtwo string base. He has had some very unique basses made through his careerI thought these were AI images for a moment
Another odd thing: those all look like they only have two strings.
My bad. Of course! I mentioned 4 strings but all basses have 4…
He only plays with 2 strings! Good spot!
Hell yeah, that’s weird lol I like it. These dudes kinda rule btw, I’m gonna be adding them to the 80s metal rotation with Savatage and Judas Preist and all that sort of stuff.
You may also like a band called
dizzy mizz lizzy
Cool I’ll check em out thanks! I like the name already lol.
Charles Aznavour - Emmenez moi
Become an instant fan no matter your language
Portugal: Grândola, Vila Morena - Zeca Afonso. Probably not a hit when it came out, as it was banned by the dictatorial regime at the time but it became the anthem of our 1974 revolution, pretty much because it was the song that the revolutionary group chose to be played on the radio station (they took control of) to mobilize their forces.
Zeca Afonso has a bunch of other well-known (and really good) songs, all sung in Portuguese but this is the one most people know by heart. It helps that it gets played every year on the anniversary of the revolution and whenever there’s a protest.
Grândola is a good choice, though because of the political association it will never be a hit with the non-leftist crowd. Dunas or A minha casinha are probably more popular/neutral choices and, unlike Zeca’s song, no-one outside of Portugal has ever heard about them (Grândola is well-known amongst at least some niche circles in Spain, where it was first released/sung during the dictatorship).
OTOH I’m fairly sure that in 50 years few will remember Xutos and GNR, while Grândola will still be sung over the centennial celebrations (assuming we don’t fall back into a far-right dictatorship by then…)
Yeah, that’s a fair point. After my post I thought A minha casinha or Não sou o único would also be good choices.
(Grândola is well-known amongst at least some niche circles in Spain, where it was first released/sung during the dictatorship).
That’s true, from what I can tell, it’s pretty popular in Galiza.
Use https://radiooooo.com and cheat
I was expecting Robin Sparkles - Let’s go to the mall
Germany
The title of this song from 1974 became a German saying.
Udo Lindenberg, originally a jazz drummer, was the first German to make authentic German rock and pop music, in the German language, without it being “Schlager”.
Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria (All clear on the Andrea Doria):
Still slaps 33 years later.
There are so many good ones for Austria. Probably have to go for Fürstenfeld by STS. I have never met somebody in Austria who wasn’t able to sing this, even (or especially) when drunk.
‘Fog on the Tyne’ by Gazza and Lindesfarne from 1990. I have to warn you that it’s awful, and yet, infuriatingly catchy.
For those who don’t know, Gazza was a famous and talented footballer with a massive booze addiction, and a tendency towards domestic abuse.
Legendary you say? Relatively unknown outside of Germany (and other German speaking countries) you say?
Let me introduce you to Dschinghis Khan by Dschingis Khan
(99 Luftballons, which was mentioned here before, is arguably the bigger hit that really everyone knows. But I couldn’t resist throwing this out there. It was a huge hit and is still known.)
I’ve never seen this video but I know Moskau. They look like they’re having so much fun lol, and the Tony Iommi lookalike has a real cool hair/moustache combo, and the girl in white is a smokeshow!
Dschingis Khan is very well known in the US AFAIK
American here. Never heard of it.
Oh, the first one is a legendary classic. Finland has got the “do direct covers of all the German hits from the 70’s” - scene well covered:
That also is true for Germany. There’s for example a song using Black Sabbaths Paranoid melodies with some German lyrics about the Hound of Baskerville https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnFX0_H-rA
This is without a doubt the best cover version of “Paranoid” I have ever heard.
Didn’t Finland have an entire culture of doing spoofs on old German shit, like TV series? I’ve seen Die Kühe and I think it’s absolutely awesome. (The Dutch also did a good impression in Jiskefet.)
And I remember watching / listening to lots of M. A. Numminen. Not sure if that’s just the stuff that found its way back to Germany and me… But nonetheless…
The thing with the tv series might be a thing of the past, though. I’m not sure if anyone still remembers “Der Alte” or “Derrick”. It’s probably not that funny without the context. And how we watch TV has certainly changed during the last decades.
Schrei nach Liebe by die Ärzte from 1993, German punk band. Everybody that ist Like 60 or younger knows that song. Well, maybe not if you’re in your teens…
I would have said Westerland is even more well known
I would say, that even the teens know it, but considering how a lot of them lack even knowledge about some of Germans most iconic cultural achievements(I literally know people that didnt even heard about “Werner”) I’m not to sure about it. But I can agree, its an absolute Banger Song.
Wanted to complain, but damn already over 30 years indeed