Re: US commercials

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.OSF.3.95.990329115446.7068M-100000@sylvia.hlo.dec.com> "G. Benedikt Rochow" writes:

> As for the music, the "fits your life - or lack thereof" commercial
> was teh first time in 15 years I've heard "Da Da Da" - interesting.

I have it in the car - "Deutsche Hitparade 1982".  Some other gems as
well - "Skandal im Sperrbezirk", etc.

"Da da da" was by Trio, which only had two members.  One of whom 'sang'
and one of whom occasionally tapped a single drum with a single
drumstick.  One of the classics of the period, along with "Der Kommissar
geht um".  You hear the base rhythms and riffs in a lot of songs - I
don't know whether that period of German rock music was especially
inventive or whether they were especially good at getting together good
stuff from others.  It's a shame none of it escaped, apart from "99 Red
Balloons" - a travesty of what was originally an incisive anti-war song.

(I have a complete collection of Nena's stuff.  IMO she's desperately
 under-rated, even in Germany.  "Es regnet" is fantastic as a song and
 as a tone poem - and there is _NO_ experience on the planet like
 "Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann" played loud through a system with
 enough bass potential.  Even now, seventeen years after first hearing
 it, it still makes the hairs on my neck stand on end.  If you know
 the story of her handicapped child, "Das weisse Schiff" is almost
 unbearable.)

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