Re: US commercials

["G. Benedikt Rochow" <rochow@segsrv.hlo.dec.com>]

> > 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

..and an early drum machine for teh rest, I guess.

> 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

Who did that? (Not Falco, right?) I recently heard an English version
of that; did that come out around the same time? (Same artist?)

> don't know whether that period of German rock music was especially
> inventive or whether they were especially good at getting together good

I don't know - I didn't really like any of it when it was current,
but years later, some things (like the 2 above) started to stand 
out as memorable.


-gbr