Name a legendary musical hit in your country. Rule: must be over 30 years old Englisch

ValiantDust , vor 23 Tagen

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.)

Lorindol , vor 23 Tagen

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:

https://youtu.be/seA8p2tv2S4?feature=shared

rufus , vor 23 Tagen

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.

voodoocode , vor 23 Tagen

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

Lorindol , vor 23 Tagen

This is without a doubt the best cover version of "Paranoid" I have ever heard.

catsan , vor 23 Tagen

Dschingis Khan is very well known in the US AFAIK

tyler , vor 23 Tagen

American here. Never heard of it.

ArcaneSlime , vor 22 Tagen

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!

absquatulate , vor 23 Tagen

For Romania it has to be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JSlZWR3lJs

It even became something of a hymn for the 1989 revolution.

lars , vor 21 Tagen

Without clicking the link, I’m gonna assume it’s
Pe Cimpoi

JohnOliver , vor 22 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 22 Tagen)

https://youtu.be/ASfVIFUw20Y

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 four two string base. He has had some very unique basses made through his career

https://feddit.dk/pictrs/image/9b4515ed-2cd2-415f-9164-a60b678bbe95.webp

https://feddit.dk/pictrs/image/f36bfbff-0ee8-4547-a37a-d8cdbd06ef0b.webp

https://feddit.dk/pictrs/image/67255f13-7171-42b2-ae22-464b7e5eb48d.webp

https://feddit.dk/pictrs/image/3182f3e6-1a13-4d22-a642-8d28693c8fe8.webp

DavidDoesLemmy , vor 22 Tagen

I thought these were AI images for a moment

ArcaneSlime , vor 22 Tagen

Another odd thing: those all look like they only have two strings.

JohnOliver , vor 22 Tagen

My bad. Of course!
I mentioned 4 strings but all basses have 4...

He only plays with 2 strings! Good spot!

ArcaneSlime , vor 22 Tagen

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.

JohnOliver , vor 21 Tagen

You may also like a band called

dizzy mizz lizzy

ArcaneSlime , vor 21 Tagen

Cool I'll check em out thanks! I like the name already lol.

brainrein , vor 22 Tagen

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):

https://youtu.be/FJ2QENfYKMM?si=jiCJ8fmQUsHv8icv

JimVanDeventer , vor 22 Tagen

I tell people this is the national anthem of Canada

clay_pidgin , vor 22 Tagen

I was expecting Robin Sparkles - Let's go to the mall

Nomecks , vor 22 Tagen

Why would you lie about the national anthem?

Nomecks , vor 22 Tagen

The Hockey Song hy Stompin Tom Connors

voodoocode , vor 23 Tagen

Germany: Die Fantastischen Vier - Die Da!?!

From 1992, German rap with funny guys moving stupidly in the video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUosAGDM8Sg

Lemonyoda , vor 23 Tagen

Hallo Thomas!

smokeymcpott , vor 22 Tagen

Hallo! Alles klar?

Lemonyoda , vor 22 Tagen

Klar!

ArcaneSlime , vor 22 Tagen

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.

the_blast_of_us , vor 22 Tagen

I'd say pretty much everybody between 40 and 45 remembers that song

ArcaneSlime , vor 22 Tagen

It is super catchy to be fair! And the puppets are just the right amount of creepy to still be fun haha.

voodoocode , vor 22 Tagen

I had the Single when I was a kid

ArcaneSlime , vor 22 Tagen

Holy shit they have it on 12"! I need to track down a copy lol.

quatschkopf34 , vor 23 Tagen

Nena - 99 Luftballons comes to my mind.
Guess the country

Bummler , vor 23 Tagen

Schwurbelstan?

absquatulate , vor 23 Tagen

Interesting. How do you guys feel about Bruttosozialprodukt?

Flughoernchen , vor 23 Tagen

We steigern it.

Lemonyoda , vor 23 Tagen

Butr only when the Werksirene dröhnt

cows_are_underrated , vor 23 Tagen

And The Stichel lustvoll stöhnt

absquatulate , vor 23 Tagen

And the gabelstapelfahrer mit der stapelgabler prahlt

Agent641 , vor 22 Tagen

Bavaria?

Agent641 , vor 22 Tagen

Yothu Yindi - Treaty

Still slaps 33 years later.

lnxtx , vor 23 Tagen

Edmund Fetting - Ballada o pancernych from Four Tank-Men and a Dog.

Endriu , vor 22 Tagen

Another one in similar vein https://youtu.be/cX2nbYYW1uk?si=ADtUvbB3iSwCH0BW

UrbonMaximus , vor 23 Tagen

Can't believe no one mentioned this beauty!
Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei

idiomaddict , vor 22 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 21 Tagen)

You have given my husband a new headache, I thank you dearly

bamfic , vor 22 Tagen

Use https://radiooooo.com and cheat

NigelFrobisher , vor 22 Tagen

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=QbBlSd8CGnktXA7m

lemmyng , vor 23 Tagen

Argentina: Soda Stereo - De Musica Ligera.

Canada: Rush - Tom Sawyer.

Leviathan , vor 23 Tagen

Canada: Rush - Tom Sawyer.

It was actually a bigger hit in the US.

lemmyng , vor 22 Tagen

Huh. TIL.

kurcatovium , vor 22 Tagen

It's still an absolute gem. I love it.

Antium , vor 22 Tagen

I would say for Canada: The Tragically Hip - New Orleans is Sinking.
They have a bunch of well known songs in Canada, but some of them are not quite 30 years old yet.

lemmyng , vor 22 Tagen

You know, literally minutes after I posted I thought to myself "maybe I should change it to the hip" but decided against it because hey, it's Rush. But I agree, your choice is a good one.

K4mpfie , vor 22 Tagen

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.