Very kraftwerk
July 20, 2015 7:38 AM Subscribe
Die Woodys - Fichtl's Lied: Eine Produktion von Tony Marshall. Superhitparade der Volksmusik 1984
Aus einem bayrischen Internierungslager wurde uns auf einer ranzigen VHS-Kasette die Originalbänder vom Videodreh zu Fichtl's Lied (as made infamous by Die Woodys) zugespielt.
posted by erniepan at 8:23 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by erniepan at 8:23 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Ah.
German low brow entertainment in the eighties was mostly associated with bavarian costumes.
Nothing has changed.
posted by fordiebianco at 8:23 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
German low brow entertainment in the eighties was mostly associated with bavarian costumes.
Nothing has changed.
posted by fordiebianco at 8:23 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
From the same country that brought us Neubauten?
posted by njohnson23 at 8:30 AM on July 20, 2015
posted by njohnson23 at 8:30 AM on July 20, 2015
Which is precisely the sort of thing Kraftwerk and the rest were openly rebelling against. Native German popular music of the 60s and 70s was laden(hosen) with this sort of pap, but the alternatives were... well, British and American rock and pop were British and American.
What's a smouldering young man with access to a soldering iron, Schoenberg and psychedelics going to do?
posted by Devonian at 8:32 AM on July 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
What's a smouldering young man with access to a soldering iron, Schoenberg and psychedelics going to do?
posted by Devonian at 8:32 AM on July 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Metafilter: What's a smouldering young man with access to a soldering iron, Schoenberg and psychedelics going to do?
posted by tspae at 9:13 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by tspae at 9:13 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Well, everybody's lied about something at some point. No use getting all het up about it.
posted by koeselitz at 9:55 AM on July 20, 2015
posted by koeselitz at 9:55 AM on July 20, 2015
If someone had told me that this is from this year, I'd not have been surprised, either. This kind of music is still very big with the older people. (And with a median age in Germany of almost 50, there are a lot of older people around.)
And I am sure this is extremely lucrative, too - those are the people who still buy music on CDs and such.
posted by dominik at 2:44 AM on July 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
And I am sure this is extremely lucrative, too - those are the people who still buy music on CDs and such.
posted by dominik at 2:44 AM on July 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
This kind of music is still very big with the older people.
If by "this" you mean fake folk music, sure. But the penchant for lowbrow novelty hits transcends generations and I don't see a sign of it stopping. From "Die Wanne ist voll" over "Maschendrahtzaun" to "Schnappi". If it's weird, silly and doesn't require rubbing brain cells together, it'll jump to #1 in Germany.
Which is why the "Kraftwerk" analogy is definitely more for non-Germans, where the more cerebral and/or weird bands of that time where celebrated ("Krautrock" is a foreign term), whereas we got the "New German Wave", where half the songs could qualify as novelty ("Eisbär", "Fred vom Jupiter", "Ich will Spaß" etc.)
posted by pseudocode at 3:28 AM on July 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
If by "this" you mean fake folk music, sure. But the penchant for lowbrow novelty hits transcends generations and I don't see a sign of it stopping. From "Die Wanne ist voll" over "Maschendrahtzaun" to "Schnappi". If it's weird, silly and doesn't require rubbing brain cells together, it'll jump to #1 in Germany.
Which is why the "Kraftwerk" analogy is definitely more for non-Germans, where the more cerebral and/or weird bands of that time where celebrated ("Krautrock" is a foreign term), whereas we got the "New German Wave", where half the songs could qualify as novelty ("Eisbär", "Fred vom Jupiter", "Ich will Spaß" etc.)
posted by pseudocode at 3:28 AM on July 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
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