"Und draußen vor der großen Stadt stehn die Nutten sich die Füße platt" ..Kind of a heart break song. Joel, you made my day
@schaerfentiefe19677 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@CorgiBum7 ай бұрын
He was talking about "Adios Amor", though.
@jennyh40257 ай бұрын
@@CorgiBumI wasn’t quite sure which one he was referring to.
@CorgiBum7 ай бұрын
@@jennyh4025 Well, he said: "'Adios Amor'... Kind of a heart break song", so I'm guessing that one.
@jennyh40257 ай бұрын
@@CorgiBum I was probably still thinking about the songs, so I didn’t catch that. Too many memories…
@Andermonda7 ай бұрын
"Ein bisschen Frieden" from Nicole has won the Eurovision song context in 1982. And in the 80s there was the "Neue deutsche Welle" (New german Wave) which were more cocky and had often political messages as well. German Schlager is more about rainbow and butterflies. The EAV Erste allgemeine Verunsicherung is an austrian band which exists since 1977. They are famous for their bizarre costumes and crazy lyrics. And although they are a serious band, they don't want to be taken that serious. But they are great. And then there was Milli Vanilli, the greatest scam in music history. Both of them can't sing any straight note and where only chosen as the pretty face to the music. The actual band behind it came to light eventually and exposed them. But after starting under the name The real Milli Vanilli they had not really success.
@j0hnn13K7 ай бұрын
About Milli Vanilli, one could sing, albeit he wasn't a great singer, the other was a dancer. Sadly the whole deal hit both of them hard and it ended up with one of them taking his own life years later. Quite a sad story if you think about it, because it was not really a secret, their producer being the same guy behind Boney M, who also famously were not the original singers. (at least not the guy in Boney M, unsure about the girls)
@Andermonda7 ай бұрын
@@j0hnn13K It is sad for sure for an ending like that. But I have to disagree about the part that one of them could sing. After the reveal during a press conference they tried to defend themself and neither of them could hold a single tone even by accident. If the real singers would have gotten a better deal to keep silent, it would have been better for both sides. Cause without the faces of the puppets the music didn't matter that much after all. It had to be the complete package.
@j0hnn13K7 ай бұрын
@@Andermonda i did not say he was a good singer ;) i do remember him trying to get over it a year or so after the events of Milli Vanilli, he released .. i want to say 2 singles? but it was .. not great.
@thebeautymaker97846 ай бұрын
Milli Vanilli stolperte über ein technisches Problem beim Playback. Das Musikband hatte einen Hänger (ähnlich wie bei Schallplatten mit Sprung) und dadurch kam es heraus. Der Produzent dieser Band (der auch gesungen hat) ist übrigens vor einem Monat gestorben. @@Andermonda
@majo70286 ай бұрын
@@thebeautymaker9784 Frank Farian
@nelerhabarber56027 ай бұрын
Falco, (he is from Austria) who is represented here 3 times (der komissar, Jeannie, Amadeus) is to date the only German-speaking artist to have a #1 hit (Amadeus) in America (billboards)!
@Roth27756 ай бұрын
it is captioned in the beginning that there are sime songs in a german language but the grouß/artist is from Austraia/Switzerland
@helgaioannidis93656 ай бұрын
He died far too young!! What a loss! 😢
@SimplusionАй бұрын
he is souch a legend
@rincemind83697 ай бұрын
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung at 6:50 was a rather famous austrian parodistic pop band. They retired only a few years ago in 2019. The band's name literally translates to First General Unsettledness deriving from Erste Allgemeine Versicherung/First General Assurance which was a well known austrian insurance company. The band liked to fool around heavily both in their texts and performances. But in their songs there also exists an important socially critical undertone. Many of their songs are considered iconic. Ding Dong, Fata Morgana, Märchenprinz (fairy tale prince), Afrika, Banküberfall (bank robbery) songs that still crack me up today. Subversive humor before all of that PC nonsense.
@mortuos5577 ай бұрын
Burli Burli Burli.... mein Gott is unser Burli siers(süß)...
@Goddybag4Lee7 ай бұрын
EAV really is so much earworm based music. If you start to listen to them they will stick like a bubblegum to your shoe.
@rincemind83697 ай бұрын
@@Goddybag4Lee So true.
@jkb20167 ай бұрын
Samurai
@thebeautymaker97846 ай бұрын
@@mortuos557 S Mutterl ist auch ein bittersüßes Lied der EAV
@carolmurphy75727 ай бұрын
99 Luftballons 🎈 by Nena (1984) was a huge hit in the USA. It was recorded in German and English and, surprisingly, the German Language version made the Billboard Top 40 Chart, not the English version.
@red_dolphin4687 ай бұрын
thats because in english all sounds less emotional. .... i think
@ThichNhatHanh237 ай бұрын
Ich mag das Lied bis heute nicht ausser der Part wo man nur die Instrumente hört bevor sie wieder mit 99 Luftballons anfängt
@vulkantanz7 ай бұрын
Und wen interessiert das jetzt?@@ThichNhatHanh23
@Roth27756 ай бұрын
I think he is just to young to know this. and also too young to recognize Bring me Edelweiss as a Abba Song
@StevenQ746 ай бұрын
The German version is much better
@carolmurphy75727 ай бұрын
Eidelweiss is a small white flower, the national flower of Austria. Milli Vanilli, who had two or three of the top songs in 1989, won a Grammy for one of those songs, but it was revoked when it was learned that the two "lead singers" weren't actually singing but had been lip syncing. Oops!
@uewofrey7 ай бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontopodium
@liquidminds7 ай бұрын
I'm still not sure whether Frank Farian or Dieter Bohlen were the worst thing to happen to german music in the 80s...
@egoneiermann-tn7sc7 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpOvY3V5nqueis0
@00wheelie007 ай бұрын
@@liquidmindsDieter for sure!
@cadeeja.7 ай бұрын
And yet the urge to sing along to the songs ist very hard to withstand :D@@00wheelie00
@alexamurawski45247 ай бұрын
Edelweiss is a small white flower in the Alpes. It's sometimes hard to pick it up, because it can grow in small rock niche. In this region it's a proof for real love to pick up the flower for your girl and eventually risk your life
@roanwolf63896 ай бұрын
Yes. And there's a lot of traditional clothes and jewelry of austria and germany with edelweiss decorations.
@gudrunlacht74546 ай бұрын
it is forbidden to pick up a Edelweiß (Leontopodium nivale)
@lajoswinkler6 ай бұрын
Edelweiss is STRICTLY PROHIBITED to pick. It's a protected species.
@berlindude756 ай бұрын
And the literal translation of "Edelweiss" would be "Noble White".
@LodrikBadric4 ай бұрын
Yeah just don't do that in Switzerland 😬 It's our national flower and is protected by law.
@Talkshowhorse_Echna7 ай бұрын
The change in 1981 to 1983 is what we call "Neue deutsche Welle" (New german wave). It was a small episode, where music became much more crazy and open due to a new generation. After this the charts opend up for a lot of different genres.
@nightstorm59146 ай бұрын
also metal became more heavier
@npe16 ай бұрын
Modern Talking were a really popular band throughout Europe in the mid 80's. The type of music genre they belonged to at the time was called Eurobeat - dance synth music that was originally popular in gay clubs, especially in the UK, but then some of them moved more into mainstream. Most Eurobeat bands were either German, Italian or French.
@dicem89777 ай бұрын
A lot of these songs were popular in the UK too, 'Major Tom' by Peter Schilling I love. It was the theme tune to the most popular foreign language drama ever broadcast in the UK which was a German drama series called 'Deutschland 83' which surprisingly wasn't very popular in Germany. It was broadcast in prime time on Channel 4, one of our major tv networks as their prime time drama and it was fantastic. I like some current German acts like Annenmaykantereit and Mayberg.
@philiptodd62557 ай бұрын
My favourite series and the theme is top notch
@WkurzonaWrona6 ай бұрын
I still.got it on my workout playlist
@macdieter235587 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Roland Kaiser has his 50 year stage anniversary this year. By the turn of the millenium he was diagnosed with COPD and did a farewell tour. Then he got a lung transplant and restarted his career. He is 71 now and still alive and kicking on the stage!
@thomaskruse60043 ай бұрын
@macdieter23558 I'll made a present to my parents: we'll be at a concert of Roland Kaiser this weekend. 😄
@Goddybag4Lee7 ай бұрын
The songs "Männer" and "Was Soll Das" by Herbert Grönemeyer comes from two of the most bought albums ever in Germany. "4630 Bochum" (Männer) and "Ö" (Was Soll Das). Herbert Grönemeyer rarely has got single hits, but all albums from Bochum to Tumult landed at number one. He is huge!
@heinzwernergrunewald41047 ай бұрын
Leider ist der Vollidiot mittlerweile vollkommen woke abgedrifftet
@markusschmidt62005 ай бұрын
His album "Mensch" (released in 2002) sold even more units. 3,2 million! It's the most sold album in germany ever.
@fruzsimih72145 ай бұрын
For the Americans who know the war movie Das Boot, Grönemeyer played Lt. Werner who tells the story of the submarine. He gave up acting after that and became an extremely popular singer-songwriter.
@stefantegethoff55237 ай бұрын
It's interesting, how "Tausend und eine Nacht" (1000 and one nights) was still a popular party song among my friends when we were Teenagers 20 years after it's release. I never knew it was that old 😄
@AtHomeAtWorkAtPlay6 ай бұрын
Thanks to „Fetenhits“-compilations we also listened to a very strange mix of songs. 😂
@johnnythemachine69496 ай бұрын
Auf Dorffesten wird das heute noch gespielt
@pfalzgraf75277 ай бұрын
1988, 4th place - the EAV was a band who put on costumes. Different ones for each song! On stage. And it was a very fun - but pretty socially critical band. Edelweiss is a protected flower that grows in the alps. I had to laugh about the Milli Vanilli package in 1989.
@foofourtyone7 ай бұрын
The penguin you just saw was the mascot of the Austrian band "Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung" (First General Uncertainty) or EAV for short. The band was popular during the 80ies and had funny lyrics or at least lyrics that one shouldn't take that serious and were meant to get you in a good mood. The 80ies was a weird time anyways in terms of music. A new genre or more like a pop culture came up called "Neue Deutsche Welle" (New German Wave) or NDW for short which almost anything you saw falls under. It is the time where songs like Amadeus by Falco or 99 Luftballons (99 red ballons) by Nena were a hit -also in the US by the way. The lyrics were mainly in German (hence New German Wave) and I don't think they all sounded pretty much the same. Music wise it was a very diverse time with influences from all over the world and electronic music had a big influence. Edelweis is a flower only growing on mountains in very specific conditions and therefor very rare and it is commonly known as the symbol of the alps.
@Siranification7 ай бұрын
"Erste Allgemeine Verunischerung" is also a play on words in German. "Versicherung" is an insurance, so "Verunsicherung" is kind of uninsurance. The EAV was an existing insurance company in Austria in 1980s.
@gowest197 ай бұрын
in 1982 "Ein bisschen Frieden" winner song of the eurovision songcontest,i was stationt in munich for a special training program in army medical service. Stay well
@nettcologne91867 ай бұрын
At that time there was a German music style called "the new German wave" (Neue Deutsche Welle). Nena was successful worldwide with "99 red balloons" (99 Luftballons). Interpreter "Neue Deutsche Welle": Trio, Falco, Kiz, Spider Murphy Gang, Döf, Geier Sturzflug, Peter Schilling, Erste Allgemeine Versicherung, Nena, Edelweiß.. Today the heroes from back then still tour around Germany at small festivals ;-)
@patiplatsch837 ай бұрын
Edelweiss is a flower growing on high altitude in the alps. when you wanted to show your love to a crush it was a quest to get a edelweiss as a present for her.its rly famous in austria and switzerland.
@MiguelStinson887 ай бұрын
for some reason my brain automatically thought it was also a synonym for cocaine
@CornedBee7 ай бұрын
Don't do that nowadays though. Edelweiß is a protected species in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and picking the flowers is forbidden.
@matijamaksan43447 ай бұрын
I was sure it was beer. I guess i was wrong.
@CornedBee7 ай бұрын
@@matijamaksan4344 You're not wrong. There is an Austrian beer called Edelweiß. The song also contains various references to beer. It is not explicitly that beer, though. The video is really weird, worth watching for the WTF effect.
@markschattefor69977 ай бұрын
Edelweiß is a plant/flower that grows only at very high altitudes in the Alps. You can see it also in the Rammstein song "Dicke Titten" where a "blind" man can't see all the beauty that's around him and steps on Edelweiß.
@Bunny99s6 ай бұрын
Funny enough there's actually a flower that's called "american edelweiss" but doesn't really belong to the same genus. Edelweiß usually it refers to Alpen-Edelweiß. In english it's actually called "edelweiss" as well. You can find it on wikipedia under the botanical name "Leontopodium nivale". The name "Edelweiß" is a compound word and literally means nobel(edel) white(weiß)
@Akockaelvanvetve6 ай бұрын
It also grows in the Carpathian Mountains.
@LemmyD_from_Germany7 ай бұрын
7:05 First General Uncertainty (EAV) from Austria was a band that brought some critical texts to the stage with fun, funny songs and lots of costumes. They had a few hits in German-speaking countries and were still active until a few years ago. Greetings from northern germany
@UlliStein7 ай бұрын
That name is a funny variation of the "Erste Allgemeine Versicherung" (first general insurance company) which really exists in Austria. I don't know if they were amused...
@johnnythemachine69496 ай бұрын
3:59 that song got a revival in the last few weeks in Germany when thousands of German soccer fans demanded it tobe the National Team's new goal song and today it actually happened
@M1NCH_7 ай бұрын
nr 4 is da da da by trio...legendary and iconic...you should make a video just reacting to this :D worth it !!!
@russzolti68257 ай бұрын
It was a big hit in Hungary too.
@Rrljaxa6 ай бұрын
They used a dildo on stage at the Hitparade with Heck for Percussion :D
@kirstygunn91496 ай бұрын
It was in the charts over here in the UK too
@davide85746 ай бұрын
Sidenote: "Bring me Edelweiss" (cover of Abba's "S.O.S" hook) re-ignited the Abba revival era, followed by brit. Pop Band Erasure with their "Abba-Esque" album in 92. ABBA themselves stepped in with "ABBA Gold" short after, and "ABBA More Gold" in 93. 😊
@davide85746 ай бұрын
Fun fact: "Modern Talking" was the first Western Band to perform in Moscow 1986.
@freiser773 ай бұрын
No they weren’t. The first one was Scorpions.
@Microtubui7 ай бұрын
Nicole won the ESC and her last performance she sing that son in german, english, frensh and dutch....great video
@danielmcbriel11927 ай бұрын
Well, I think in the music of the 80s you can see the split into three categories: Handmade music. Music produced by someone with someone singing to it. And electronic music. In the 90s rap came along. And these 4 divisions remain so to this day.
@79BlackRose7 ай бұрын
You missed out rock music bro.
@Ace-Of-Spades---7 ай бұрын
@@79BlackRose Rock and metal (witch is really big in Germany in the 80s) are also handmade music. 🤷🏼♀️
@danielmcbriel11927 ай бұрын
@@79BlackRose handmade music?
@79BlackRose7 ай бұрын
@@danielmcbriel1192What does "handmade music" even mean? Apart from AI generated stuff. All music is handmade.
@danielmcbriel11927 ай бұрын
@@79BlackRose Late Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, early Depeche Mode... "just pushed a Button".
@Baccatube795 ай бұрын
Some of these songs were SCANDALOUS in their days. Falco's "Jeannie" or "Skandal um Rosi", for example.
@twinmama427 ай бұрын
1988 #4 is by an Austrian subversive comedy group called "Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung" (first general uncertainty, which in itself is a wordplay with an existing insurance's name "Erste Allgemeine Versicherung" or first general insurance). It's about a womanizer who desperately wants to get in the pants and bed of a girl he just met. He woos her with the whole repertoire of chivalrous gestures until she falls for him. But when she calls him full of love the next day he tells her not to bother him again bc he's married with children and a dog. In the booklet of the album, there is a comic panel telling the story with the protagonists being penguins. and this is their stage show. The group was legendary for their stage performances like Rammstein but because of other causes, They had top 20 hits for over a decade. Even when they touch more serious topics (e.g. Chornobyl and the literal/figurative(?) fallout) it's always with a lot of (very black) humor. One song was translated into English and got a UK release. If you want to check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/api2dpuEhbCHb8k
@aiun-iverse6 ай бұрын
The "Edelweiß" is a flower native to the alps: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontopodium. It's very popular in Bavaria, kind of like the maple in canada.
@alansmithee88317 ай бұрын
Hello Joel. At school in UK "Ein Bisschen Frieden" was used to help get the kids to learn about German music, since it won Eurovision and was on TV. We then had some more traditional German songs introduced into the lessons. It was a way of bringing the language to life and giving some cultural references more of a meaning. The other song that was memorable was by Nena, released in English, but slighty different. Later in the decade there were TV pop music programmes on TV satellite channels that went all across Europe, so the style altered fro Eurovision to MTV.
@XMaster18083 ай бұрын
The "Trio" drummer, Peter Behrens used to live right around the corner from me in Wilhelmshaven, met him a couple times in the pub, very down to earth guy, RIP
@blondkatze35477 ай бұрын
Milli Vanilli was played a lot in the eighties in dance clubs in Germany , the dance floor was always full. I loved it.🙂💜👍
@tinalisapatternАй бұрын
Number 5 (Nicole) was the first Eurovision Contest winner from Germany ever, BTW, we went to school together (not same class however, she is a few my junior). She still is living in the same village, she was born (just a couple of km from my place)
@dawnwilkinson87177 ай бұрын
Edelweiss is a flower. I'm British and a remember quite a few of these songs - the ones sung in English. Wish the clips had been longer. I'm off to KZbin to find some of them. Thank you.
@vomm7 ай бұрын
Edelweiss is a band. He did not asked about a translation and where their name comes from but he asked about the band lol .. what's wrong with everybody here
@dawnwilkinson87177 ай бұрын
@@vomm He said "What is edelwiess?" If he was asking about the band Edelwiess I believe he would have asked "Who are Edelwiess?" Even though I disagree with you I do not think there is anything 'wrong' with you.
@reginaa.t.68276 ай бұрын
From the band City the best song but I guess it was in the 70 th am Fenster ,ou will be blown away. The front man died two weeks ago.
@viola13336 ай бұрын
So many hits from my childhood years. Alphaville's 'Sounds like a melody' is one of those songs that goes onto almost every playlist and I just cannot sit still when listening to it. And 'Die Sennerin vom Königsee' from Kiz I just rediscovered a few weeks a go and had it on repeat a few times since then.
@eroloden56116 ай бұрын
And the biggest selling German band: Modern Talking. 120 million copies. And, their forgot the play Cheri Cheri Lady. Greetings from Belgium.
@melchiorvonsternberg8447 ай бұрын
Hi big J! The thing is... you should look at the "Neue Deutsche Welle". It had a significant influence on later German music and represents the point in time when German music emancipated itself from the post-war era of Anglo-Saxon and American music dominance... And a little fun on the side... The blonde from the last clip in 1989 is the little sister of an old friend of mine. And we occasionally went out together in the mid- 80s to celebrate and party. Oh, the youth...
@Apophis19667 ай бұрын
7:08 He wears a penguin costume because the penguin is also called a tailcoat wearer. The background is the Vienna Opera Ball, which at the time was seen as an event for rich snobs and was intended to be parodied. PS WHO KNOWS THIS NUMBER... 32168 ?
@worldhello12345 ай бұрын
@7:56 It is a fllower that is hard to obtain because it grows in the mountains.
@yannhollister90917 ай бұрын
Do the 90's, that's when German music really took off worldwide, you'll be surprised.
@peterbruhn1296Ай бұрын
Edelweiss is a flower that grows very high in the Alps, it is also called the killer flower because women want the edelweiss and young men climb very high in the Alps, many young men died trying to pick them because of the cold and they fell off the cliffs.
@JDkonsult6 ай бұрын
Forever Young with Alphaville was the biggest hit in sweden 1984
@robsn30247 ай бұрын
The refrain of "Bring me Edelweiss" is taken from ABBA's song "S.O.S."
@danielmuller270127 күн бұрын
the reaction to Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung was picture perfect (verunsichert). Love it.
@biankakoettlitz69797 ай бұрын
'Edelweiss'is an flower in the Alps, I gess it was a popular 'after ski' song and it was a cover from ABBA 's 'SOS'. But you only have half of the picture:the other half was not in the Bilboard, it was'the music of the youth' like Heavy Metal with groups like Van Halen or Iron Maiden, Rock like Marius Müller-Westernhagen, his song'Sexy'was famous and a'Scandal' or for us girlsPeter Maffay, especially his album/LP/record called 'Tabaluga'🙂
@PegasusNbW7 ай бұрын
I'm quite surprised that you haven't heard of Edelweiss - as most of the Americans I know knew that word... "Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me. Small and white, clean and bright you look happy to greet me." might ring a bell - or bring Season vibes. Edelweiss is a small, white flower found in the Alps. Edelweiss translates to "noble white" and it was seen as a symbol of noble purity, pure love and courage (as you had to climb on the mountains to get it). It is today fully protected and must not be picked - just remember if you plan to visit the Alps on your next trip to Europe. And Edelweiss is also an Austrian beer brand.
@reinhard80537 ай бұрын
An Edelweiss can be found in many logos around alpine organisations, hotels and gear.
@improvesheffield48247 ай бұрын
The word you're looking for is Eurobeat.
@RakkiOfficial7 ай бұрын
I think what you meant was "neue deutsche Welle" (new german wave), because that's how it's called :)
@Roth27756 ай бұрын
@@RakkiOfficialno...he was talking about Sandra, Modern Talking and Alphaville....they aren't Neue Deutsche Welle
@suvijii8416 ай бұрын
I remember the majority of these songs from 84 forward. They played these a lot on the radio in Nordic countries, also. I had no idea that most of these were actually German when I was a kid. They sang in English and looked cool, that was enough. My dad loved Boney M, we had multiple records by them.
@57bananaman5 ай бұрын
There was a song called "Edelweiss" included in the hugely successful 1966 Movie "The Sound of Music" which was presented as being a patriotic Austrian song. The song became hugely popular in The UK and a cover version in 1967 by Vince Hill got into the national charts. I've seen the song mentioned in some of the comments but I've not seen anyone pinpoint the source.
@sunshishi7 ай бұрын
Jeanny by Falco and Maria Magdalena by Sandra where a few of my favourites from that time ❤
@kleineelfe19742 ай бұрын
Edelweiß is a little white flower that grows in the alps. In Germany this music style you just hear, was called NDW. Neue deutsche Welle. New german wave... It should partly represent the lightness of being. Fun and fun and fun. Oh, did i mentioned fun? The penguin group is called EAV. Back then they were known for their weirdness.
@NetzKaiser5 ай бұрын
Edelweiß (Leontopodium nivale) is a rare flower which grows in the mountains of Bavaria and Austria. To pick up an Edelweiß and give it to the girl who you love is a popular symbol. You are brave enough and patience enough to take the adventure of searching for one of this rare flowers and of course it blooms on the highest mountain. And a hunter or Police man is just waiting for you to shot you, because it is forbidden to pick up an Edelweiß or just because they hate young romantic love. But you take the risk to die and try to pick it up anyway to show the girl you love how much she means to you. That is the "old story line"(or how you call that kind of things in English) that is connected with that flower.
@JLMLawliet5 ай бұрын
a lot of the songs from the 80's was also popular here in America. I even personally have them in my music library. There was also Tokyo Hotel and Rammstein that I have listen to. The you have Michael Schenker a great German guitarist for UFO and his own band and his brother Rudolf who was in the most famous German rock band of the late 70's and 80's The Scorpions. They had some of the largest concerts in that time audience wise.
@acerreteq7037 ай бұрын
1982 #5 "Ein bisschen Frieden" -> "A little bit of peace" sung by Nicole won the 1982 European Song Contest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_bi%C3%9Fchen_Frieden
@kirstygunn91496 ай бұрын
Quite a few of these songs were in the UK top 20 music charts. i remember them from my childhood we always had music playing in our house.
@zaldarion7 ай бұрын
7:10 EAV (erste allgemeine verunsicherung) is a comedy band from austria, but with a lot of musical skills. the penguin is their mascott? well at least I've seen it on at least one album. they are really funny and make really good songs as well.
@7rob277 ай бұрын
This clip are way too short. Too bad.
@craigavonvideo7 ай бұрын
Nicole with "Ein bisschen Frieden" (A Little Peace) @ 2'40" was a number one hit in the UK in 1982 as it won the Eurovision Song Contest held in Harrogate that year. I still have the 7" single in my collection. For her closing reprise of the song, Nicole sang each verse/chorus in a different language! See it here ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKOtdIF-m7isb7Msi=Huxw-oxHhbphHlpu&t=309
@johnfrancismaglinchey41927 ай бұрын
No 5. Won the Eurovision Song Contest for GERMANY 🇩🇪.
@georgepasson56565 ай бұрын
Edelweiß (Leontopodium nivale) is a mountain flower at home in the Alps, belonging to the sunflower family. Edelweiß grows in the high Alps of about 1800 - 3500 metres and is the ultimate symbol of alpinism. Edelweiß is also is also a symbol of rugged beauty and purity.
@Hauke-ph5ui3 ай бұрын
4:55 No it is actually very easy to describe: A lot of these songs are Schlager, a very controversial style of music in Germany. Half of the population loves Schlager, the other half despises it as the hellish sputum that it is.
@Julius375 ай бұрын
RIP Falco❤
@DaxRaider5 ай бұрын
the "theme" in the 80s in germany is NDW (new german wave) its a really crazy time for german music ^^
@ravenheart696 ай бұрын
This was probably the reason I got into Hardrock and Heavy Metal at that time 😅.
@chrisclaim51125 ай бұрын
To first No.5 is important to know, Nicole sang and win 1982 with the "Ein bisschen Frieden" in english "A little bit of peace" the European Song Contest wie have avery year. She sang that song in german, after winning she sang it in a few languages. If interesset in, here is the link for that. In that time people in germany got on the streets to demonstrat for freedom, against new wappons in Germany. So that song from her, was big look into the german soul. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5_Nkpucm7Rqm6s
@robincalamy69806 ай бұрын
Edelweiß is a flower founding in the alpes in high attitude. Also the Maintheme of the series „The Man in the High Castle“, where the german Wehrmacht conquerd the eastern states of the USA. Pacific States are under Japans Command.
@jkb20167 ай бұрын
5:40 Bruce & Bongo was actually a British duo and "Geil" didn't contain German vocals besides the title. However, the audience was willing to honour the acknoledgement of German slang.
@antjeschroeder7 ай бұрын
Since today marks the 2nd anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, for me "Ein bisschen Frieden" by Nicole is the most important song on this list. Even if it's not my taste. It's unbelievable that this song is now 42 years old and it just hasn't changed anything in the world.
@hannofranz79736 ай бұрын
Ob's wohl mit "ein bisschen Frieden" reicht.
@alistairrodgerfairbrother247917 күн бұрын
you should cheek out more of Sandra's music that's if you haven't already she was the main female voice of the 90's New Age group Enigma that had massive hits like Sadness Part 1 and Return to Innocence and in the mid 70's she was also in a girl group called Arabesque that where Massive in Japan
@RWGrimm6 ай бұрын
99 red Ballons from NENA was in FEB 1984 on the second place of the Billboard Charts in USA. Number 1 in Japan, Mexico, Kanada and Australia.
@videomailYT6 ай бұрын
^^ Bruce and Bongo are from the UK and heard the word "geil" adapted it and put it into a song... 😉🤷
@lgugue5 ай бұрын
Almost all those music played in Brazil and we thought they were American (well, our Chevrolet cars were versions of Germany Opels and we also thought they were American).
@MeganovaLP6 ай бұрын
There is a video with songs from 1990 to 1999 that you might like too. It should be from the same channel as this video.
@nikitaeurope7 ай бұрын
Edelweiss - literal translation "noble white" is a very rare flower that grows very high up in the Alps. If you type Edelweiss into Google you will find plenty of pictures of the flower. It is white has a bit of a star shape and grows in mountain ridges in the Alps at a height between 1500 and 3500 meters. The flower is over 100.000 years old and originates in Asia. It was already growing in the Himalayas all that time ago. In Europe the flower is the symbol of the Alps. Both Austria and Switserland have the flower on their coins. I did not look up all of the details that can be found on the internet but it would highly surprise me if the plant does not have a protected status. Just like animals that are in danger of going extinct there are plants that are protected by law that people are not allowed to touch because they are rare.
@SpicyFiur2 ай бұрын
Sun of Jamaica. I rememer watching a Movie as a Child using that song. I don't really remember which one it was. It was a good movie.
@citycobra5014Ай бұрын
That song you said "This one sounds really good" (ein bisschen Frieden from Nicole) won the first (and i believe only) time the European Song Contest for Germany. 99 Luftballons was also relased in an english version called 99 red balloons. Also Major Tom was re-published in English. I adored Sandra, loved Alphaville, Falco was great and i still despise Modern Talking. I liebe Dich from Clows und Helden is still a blast. Die erste allgemeine Verunsicherung was a fun group which did fun songs with fun videos. I have googled Edelweiss for you, but everywhere i looked it says that there is no english name for it and that the english speaking people also call it Edelweiss.
@nickymouse16987 ай бұрын
Edelweiss is a small flower that grows high up in the Alps. It is among other things a flower a guy would get a girl he loves. There were difficult to get to so also a sign of bravery . They are protected now.
@BavariaShuffleOne6 ай бұрын
To No.4 /1988: You should watch some videos of the group "Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung" then you will see that this group is unique. 😀
@worlddd77776 ай бұрын
Believe it or not, Yugoslavia had one of best music scenes in 1980s, it was a absolute blast. Of course, few people in world knows this
@Rrljaxa6 ай бұрын
Döf has one of the most famous unfamous singers and songwriters. Look for Annette Humpe: Humpe & Humpe, Ideal, Ich + Ich (was famous in 2010s). Most time she works behind the stage and doesn't want to be mentioned, as she is very shy
@ronbisschop15677 ай бұрын
Hello, yes german songs where huge in the 80's a lot of hits in the european charts and it brought back that german songs song in german or english were very good as well in the lyrics some funny and others over welming but so good, I grew up in this era and known the most of these songs wonderful thank you for reacting to this Greetings from the Netherlands
@Bikebrh7 ай бұрын
I'm surprised that Katja Ebstein's "Theater" didn't make it in 1980. I was in Europe and mainly Germany all that summer, and "Theater" was HUGE, and got 2nd place at Eurovision. I'm also noticing that at the beginning there was still a lot of what was known as "Schlager" music, which was a style that went back to the 1950's, but it was finally fading out by the end of the decade. Freddy Quinn was probably the most famous Schlager singer. Edelweiss is a flower, and the subject of a famous song from The Sound Of Music.
@sirpakuparinen73097 ай бұрын
That list had many songs that were hits in Finland in the 80’s( Falco, Boney M,Alphaville,Sandra,Opus ym) Thank you good memories 💖🇫🇮
@olafschneider83146 ай бұрын
"Ein bisschen Frieden" - Nicole won the Eurovision Song Contest on April, 24th 1982 - exactly 6 months before my birth - Jesus.. I am old xDDDD
@martinhuhn78137 ай бұрын
7:08 You need an explanation? The name of the band can be translated as "First general un-insurance". That should be enough information to understand the outfit. 7:56 "Edelweiss!"is an alpine flower. If you were familiar with the greatest works of french literature (Asterix in Swizerland) you would know that!
@fenrisulfur8426 ай бұрын
The change from english to german is the "Neue Deutsche Welle" or "New German Wave" the german part of the general movement of the early 80s calles "New Wave"
@nikitaeurope7 ай бұрын
As for your question about German music. Please take a listen to the following: Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg Herbert Grönemeyer - Mensch Almost everything from Xavier Naidoo Rammstein I will try to find some links and put them in here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5bOi6OhjstqY6csi=jKtxVWtLv4PfzIl4 Zu Asche zu Staub from the German TV series "Babylon Berlin" that is situated around 1930 between the first and the second world war. The text of the lyrics in both German and English can be found in the comments below the video Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg - A Ballad with great lyrics that he wrote after both his brother and his wife passed away within weeks of each other kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpXInGyPatWYb68si=Zp1Ww5Np3P0aghlm
@tubulus227 ай бұрын
The music clips are awfully short. It's worth to dive in a little bit deeper.
@Danisachan7 ай бұрын
I don't understand the whole original video anyway. What do you get from songs that are 3seconds long??? If anyone is at fault, it's that such a video will never make a solid base for a good reaction.
@simantov4UUU7 ай бұрын
edelweiss is a flower growing high up in the bavarian-german alps. you missed the songs theater by katja ebstein, and johnny blue by lena valaitis, both ranked nr.2 at the esc song festival.
@artmaknev37385 ай бұрын
This music is hundred times better than todays songs!
@videofreakcologne7 ай бұрын
The one with the Penguin is a Austrian Band called Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV),how to translate this ... Literally "First general Unsurance" its a comedy song band. "Verunsicherung" is a word play, "Versicherung" means Insurance and "Unsicher" means unsure.
@SheratanLP6 ай бұрын
Listen to the songs in which German is sung and get the corresponding lyrics. These are the really good songs in the list and some of them have really good humor, such as "Der Nippel" or "Guten Morgen liebe Sorgen".
@TripleTriad897 ай бұрын
Edelweiß is a flower that grows in the Alps.
@rafaelbarrera26127 ай бұрын
The music of that time is called Synth Pop , which was the general sound that defined the 1980s 🎹
@John-i8k9n7 ай бұрын
99 Red Balloons was also a big throughout Europe it was during the Cold War and everyone was worried about a nuclear attack from Russia. Rock Me Amadaus and DaDaDaDa were also big hits. It was always said that German pop music was always ten years behind everyone else.
@user-cx6kt3ku2f6 ай бұрын
That monster thing was a mascot of the Austrian band EAV that made very funny and catchy songs. Why it looks so creepy, I can’t really tell.
@pedrobotero85427 ай бұрын
Boney M was very successful in Germany and the UK. Milli Vanilli even had three No. 1 hits in the US. Both bands were created by producer Frank Farian who recently died in Miami at the age of 83.
@fenrisulfur8426 ай бұрын
I`m german and had some kind of VN Flashback! xD the Wave Songs like Alphaville or Falco are on my todays playlist on the other hand :P
@joriegler667 ай бұрын
These songs were the best of all time... "Edelweiß" is in english "edelweiss", the wonderful white flower which you can only find in the top of the mountains. And the costume of a penguine at the titel "Küss die Hand schöne Frau", was a gag, with a cartoon like this on the LP cover. In those times, humor was more important, than the personal pic on the cover...😅