Your non-stop connection to late 90s German music.
5.02.2009
5.01.2009
4.30.2009
GROOVEZONE -- "EISBAER"
The channel logo you see is for the music channel VIVA. One of the best while I was there. That and ZWEI.
All Seeing I -- "The Beat Goes On"
I remember dancing in the hull of "Das Boot" to this song, giving a piece of my "exotic" American gum to a German girl named Suzie, and going home at dawn, drunk high and 21.
Fatboy Slim -- "The Rockafeller Skank"
No embedded video available, but a very cool song and a classic video.
Moby -- "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad"
Great video, great song.
No embedded videos available, so watch Moby HERE.
P.S. Liner notes from this album inspired me to be a vegetarian (for six months, anyway).
PAUL VAN DYK -- "For An Angel"
There is another version of the video HERE, although it cannot be embedded.
However, the video that you see here is the one that I remember the commercials for the compilation album Euphoria Vol. 1 stealing clips from.
Da Hool -- "Meet her at the Loveparade"
I can't count the number of times I danced to this song at the Airport.
Wednesday nights, two for one night, I would be dancing like a maniac taking turns sipping the two large glasses of Hefeweissen that I held in my hands.
Smoke machines would fill the dancefloor and I would lose sight of everyone and everything, one dense white cloud.
Slowly, first forms, and then faces, would take shape and we would all be smiling and dancing together. Good times.
The BEST times.
Captain Jack - "Captain Jack ( Heyo )"
Franky Gee was a former American soldier (originally from Havana, Cuba) who was stationed in Germany and stayed over after his enlistment ended. He ended up fronting this band, Captain Jack. While the song was released two years before I arrived in 1998, it was still going strong.
Franky Gee died of a spontaneous brain hemorrhage in 2005 while walking with his son on the beach. However, his music lives on.
Mauro Picotto -- "Komodo"
Classic German electronic dance music.
I love Deutscheland! I miss you Germany!
DJ Ötzi feat. Antonia - Anton aus Tirol (Musicanten Stadl)
Gotta love German television. This song was very popular in the beer tents.
Oli P. -- "Flugzeuge im Bauch"
Too bad no quality video for this one, but my hat's off to Casey for even remembering it!
DJ Tomekk f MC Rene, Afrob, Flavor Flav - "123 Rhymes Galore"
Courtesy of Wade. Thanks, man! I had forgotten about this. I remember bumping and grinding to this one!
4.29.2009
Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha
Cornershop's hit, that Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim later made a famous remix of.
Xavier Naidoo - "Führ Mich Ans Licht"
My friend Scott loved this song! And he was a good ol boy from Amarillo!
Rammstein -- "Stripped"
Classic video, set to clips from Leni Riefenstahl's famous documentary Olympia. Hitler tasked her to shoot a film capturing the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Vengaboys -- "Ibiza"
I think of this song and think of another roommate of mine, Troy. I'm pretty sure he loved this song - although he changed the words to "we're going to eat pizza."
Vengaboys -- "Boom boom boom"
Boom boom boom. I want you in my room. Spend the night together. From now until forever.
CAUTION: If you listen to this song, you may hear it in your head for days to come.
CAUTION: If you listen to this song, you may hear it in your head for days to come.
Vengaboys -- "Up and Down"
The Vengaboys were definitely a new kind of group to me. Back then, I had never seen anything like them. It was only later that I realized that they embodied the lighthearted, fun-loving, goofy spirit of Euro Pop, much of which I would later dance my ass off to in many a club, pub, or dancehall. I have nothing but love for it now.
Kai Tracid -- "Dance for Eternity"
I remember arriving in Germany on May 20th, 1998. It was seven days after my 21st birthday and I was now in a land where I could have been drinking for years!
Settling into my cramped barracks room with a new roomie, I looked around and realized we didn't have much between us. We organized the room into thirds: my corner, his corner, and a "living room." I use that term loosely, as it was much more a television corner with two wobbly chairs and a microwave. We didn't have many worldly possessions between us. He had a TV and Playstation, so did I. But his TV was a European TV, and for some reason our room had free German cable running to it. Adjusting to my new life in Wurzburg, I remember those first warm nights, the breeze blowing through the window, us sipping on cheap wine (Lambrusco), and watching German music videos. This is the one that I think of whenever I think about those first days.
Settling into my cramped barracks room with a new roomie, I looked around and realized we didn't have much between us. We organized the room into thirds: my corner, his corner, and a "living room." I use that term loosely, as it was much more a television corner with two wobbly chairs and a microwave. We didn't have many worldly possessions between us. He had a TV and Playstation, so did I. But his TV was a European TV, and for some reason our room had free German cable running to it. Adjusting to my new life in Wurzburg, I remember those first warm nights, the breeze blowing through the window, us sipping on cheap wine (Lambrusco), and watching German music videos. This is the one that I think of whenever I think about those first days.
Fat Boy Slim -- "Right Here, Right Now"
I love this video. It reminds me of this great road trip my friends Casey and Hicks took to Vilseck, Grafenwoehr, and Hohenfels Germany in April 1999. We would head out to the outlying army health clinics every six months to check their equipment. They were out in the boondocks, so we did everything all at once, trying to go out for repairs in between visits as infrequently as possible, as it was three hours away.
Anyhow, the April 1999 trip was very memorable, and this video/song takes me right back to that moment; which also happened to coincide with my realization that I had allergies to the German springtime -- bad!
"Right Here, Right Now" by Fatboy Slim
Anyhow, the April 1999 trip was very memorable, and this video/song takes me right back to that moment; which also happened to coincide with my realization that I had allergies to the German springtime -- bad!
"Right Here, Right Now" by Fatboy Slim
Bananafishbones -- "Come to Sin"
Late Summer 1998
Watching TV in my barracks room, there was this jeans commercial that came on for the clothing chain C&A. The video was this highly stylized promo for different brands, Ringlers, being one -- and it had this infectiously catchy tune playing behind it. I recorded the commercial and finally noticed that one of them had the artist name for a moment in the bottom corner. That was how I found out about Bananafishbones.
The video for that song, "Come to Sin," was not able to be embedded, so watch it HERE.
Watching TV in my barracks room, there was this jeans commercial that came on for the clothing chain C&A. The video was this highly stylized promo for different brands, Ringlers, being one -- and it had this infectiously catchy tune playing behind it. I recorded the commercial and finally noticed that one of them had the artist name for a moment in the bottom corner. That was how I found out about Bananafishbones.
The video for that song, "Come to Sin," was not able to be embedded, so watch it HERE.
Faithless -- God is a DJ" and "Insomnia"
I was unable to embed these two videos, or find copies that enabled embedding. However, I have linked them below.
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