"Und draußen vor der großen Stadt stehn die Nutten sich die Füße platt" ..Kind of a heart break song. Joel, you made my day

"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.

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)!

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.

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.

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

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 Milli Vanilli, who had two or three of the top songs in 1989, won a Grammy for one of those songs, but it was revoked when it was learned that the two "lead singers" weren't actually singing but had been lip syncing.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!

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.

Fun fact: "Modern Talking" was the first Western Band to perform in Moscow 1986.

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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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 😄

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.

nr 4 is da da da by trio...legendary and iconic...you should make a video just reacting to this :D worth it !!!

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 ;-)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. 😊

Nicole won the ESC and her last performance she sing that son in german, english, frensh and dutch....great video

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

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.

Milli Vanilli was played a lot in the eighties in dance clubs in Germany , the dance floor was always full. I loved it.🙂💜👍

Do the 90's, that's when German music really took off worldwide, you'll be surprised.

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...

Another really awesome video Joel you are such a awesome dude My favourite youtuber ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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 KZfaq to find some of them. Thank you.

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.

And the biggest selling German band: Modern Talking. 120 million copies. And, their forgot the play Cheri Cheri Lady. Greetings from Belgium.

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/as2DeMt_tbG4aZs.html

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.

The refrain of "Bring me Edelweiss" is taken from ABBA's song "S.O.S."

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.

The word you're looking for is Eurobeat.

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 ?

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.

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.

This clip are way too short. Too bad.

@7:56 It is a fllower that is hard to obtain because it grows in the mountains.

Jeanny by Falco and Maria Magdalena by Sandra where a few of my favourites from that time ❤

'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'🙂

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.

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.

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.

Forever Young with Alphaville was the biggest hit in sweden 1984

Some of these songs were SCANDALOUS in their days. Falco's "Jeannie" or "Skandal um Rosi", for example.

Hallo from germany, every time, when i see you, i think at a german actor/Singer called "olli p." you looks like him. You can find him at the net. Have a nice day ...

This was probably the reason I got into Hardrock and Heavy Metal at that time 😅.

No 5. Won the Eurovision Song Contest for GERMANY 🇩🇪.

The music clips are awfully short. It's worth to dive in a little bit deeper.

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.

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.

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.

"Ein bisschen Frieden" - Nicole won the Eurovision Song Contest on April, 24th 1982 - exactly 6 months before my birth - Jesus.. I am old xDDDD

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.

Walter Werzowa aka the guy behind „Edelweiss“ is most famous for giving us the world’s famous „Intel“ jingle. Pretty sure he cashed in big on this one.

the "theme" in the 80s in germany is NDW (new german wave) its a really crazy time for german music ^^

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"

There is a similar video for the 90s and many of the iconic songs were popular all over the world

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

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.

JP is back 🙂

^^ Bruce and Bongo are from the UK and heard the word "geil" adapted it and put it into a song... 😉🤷

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 ... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNh6drF5y7ndaYU.htmlsi=Huxw-oxHhbphHlpu&t=309

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

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 💖🇫🇮

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.

This music is hundred times better than todays songs!

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.

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.

RIP Falco❤

You really need to the video "songs you didn't know were german". Another youtuber was blown away by it...

damn falco had some absolute bangers, to this day some of the greatest songs ever

Definitely check out some EAV videos. It's comedy but often on social topics and man these guys were good musicians.

To No.4 /1988: You should watch some videos of the group "Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung" then you will see that this group is unique. 😀

Yes Joel. PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C'EST LA MÊME CHOSE!

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.

Edelweiß is a flower that grows in the Alps.

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9SalMuXy7WblX0.html

Hi, Joel! ..."Everything changes but nothing changes"! You have interesting thoughts, and maybe your`re right!

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

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.

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.

When you see this recap, you realize how outstanding Falco was.

Globally the 1980s were the best era for popular music and movies. Prove me wrong. XD

So sad that the snippets were so short. It's impossible to get the feeling of the song.

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

The "similar vibes" were called "NEUE DEUTSCHE WELLE" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Welle

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

1985 and 1986 were really great songs.

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.

Would love to see some more Australia reactions bro

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).

This was my highschool decade and many of these songs bring back party memories and good vibes 🕺😅 But 90's Eurodance was even better. Check out SNAP!, Mr.President, Culture Beat, La Bouche, Vengaboys, Ace of Base... 😋 I'm 55 now, still listening to this shit🤣

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.