most bands are from germany here…

And the song itself is very much inspired and informed by the political/historical situation in Germany at that time.

Even Lou Bega is German (born in Munich)!

@@hardywoodaway9912 Or Austria and Switzerland. Not Mo-Do though. That was an Italian project.

and one of the oldest bands on earth today!!

True! That many people not knowing about this goes to show how good they are! I am "only" 36yo but still have it in my playlist!

Hymn of reunion and freedom!!! YEAH!! I'm born '84 by the way, and we came '88 to germany, just a few months before the wall fell. I remember a bunch from these days.... those where heavy times..... But HELL YEAH!! WE ARE ONE NOW!!!

the worst ist, his dad knows the scorpons for sure, its or was one of the famous german bands in the usa

They are not from Germany but from Hanover and I say that as a Lower Saxon.

@@andh6945 as a man from Hannover i get tears in my eyes... that hurts.... not from germany... that hurts 😞

Some even surprised me ngl... But I'll be damned if I don't enjoy the heck out of most of these.

I grew up with so many of those Eurodance hits. Go Germany!

I was looking the exact same💀as a German

its because US-citizens think they have some sort of monopol on great music and movies, so no other country possibly could do what the US does! but this thinking only comes from slight ignorance and not being able to look further than your own border!

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And a lot of die hard hip hop fans hate Fanta4 for that. They are a lot of fun though and i prefer them a lot over all the wannabe gangster rappers.

Falco was

​@@ricardo_miguel13He doesn't count, he was from Austria 😉

Nope, as weird as it sounds it was the Rodgau Monotones with Erbarmen zu Spaet (die Hessen kommen). Yesss it's HipHop! :-) From 1984 even before Falco and Rock me Amadeus

The fantastic four and The Rödelheim Hardrhyme Project.... please, funrap vs. Gangsta. 😊😁

I agree

Copyright problems... they have to be that short to not get any problems

@@lhuras. its possible to mute songs every 5 seconds or to pause or to talk over it. And we all know how he loves to talk and pause vids^^

@@BenSlashes not only for him but also copyright for the original creator of the video he's reacting to It really is a sad length but not much you can do against that

We germans claim a lot of things americans think they invented😂

same with scorpions

@@tilmanarchivar8945 Scorpions are 100% German

I never knew..

Same with haddaway

He is Bavarian... Swiss people are more German then Bavarians 😂

didn t it turn out that it was all a lie? and they fought because of it and split?

Isn't that the French language market? It would make more sense.

actually the 4th biggest, UK is 3rd :) but still insane

He talks about the music market not the language. Germany is much bigger then France. When it's language it's obviously that Spanish is bigger because of Latin America

He talks about the music market not the language. Germany is much bigger then France. When it's language it's obviously that Spanish is bigger because of Latin America

@@overdev1993 Yeah, Germany takes 3rd place from the UK every other year, but most of the time it's the UK.

It's called copyright and KZfaq's unwillingness to move away from automated copyright takedowns. None of the clips are any longer for a reason.

The score to "Das Boot" has never been made into a song as far as I know.

The movie or the 6 part miniseries of "Das Boot" from 1981 is the most best submarine movie ever made.

@@tubekulose U96 made a pretty popular techno remix of the score of "Das Boot" in 1991, it's worth checking it out

@@MrDjTilo Funny that they chose not to include Oli P.'s voice in both of his songs. Says a lot about the quality of his music, when the background singer is the most iconic part of it :D

and he is absolutely not german

Like me

Every Song here is by a German band…

​​@@Felix-pm1fg Falco is Austrian...

Jeah, the crippled hedgehog 😂🙈

It's all because of the stupidity wrote in start of the video, and Ryan as an ignorant always believe what he read

Haddaway is not german!

@@-ripinpieces-8409 okay..He is Not German by birth ..

actually Haddaway is not german he is born in Trinidad! he moved to america at the age of 9 and lived in germany from the early 90'S

thanks Wikipedia

nearly every eurodance is from germany

@@K__a__M__I .................was du denn für ein unentspannter Spacko???

DJ Bobo lived and produced most of his songs in Germany

@@mandibiedermann2246 Even when it comes to music, Germans are pretty open about past crimes... /s

The musicians are "Torfrock" which are characterized primarily by their pronounced north German accent.

Wasn't that the movie with the soccer intro? I cried with laughter (no hyperbole) watching that, and I don't even *like* soccer.

​@@p.s.shnabel3409yeah, it is 🤭. If you are german and do some kind of apprenticeship as craftsperson of any kind, Werner is an absolutely mandatory part of your life as you and Werner suffer the same shit 🤭😂.

​@@Kilandilyou gotta memorize every line in the right order, otherwise you won't get your Gesellenbrief in GasWasserScheiße

@@Kilandil Thanks! But let's keep it 100 here: even adults will prank each other much like that ;) I'm originally from Germany. And I've worked in the office of a plumbing company. The guys absolutely *loved* to pull a fast one on each other. On a side note, at least where I live, Americans love those kinds of pranks, too. It's just that there are hardly any apprentices (and from what I understand it's very different from the German system). Most people learn their trade in a trade school, or on the job and get their certification at a later point. Pranking tends to be between co-workers.

I mean you can get nostalgic about anything, and people only really remember the _really_ good or _really_ annoying stuff 20 years down the line, not the bland stuff that nobody cares about 5 years later.

the 90s are the best decade for music in my opinion...and thats why i still stuck in 90s music xD

Yeah, but for other reasons. 90s music I remember fondly is mostly dance music - all these Eurodance songs and how we danced till morning. 80s was a lot of dance music, too - but on the other hand I often sat at home, listened to the music and the lyrics.

It might be nostalgic but even though I was a teenager in the 90s I still think most of the Euro Dance songs are crap! 😂

@@ellenstergaardgravesen1011 I don't like techno, I don't like rap. There's not much of the 90s left.

Neither, nor! Bega is mixed ugandan and italian. Living in germany does not make you german. Wind of change is a mediocre song at best.

@@-ripinpieces-8409 he was born in munich you muppet, he is German.

@@-ripinpieces-8409 "Living in germany does not make you German." no, but being born in Germany does make you German and he was born in Munich.

@@LumiliciousThis is just plain wrong. You are not german only because you were born there. German is only a person who has at least one german parent. Check out the german citizen law if you don't believe me. Bega has no german parents so he is not german! It's that simple.

@@-ripinpieces-8409 Shut up with your racist BS.

If his parents are ugandian/italian, he is ugandian/italian too. 😂

@@6Kubik oh nice then i am Irish/ France... well never have been there... But nice to know that you can decide which nationality someone has to have.

@@6Kubik he was born in Germany, has lived there all his life and has a German passport. He couldn’t be more German if he tried.

@@6Kubik in most parts out of the US we dont think we are a nationalaty because our antsesters were from somewhere els, I am german with with austrian ansesters and some france ones, but that dosent make me any of them. i dont speak france and i dont like sachertorte so no, I am german.

@@glockenreinPassport 'german' is not german! Will never be.

Such a valuable comment! Learned something! Thanks!

So many kpop songs follow this formula

@Perrosol* That "Formula" was called Eurodance ,)

so, the American singer's English shouldn't be that bad...

Snap had 8 female singers over the years (see wiki). Niki Haris sung "Exterminate" and "Do you see the light" in 1993.

For god's sake. I thought it is a neo nazi band!?

@@MiaMerkur huh? No, where did you get that idea? Most of their productions aren't particularly political, but they're more left leaning than anything else. They do have a couple of edgy productions _against_ homophobia and Nazis that I suppose you could misunderstand if you don't understand the lyrics very well?

Well it depends on the Radio station. I know a few Stations that are playing them regulary but its a Rock Radio station. Its just not everyones type of music so the bigger station targeting the more "mainstream" people play something else :D

Ist ja auch kein Wunder. > ROW ZERO 👀

@@danceattaxx liegt wohl eher an den kontroversen Texten. Nicht unbedingt für´s Radioprogramm geeignet.

Shame, how Xavier ruined his career, with his crazy antics. 😢 I totally forgot "Sie sieht mich nicht" and its such a beautiful song.

@@EllaSilentDragon Yep, as an artist I can respect him, and I've liked a lot of his songs, I wish he wasn't such a nutjob.

Yeah, I was wondering about that disclaimer. I left about a decade ago and have lost touch completely. As for the SA allegation: he is innocent until proven guilty. I understand that it's often next to impossible to prove SA (especially in Germany). I remember when that weather dude had his trial and was found innocent ... It showed up the flaws of the system and I doubt anything has been done to improve that? But ... the case against Lindemann was dropped according to Wiki. And that's that. And holy moly Xavier Naidoo ... I did not see that one coming. Now, I never liked his art (too schmaltzig), so I'm getting a good chuckle out of this. And yeah, he and Ye should have a podcast together, it would be fire.

@@p.s.shnabel3409 with the SA case actually as far as I know nobody is disputing the facts. The only question was whether what happened qualified as sexual assault or not.

​@@p.s.shnabel3409the case of the "weather dude" was a bit like Johnny Depp being assaulted from a bitch to get avlot of money. Rape or being beaten is so bad and much more common than a lot of oeople think, that a woman who falsely talk from a man as raper/ brutal should be punished harder, so the real cases were taken more seriuosly by the police.

And Mo-Do Italian.

But they are German bc Austrians and Swiss are Germans. I know they don't like that fact, but it is what it is🤷🏼‍♀️

I mean, they SPEAK German, at least I the German part of Switzerland

I mean, they SPEAK German, at least in the German part of Switzerland

@@AlexandraVioletta we Austrians might speak German, but we are definitely not German...

Well, it's produced by Keith Olsen and Scorpions, so it is still for more than 83% a German production 😆

I think it's his wife who is Bruce Willis' grand cousin. That's really funny. Bruce Willis was born in Germany and has a german mother.

The "press conference" of Tic Tac Toe was more memorable to me.😂

@@Reboegga An other iconic moment in german history. But watching it back as an adult really makes you wonder why no grown ups / managers intervened to protect them from destroying their carriers.

​@@mabus4910I feel that the producers and media people back when the members of Tic Tac Toe clashed were in part bad-faith actors, and the rest of them incompetent. Also, there was a component of exoticism and exploitation, that put toxic incentives into the music industry and led to the demise of an otherwise, imho, classy hiphop act.

Mambus, da bist du nicht alleine 😂😂😂

They always remind me of my grandma. As kids, when visiting her, we watched ZDF or ARD and they were always on.😂

2000´s as well. i think 1991 - 2011 was the best time in human history (at least in the western hemisphere)

Manches war aber auch einfach nur grottenschlecht. Oli P und Tic Tac Toe zum Beispiel. Und Rammstein produziert seit 30 Jahren immer den gleichen Song mit neuem Titel.

@@stefankaiser3354 Also im Vergleich zu diesem Autotune-Shishabar-Rap ist das alles trotzdem große Kunst. Aber naja das ist Geschmack, mir geht es nur darum, dass es damals mehr Vielfalt und mehr Freiheit gab und dazu gehört auch, dass was Grottenschlecht sein darf und soll. :D

@@vomm Ich geb Dir Recht, dass es "bunter" war, insbesondere dann, wenn man nicht nur auf die deutschen Produktionen schaut. Die Briten waren in den 90ern nämlich ganz groß mit Bands wie Oasis, Blur und dem ganzen Britpop Ding. Amerika hatte damals noch richtig gute Rockmusik. Die Grunge Bewegung und später die Crossover und NuMetal Bands ala Rage against the Machine. Der Rap war auf seinem Höhepunkt und zwar auf dem amerikanischen, wie auch auf dem europäischen Kontinent! Dieser ganze Autotune Mist und das talentfreie "Geräppe" gepaart mit diesem pseudo Gangster-Gehabe von heute, ist wirklich nur noch unerträglich und wird - von ein paar keinen Jungs einmal abgesehen - auch von fast niemand jenseits der 25 angehört. Jedoch war es damals in den 90ern tatsächlich auch unsäglich nervig, z.B. im Auto Radio zu hören. Da gab es nur eine Eurodance-Nummer nach der anderen und zwischendurch son Quatsch wie der Holzmichel oder was von Pur, oder sonstigen "Pop-Schlager". Es war halt nicht alles Gold was glänzt und zwar damals - wie heute 🤷🏼 (Ich hab gestern deutsch kommentiert, obwohl ich es auf deser Seite für angemessen halte, wenn jeder die Möglichkeit zum Mitlesen hat und so auch versteht, um was geht. Deswegen werde ich hierzu nichts weiter kommentieren. Und ich denke ich habe jetzt ohnehin alles dazu gesagt/erklärt) Tschüss, ähm bye! 🙋🏼

So true

Don't blame you the song is catchy.

@@starryk79 true

It was also made because 1991 marks the end of the cold war with the collaps of the UDSSR. The song represents the following hope for a more Peacefull and united world just like "Go West". Sadly its been only a hope and the world is more torn appart then ever

The first success was "Du riechts so gut"

"the last movie hit made in Germany" As in internationally relevant? Because there have been plenty of hits since for the German speaking audience. (On a side note, for people who enjoyed "Das Boot" I would recommend to watch "Stalingrad" (1993) a movie about the battle for the city from a German perspective)

I do not think Rammstein is pretty popular, rather a bit and only from certain kind of people.

@@MiaMerkur you look like haters

​@@mandibiedermann2246 Engel got Gold-Status, "Du riechst so gut" not. It got popular after the re-release in 1998. Engel was released in 1997.

Yes, probably by Bertelsmann. It's the biggest german media company and one of the biggest worldwide and it is based in Güthersloh

Really? What a crap.

@clausanders2886 yeah... sadly, they got quite popular during covid, and there was a big raid a few months ago where a lot of them got arrested. It was scary to see how many weapons they had and how many connections they had to officials in the police, Bundeswehr, or to political parties... In my opinion, it got quite scary in germany in the last few years with parties like the AFD getting so much votes and people getting more and more polarized and extreme.

@@wripiii That's why I left Germany 20 years ago and I'm more happy about that. Thanks.

wtf, I didn't know that 😨

As far as I know, Naidoo apologized via a YT video in April 2022 for several things he's said or done in the past and that he fell for conspiracy theories and lies. Not sure if it was a comprehensive and genuine apology. Apparently, his change of heart came in the wake of the start of the Ukraine War in February 2022.

Who really cares where a song is from, eh?

Thanks. I was confused.

Ah, I was confused.

I think he's seen a couple of clips from some of the Werner films before.

Even with subtitles, it's hard to understand what's going on for non-Germans. The cultural references fly right over their head. I tried showing the infamous soccer intro to my American husband, he was mostly confused. And it's not like he and I don't share a sense of humor at all. Since so much of German culture remains strictly German, that gap is often insurmountable. That's why you can't market any of Bully's work abroad, that's why Loriot is only funny to people who understand German culture. Just imagine trying to explain Lissi und der wilde Kaiser and why exactly it's funny. You'd have to start with the original movies, the friction between Austria and Bavaria (both at the time and still existing), the perception of dialects in Germany ... and that's just what I can think of the top of my head. Schuh des Manitou is even worse in some ways.

@@p.s.shnabel3409 I don't know, I was born and raised in Portugal, for 24 years I decided to move to Germany, and I get it, but I also live here and my friends are mostly Germans, they explained very well, but you are brave trying to explain Fußball to an American, it's probably easy to make of your husband a communist 🤣🤣🤣, both never gonna happen🤣🤣🤣

@@JoaoFranciscoFigueiredo Fussball kann ich leider auch nicht erklaeren ... obwohl ich einen grossen Teil meines Lebens davon umgeben war. Ich wollte meinem Mann erklaeren, warum die Fussballszene von Werner so witzig ist. Falls Du die Filme noch nicht gesehen haben solltest, schau sie Dir unbedingt an. Wie gesagt, ich habe Traenen gelacht. Ah, Portugal. Ich spreche leider kein Wort portugiesisch. Aber ich schaetze die Leute und die Kultur, hatte sogar Freunde (aus Porto). Ich wuensche Dir alles Gute in Deutschland; es kann schwer sein, in einem fremden Land zu leben. Besonders wenn es nicht einfach ist Kontakt zu finden. Deutsche lieben Vereine, falls Du Dich also je einsam fuehlen solltest, tritt einfach einem Verein bei. Die Mitglieder werden Dich "adoptieren" und bevor Du weisst was los ist, hast Du mehr deutsche Bekannte als Du zaehlen kannst.

@@p.s.shnabel3409 Deutschland der Land der Vereinen 😅, passend, ich lebe in Mainz, nur mein Verein ist FC.Sankt Pauli, nein, einsame nie, solo manchmal, Fußball ist nur eine Entschuldigung wenn man nicht gerade solo ist, Drachen frei Zeit zu haben🤦, und ja der Fußball Spiel bei Werner, einfach göttlich 🤣🤣🤣

Even we (german speakers) didn't knew back then because usually many popular songs came from the USA. Funnily enough in 2000s the US songs really dominated due to globalization and when most german artist that sang in english with a german accent lol. Kinda strange that german artists somehow became worse at english singing.

No he's not, he's a mix of ugandan and italian. Only to live in germany does not make you german.

@@-ripinpieces-8409 His mother is from Italy, his father from Uganda, that's correct. But both immigrated in the 1970s and he was born in Munich Germany, lives in Berlin and has a german passport. So yes, he is german. Born in Germany, lives in Germany, german citizen = german. If you think he's not a "real German" because of his origins, then you're a racist

@@-ripinpieces-8409 he was born in Munich, hence he's a german.

@@KayaliciousNo, he is not! Just check out the german citizen laws. You're not german only because you were born there! You need at least one german parent to be a german. That is the law!

@@-ripinpieces-8409 boring!

Me too .... I was growing up were these terrific music was played a whole night long at clubs and also huge dance festivals in Germany even for music of the late 80s with so many fun. I will strong hold this for me very emotional time and all these feelings in my memories til I can! Now I am a grandpa of a 9 years old grandson and he was asking me: Whats that for horrible music? He and my own Daughters did'nt know what it means to become old physicaly more and more but I think they will learn in few decades before I have to die?!

This guy "Werne" ist so funny!

"Accept" and perhaps Michael Schenker, or would they be too ancient for him to know?

Another fun fact: There is a pretty famous german ice hockey team named Hannover Scorpions

Absolut, bis heute einer meiner Lieblingssänger.

a little correction the song was released in 1991 so it couldn't be played in 1989 because it didn't exist back then. But yes it is about the end of to the cold war and the fall of the iron curtain and yes for people who lived through 1989 and were involved with theses events it is the anthem that brings back the memories, the hope that we would now go forward into a brighter future as a united Germany and a united Europe in a safer world. But in 1989 and 1990 no one sang it. In this regard David Hasselhoff with 'Looking for Freedom' fits much better. I was only 9 - 10 at that time living in the former GDR and i was in fact a fan of David Hasselhoff. I can't remember any other songs that were really connected to the events of the time. Wind of Change really took over the connections because it was played so often together with the old video footage of the fall of the Berlin wall. I actually remember that we had it as part of our english lesson the task was to listen to the song and write down the lyrics. Must have been in 5th or 6th grade not completely sure so i either had just started to learn english or i was in my second year of learning it.

I suggest you listening to Minimal, Hands Up, Happy Hardcore and Hard Trance from 98-05 the best of electronic music of Germany, only Germans produced those genres

Some great artists : Cosmic Gate, Brooklyn Bounce, Scooter, Kai Tracid, Rocco, Pulsdriver, DJ Shog, DJ Dean, Alex Butcher, Das Modul, Blümchen, Future Breeze, ATB, Warp Brothers, Special D, Manian, DJs@ Work

Already did. I've been through all of them and only Eurodance stuck with me. It's the sound and the mix of rap and soul that makes the perfect genre.@@mandibiedermann2246

Yeah, no. Too hard, too fast, too much shouting. Just not the same.@@mandibiedermann2246

@@mandibiedermann2246 Fully agree with your list. Kai Tracid especially...

I'm thinking about moving to Austria, then. I love Falco😢

I don't know if I would fully agree to that they made it without being obscene. They had quite some controversial songs in particular at the beginning of their career. And some of them had also partially obscene lyrics. Some examples are "Frohes Fest" or "Saft" or the song "Arschloch", which was not released as a single and is found on their second album. "Eins und eins" is also quite juicy, it is the B-side of "Frohes Fest" and a german version of the song "All day and all of the night" from the 2 Live Crew, who covered that from the Kinks. But yeah, later on in their career they became more serious with their lyrics.

I'm pretty sure they're not. The video is from 2019. Xavier Naidoo is the main culprit here.

@@zelmawood oh that could definitely be. Thanks for clarifying

@@zelmawood timing wise for the disclaimer, yes for sure. But from the current perspective, i'd say both, still

it´s a parody on a song germans may not sing nowadays, the original song is from 1868 I had a picture book in the 80s I think.

Scooter are legends

Ha, yeah, their lyrics never made any sense but it didn't matter because the beat was so addictive 😅

Haddaway is more interesting than that! His father was dutch, his mother from Trinidad, he lived both in the US (I think he might have even been a US citizen?) and Germany for a long time and has now resided in Austria for a long time.

"Die Wildecker Milzbuben mit ihrem Hit: Milzilein"

Watch Kalkofe. He can can tell you everything about the Herzbuben, you never wanted to know.

Nestor Alexander Haddaway was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1965 but moved to Cologne, Germany in 1989. Lou Bega is German (born in Munich).

edit : yea right, the dentist was "Dr. Alban"

@@alphab3ta I thought the dentist was this "Sing Halleluja"- guy!?

@@Winona493 yes o.O how could I mix that up Haddaway played trumpet and worked in bars (as musician?) wiki says.

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