German Rock? Any-one?

katsumy · 12-25-2005, 08:36 AM

Does any- one knows about a good german band besides Ramstein and Das ich????

MrMaelstrom · 12-25-2005, 09:07 AM

Die Artze (really old kraut-rock punk band...Eine Kleine Jagermeister...)
Trio (Da Da Da)
Clan of Xymox
De/Vision
Wolfsheim
Blutengel
Oomph!
Funker Vogt
Front 242
Deine Lakaien
Diary Of Dreams
Nina Haggen (what a crazy fucked up bitch she was - brilliant, too)
X-mal Deutschland
Lacrimosa...

...and then of course, there's Falco (rock me Amadeus) and Nena (99 Red Ballons), unless you wanna go with Modern Talking (if you never heard of them, consider yourself lucky and do not ask).

and if you wanna consider bands that sing in German, The Young Gods, Laibach, The Sisters Of Mercy and many more...

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katsumy · 12-25-2005, 09:14 AM

Wow Thanx a lot!

MrMaelstrom · 12-25-2005, 09:24 AM

I can't believe I forgot about Einsturzende Neubauten!!!!!!

and the hip hop extraordinaire: Die Fantastischen Vier (The Fantastic Four) - Sie ist Vekt, Die Da...

MrMaelstrom · 12-25-2005, 09:27 AM

And there were these really old bastards called Wagner, Offenbach, Strauss sr. and jr. (Austrian, do not confuse), Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Brahms amongst others. You may have heard of some of them...

Nike would be a lot better use than I, even if only to tell that austrians apart from the krauts, but she's also aware of a lot more bands than I.

katsumy · 12-25-2005, 10:34 AM

Cool!

WolfMoon · 12-25-2005, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom

I can't believe I forgot about Einsturzende Neubauten!!!!!!

and the hip hop extraordinaire: Die Fantastischen Vier (The Fantastic Four) - Sie ist Vekt, Die Da...

Sounds like someone's gettin' senile on us......

What about Wumpscut? Aren't they German?

MrMaelstrom · 12-25-2005, 03:24 PM

Yeah, I just think they suck

I ain't got all day to name German bands, but I'm sure a few members here can come up with a lot more (especially Industrial bands).

I'm not senile, I'm ancient. I'm a bloody artefact, for Chriss' sake! Get it right! :P

dreamydancer · 12-25-2005, 09:02 PM

KMFDM. Urm, I think they changed their name to MDFMK. At least I think they're German. Ohhhh, forget it.

WolfMoon · 12-25-2005, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom

Yeah, I just think they suck

I ain't got all day to name German bands, but I'm sure a few members here can come up with a lot more (especially Industrial bands).

I'm not senile, I'm ancient. I'm a bloody artefact, for Chriss' sake! Get it right! :P

Artifact? You? Nah, just sexy.

Nike · 12-26-2005, 05:49 AM

hm...let me think...

english lyrics:
Project Pitchfork- electronic, good lyrcs, nice music, their old stuff sounds much different to thir new, Ilike both, though.Dhyani and Daimonion are 2 of my favourite albums.

Love Like Blood- gothic rock, new stuff going a bit more into metal; exspecially their old stuff is awesome, Sinister Dawn/Ecstasy, Flags of Revolution, Odyssee, and Irony of Fate...their English was sometimes a bit interesting

New Days Delay, I've seen them live once, very nice female voice, goth rock (I'd say, but I'm not good with music categories)

-->Avaritia One of the guys from New Days Delay left the band and founded Avaritia, I think they're nice, too

Darc Entries

Kiss The Blade (Austrian)

Dreadful Shadows..hm, some of their stuff is a bit too romantic for my taste

hm..some more Austrian: L'Ame Immortelle and Sonja's sideproject Persephone (which I like better)

Mila Mar-phantasy lyrics, similar concept as Dead Can Dance
Second Decay-English/German mixed, synth pop (I think)

German with german lyrics:

Das Ich are my favourite.
Goethes Erben-poetry combined with music, sometimes a bit experimental, quite interesting, lots of good stuff

Artwork-one of their sideprojets, me likes a lot; both english and german lyrics

One example for medieval with german lyrics: Corvus Corax (they have nice live shows, too)

fun stuff with german lyrics:
JBO
Knorkator
but I don't know if it's so funny if you don't understand the lyrics

there are more I think, but I have to leave now

front 242 are not German, Mael, I think they are from Belgium, but I'm not entirely sure, could be France also.

MrMaelstrom · 12-26-2005, 06:44 AM

I just thought their accent on "headhunter" more germanic than Ze usual french aZZent.

bad guess, I guess...

katsumy · 12-26-2005, 12:33 PM

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Nike · 12-26-2005, 12:36 PM

I have met a musicianonce who was working on a side project of front and also on some of their sngs...was a ew years ago and I neither remember his name nor the one of the project, but his azzent was definatley ze french and he said they are from Belgium or France. Uhm, I guess I can join the club of the senile

pitseleh · 12-28-2005, 11:34 AM

Umm... these are what I can think of right now..

Yage - real emo, with lots of screaming, melodic, yet totally crushing and razor-sharp guitars. Good drummer.

Can - essential psychedelic krautrock, influential to Joy Division and basically all post-punk.

Neu! - also skeletal krautrock, maybe more leaning towards the harsh, noisy side than the percolating psych of can.

...plus there's a lot of good minimal and ambient electronic music from Germany.

Nike · 12-29-2005, 03:32 AM

heh, I didn't know a single one of the bands you've listed, pitseleh, shame on me

got to check them out!

pitseleh · 12-29-2005, 08:37 AM

Hi! - by the way. Hope you are well.

Oh, you're excused, Nike, since you have a life outside of obsessively collecting music, that involves cool and respectable activities like drawing, studying and archaeology. But still, if you're not averse to a bit of psychedelia, long songs and all that, Can and Neu! are (were) amazing. Damo Suzuki, the singer in Can... one of the greats, surely.

PhilSmith · 12-31-2005, 08:26 PM

Good German bands? 17 posts and not one mention of Kraftwerk?

Words fail me.

mortalitas incomitatus · 12-31-2005, 09:02 PM

i met a german guy at the club last night.
this has nothing to do with german music but i am bored and waiting for pizza so i thought i would share....arn't you happy i did?

Which_ones_Pink? · 01-02-2006, 11:59 AM

What about the Scorpions! They're Germans! ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE! See, that proves it. Also, they are awesome.

MrMaelstrom · 01-02-2006, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by PhilSmith

Good German bands? 17 posts and not one mention of Kraftwerk?

Of course not. Like you said, we're talking about GOOD german bands

Niels · 01-02-2006, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom

Of course not. Like you said, we're talking about GOOD german bands

Ok, that's just pure blasphemy!

Scorpions are awesome too.

MrMaelstrom · 01-02-2006, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Niels

Scorpions are awesome too.

No dude, THAT's pure blasphemy (except for "Holiday")

Niels · 01-02-2006, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom

No dude, THAT's pure blasphemy (except for "Holiday")

lol, you're so funny when you're making jokes XD (I guess that's the point of making jokes... being funny... :S)

MrMaelstrom · 01-02-2006, 02:34 PM

Why thank you, very much. We do aim to please.

Just kidding here. I was never into the minimalist stuff too much. "Model" is the only song of theirs (kraftwerk) that I can withstand.

As for the Scorpions, it really just comes down to "Still Loving You" and "Holiday". "When the Smoke Is Going Down" on a good day.

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