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Saturday, February 23, 2013

East German Punk Rock

"Hasch Mich Madchen" Keks (1983)


This was a band from the former German Democratic Republic called Keks (Cookie). Totally unknown outside the GDR, it's been suggested they started out as more of a mainstream pop group before going punk in the early '80s. Didn't last long, they were banned by the East German government by 1985.

Here's what probably sent the East German officials over the edge. A track from 1983 called "Hasch mich Madchen" ("Catch Me Girl"), a strange tune that sounds like a bad rehearsal (they stop and start several times.) Besides, the title (which is repeated throughout the song), it's hard to figure out what they're talking about

From the guitars, you can also pretty much hear how Rammstein and every other German industrial metal band got started on this track:

They later became Knorkator, which was Germany's answer to Ministry. They broke up in 2008 after one of the members decided to start a new life in Thailand......

One other act was Nina Hagen. She came to America in the '70s and quickly established herself as one of the STRANGEST acts in the New Wave era of the early '80s.


She existed just outside of the mainstream in New Wave (but never too far away.) She's probably best known for her song "New York New York", which was featured in the bizarre 2003 Macaulay Culkin film Party Monster.


She appeared on Adamski's 1991 hit and video "Get Your Body". But this would be her last US hit. She's still performing today.

Friday, February 22, 2013

"I Love Rock N' Roll" Arrows (1975)


BEFORE Joan Jett made it a rock n' roll national anthem in 1982 (and kept the songwriters set for life in sheer royalties), here's the 1975 ORIGINAL by the UK band Arrows.....

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Skidoo


What do you get when you make a counterculture film with Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Groucho Marx, Frankie Avalon and Mickey Rooney?


An empty theater of course, but somebody thought Skidoo (1968) was a good idea.....

Complete with a Harry Nilsson soundtrack......
Here's Jackie Gleason on an acid trip.....


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Carlton The Doorman


If you watched the classic '70s sitcom Rhoda, you will no doubt remember Carlton The Doorman (the heard-but-never-seen doorman to Rhoda's apartment building.)

The voice of Carlton the Doorman was the late Lorenzo Music.


You might better recognize his voice as the original voice of Garfield.



I found this record a long time ago. I've played this before to other people in the apartment building I managed and they all said this song reminds them of ME!



"Who Is It?" Carlton The Doorman (1975)