Rokk around the clokk?

Shit! Another week is here, already. After a lovely weekend - HM The Queen's frocks with Mother, a day in the garden - I am not ready for this.

Never mind, eh? Let's cheer ourselves up with something from the "Nazis' favourite screen songbird" Marika Rökk, in all her weirdness, shall we? On this Tacky Music Monday - this clip (from 1958, long after her dodgy reputation had been redeemed) is an absolute joy!

Sit back and enjoy the madness of Mir ist so langweilig ("I'm so bored") - and I can guarantee that you won't be...

Ich liebe es!

Have a good week, dear reader.

Rökk und roll

Sigh. The sun is shining and there's some warmth in the air, and it's forecast to be much of the same over the next few days. Just in time to be back in work...

Never mind eh? Let's let the Nazis' favourite femme fatale of the war era lift us out of the gloom on this Tacky Music Monday (together with her ensemble of distinctly unmännlich dancers) - here's Fraulein Marika Rökk:

Marika Rökk - So ist eine Frau der grossen Welt

Have a fabelhaftesten week, Lieblings!

Marika Rökk on Wikipedia

Einheit

Today (scarily) marks thirty years since the reunification of Germany, following the total collapse of the Soviet Eastern Bloc. Understandably, celebrations have been somewhat hampered by what maybe we should call today "the Trump virus", but nevertheless a significant milestone.

Never one to miss an opportunity, I thought I would focus, by way of celebration, on some of the - ahem - choicer musical gems I have featured over the years that originated in the Land of the Franks...

First up, perhaps our favourite Kraut-rocker, the utterly bizarre (and wonderful) Punk-turned-Big-Band-chanteuse Nina Hagen!

Nina Hagen & Leipzig Big Band - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

Here's a true classic from the late, sadly-missed Falco:

Falco - Der Kommisar

Another fave, the splendid Max Raabe (who we managed to get to see live in March this year, just weeks before lockdown), with his "tribute" to Britney...

Max Raabe - Oops I Did It Again

The amazing, the unique, the irreplaceable, late, great Klaus Nomi:

Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse

And finally - possibly the weirdest clip in German cinematic history from the legendary Marika Rökk...

Gern geschehen.

Happy German Unity Day!

The final frontier

As the British Parliament votes to sustain and renew its nuclear deterrent Trident, so I feel I just have to share this magnificent moment of wonder from the middle of the Cold War era...

We know and adore the "Nazis' favourite screen songbird" Marika Rökk, but, my dears - this clip (from 1958, long after her dodgy reputation had been redeemed) is an absolute joy!

Sit back and enjoy the madness of Mir ist so langweilig ("I'm so bored") - and I can guarantee that you won't be...

Ich liebe es!

Verpiss dich montag!

Oh, how our spirits are dashed at the end of every weekend - it's all over much too soon, and all the best weather (inevitably) is due during the week... while I sit behind tinted glass trying desperately not to throw the laptop through a window. I could scream.

Never mind, instead we have the sickeningly chirpy Fraulein Marika Rökk to cheer us up on this Tacky Music Monday! No idea what she's on about, but a trip to the library will never be quite the same again...

Marika Rokk - Ja das Temperament

Hope you have a good week, folks!

Der grossen Welt

It was a fab weekend of sunshine, gardening and culture in turn. Now it's over, and we sink into despondency once more...

Let's allow Goebbels' favourite femme fatale of the war era lift us out of the gloom on this Tacky Music Monday (together with her ensemble of distinctly unmännlich dancers) - here's Fraulein Marika Rökk:

Marika Rökk - So ist eine Frau der grossen Welt

Have a fabelhaftesten week, Lieblings!

Marika Rökk on Wikipedia