Rules:
- Over 30 years old
- Should be a HUGE hit everyone in your country remembers to this day
- Preferably something that is relatively unknown outside of your country
- Preferably sang in your native tongue
Great idea!
A dutch song about Belgium from the 80s:
That is a classic. Personally, for the Netherlands, I was thinking some Doe Maar.
Or possibly Little Green Bag, but I’m guessing that doesn’t fit the “relatively unknown outside the Netherlands” criterion, nor is it in Dutch.
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Skipper Klements morgensang: https://youtu.be/C0QQzXgKwOI?si=Ifno3B832V7P33D- A song from 1970 (I actually thought it was way older) about a civil war in 1534
Alternatively Midsommervisen, written in 1885, with the popular melody rewritten in 1980: https://youtu.be/q4i-5Df0oVc
Is sung on Sankt Hans Aften every year while roasting a (sculpture of a) witch on a huge bonfire.
Midsommervisen is so nice :)
What about https://youtu.be/sBvy_lHuir0 ?
On behalf of Canada, Home for a Rest
'Kender du det ?" (1975) by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
The country is Denmark :)
For Romania it has to be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JSlZWR3lJs
It even became something of a hymn for the 1989 revolution.
I have no idea how well known this is outside of Scotland, or at least the UK, but it meets all the other requirements: I’m Gonna Be by the Proclaimers, probably better know as 500 Miles
iTS a somewhat offen used Wedding and football Song in germany
It was fairly popular here in the US. Landed in some movie soundtracks. Nothing else by them did though.
Plenty of their other stuff did pretty damn well here, it’s just that I’m Gonna Be did so much better than everything else that it would feel wrong to pick another song. It’s the one everyone still sings at sports events
My favorite song is 500 Miles by Peter, Paul & Mary, and everyone thinks I’m talking about the Proclaimers version unless I specify, so I think it’s pretty well known.
Australia: Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce Shaddap you face
I was thinking of “Am I ever gonna see your face again”.
Brilliant, I had absolutely no idea that was Australian but it makes sense!
Btw it was a massive hit in the UK too
It kept Ultravox’s Vienna from number one in the charts. Apparently Midge Ure has never got over it.
This song was HUGE in the US. My one of my absolute favorite songs to play
No way, I love that song!
Sing it again, High-fructose Boy 😁
Another one in similar vein https://youtu.be/cX2nbYYW1uk?si=ADtUvbB3iSwCH0BW
I dunno if this is legendary, but most people in Denmark know this song from school: Livstræet (The (Norse) Tree of Life) from 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbSrdJF9hRg
Legendary you say? Relatively unknown outside of Germany (and other German speaking countries) you say?
Let me introduce you to Dschinghis Khan by Dschingis Khan
(99 Luftballons, which was mentioned here before, is arguably the bigger hit that really everyone knows. But I couldn’t resist throwing this out there. It was a huge hit and is still known.)
Oh, the first one is a legendary classic. Finland has got the “do direct covers of all the German hits from the 70’s” - scene well covered:
That also is true for Germany. There’s for example a song using Black Sabbaths Paranoid melodies with some German lyrics about the Hound of Baskerville https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnFX0_H-rA
This is without a doubt the best cover version of “Paranoid” I have ever heard.
Didn’t Finland have an entire culture of doing spoofs on old German shit, like TV series? I’ve seen Die Kühe and I think it’s absolutely awesome. (The Dutch also did a good impression in Jiskefet.)
And I remember watching / listening to lots of M. A. Numminen. Not sure if that’s just the stuff that found its way back to Germany and me… But nonetheless…
The thing with the tv series might be a thing of the past, though. I’m not sure if anyone still remembers “Der Alte” or “Derrick”. It’s probably not that funny without the context. And how we watch TV has certainly changed during the last decades.
Dschingis Khan is very well known in the US AFAIK
American here. Never heard of it.
I’ve never seen this video but I know Moskau. They look like they’re having so much fun lol, and the Tony Iommi lookalike has a real cool hair/moustache combo, and the girl in white is a smokeshow!
Schrei nach Liebe by die Ärzte from 1993, German punk band. Everybody that ist Like 60 or younger knows that song. Well, maybe not if you’re in your teens…
I would say, that even the teens know it, but considering how a lot of them lack even knowledge about some of Germans most iconic cultural achievements(I literally know people that didnt even heard about “Werner”) I’m not to sure about it. But I can agree, its an absolute Banger Song.
I would have said Westerland is even more well known
Wanted to complain, but damn already over 30 years indeed
Can’t believe no one mentioned this beauty! Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei
You have given my husband a new headache, I thank you dearly
Germany, 1985:
