Musiklandschaften

I spent much of this weekend watching music videos. There seems to be a lot of enjoyable REAL music out there these days (i.e. the rap rage is tapering off), and that goes for the scene here in Germany as well. I hope that you can see these links (the music companies have really started cracking down on accessibility from one country to another). If you can't pull them up simply by clicking on them, try pasting them to the address line in your browser. That usually gets things going.

The first one is from Peter Fox, a German guy from the band named "Seeed." This song is named "Alles Neu" (= Everything New). It has been on the chart for months now, and for good reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtLCfEcPL4


The second one is from the German-band "Deichkind," and the name of the song is "Luftbahn" (= air-train). The song itself is light and beautiful, and the video wanders onto some unexpected terrain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tSVt7o0vkY&NR=1


The next one comes from a young American singer named Lady Gaga. I think this song, "Pokerface," is also a hit in the U.S. these days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d27Hj8Gg9o


This one is from the American (Seattle) group named "Fleet Foxes." The name of the song is "Mykonos." It sounds like a mixture between Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, though seems not to derive from them. I could not find the actual video, so you will only get audio here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeiRe4Qp9Dw


And here's a quick bit of feel-good pop that really soars despite being so light. The group: Ich&Ich (=Me&Me). The song: "So soll es bleiben" (= and that's the way things will stay). The vocals are really quite extraordinary (for pop music):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SiCgrW_50Y


This is not a German band, but they are very popular. The song is "Dance with Somebody" by Mando Diao (from Sweden!). A bit of fun absurdity!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9rLqHBaxBg


And one more here from Germany. The song is titled "Allein, Allein" (= alone, alone) from the group "Polarkreis 18" (=polar circle 18). The song has been dominating Germany's charts since last September.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444L2Kc4zIg


Now if all of that was too much foreign-language stuff for you, here's a fun clip from Miss Lily Allen from right across the English Channel (I still haven't taken a trip through the Chunnel; perhaps the time is nigh). The song is "The Fear" from the album "It's not me, it's you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wGMlSuX_c