Kraut punks

Try Die Fantastichen Vier, German rap group with a sense of humour

and Bertolt Brecht wrote some classic tunes, covered by the great and good.

is very big in the Fatherland; I guess you should include him in your playlist.

James Last? [runs for cover]

something from Bowie's Berlin albums
I'm in Love with a German Film Star - Passions
A Walk in the Black Forest - Herb Alpert
Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand/Sie Liebt Dich - HJHs

some Can:

btw, this is Mushroom.

Try Rubycon by Tangerine Dream:

Get all volumes of this album, BTW

And I love this

Any Neue Deutsche Welle too:

And of course you can't do German without going down the schlager route. Great vid too:

TMFTL, etc....

by DAF would get the evening off to a flying start.

Einsturzende Neubauten should help clear any lingerers at the end of the night.

You could argue Boney M are a German band

Bowie's Helden

HJH Geht Raus

...are the wurst.

Oh come on - someone had to.

this Oktoberfest favourite:

Some good ideas posted above. The Massive's knowledge of all things music never fail to impress me!

Can we have German town names as well, I'm sure Berlin has been used
in a few songs.

Take my breath away by Berin (so sorry about this post)

Johnny The Fox-if you have spotify, you could maybe create a playlist and post the link for the massive to enjoy.

I've always liked this song, Lemon Tree.

(No audio on this computer but I'm assuming this works)

Trio - Da Da Da
Drowning in Berlin - The Mobiles
Anything at all by Propaganda and/or Claudia Brucken
and,
of course,
the magnificent...
99 Red Balloons

Germans, from the Max Headroom Show

I love the bit where he hits a tennis ball over the Berlin Wall

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some oompah music somewhere you could use, failing that play the wonderful Lile Marlene at the end of the evening when everyone has had too much to drink and you'll all be weeping. Though it was sung by German soldiers during the last war, it's not a Nazi song and was infact sung by the British amongst others, even Vera Lynn did a version but stick to the original by Lale Andersen.

CAN, AMON DUUL, EINSTURZENDER NEUBAU (apologies for the lack of 'umlauts')...and, though not exclusively German, THE UNITED JAZZ AND ROCK ENSEMBLE (aka..The Band of Bandleaders, because every musician led his own band also. Featured 3 Brits...Ian Carr, trumpet; Jon Hiseman, drums and Barbara Thompson, saxes). Also...for the top (though rather 'pop') East German band, around for at least 35 years...the PUHDYS).
Enjoy!

just seen him mentioned on another thread, he's German too. One-hit wonder (?)with Horny.

And there was also Alphaville, 80s OHW with Big in Japan.

...and before they have eaten anything.

Ensure they all have food in hand and then play this to get proceedings underway:

Bap.

Sausage and Bap, in fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bap_%28German_band%29

the weather will be nice so you must play Manuel Göttsching's E2-E4 that was the basis for laid-back house classic Sueno Latino

should make the party go with a swing.

subject your guests to several hours of Kraut rock and don't forget the pommes mit mayo and the curry wurst. Curry sauce required is very easy to replicate - equal measures of curry powder and tomato ketchup mixed together. Splendid stuff

I think Die Aertze are a great band a lot of the time, the albums 13 and Gerausch being my favourites.

http://youtu.be/36_JGMGL0tM?t=27s

Also Die Toten Hosen

http://youtu.be/G3KPBRajN10

No, seriously. 'Swimming with Sharks' Or the Rainbirds. Then there's James Lsst,and Bert Kaempfert,of course, Falco (though he might be Austrian)and Horst Jankowski.

Herbert Gronemeyer, particularly the Mensch album

and what about ex Pink Floyd tribute band, RWPL

If it's OK to be a bit rebellious then "Holidays In The Sun" is still a great single.

Otherwise you could try some tunes recorded at Hansa studios (normally with Giorgio Moroder's influence), that includes Sparks "No1 In Heaven" album.

I heard yesterday that Joe Jackson is now living as woman there. He's known as Dale De Vere.

If you have Spotify then I've got a playlist of German artists here

http://open.spotify.com/user/skuds/playlist/0vTIXX8AsmQo5R6iFQhaLv

I see that a depressing number of tracks has become unavailable since I added them (Karl Bartos and Rammstein in particular) and the odd Austrian might have slipped on there.

My favourites not mentioned already are Neu!, Joachim Witt, Ideal, Tanzwut/Corvus Corax, Die Krupps and the very proggy Eloy.

Unfortunately the mighty United Balls and their 'hit' Pogo in Togo is not on Spotify.

For less industrial/metal and more mainstream music there is always Scooter or German rappers (!) Die Fantastischen Vier who were all over MTV about 20 years ago when it was still MTV Europe and worth watching because it was not wall-to-wall reality shows.

and there's plenty more where that comes from.

(That's Ding from Seeed for those with no access to YouTube.)

That's Guten Tag from Wir Sind Helden pop-pickers!

'Wurst n beer'

"I'm Ger Man"

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Both staggeringly popular in the manor Squire.

Also Schlage and Volksmusik as genres if you want a MOR vibe, though I would recommend giving both a wide birth.

Can Neu and Berlin Bowie (not that any of the albums were actually recorded in Berlin, I'm told)) would be my recommendations.

in German speaking parts of Europe.

Freddie Frinton in 'Dinner for One'

This is why during Eurovision this year one of the preenters said the phrase 'Same procedure as last year'

Were popular in Germany.

Has no-one mentioned a bit of Senor Coconut yet?

This lot are German. This was on heavy rotation when I worked in Hamburg a few years ago. (**shudders**)

Weird video.....

Hugely recommend the really marvellous compilation Deutsche Elektronische Musik. A couple of old favs (but wonderful ones) and loads of discoveries, a really fantastic funky listen from start to finish.
Hope you get your hands on some kummelwurst, haven't had that since I used to be able to buy it straight from Milwaukee packed in dry ice.

in my teenage punk phase I used to listen to quite a bit of Nina Hagen...

My favorite German guitar band is Die Artze:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_%C3%84rzte

My favourite of the LPs is '13', from which the following song dissing obsessed fans is a cracking example:

For electronica, aside from the mighty PowerStation, head for Hardfloor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardfloor starting with Acperience 1...

Well, I'm guilty of posting this one before....Nina Hagen's cover of White Punks On Dope, album version if you can find it. Here's a very late 70's/early 80's uncomfortable mix of glam hair/pants, retro moustache/guitar and punk. Still love it after all these years.

Heino Heino Heino!

No idea where the inspiration for the video came from.

Juli was popular in Germany when I was living there around 5 years ago

and of course Xavier Naidoo / Sohne Mannheims