Entertainment For Lively Minds
In Berlin, by the wall... a collaborative playlist.
Posted by Adman on 2 April 2010 - 12:41pm.
http://open.spotify.com/user/doublevisionary/playlist/2UEJUasv4iuVFBt87F...
I'm off to Berlin in June & would like to build a suitable soundtrack to my trip.
Music of and about Berlin is the brief.
I've started you off with a few of the more obvious tracks. Just add yours to the collaborative Spotify playlist - link above. Please add an informative comment below, if you wish.
Apologies to those you of who can't Spotify - I want to take the music with me on my iPhone & this is the easiest way.
Looking forward to hearing your selections.
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Some Iggy
I've added some tracks from "The Idiot" and "Lust for Life".
Thank ee.
Can't believe I forgot about Iggy!
Good shout.
I can't access Spotify
from Berlin (ironically), so I can't see what you've got - but as well as the Bowie material I have banged on about here before, I'd recommend this excellent, rather wry take on Berlin's cool capital of hip status...
Cheers.
It's on Spotify & now added to my list... Like it.
Wunderschon!
And do let me know if you fancy being the other half of eines kleines Word mini meet up in Berlin come June!
May also be of interest
Interview about the making of "Heroes"
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct04/articles/classictracks.htm
It wouldn't be Germany
without the Hoff :-)
Awful cover version by the way.
City Soundtracks
Just got back from there. Great city, chock-full of history.
Hotel we were staying at (Hotel Amano) were letting you borrow ipods with Berlin-related playlists.
Didn't borrow one but I guess it was the usual Bowie, Iggy, U2 etc.
In which I explain my choices
Ossler is one of my favourites. He is Swedish but this album was recorded at Hansa and this particular track is instrumental.
Cluster are based in Berlin. So there.
Kraftwerk´s Neon Lights kept popping up in my head when I visited Berlin last year. In the evenings when it darkened all the neon lights made the city feel like a dream.
The last song is about Elvis. What more do you need? It mentions Germany as well.
Enjoy your visit. It´s a beautiful city.
... and if you want some reading
... I would recommend Bowie In Berlin, although be warned much of it reports that he wasn't in berlin for nearly so long as I had thought.
You can of course find it here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bowie-Berlin-New-Career-Town/dp/1906002088/ref=s...
Or of course, on a very different tack the excellent Philip Kerr novels.
Berlin by Neil Young
aka After Berlin. I saw him sing it at Wembley in '82 and it appeared on a video of the tour, but I don't know if it has ever been properly released.
I love Berlin.
What a city! I shall return... In the meantime, a few of my snaps.
It is great, isn't it?
I enjoyed a few days there in December 2008, so it wasn't quite as sunny.
We stayed in Friedrichshain, where you can still see buildings pock-marked from 1945, and there's a hill in the Volkspark made from rubble piled on top of one of the huge flak towers from the war - if you go to the top you can still see part of it sticking out of the soil.
The same park has graves from the 1848 revolution. the whole place just reeks of history.
I'd love to go back - not least to find out where Edgar Froese and chums worked their magic in the late 60s/early 70s.