# 70's german punk song? could have been french.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 16, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-german-punk-song-could-have-been-french/195615 "2003-08-16T17:13:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![skin2skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@skin2skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skin2skin)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-german-punk-song-could-have-been-french/195615/1 "2003-08-16T17:13:28Z")

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I am trying to find the name of a german punk song that was played on American Radio in the late 70’s/early 80’s. It reminds me of something the Ramones would have done, but this had german lyrics. I don’t recall ever hearing any other german punk song played on the radio around this time. I don’t recall the lyrics (sorry) but I think it started out like, “er der…”, like they were counting to 4, maybe, before going into other lyrics.

It was so long ago, maybe I’m confusing it with french lyrics. Any french punk songs on the radio around that time?

Sorry I couldn’t be more specific.☹

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-german-punk-song-could-have-been-french/195615/2 "2003-08-16T17:17:24Z")

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Could it have been [Plastic Bertrand](http://www.famousbelgians.net/bertrand.htm)’s _Ca Plan Pour Moi_? (Belgian chap, singing in French)

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**Author:** ![skin2skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@skin2skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skin2skin)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-german-punk-song-could-have-been-french/195615/3 "2003-08-16T17:30:33Z")

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Unbelievable!!!

That’s it. And I thought it was German all these years.

Thanx so much!!!

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**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-german-punk-song-could-have-been-french/195615/4 "2003-08-16T19:05:48Z")

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I’m too late. ☹

It’s the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title. I could have made myself useful for once.