Being born in '75, I have a softspot for cheesy 80’s music.
Anyway, I just purchased this on iTunes and gave it a good listen for the first time in ever.
I feel strangely greasy after listening to it.
How did that make it to #1 on the charts?!
I think I’ll listen now to Ozzy’s You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll to clean my ears out.
It didn’t, it only made it to #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Okay, it did make it to #1 in Europe.
Here’s der Wiki:
Part of it was that there were multiple versions: After the Fire and Laura Branigan covered it and they were all out there at the same time, more-or-less. Falco has remixed and re-released it repeatedly up through the 1990’s.
It was a hit because it ripped off another hit of the time - namely, Rick James’s “Super Freak”.
The one I remember being big was After The Fire’s version. I only ever actually heard the Falco version much later, in the 2000s. Falco was famous, in my American 80s mind, only for “Rock Me, Amadeus”.
Jeanny is a much better Falco song anyway. You should try it.
Did that include the music video or just the song?
Cause it just ain’t the same without the video.
And I disagree. That era had some good, yet silly and fun songs with interesting videos. You just have to embrace the cheesiness.
A local radio station back in the day had a mix of Falco, After the Fire, and Suzy Andrews’ versions of “Der Kommissar.”
I just can’t thank you enough for planting this goddamn earworm on me. I can’t stop humming it now. In return, let me gift you with MUSKRAT LOVE.
I’ll see your Muskrat love and raise you one “Short People Got No Reason” 
Be careful now, I might have a Disco Duck in my hand.
Here, have a dose of Rock Me Amadeus. That knocked Der Kmmissar right out of your brain, didn’t it?
Don’t be dissing Randy Newman around here. And for anybody who doesn’t want their earworm to be stuck on Short People, I suggest an easy, lateral shift to I Love L.A.
All right, you’ve forced me to the nuclear option.
Goddamnit! Two years of avoiding elevators and now you spring this on me…
I’ll see your Rock me Amadeus and raise you Eat Me I’m a Danish… 
Did it actually rip Super Freak off? I know they sound kinda similar but that often happens with pop songs.
God, I LOVED “Der Kommissar”, by anyone. I had it on a cheapie 80’s tape (with “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” by Wang Chung and “The Wild Wild West” by …the something Club), and I played that little cassette tape till it fell apart. Strange, the power cheap music has.
The music wasn’t too bad or the singing but after about two minutes I realize I was in somekinda pleasant but odd coma/time warp and then I saw it went for another 6 minutes. I stopped because I was afraid I would wake up in a nursing home or something.
Short people video. Come on guys. Do a little research and give us some links to your worst favorites we don’t have to search for ourselves.
And great, now I’ll be up all night watching and listening to cheezy musics videos.
And BTW, IIRC Falco died at a pretty young age. What a shame.
He was 40, so, yeah.
You’re welcome.