# Really Awesome German Bands

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-awesome-german-bands/143191>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 16, 2002, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-awesome-german-bands/143191 "2002-12-16T23:06:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-awesome-german-bands/143191/21 "2002-12-18T19:37:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Lodrain \*  
> \*\*Einstürzende Neubauten gets a hearty vote from me. They’re just so… talented. Amazing. No other band like them. And they’re not just for oldsters; I’m almost 17 and I appreciate them as strongly as any other fan cashing in his nest egg and moving to Florida :).
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> Other good German bands/singers:
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> Nina Hagen–quirky. Loopy. She sings a lot in English, but most of her really good songs are in German. She does a few good songs in Sanskrit, too, if you’re like me and are into that sort of thing…
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> KMFDM has several Germans in the group and does a few decent songs in that language. Their style is harsh electronic industrial. If you’re into that sort of thing. \*\*

Basically I came here to post everything you just said. 😃

You just haven’t lived until you’ve heard Nina Hagen’s “Born in Xaxax” or Einstürzende Neubauten’s “Z.N.S.”. Both songs still inspire me to fits of wacky dancing, even ten years after my goth phase.

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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-awesome-german-bands/143191/22 "2002-12-18T20:02:39Z")

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How about Die Toten Hosen? I haven’t heard them in a long time, read the early 90s. I understand them to have some pretty racey lyrics. I don’t understand much German any more but when I was in HS there was a German exchange student that translated some of it for us, very funny, for 16-17 year old’s.

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**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-awesome-german-bands/143191/23 "2002-12-18T21:44:53Z")

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I have a Die Toten Hosen album that’s essentially a retelling of Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”; I’d recomend it, though it’s not up to the level of brute force represented by the other names here.

They were like a German Replacements.

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