I brought some musical toys to the office on Thursday and we improvised a jam session which went surprisingly well considering the complete lack of preparation…
But except for a couple of “4-chord songs,” I don’t know enough German or German-adjacent songs that are easy enough to sing, too.
More in detail, a colleague is a great fan of Die Ärtze, whose songs are pretty simple to adapt on the bass on the fly, but the singing is usually beyond my skill… and also because I only know the 3/4 of them I heard on the radio. Nobody else took on the honor/challenge to sing along, so I had to try myself
So, if we are to try this again - and it seems we will - I need some input. Of course, I asked them, but let’s try here as well:
What are popular songs (ideally in German - but not necessarily) that you would expect anybody to know, to be able to play on guitar, or that could be learnt in a few minutes, singing included?
I don’t mind preparing and learning new stuff, but I’m not sure the others would want to put more than minimal effort into it. At least just yet…
That’s a good question
It’s a very small (and chill) tech/software company. The boss used to play drums himself, and it was the last 30/40 minutes before closing for the easter holidays.
It’s either a very long list or a hard party to recover from
Took some time to get rid of my friends … Eastern is always the time where they come and have a loooong after hour until they get thrown out
So, it’s always good to play some “Neue Deutsche Welle”, like this:
I play “Goldener Reiter” by Joachim Witt quite a lot as well as “Major Tom” by Peter Shilling. Both are great!
Of course, you can always go Rammstein (which I hate) or German “Hiphop”, like Phantastische Vier.
Ärzte is also very popular … but EVERYBODY knows some Neue Deutsche Welle Songs…
There are some good suggestions, thank you all.
I do not do Rammstein, but Ärtze and Toten Hosen are definitely among the popular bands I would consider if I knew more than three of their songs. I’m adding some random titles of theirs to my playlists
To explain it another way, I do not particularly need German covers or lyrics.
Suggestions ideally belong to the intersection of pop/folk songs popular in Germany (or your best guesses, there are no wrong answers here ) and easy to learn and sing along… basically campfire songs with Lederhosen
(I know, I know, Bayern is not Germany! )
Unless you’re in Bayern. They think Bayern IS Germany, and everybody else talks funny and drinks Kinderbier (I’m trying to be nice with that made-up word).
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