Monday, July 7, 2008
Ja, It's Really Gut!
Jackpot! I found a dance club favorite of mine from way, way back (~1988) both on iTunes and YouTube entitled simply "Bring Me Edelweiss" by Edelweiss. It's a great sort of early Euro-techno track merrily combining rap, "The Sound of Music", and Abba's "SOS" to a stomping industrial beat. I'm pretty sure this was a one-hit wonder (maybe only in Europe), but it brings back great memories for me of a dingy little clove smoke-filled teen club/coffee bar at the beach called "Einstein A-Go Go" that I used to frequent in high school as I and my friends were first starting to open our ears to this exciting new genre called "alternative" music. I seem to remember the Goth kids really digging this song - I think it was the whole German-Austrian/"Sprockets" connection - stern, metallic, precise, but somehow goofy and slaphappy in the same instant. The video is even more surreal, and could even be discerned as politically incorrect by today's standards. Ein prosit!
Oddly enough, the former site of "Einstein's", as we affectionately called it, is now "Fionn McCool's", a trendy Irish pub. Go figure.
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Okay, that was a bit scary! It reminds me of the videos on MTV Europe. There was this one video by Erasure after Annie Lennox left that particularly scarred me for life.
My bad! Annie Lennox was in the Eurythmics! Another scary band. It's early in the morning for me still.
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