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Intermediate Music Suggestion

Adam
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Intermediate Music Suggestion

Postby Adam » June 6th, 2008 6:17 pm

I heard that the Intermediate lessons to come will be based on learning the lyrics of German songs. Therefore I have two songs for consideration, I always heard these songs at outdoor festivals being played on some floats and beer tents. Everyone would sing along when ever one of the floats playing these songs passed by and I always wonder what the lyrics were.

Artist:
Lollies
Song:
Wahnsinn (...Hölle, Hölle, Hölle)

Artist:
Höhner
Song:
Viva Colonia (Da Simmer Dabei, Dat Is Prima!)

Adam

P.S. Love the lessons keep up the great work guys.

Kare
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Joined: April 4th, 2008 9:28 pm

Postby Kare » June 6th, 2008 10:17 pm

I honestly don't want to burst this idea, but there are going to arise a problem or two:
The first one is a cover. The original is by Wolfgang Petry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZbbPFTrrE
Not that much drive, but I guess it would be more sensible to take this one, since - at least I think so - this is the original. ^_^;; (Did he write it or did he cover it too? I think he wrote it...)

And the second one... well:
This IS German, however it is a dialect, one spoken in and around Cologne. It is not as hard as "Bayrisch", but it's not that easy to grasp either. Spoken you can understamd quite a bit of what they are singing, however:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55spyp0t5rg
You can find the lyrics on the right, if you press the "more info" thing.
If you don't know that this is supposed to be German, it might not really be among your first three guesses.... Well, at least it would not have been among mine...
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