Today I have been mostly listening to music tagged as deutschrock on Last FM. After all About.com tells me "German popular music can be a fun way to learn German." As one of their writers says
"Would you like to explore the world of modern German music? Would you like to download rock, pop, or rap songs in German? How about watching a German music video online? Well, I just did all that, and boy was it fun!"
Oh About.com. I wonder why no one talks to you at parties.
But it's half term and I'm in work, my colleague is on holiday so he can't complain - time for a bit of deutschrock!
Die Toten Hosen - ich bin die Sehnsucht in dir
"The Dead Trousers" Hmm ok.. Oh wait Last FM helpfully tells me dead trousers is a phrase meaning "nothing's happening", well that makes a bit more sense. These guys seem like they're the German Green Day- catchy punky tunes with lots of guitars and tattoos.
Grammatically speaking the lyrics to this song are really useful. It's like they sat down and said "hey those folks learning German really have problems with dative pronouns- let's write a song to help them out!"
Ich hab dir deine Wege gesucht ..huh? I think this is I sought your paths for you. My first I thought was I searched for your paths to you. ..It's a good example of dative pronouns being bloody confusing- so thanks dead trousers.
Sportfreunde Stiller - (tu nur das) Was dein Herz dir sagt
This very catchy- and bonus points for featuring what I'm pretty sure is a saw as one of the instruments. Also good cos it's clear, slow, and mostly in the present tense so easy to follow.
More dative pronoun action in the title - do only what your heart says to you. Or more elegantly just do what your heart tells you. Feel like I'm starting to get the hang of them!
Also some good words verkehrt - wrong, and verdreht - twisted. Really like the rhymes on this song.
Christina Stürmer - Nie genug
Upbeat positive song sung by young people. This feels like it was on an advert - maybe for a car or deodorant or soft drink. She sings about how she hasn't gotten enough out of life and there's always more. Mainly this seems to consist of wandering around on beaches and running down the middle of roads.
Wie schnell kann sich die Erde dreht, Fr mich nie schnell genug
How fast can the world turn, for me never fast enough
Well that's the kind of scientific ignorance we can expect from the young people of today.
Cynicism aside tho- this is a nice catchy tune and good for her getting the most out of life. For me this song taught me the verb umdrehen - to turn around, and weiter zu weit gehen which took a while to figure out because weiter is one of those annoying words with far too many meanings. I think means to continue to go too far - not the most useful phrase, unless you are like Christina Stürmer.
Gosh it's late - maybe more deutsch rock later, time for schlafen now.
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