- Element of Crime: The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny (list of songs with samples on a German website where you need to login with your cellphone number; last.fm listing) – because life keeps tickling my itch to listen to melodic bar-closing time alternative rock sung in a German accent. I actually got two of their albums from their late 80s / early 90s singing-in-English (one from my brother, who couldn’t find this one, and one from the internet; So I can listen to old favorites like The Way She Is (from Freedom, Love & Happiness) and Don’t You Smile (AKA You Fucked Up Your Life, from Try To Be Mensch), But I still crave the whistling chorus of The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny (Johnny and Jimmy are snakes, Johnny and Jimmy were snakes and he was a rabbit) and the anthem absurdity of She’s A Barmaid (She’s a Barmaid, She’s good to animals!).
- Ute Lemper, Punishing Kiss – because her rendition of Little Water Song was the one non-Tom Jones song in Romance and Cigarettes I recognized immediately, although I had no idea from where or what it was. And yes, I saw it with the queen of Romance and Cigarettes, who I think was the one who got the album in the split.
- Last, another album that I didn’t keep, The Biluim. Because, memorial day and independence day just put me in the mood for some patriotic songs like Shaul Mofaz and It’s Wonderful Here.
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I’ve got EoC’s Basically Sad and Freedom, Love and Happiness (from one of those times i’ve spent entire salleries on disks). Been to their show here, as well, from way back when.
Yep, I’ve been to that show, that’s how I heard of them.
Guyster used to play those discs at the Gustav, getting freshly-squeezed orange juice all over them.
Ah, Memories.