- 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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