Want to improve my german comprehension and listen to some funky beats at the same time. I prefer synthpop, alt-rock, folk pop (picture sufjan stevens), house, edm. Some artists I know are wir sind helden, stereo total, glasperlenspiel, einsturzende neubauten, ELIF, juli, kraftwerk
Hans Söllner is a Bavarian folk singer who sings in the Bavarian dialect. If you only know high German understanding him can be a challenge. Hans Söllner - A Drecksau bleibt a Drecksau
The author and satirist Marc-Uwe Kling makes some nice indie-rock
- Marc-Uwe Kling und Die Gesellschaft - Schmerztabletten
- Marc-Uwe Kling und Die Gesellschaft - Scheissverein
- Marc-Uwe Kling - Wer hat uns verraten
- Arbeitsgruppe Zukunft - Unternehmerfreunde
Others has already recommended Swiss + Die Andern but here is a link to another song: SWISS + DIE ANDERN - ORPHAN
Everybody hates Nazis: KAFVKA - Alle hassen Nazis
If you like industrial music you’ve got to know Die Krupps: Die Krupps - Schmutzfabrik
IFA Wartburg was a Swedish GDR-themed ska/punk/bossanova band from the late 1990’s
Georg Kreisler (1922-2011) was an Austrian anarchist cabaret composer with a satirical style not unlike that of Tom Lehrer but with more political edge:
- Georg Kreisler - Wir sind Alle Terroristen
- Georg Kreisler - Meine Freiheit Deine Freiheit
- Georg Kreisler - Staatsbeamter
The explicitly communist group Kapelle Vorwärts makes punk/ska covers of traditional labour movement songs:
- Kapelle Vorwärts - Ich trage eine Fahne
- Kapelle Vorwärts - Partisanen von Amur
- Kapelle Vorwärts - Brot und Rosen
No list of recommendations of German leftist music would be complete without Commandantes which was a predecessor to Kapelle Vorwärts
First off, you are always welcome to post in !languagelearning and in the German practice and learning thread for music recommendations or translations, or just practicing your German :)
Pop music every German knows
- Die Ärzte - Junge [Pop Punk]
- Die Prinzen - Alles nur geklaut [A-capella, pop]
- Juli - Perfekte Welle [Pop-Rock]
- Die Ärzte - Männer sind Schweine [Ska?]
- Peter Schilling - Völlig losgelöst [Neue Deutsche Welle]
- NENA - 99 Luftballons [Neue Deutsche Welle]
- Udo Lindenberg - Cello [Pop-Rock]
- Die Ärzte - Schrei nach Liebe [Pop Punk]
New pop music every young German knows
- Juju feat. Henning May - Vermissen [Hip Hop]
- SXTN - FTZN IM CLB [Hip Hop]
- SXTN - Von Party zu Party [Hip Hop]
- SXTN - Deine Mutter [Hip Hop]
- Faber - Wem du’s heute kannst besorgen [Pop]
- BONEZ MC & RAF CAMORA - Palmen aus Plastik [Hip Hop]
- BONEZ MC & RAF Camora - 500 PS [Hip Hop]
- K.I.Z. - Boom Boom Boom [Hip Hop]
- K.I.Z. - Hurra die Welt geht unter ft. Henning May [Hip Hop]
- Apache 207 - Roller [Hip Hop]
- Sido feat. Apache 207 - 2002 [Hip Hop]
- Die Atzen (Frauenarzt & Maniac) - Disco Pogo [EDM]
- Die Atzen - Strobo Pop mit Nena [EDM]
Folk
- Faun & Santiano - Tanz mit mir
- Versengold - Teufelstanz
- Faun - Walpurgisnacht
- Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen - Blau wie das Meer
- Saltatio Mortis - Maria (Akustik Version)
Political stuff
- Antilopen Gang - Baggersee [Hip Hop - Punk?]
- Ernst Busch - Kampflied gegen den Faschismus - (CLEAN VERSION, different lyrics) [Marsch]
- Sookee - Links Außen (feat. Mal Élevé & Ben Dana [Hip Hop]
- Sookee - Queere Tiere [Hip Hop]
- Feine Sahne Fischfilet - Wut (feat. Waving The Guns) [Ska / Punk]
- Feine Sahne Fischfilet - Zuhause [Ska / Punk]
- Mal Élevé - Police [Hip Hop] (with French)
- Mal Élevé - Antifaschist [Hip Hop] (with French)
- Swiss + Die Andern - Germanische Angst feat. Shocky [Hip Hop]
- Swiss + Die Andern - Wir gegen die! feat. Diggen (von Slime) [Hip Hop]
- Mal Élevé | SWISS | ZSK | JuJu Rogers | EsRAP - NO PASARAN [Hip Hop?]
- K.I.Z. - Boom Boom Boom [Hip Hop]
- K.I.Z. - Hurra die Welt geht unter ft. Henning May [Hip Hop]
- ZSK - Antifascista [Punk]
- Dritte Wahl - Zu Wahr Um Schön Zu Sein [Ska?]
- Wizo - R.A.F [Punk]
- Wizo - Ganz klar gegen Nazis
- Die Ärzte - Schrei nach Liebe [Pop Punk]
- Saltatio Mortis - Des Bänkers neue Kleider [Folk Metal]
- Betontod - Traum von Freiheit [Punk]
- Betontod - Küss mich [Punk]
- Ton Steine Scherben - Keine Macht für niemand [“Agitrock”]
- Ton Steine Scherben - Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht [“Agitrock”]
- Ton Steine Scherben - Rauch-Haus-Song [“Agitrock”]
- Neonschwarz - Unser Haus [Hip Hop]
- Neonschwarz - 2018 [Hip Hop]
- Mono & Nikitaman - Hitler muss immer wieder sterben [Hip Hop]
- Egotronic - Raven gegen Deutschland - Frittenbude Indiefresse Remix [Techno]
- Egotronic - Kantholz [Electropunk]
- Egotronic - Linksradikale [Electropunk]
Can, Faust. Not all in German, but they slap
Here is the whole album of Hannes Wader singing socialist songs on YouTube. You can find the same album on Spotify too with the same title, it has all the classics and maybe some you don’t know yet.
Sadi Gent used to be pretty good, haven’t listened to his newer stuff though
Turbostaat are also pretty cool, this is a song from their latest album and it’s about the rat lines and the lives of former nazis in West Germany after the war.
K.I.Z are also good, although I like their older stuff better, plus the lyrics are often hilarious. This one caused a small controversy when it came out because they basically say that they want to kill chuds lol
This one’s just a fuckin V I B E
How could I forget motherfucking MONEY BOY, probably the most hilarious rapper I’ve ever seen. The guy has been at it for over 10 years now and through sheer force of will and just throwing shit at the wall and checking what sticks has actually turned into a passable rapper considering he started with this lmao. Nobody is sure wether he always did it as a bit or if it started out as one and slowly became unironic but who cares, I’ll still laugh at stupid, intentionally shitty bars like “Ich bin der Chicken Man/Ich ess’ das Chicken auf/und bekomm dann von dem Chicken einen dicken Bauch” Some of his Greatest Hits in this playlist
