Now that’s something I never expected to see: A Canadian pressing of Falco’s 1982 album “Einzelhaft”. I always assumed the original version of Der Kommissar wasn’t a big hit in North America. Naturally I had to buy it, especially for the title track, which is one hell of a bop.
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Bruno Philipe (brunoph@breakpoint.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 10:41:18 JST Bruno Philipe
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 10:41:07 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@brunoph I heard the original Austrian German version of Der Kommissar played in… Disney World of all places
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 10:55:14 JST Thomas 🔭✨
“drah di ned um” (drehe dich nicht um)
Technically it’s one of the working-class Viennese dialects of Bavarian German :)
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Bruno Philipe (brunoph@breakpoint.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 10:55:15 JST Bruno Philipe
@thomasfuchs Oh this reminds me… when I was studying German, many years ago, our teacher told us to pick a German song to try transcribing as a form of immersion, and I naively picked Der Commissar. When I told the teacher I couldn't understand a word in any of the verses he was like: "but of course, he's *rapping*, in * Österreichisch*. Not even I can understand it" (he was German).
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