I understand that many rock stars never change their appearance when that's part of their persona. That's the face of a horror film psycho. How do you go out in public like that?Robert always reminds me in his later years as some mad old Granny who cant see properly to put her make-up on. I think that look has gone well past it's sell-by date.
99 Luftballoons is NENA. This is Nina Hagen, a punk goddess. My favorite album by her is NunSexMonkRock. NUN - SEX - MONK - ROCK. She appeared on David Letterman and frightened the audience, from her strangeness. I couldn't understand why they would bring her on. It turns out Paul Schaeffer played keyboards on that album.I can still hear the words of one of my bosses at work all those years ago...... "Who wants to sing a song about 99 balloons for fu**s sake!"
It's pretty interestingly weird...a little punkish alice cooperish...terrible lip syncing in the video ...maybe the worst in the history of lip syncingThis is Nina Hagen, a punk goddess.
She is an acquired taste. I thought she sucked till I really listened. Her songs come together like no other.My mistake then.........never heard of her anyway..........that song is like a nightmare.
99 Luft Baloons...Very cool song ...almost as cool as a few others of that place and space in time...
And this epic adventure into uncharted waters... I want my MTV
Strange, weird or just continuing the stuff of nightmares. From way back in the early 70's.
Both those songs were really good. My dead friend LOVED Relax. He would listen to it for hours on end.
Relax is a way underrated work IMO just a totally cool concept unlike most anything of the time...
Another little strange ditty of theirs.Never heard of The Alex Harvey Band but ...I would have dug them back in the day...and me likey now! I'll have to explore them a little more...Guess they didn't get American airplay...and there was no internets for the general public back in the day...