William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Feuer Und Flamme ; Year: 1985; Genre: Neue Deutsche Welle/Rock/Pop To be honest, I do not know why I haven't chosen more song by Nena, this album in particular. Jung wie du , ( Young as you ), is one of their tracks written by the great songwriting duo of Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (music) and Carlo Karges (lyrics) of which wrote many of their bigger songs both by themselves and together.   Hear Jung wie du on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Klaatu - The Loneliest of Creatures   My song pick 2 years ago today: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)   My song pick 3 years ago today: Chet Atkins and Merle Travis - Nine Pound Hammer   My song pick 4 years ago today: Blondie - One Way or Another   My song pick 5 years ago today: Faith No More - The Real Thing My song pick 6 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Doctor To My Disease My song pick 7 years ago today: Dire Straits - Private Investigations My song pick ...

From: Eisbrecher ; Year: 1986; Genre: Neue Deutsche Welle/Rock/Pop Apparently it has been quite a while since I chose a song from Nena, (both the band and Nena Kerner as a solo artist), and after hearing some of their music the other day I really felt like I should choose one from today's pick. Even though this album, which was the "swansong" record for the band, was considered a commercial failure, for me, looking back, I still like it a lot; something about their sound from that time in particular I find personally endearing. All of the key ingredients were present for the disc to be great, in my opinion it is, but not their best. This song in particular was written by the songwriting duo Fahrenkrog and Karges, who were also responsible for the band's biggest hits. Whatever the case, it's still a 1980s classic and definitely should be in the collection of fans of the band.   Hear Engel der Nacht on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: Porcupine Tr...

From: ? ; Year: 1984; Genre: New Deutsche Welle/New Wave Some excellent mid '80s German new wave here; I absolutely love the smoothness at which the song was written and that driving bass as well as that blazing guitar. Hear Ich häng' an dir on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Bootsy's Rubber Band - Under the Influence of a Groove My song pick two years ago today: Redbone - Come and Get Your Love My song pick three years ago today: Petula Clark - A Sign of the Times My song pick four years ago today: Iron Maiden - Wrathchild My song pick five years ago today: Guns N' Roses - Paradise City My song pick six years ago today: Ian Anderson - Shunt and Shuffle My song pick seven years ago today: Def Leppard - Waterloo Sunset My song pick eight years ago today: John Denver - Spirit My song pick nine years ago today: Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People My song pick ten years ago today: David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

From: ? ; Year: 1984; Genre: Neue Deutsche Welle I don't know why it is that I'm picking this one; mostly for the vocals and music, the lyrics are... yeah; a bit self-absorbed and emo, but whatever. It's a young and raw song; and a good piece of mid 1980s German new wave. Hear ? (Fragezeichen) on YouTube. Hear the English version of ? on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Rush - Mission My song pick two years ago today: Amnesty - Love Fades My song pick three years ago today: Gerry Rafferty - Days Gone Down (Still Got The Light In Your Eyes) My song pick four years ago today: Tommy James - Mirage My song pick five years ago today: The Rolling Stones - In Another Land My song pick six years ago today: Iron Maiden - Satellite 15... The Final Frontier My song pick seven years ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Hold on Tight / Epilogue My song pick eight years ago today: C.W. McCall - Wolf Creek Pass My song pick nine years ago tod...

From: ? ; Year: 1984; Genre: Neue Deutsche Welle/Pop Rock Again I am posting a song from a band from my first week, six years ago. Here's one from Nena, which is dripping with that '80s new wave/pop sound. Watch the music video clip on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Rush - New World Man My song pick two years ago today: Ten Years After - One of These Days My song pick three years ago today: Fairport Convention - Polly on the Shore My song pick four years ago today: The Guess Who - No Time   My song pick five years ago today: Jerry Reed - Lord, Mr. Ford   My song pick six years ago today: Nena - Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann

999 Nena - 99 Luftballons I figured with it being my 999th song pick, this aptly named hit from the German Pop/Rock group Nena would be perfect for the occasion. Many over here on this side of "the pond" actually refer to Nena as a "one hit wonder" with this song said to be their only hit. For being a one hit band, it is odd that I can name 5 other songs off of the top of my head that were hits: Irgendwie Irgendwo Irgendwann, Feuer und Flamme, Leuchtturm, Rette Mich , and Nur Geträumt ; if I thought about it I could probably name more. Anyway, this one was originally released on their '83 self-titled debut album as well as the ' 84 album of the song's namesake, which also had on it an English version of the song titled 99 Red Balloons . From what I understand them using the title 99 Red Balloons worked better with the lyrical scheme in English. Oddly enough because of the English version's title I have noticed many people who don't know ...

I'm returning to my theme week of choosing song by bands that I chose my first week of my song a day blog. For my third pick, I chose " Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann " by Nena . The song that I am choosing today is from her album Cover Me , which was released last year and did quite well in Europe. I have often noticed that a great deal of acts from abroad that we in America dub "one hit wonders" actually were quite successful abroad with many hit songs; Nena is one of those acts. Without the internet I would not even know a thing about these excellent songs other than they had one hit in The States if even that. When one does a little research you start to understand that the American music scene is incredibly stifling and that we are missing out on a lot of excellent music. Anyway, I digress, I do not want to turn this song pick into an industry rant. The song, as expected has a European Pop/Rock sound, the song contains plenty of keyboards wit...

For today I am choosing Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann by Nena from their '85 Feuer und Flamme album; ever since I heard this song I immediately loved it. The musicianship on this song is incredible, I especially like the bass line. I have always loved Nena's voice from their other songs that I have heard. This song is definitely worth a listen to anyone who is willing to hear something different. Here is the studio version on YouTube. Here is a television performance on YouTube. +