I took off from work today, and got home totally not expecting anything exciting in the mail (I don’t do paper… so I pretty much only ever get Spam for mail through the USPS these days). And there it was: the thick, white shipping bag.
Inside was Wahnsinn: die hits von 79-95 by a group I hadn’t heard in years: BAP.
“WTF is BAP,” you ask? BAP is a group from Köln (Cologne), Germany, which got it’s start in 1976. Yes, slightly before my time, but then the scene in Europe has always been much more eclectic than here in the States. Wolfgang Niedecken’s voice (the singer) is kinda like Dylan’s without the whine. In fact, on BAP latest, Radio Pandora, Niedecken belts out a German version of Forever Young.
If you’re interested in other German music, you might want to listen to Herbert Grönemeyer – more famous to we Americans as war correspondent Lieutenant Werner from Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot, the film adaptation of Lothar Günther Buchheim’s novel of the same name. Grönemeyer’s 1984 album, Bochum, given to me back in 1986 by an exchange student who was visiting Homestead at the time (Hallo Uwe Bartels!) is the best-selling German-language record to date.
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