Xmal Deutschland - Polarlicht
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- Another great German band I decided to post here - is the punk/rock/goth legend Xmal Deutschland, admired more abroad than in their homeland and founded in 1980 by five female musicians from Hamburg. The charismatic singer Anja Huwe was often compared to Siouxsie Sioux.
The band lasted in changed formation till 1989.
"Polarlicht" is from album Viva, released in 1987.
One of if not the most underrated band in Germany.
They might be reforming later this year.
@@woody5831wonderful news
In terms of music, it's the most German thing that's ever been German.
I was a Goth in the UK in the mid-late 80s. Saw Xmal live a few times. They were definately a Goth band or, if you will, had an overall Goth following / fan base. Same crowd who went to see Siouxsie, The Cure, Alien Sex Fiend, Sisters of Mercy, Sex Gang Children ....
What do you think about neo nazis and skin heads? Could you tell me? Ok I like rock AND roll but in the scene
I was a glam pop fan and I also lobed tjem
Yep not a bad band. I caught their final gig @ Wheatley collage near Oxford. R.I.P.
Sortudo.
@dimensional X struggling to think actually. There weren't many bands that sounded like them. Maybe early Cocteau twins, garlands era, not much but it sprang to mind.
Skeletal Family as well.
To this day I keep hearing "Órale" instead of "Polarlicht." That kind of makes me happy.
Same here.
Órale!!!
tambocha , me too hahaha but i love it so much she could pee down my back hahahaha
Jajaja orale man
Now that you've mentioned it..
By the time I had discovered Xmal Deutschland via the 1987 album Viva. The end war nigh. The Siouxsie comparisons can't stop this iconic German band from being visually and musically enigmatic. Dark brooding and beautiful. Anja, Manuela & Fiona goth-girl power of another level. God I wish I had seen them live.
Cannot believe its 26 years since this great band disbanded, very sad day for lovers of the group and genre. I did get to see Xmal 9 times and i cherish every time.
How I could see them live back in the days.
Here are the lyrics in English if you are interested:
aurora
aurora
aurora
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
aurora
aurora
aurora
From Alaska to Kiruna
From Alaska to Kiruna
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
aurora
aurora
aurora
Striker between the stars
Torches on the horizon
aurora
Burn, burn, burn, burn
Aura in the night sky
aurora
aurora
aurora
From Alaska to Kiruna
From Alaska to Kiruna
Dancer in the firmament
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
+ ian paul , thank you for the lyrics , very much appreciated , love this song and love the lyrics as well , makes it better , thx again.
I'd say: "shine!" (as in the imperative / command) rather than "brilliant" and "storm", not "striker". However, your effort is appreciated.
DUNES SABLES D OR PISTES EN CYCLE KX LEVE TOI
Beautiful
Scheine it's actually "Shine" rather than "Brilliant
Great combo...Manuela Rickers was a kickass guitarist, Wolfgang Ellerbrock & Peter Bellendir just roared everything forward with the bass & drums...and then there was Anja, growling teutonically, soaring & swooping, just unbelieveably superb!
A primeira vez que ouvi esta música, na minha adolescência, foi mágico. Inspirava-me as mais belas imagens. Assim o gótico oitentista internacional simplesmente loclupetou minha imaginação. Mágico, encantador, sombrio, melancólico, mas muito, muito divertido e emocionalmente profundo.
Amigo siento lo mismo , esta banda inspiró mi adolescencia
Oraleeeeeee oooraleeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oooorale, ooo chale chale chaleeeee
Jajaja ala webadas😂
Jajajauauauajjauauajajua
😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jajajsja
This song brings me good memories of the past!
I wish this group comes back and tours again!
musically, the 80s will go down as this century's greatest decade. Love it!!!
Written in 2010...🤔
@@mechanicaldavid4827 still true in 2023 :P
❤❤
Amo esse som...
Gothic rock e anos 80 sempre!!!
this band was one of the best amongst the gothic bands. I want to go to clubs where this song is displayed ! what awesome music I miss the 80´s damn it ! I need this music! this song was an anthem for many fans like me ! Absolutely awesome, the melody is perfect
Been listening to Xmal since 1985.
i saw this lot in Aberdeen in around 1987. My first live gig and they blew me away. Specially this song. Make me want to dust down the crimpers and go all gothic again.
You mean Kurt's hometown?
This song ties a knot in my throat every time I listen to it; a very crazy woman for whom I felt very deeply, and whose fate I never knew, loved it. I listen to it just to remember her, and wonder what must have been of her. I hope she's alive and well. Y.A.R.G. I hope I see you again, or at least find out what happened to you.
Juan Gil just found this, my word bo, some flashback, interesting times, thank you for this x
this band is such a treasure!!
ohh my leggg
Oraré, oraré!
Oh oh oh my leg 😂
Chanel, Chanel, Chanel, Chanel....Chanel
I saw Anja Huwe live at Wembley Arena supporting the Stranglers; this is brilliant I'd forgotten what a good song it was - thanks!
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Scheine scheine scheine scheine
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Von Alaska bis Kiruna
Von Alaska bis Kiruna
Scheine scheine scheine scheine
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Sturm zwischen den Sternen
Fackeln am Horizont
Polarlicht
Brenne brenne brenne brenne
Aura am Nachthimmel
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Polarlicht
Von Alaska bis Kiruna
Von Alaska bis Kiruna
Tänzer am Firmament
Scheine scheine scheine scheine
Thank you for posting the lyrics! Now I can understand the song a little better.
danke bitte
Danke schön, dieses Lied ist sehr toll.
¡¡Órale!!
Alternative Goths Legend from this band hearts...xmal love u so much.. Kiss your souls everytime if i hear this banda...
im 18 and im sick of music in these days like 30stm or else shit. Keep it like this !
Beautiful song and melody. Put me in a trance. Brings back so much memory.
I wish Xmal would reunite! I love this group! I have their vinyl & Cd's.
I was guitar tech roadie for gene loves jezebel. think it was lyceum xmal were headliners..omg anja was gorgeous ...blew all other girls away
I love it! She is the german version of Siouxsie. I love this music!
Love this band! Saw them twice live.
This is the first song I ever heard from XMD many years ago, and I became a fan as soon as I got the Peel Sessions EP.
I've always loved Anja's haunting vocals!
I love this band so much....her wailing draws me in closer...
i'am french, that was my favorite band when i was student
once we had also such a great goth club here in bratislava, but those times lie also a couple years ago... :)
I am 43 - you can say I am old skool New Wave.
In our Country there is a revival of New Wave. This weekend I was on a New Wave party and danced on this song (and many other songs New wave Stuff).
Me encanta la vocalista y el grupo en si 💜 creo que es uno de los mejores grupos que gustan cuando los escuchas por primera vez .
Brilliant, great to remember them
No insult to Siouxsie, but I've always preferred Xmal as a band.
i also believe they sound better too
Agreed
BACK TO MY GOOD YOUNG TIMES... LONG LIVE XMAL DEUTSCHLAND!!!
I am a baby bat and loving these bands
Manuela Rickers is one of the most awesome guitarists EVER.
great song. proud of my German heritage!
you shouldn't be.....read some books
Stalingrad remember? 😂
@@thomasandersen6719Nah he definitely should.
I love this band. Such great music.
Polarlicht Polarlicht Polarlicht
Scheine scheine...
Polarlicht...
Von Alaska bis Kiruna
Von Alaska bis Kiruna
Scheine scheine...
Polarlicht...
Sturm zwischen den Sternen
Fackeln am Horizont !
Brenne brenne...
Aura am Nachthimmel
Polarlicht...
(Tänzer am firmament)
Scheine scheine...
20 years i'm searching for the title, just knowing it was x-mal deutschland !!! I'm so happy to know it by now !!
What a fucking song !! i miss so much the new wave/ cold wave times .....
Thanks for sharing. I'd seen the Xmal Deutschland logo/patch on a few goth girls here and there in the '80s (ca. 1984-88) but never bothered to investigate what the draw was for this-and many other-dark denizens of the deep. At least TH-cam allows me to plunge into the depths, even if only 30 years later... cough cough ...get off my lawn! =)
Xmal Deutschland!!! This is One of my favorite bands.
Thanks for posting. This brings back a lotta memories :)
Für mich die beste deutsche indie Band der achtziger!
Just reminicin listening to this song reminds me of my baby years when i literally thought the world was made of magic
spooky spooky cakes oh but it still is!
saw X Mal many times in the 1980's after hearing on Peel . Excellent band clearly influenced by Siouxsie .
+Keith Bate Manuela Rickers was definitely a female John Mc Geoch.
+julosx Yes but far sexier !
+julosx Did you ever see Lush ? saw them many times. Good band and had a "bit of a thing" for Emma
+Keith Bate I'm a MASSIVE Lush fan. I saw them only twice but wasn't as fan of them back then as I am now, which I can't explain. I rediscovered them in 2007, thanks the internet. And yeah, each and every decent 1990 young man had to feel "a bit of a thing" for both Miki and Emma since these girls just had it all, music wise, look wise, mind wise and whatever.
+julosx Well that period late 80's/early 90's was choke full of great bands eg REM, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Dead can Dance, Husker Du, House of Love , Nirvana, X mal, Cocteau Twins, Mazzy Star, Wall of Voodoo etc etc. saw all of these except Nirvana and that list includes the best bands I have ever seen. And I am still a regular gig goer 25 years later.
Funny you mentioned Manuela Rickers . That women was "sex on legs " for me (LOL)
''Viva'' album is the best!This is the greatest band in history of cold wave!
Their problem was they couldn't capture on record the incredibly powerful experience of their live gigs...
Of all the bands that came from my hometown Hamburg Xmal are still my favourite. I would love to see them doing a revival gig some day ...
Hamburg is my favorite city in Deutschland...of the 14 I got to know pretty well ❌❌❌
Very underrated
my favourite X-Mal Deutschland song, together with "Incubus succubus" ! ! !
Very cool . Sounds like Siouxsie
exacly !!!
They were even better than the Banshees if you ask me.
There were great (including on stage)...but it doesn't compare..sorry...:-)
I dunno... I love siouxsie but this shit is amazing
Amandine Berry , from the look of the Bauhaus and your comment on the banshees , it appears you definitely know whats good 👍
these guys rocked, graduating from the 4AD class with clan of xymox, et al. this could even pass as an early twins track; she's got a litle liz in her voice. ))
She sounds more like Elizabeth Fraser than like Siouxie Sioux, at least on this track.
Eir Apps, i think Elizabeth sounded more angelic than anja , but lisa garrard from dead can dance i think is spot on for xmal.
Yes !!! I hear the the same Eir Apps!! People seem to have not listened to the early cocteau twins "post-punk" albums....
Disagree
All 3 sound like each other, bonus Toyah
they've always reminded me alot more of cocteau twins than siouxie sioux
Not at all man
Sounds a lot like Garlands-era Cocteau Twins for sure.
Xmal is better the siouxie
@@jordanl5127 nah man, come on.
Siouxsie started it all and she could actually sing live on stage.
Jaysus I had the cassette when it was first released, I am old,, thank you 😎
génial a l'époque . X-mal deutschland encore et toujours maintenant.
Amazing. Songs from my youth.
Interessant. I like all these experiments. I come from a New Wave band in that same period.
Thank you for your post... This song is absolutely amazing!!!! One of the best of my life!!!
Niesamowite; Odkryłem ich dzisiaj dzięki tvp qultura - DOPIERO dzisjaj, niestey. Myślałem że nic mi nie przypomni naszej poczciwej Siekiery - a tu proszę...
Powerful and beautiful. Another level of sound and mood. Where are the new Xmal's?
Anja Huwe sounds so much like Siouxsie Sioux.
She is like a German version.
That's the problem
a bit of She Past Away too
...and mellie mel
A way better...
Fantastic song,wish i was born earlier ,thank god we can listen to that in Greece
last time when i hear this song and album was 20 y ago...great album! old 4AD stuff
die gute alte zeiten
reminds me of cocteau twins garlands album both are great
encore de tres bons souvenirs 80' avec ce super groupe !,la chanteuse etait tres jolie! ;)
esta banda revento en lima peru en los años ochentas y aun hoy en dia ponene actualemente este tema todo un clasico,
great themmm the bestt
Lyrics in english according to google:
Aurora
Aurora
Aurora
Seem, seem, seem, seem
Aurora
Aurora
Aurora
From Alaska to Kiruna
From Alaska to Kiruna
Seem, seem, seem, seem
Aurora
Aurora
Aurora
Storm among the stars
Torches on the horizon
aurora
Burn burn burn burn
Aura in the night sky
Aurora
Aurora
Aurora
From Alaska to Kiruna
From Alaska to Kiruna
Dancer in the firmament
Seem, seem, seem, seem
they sound pretty cool actually
I know right! I like it in German better though....
My name is Aurora. Cindi Aurora Gonzalez
LOVE!
just love it..so simple song so great!
🖤🖤🖤
Brilliant band--- and Danke
My favorite band !!
Estilo inconfundible y único de Xmal Deutschland. Thanks
Most beautiful experience.
If you are 18 years old and listen to this kind of music....you are a well educated boy!!!
This is what is great about the internet. In my real life, I know one other person who knows of Xmal D. On the internet, obscure artists seem a lot less obscure.
I remember the first time I heard this tune and thought Siouxsie and the Banshees made a new album. A moment later I realized the vocals were in German. XD
I love this tune, but I strongly prefer the Peel Sessions version. I would love to see that posted if you have it.
Great song! It makes me remember my punk ages, 24 years ago...
GOOODDDD Times!
Thank you for sharing!
KlaupurniaBlanca
Love this track
yeah! Sioxsie, Xmal and Closterkeller are the best band on gothic music scene!!
La esencia del postpunk alemán
Love this song vrry much!
Ich liebe diesen Song!
excellent theme song of what was in my time sinister wave and then step to call the new wave or cold wave to myself x-mal. greetings from Piura, Peru.
thank you for uploading this song!
with this song I feel a dark special feeling.! i love it
VERY GOOD GERMAN WAVE BAND !
Völlig unterbewertet/ Totally underrated bis zum Schluss!!
Beatiful atmospheric for The rooms of soul
po 20 latach ,kiedy zapomniałem jak się nazywają ,wreszcie znalazłem,i jak dla mnie cudo
Jestem uzależniony od tego kawałka, no coś niesamowitego.....
Après ces 30 ans, je danse encore comme un fou sur ce titre et vraiment, je prend mon pied à sauter dans tous les sens et chanter à en faire chier mes voisins :) enfin pas que ce titre de ce groupe mais bon c'est déjà trop pour eux.. mes voisins ;) lol
well, my memories lie about 17-18 years ago... :)
gran banda sin duda alguna, me encanta
love you Anje
This song is classic in Goth.
Only punk.