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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Song Link: • Smack Jack
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The official video of this song is simply iconic.
It was the first youtube video ever 😂
The best album from this fabulous artist
I have only heard a handful of songs and watched her performances on YT, but I can say categorically that I find Nina Hagen a very impressive artist. She is actually the embodiment of a vocalist. The way she expressed this particular song is extraordinary and the music was fantastic. Yes, I really liked this. I also think watching her perform is a mesmerising experience. A truly unique artist!.
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I absolutely love this album. Nina Hagen comes across as the evil witch to Kate Bush's good witch of the 1980s. This song is about heroin addiction and the death of Nina's boyfriend.
Love both witches. Plus Siouxsie Sioux, Grace Jones, Diamanda Galas and Lisa Gerrard. Ah, the 80s....
I love it as well.
Long live the artpop queens
Your facial expressions were hilarious. I love this artist and I love this album.
Nunsexmonkrock, what an album… probably the best album to listen to on headphones… I’m surprised Nina doesn’t get more credit for just how amazingly clever the multi-track vocals/overdubs are… I mean there are just so many different Nina voices on each track … it’s brilliantly put together, I mean Dr Art is pretty much just her and a single synth… A classic imo.
She's quite amazing!
Nunsexmonkrock, Nina's masterpiece, incredible album... Great video!!!
I had the fortune to get to know her on the island of Ibiza. I made some dresses for her and we did a photo shoot on the rocks beside the sea. She's an extremely beautiful woman and her voice is out of this world. ❤
You got the spirit of this album ! You have the best reviews on TH-cam! I knew it you’d understand Nina Hagen ! Love your words about the best 1982 album!
Since I watched your review about my all time favourite singer, Siouxsie Sioux on Lunar Camel when you found Siouxsie had invented Trip hop in 1980, I know you’d understand it !
Siouxsie Sioux solo album you could listen to SEA OF TRANQUILITY, beautiful track!
Take care .
Carlos
Nina is frighteningly amazing.
She did have some training (singing, acting, music production), but very rudimentary, paid by the state tv. She never warms up before a performance, that's how well trained she was.
Saying she sounds evil is quite misleading, I think her sound can be more accurately described as the wrath of angels in ecstasy.
Ooo I like that
She appeared miraculously from over the musical horizon while I was in college in the early 80s. Yes, I had a huge crush on her.
Somehow my previous post vanished, maybe I did that? At any rate as one of the original requestors thanks for your insight. Fun fact: Paul Shaffer wss musical director/band leader for David Letterman's late night how.
You should check out Anti-World from that album. It's really good.
I'm a sucker for unique vocal deliveries and Hagen certainly brings the goods here. Great track too. Still, quite a surprise to find out that this was a big hit here in Norway, reached no. 7 in the charts!
An Australian friend had told me only very recently that this song was playing frequently on one of their TV channels back in the day, too! I live in the nearby NZ, but I grew up in Germany and remember seeing only one single TV performance of 'Smack Jack', and I'd never heard it on the radio either!
Lene Lovich is the one to listen to if you like this sort of stuff . !
Yeah. I know. I really do. So I thought when you started commenting. But you seem to like this song, somehow. So you will LOVE her first album "Nina Hagen Band", where you already made a reaction on 'naturträne' three years ago.
And this album is really a showcase of her vocal abilities, plus the backing band was just outstanding and intense!
So I really really highly recommend a review from you of the album "Nina Hagen Band". I promise you won't regret it 🙂
The greater song about addiction.
Gooooood reaction‼️😘
❤ danced to that in the early 80’s in the underground club , we used to marijuana in the club and dance to this . I miss the 80’s . We more progressive, now we’re going backwards it seems ..The Queen of punk
After the separation from the Nina Hagen Band she did nothing that comes close to the first 2 albums. She always tried to show her greatness as an artist and most of the time it ended in showing off. From time to time there was a good cover like her cooperation with Apocalyptica covering Rammstein's Seemann.
Yeah, Nina Hagen Band and Unbehagen are Nina's best albums because musically the musicians who surrounded her at that time knew how to channel her excessiveness with compositions that suited her like a glove. Subsequently in her solo career, I find that she spread herself too thinly in things that were often excessive but not very successful except for a few exceptions.
Bravo!! Nina is everything you described. Try Antiworld from the same album. Her band members created another project called Spliff. Try their songs Herzlichen Gluckwunsch or Carbonara. Cheers!
Hi JP, time without a Nina Hagen reaction since my recommendation for Naturtrane.
I would love if you check her song " "Vater Unser", "1985 Ecktasy Drive" or "My Way" from the same album.
Love this song, love NINA
It´s the same like Zappa - love it or hate it. But it´s art.
Stop it or verreck...it’s such a sad song... one of the heaviest I know
Was thinking about Nina this morning while listening to Toyah's The Blue Meaning (1980) album, wondering if one influenced the other although Nina has a much more demonic quality, but there are definitely similarities. interestingly great reaction to a cosmic performer.
She's definitely an acquired taste 😀
I remember her from Universal Radio, but never really heard much else from here back then. Fairly recently saw a live performance of Noturtrane...and an appearance on the Merv Griffin show. Both clips are worth a look, in my opinion... if for nothing else than being able to say you saw them 😀
Well that was fun. She's not a one-trick pony - she's a several trick pony. Interesting stuff but will it reward repeated listening? I'm not sure. I'm sure I (or someone else) have mentioned the Old Grey Whistle Test version of Ziggy Stardust which thrilled me back in whenever it was, but did I buy any of her records? No. I will have another listen in a year or so though.
A very unique artist is Nina. Always interesting. Th spiritual mother of Bjork perhaps.I think Nina trained in the former East Germany as an opera singer before defecting...Or that might be one of the fantastic myths that surrounded her at the time. 🙃✌
Ooo definitely could be!
Well, that was like impromptu dentistry with a pneumatic drill.
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I think I liked it, but I didn't get it all on one take. Will have to listen again. The review will help. I agree it's not essential to like music (or other stuff, I suppose) for it to mean something/ for it to have some value.
From what I remember reading, she was a child prodigy in East Germany (the DDR), and started appearing in shows and on TV there from a very young age (I think maybe with her dad, who I think was an entertainer, too). In typical East Bloc fashion, she would've been pushed hard to turn herself into proving the superiority of the communist way to everyone, so the talent would've been combined with lots of hard work at an age where the rest of us just play and throw mud at each other. (I've drifted over from probably fact to speculation, now, though. This isn't something I recall reading about her.)
The family escaped to West Germany, and she went on to use her operatic training and talent exactly as she pleased. (Not always pleasing to everyone else, but I get the idea she doesn't care if we like her or not.)
The song I know from this album is *Born in Xixax* which manages to be silly and serious, and extremely anxious and unconcerned. So maybe the fact of the matter is that she likes to capsize people?
th-cam.com/video/IymWeOu1NFI/w-d-xo.html (It's about being born in the Soviet bloc - so I suppose, also about escaping from there.)
I once met a Hungarian doctor who decided he'd had enough of living in a cage, and so set off for the border - which was the Danube in his case - to either escape or die trying. There were forests, patrols, minefields, watch towers with machine guns, and then a long-as-possible very cold swim under water in a strong current, when he made it to the Danube without being shot at or chased by dogs. He made it out of Xixax.
And then apparently the very next day the borders opened, so he was able to go back and visit his family if he wanted. I don't know if he ultimately went back or not.
Love the story of the Hungarian doctor. I've met a guy, in the beginning of the 2000s, from the former communist Yugoslavia (which was outside, plus Albania, of the commie bloc, from a dogmatic point of view of the things). It was "less bad" than living the official "Iron curtain". But awful things happened there too He was a child prodigy. Knowing this, The State simply catched him off from his family and put him on a "special" boarding school and he could see his family only 2 or 3 times a year. He grew up very rebellious, caged, suffocated and when I met him he was a very hedonistic (I'm being suave using this word, because it was way more intense......) , but unhappy - middle aged man living a crazy, dangerous but solitary life in Germany. I've met several people from "the East" when I was living in Germany and they always were very "different" in a way so difficult to describe, a mixture of melancholy, craziness and anger covered by the best good manners and good education you can imagine.
@@Ignatius1972 I think it might be difficult to be a child prodigy anywhere, but in those circumstances it sounds like it could get to be a very tainted blessing. (Odd that in world where, essentially, competitiveness was taken for the root of all evil - at least ostensibly - there was so much toxic competition. Only now with an all-powerful State instead of loving, but pushy parents making use of people to score points in some game nobody else really sees the scorecard of.)
Great! Herman Brood was her husband at one point.; used heroin as well and was a very well known musician in Holland. I haven’t listened to NH much but like her anyway
I think an easier and more catchier tracks from her that you would enjoy is new york new york original version
Try her 'Africa'
I remember … TV … 1982 … crazy, man !
Dr. Art!
I love Nina. She is nuts. Can I suggest a band called Zenzile? Their lps vary a lot with their earlier ones more dubby and political but "Berlin" from 2014 is quite different.
Nothing beats the two albums from the Nina Hagen Band (Nina Hagen Band from 1978 and Unbehagen from 1979) and that's where you should go deeper because for me Nina got a bit lost in her solo career afterwards and I find this track and the album NunSexMonkRock a bit over the top and self-parodic in my opinion (and musically I find it lukewarm).
Please Justin go back with the Nina Hagen Band and listen to their track "TV-Glotzer" which is actually a cover of "White Punks on Dope" by The Tubes with different lyrics in German, but which the Nina Hagen Band totally made their own, so much the result is successful. However, don't forget to listen to the original Tubes track first if you don't know it!😉
OR... you could dive into the deep end and check out some Diamanda Galas...
Cosmic Shiva would have had been such a better listen. As usual turn up the bass.
Yeah! This hurts so stylishly it stings my nerves. Gotta be one, to really feel for one. Don't walk that road my son!📌📍🧷&🪡🪡🪡!.&
It's pronounced "HAH-gen".
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"Kate Bush possessed by Satan".... 😆. Love this
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The music was half decent, however the vocal performance was nothing short of ludicrous. And she can sing better than this, but don't take that in anyway as an invitation to play more of her stuff... certainly not on my account 🙂
She caused a sensation, when she emigrated from the GDR to West Germany. I, and not only me, rate the first two albums "Nina Hagen Band" (with a German version of the Tubes classic "White punks on dope") and "Unbehagen", as the most exciting LP's ever made by a female German-speaking singer. Later, due to personal, not necessarily positive experiences, she became a bit strange and overly religious, which was also reflected in her music. She's still a conflicting guest on talk shows...
@@braudabo Frankly, Nina should have stayed with the Nina Hagen Band because that's where she was at her best but alas she decided otherwise...! 🙄
@@braudabo I listenend to some of her stuff but can't remember what specifically. But yeah, re those first two albums, they are getting a number of mentions.
@@a.k.1740 Maybe it was not only her choice to stay. The other members were glad to get rid of her. They were so frustrated with her behaviour that they decided to stay a long time without any frontpig (their word) at all.
@@maraboo72 Maybe but too bad for both sides because even if Spliff on their side or Nina solo did some interesting stuff, never again did the two parties find this magic during the Nina Hagen Band days.
Funny voice. The music? MEH
😬 Is that Alice Cooper sucking helium or Golem on the vocals during the verses. Ouch!
Hahahaha