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White Punks Watching TV

Posted about 1 year ago
I'm proudly presenting one of my favourite cover versions ever. In fact, I didn't know it was a cover for years, until I got my coats pulled about The Tubes. This version of their ??White Punks on Dope?? is called ??TV-Glotzer?? (something like "TV Addict".)Proudly presenting, because the pair of pipes about to blow you away belongs to Berlin's own Mother of Punk, Nina Hagen. And by the way, the year is 1978...
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Comments (14)

  1. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says IMHO this blows the original away.
    Permalink posted 11/25/2007
  2. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Yeah, you could say that...
    Permalink posted 11/25/2007
  3. leftoverking
    leftoverking says yeah! nina kicks fee waybil's ass.
    Permalink posted 11/25/2007
  4. AA Coppertop
    AA Coppertop says A real hip and pretty fellow art student, around ten years my senior, lent me her Nina Hagen records. She also turned me on to Marianne Faithfull. I blush to recall how flattered I was that she'd have bothered. I love the Tubes to pieces, by the way. I wait for their big rediscovery, so I can snap up all their CDs at The Nice Price.
    Permalink posted 11/25/2007
  5. ZeppoNoir
    ZeppoNoir says Mmmmmm....That's good Nina! Another one for the "must buy" list. Thanks!
    Permalink posted 11/25/2007
  6. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Cool you liked her... the whole album rocks a lot. I still play it _on the regs_... AA, that's really cool... and yeah, the Tubes are a bit forgotten, unfairly... a hip "new" band probably needs to cover them to bring them back to memory... or a film soundtrack include White Punks on Dope ;)
    Permalink posted 11/25/2007
  7. Augusts1
    Augusts1 says I prefer The Tubes original personally. I've not heard much Nina, I lived a pretty sheltered life in Portland, OR when I was growing up(because the radio stations were so ass backwards & didn't play anything but top 40 music), so there's alot of music I'm still discovering that everyone else knew about long ago.
    Permalink posted 11/26/2007
  8. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Hi Augusts, I do love the original, too... btw Nina Hagen was boycotted by most German radio stations for years, back then, because in a radio inverview, she'd given masturbation instructions for girls... I don't know whether they took her off the air right then, but she was not on the radio for years. Seems funny today, with the whole world gawking at Britney's vajayjay. Good old times!
    Permalink posted 11/26/2007
  9. fistula spume
    fistula spume says Hmm. Tasty delicious micki. I can dig it. Nina is the poop.
    Permalink posted 11/26/2007
  10. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Sam, one of these days I'll multiply the album. I just _know_ you're gonna love it :)
    Permalink posted 11/26/2007
  11. fistula spume
    fistula spume says Post away. I've heard a bunch of later albums and a greatest hits but I've never heard anything this early. Sounds great.
    Permalink posted 11/26/2007
  12. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says Hmmm. Interesting.
    Permalink posted 12/04/2007
  13. mickimicki
    mickimicki says Hehe... Extra, Nina's lyrics are quite extraordinary. Especially for the time... they crack me up. I should try and translate some Nina Hagen into English really... another project (sigh;-)
    Permalink posted 12/04/2007
  14. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says I'd like to see that.
    Permalink posted 12/04/2007

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