Monday, March 21, 2011

Nina Hagen is Sexy Sex

You've never heard vocals like this before, period.  It's pretty amazing that these snarls and squeaks are actually coming from a classically trained opera singer.  Even without the atonal qualities of her voice, the vocal melodies alone are impressive and challenging.  Maybe it's 'cause I'm a weird guy, but I find this kind of idiosyncratic (and often guttural) singing to be really sexy.

Only Germans could create music this "outside the box" while still maintaining an element of cheesiness as well as serious punk attitude.  It's a good thing too that the band is really tight and come up with their own memorable leads and rhythms. The stylistic influences are as wide-ranging as Nina's voice: bringing disco, classic rock, progressive,opera, punk, and even a little reggae into the mix.  There's even a pretty hard sounding proto-hardcore song at the end.

Unfortunately, this, her debut album seems to be her only really good output.  Later, she and her first band had the typical "sophomore slump", then, she formed a solo band and became comfortable doing mostly covers.


germans are kinky

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