Classic, notorious and hard to find compilation album on the controversial Rockorama label.
FASAGA open up with four great, funny songs: Simple music totally dominated by the singing. In this case, the melodic and wacky vocals sound heavily inspired by the Neue Deutsche Welle thing that was on its peak in 1982. It adds a weird kind of feeling. After this, DER FLUCH deliver another 4 songs of somehow pretentious but spooky music. Very simple again and again a vocalist of presence and strange lyrics. COTZBROCKEN are rumored to be the dumbest Punk band to ever come out of Germany. In fact, the lyrics are so dumb it hurts, but I like the aggression of the anti-hippy song “Kiffer”. Next up: OHL. And bloody hell, do destroy! Aggressive and abrassive, forceful and fierce. That’s how I love it. “Ich sah die Kirchen brennen, ich sah den Papst weinen” – “I saw churches burning, I saw the Pope weeping”: That’s how the second OHL song starts off and what a scorcher that one is! The best this controversial band ever recorded. I remember in 1982, some of the more right wing Metalheads got into OHL. Amadeus was one of them, a skinny guy who got a lot of shit for his dumb parents name choice, taped me some OHL once and I immediately deleted it, I hated it so much. STOSSTRUPP close the album with three very rough and aggressive songs.
Each 500 made on pink and black vinyl. Bootleged recently.
Download the entire «Die Deutschen kommen» compilation ripped with love here. The folder includes the booklet.
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What I like about the whole Rock-o-Rama punk stuff is the energy that is somehow in it but does not quite know where to discharge – both musically and lyrically. There is so much power in the music BECAUSE the musicians don’t know how to play “powerful”. And there is so much power in the whole thing because the bands don’t know much more than the fact they want to be “against”. The lyrics, especially of OHL and COTZBROCKEN are in every case worth a deeper exegesis – the contradictions of their views on politics and social issues would fill more than just one book, always worth a laughter or at least a smile and so charming.
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Very nicely put, Flo. I too think the whole “being anti”-attitude is the only way to explain the highly contradictionary lyrics of some bands. On the one hand, especially OHL tried to pull off a bit more lyrically, on the other hand it’s all so confused and even childish that you don’t really wanna read it. But the power’s always there.
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I didn’t know OHL produced such smashers – they were one of those I never listened to, because I had formed this vague, half-informed opinion of them being a “right-wing” band during my teenage days – and I carried it over from back then too… “Der Fluch” are kind of cool too.
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Yeah Balkan Toni – these OHL smashers are really astounding, aren’t they. Maybe a good pick for your next a.g.g.r.o.- p.u.m.p. session.
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so great!!! you’re on a oi and german punk roll and I love it. so much stuff I never ecven heard about.
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some non- interesting facts to fasaga: the singer became later the chefredakteur of the worldfamos indie music- magazine “spex” i don´t remember his name, i guess it was something like dirk niemczik or so.
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thanks for this comp. I’m not familiar with any of the bands other than knowing of ohl.
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Awesome stuff!
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unreal! this is hands down one of the best comps I ever heard. thank you very very much for this pearl!!!!!
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the ohl tracks are good but der fluch and fassaga are the best!!! never even heard of this before!!
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Probably the best german comp I’ve heard. Fasaga and Der Fluch are incredible great with OHL having the best song title: Soldaten leben länger. Let’s pogo in der strassenbahn ale kinder und punx.
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On my copy of this record some butt munch scribbled out Cotzbrocken on the front cover and wrote ” Fucking Nazi Punks from Cologne Don’t believe their Oi!” Don’t know what that’s all about but it’s a great record none the less
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erich, i wish u wouldn’t make fun of morrissey.
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Hey guys, I can’t open the file. Did you have problems to open it?
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Did you keep your right mousebutton pressed down and choose “save target as”?
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I’ve downloaded the file, but when I tried to open I receive the following msg:
The following invalid folder name was encountered in the archive: “”_MACOSX\V:A Die Deutschen kommen\”"
This same error ocurred when I downloaded the Raptus comp.
Some Hacker could help me??
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Also, I’ve updated my Winzip to the last version, but the file not worked.
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Marcelo, usually when it gives that message, it means the file was saved under a name or in a part of your hd that for whatever reason it does not recognize properly. Have you tried saving it elsewhere or changing the name of the file? Has it saved with any less conventional symbols in it?
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I saved in my desktop under the name
V_A Die Deutschen kommen.zip
I don’t know what’s happening, but no problem, I’m trying to find some solution thru internet.
Tks for attention
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Marcelo, rename the downloaded folder on your desktop, call it like “erich.zip” or “marcelo.zip” or “rot.zip” or “satan.zip” – and then it will probably work!
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I tried it, but it doesn’t work. Ok bros, no problem. Tks for your attention
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I think there’s a song corrupted.
I’ll try to download again
“_MACOSX\V:A Die Deutschen kommen\._Cotzbrocken_was.mp3″
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Marcelo, if there’s a “.” right after the “kommen/” as there is in what you’ve typed, that I think that would be the problem.
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I think you’re right, but this “.” is part of the name of the file/song “._Ctzbrocken_was.mp3″ and this is inside the zip file
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Marcelo, you can actually rename the file inside the zip itself. I don’t remember exactly how to do it, because I don’t use winzip, but it is possible.
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I downloaded the file to my work PC and got the same errors. I just clicked OK on all the error messages and then file opened up so I could drag the files out to my desktop. Did that help?
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I’ll try again man, tks!!
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YEAH!!!!! I got the files. I do the same like Piska-Paska.
Tks to everybody for attention.
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If I remember correctly Cotzbrocken were quite well known for their extreme rightwing-views in the Cologne-area. The whole thing sort of exploded when the Cotzbrocken posse was hired to work as security during a Bad Brains concert in 1983 and started to harass punks that wanted to get into the show. In a bad and ugly way. Lots of violence etc. Sort of an Altamont scenario where Hells Angels and hippies were substituted by Cotzbrocken skins and punks. Never liked their stuff anyway. I always thought highly of OHL’s music and never could figure out how their 82 LP (1000 Kreuze???) has the exact same intro as “Government Flu” by the DKs. At the same time, if you stick to a label that puts out stuff by bands like Böhse Onkelz, you should not act surprised when people get a little leery of your politics.
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