Howdy. It’s that time again. Here’s a blast from the past.
The English language of this song tended to get considerably more airplay on in the area I lived in at the time, although I’d hear this version and even see the video on one of the UHF video shows of the era. The German version has more of a punch to it – and now there are subtitles for a rough translation.
See you, hopefully, next week. Cheers.
German version is my preferred version.
Same. It had more of a punch to it. I lived an cities that had Air Force bases and Army posts nearby, and given that quite a number of residents had served in West Germany at the time or (in the case of many of my friends) had parents who had been stationed in West Germany, there was at least a niche audience for German-language pop and rock. Let’s say that Falco’s original version of “Der Kommissar” was far more popular in my circles than the English-language cover done by After the Fire.