Now, the real difference between American and German music tastes is that in Germany, a song that once was popular usually remains popular. We hardly ever say, oh, that was so 2011 and it is completely out now. No, like 95 % of these songs can be heard on any regular day in 2023 in German radio… My American friends always got a kick out of listening to the radio and within a hour, hearing a mix of Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Nena, Queen, Elton John, the latest hits, AND the good old oldies…
I agree, same applies to UK...America seems to split their radio stations into genres where as a lot of Europe and possibly Australia have more eclectic play lists...prefer a mix, it's great listening to all types one after the other..😊🇬🇧
one example that counts for me - Depeche Mode... popular in the 80s, electric pop and then in 2023 "ghosts again" got me so good because it's "back to the roots"
thats true but me as a german, trying really hard to dodge radio, i dislike most popular music... its just not unique and because I have very good memory I get bored very quickly when i know whats coming. Even my fav songs I rarely listen to because I always enough the music I just found a lot more.
Fully agree. Some German music falls out of style but most songs, even the niche ones, you can play at a party without anyone batting an eye. Classics are classics!
thats honestly probably the best fucking song on this whole list he also got famous with this album and to some non native speaker suprise his songs are pretty deep and political and he is very well in using the german language for metaphors
I stopped listening to the radio in like 2015, so I don't know most of the songs after that. Seeing this video, I am glad I got to know the good half :)
I’m a German born in the 2000s and I’m so grateful for this throwback. 50% if this songs were on my 2017 MP3-Player. I’m so glad you don’t understand the lyrics. Most of the songs are so embarrassing. But nostalgia is too strong. 😂
Better being embarrassed about listening to songs from a time in which we enjoyed thinking of emotional/fun things in life, rather than being embarrassed by the fact that some people think, blasting the most generic rap around the neighborhood in their BMW makes their sausages grow. Gute Songs bleiben am Leben, ganz egal von wann sie sind.
top song 2010 - "Geboren um zu leben" can be translated to "born to be alive" - the singer lost his best friend (brother?) and made this song to compensate his feelings over the loss... 2014 "Auf uns" had been played in Rio de Janeiro after Germany won the soccer world cup final game against Argentina. What a special moment this was...
You gotta listen to Peter Fox at least once! His album "Stadtaffe" is iconic! Honestly, i think all the songs in it are amazing, but the most popular ones are "Haus am See" and "Alles neu", if I'm correct. Please have a listen if you can :)
Musical theory and the psychology behind what makes good sales has been studied for years. Now that we have computers, they can do the majority of the leg work to make songs more appealing to the widest possible audience, and will pitch match any bad singing automatically giving them that perfect voice and beat temp throughout the entire song. There is so much electronic music generated now, and we're just moving in to the era of AI generated singing voices. Just like AI can generate endless South Park episodes with a single prompt now, the music industry will be generating endless masses of songs.
@@dataterminal that’s right. but there’s one problem: computers have no soul. so if you want tho generate a piece of elevator music or a background track for your youtube commercial: go with ai. but if you want to write a piece of music that‘s exiting, rebellious, hits the listener in the middle of the heart or that is played in a way that gives the audience chills or goosebumps, then stick to manmade music.
Have you reacted to the video about songs by german bands / artists nobody knows are german? Germans really seem to be attached to foreign songwriting and language, so they did their own things, like Mr. Presidents "Coco Jamboo" (german band). Fantastic song btw. If you LOVE german techno, you need to check out Kraftwerk. They were the original Techno artists, and were a huge impression and idol for bands like Erasure. For me Still by Jupiter Jones is easily one of the best german songs ever written. It is so simple, but so emotional at the same time. Sadly, at least for me, german music has really degraded in the last 10 years or so. The addition of german rap, especially the hateful filled one, was a bad one, and there was a rise in the use of autotune and a decrease in vocal talent as well. If the singer can't sing, autotune is used to fix it. If you compare this to Ich + Ich at their peak, or even songs like Münchner Freiheits "Ohne Dich" (80s song), you will definitely notice it. With the arrival of new songs the german speech pattern was completely changed, and today you have 6 year old kids calling you all sorts of names. This is really sad.
Another great example is Purple Disco Machine, one of the most streamed artists on Spotify worldwide. E.g. ua-cam.com/video/UbYQErtM9Zk/v-deo.html (btw, he's from Kassel as well afaik)
Okay I think in like 2015 I started to develop an individual taste in music and stopped listening to radio, because suddenly I don't know most of these songs 😂
As you mentioned "Lacoste" as a clothing style ... actually it's avaible in Germany, too, as it is a brand from the nearby France. The americans just went crazy about this brand, though!? oO Please keep in mind that this were just (!) top 10 songs by radio play. To be honest: I am german and into music, but I haven't heard most of this song from the video! My taste of music goes in another type of music. But I just want to let you know: Germany has the third (!) largest music market on this planet, after the US an Japan! So there is really a lot of extremly good music of all genres avaible and to discover- mostly beside the charts stuff and radio plays! And there are some music legends around here who are doing music since decades! I've just attend a concert of a german Rap/HipHop-band on their 30th jubilee year tour! I first heard them at elementary school and now I am age 40+ ... *damn XD
@@ichbinbluna3504 Sicherlich, aber Satelite war doch kein deutsche Lied ( OK Deutsche Sängerin, Deutscher Komponist, Produziert in Deutschland aber ENGLISCHER TEXT)
Well, you know... there is a german style of music that is almost unknown in other contries, through it is becoming more visisble in other contries in the last couple of years. I'm speaking of Medival Rock or Medival Folk or Medival Pop. A simple explanation is that this is Musisc with a mix of modern and old instuments. There are a lot of popular bands over here making all styles of music. If you are interested check out music by "In Extremo", "Saltatio Mortis", "Feuerschwanz", "Schandmaul" or "Faun". Also "Versengold" has its routs in that genre, but moved more to folk by now.
Quite a lot of Americans these days are reacting to Saltatio Mortis, Faun and other bands as well and are usually blown away. I love watching these kind of reactions and I think Joel would be so shocked about this.
This video is so interesting to me. I moved abroad from Germany in 2014, so I really only know the songs up to that year, and then I know some of the songs in 2016 because I was attending some weddings in Germany that year. But yeah, if you're not in the country, there's very little German music that comes through to you unless you actively seek it out. As for the Lacoste shirts, those have been pretty standard for the last 20 to 30 years, especially in cities like Munich. I think of it as the Munich uniform... or uniform of law and business degree students ;) I didn't even know they were fashionable among young Americans in - what did you say again? - 2016. I feel in Germany they have always been there for the last few decades and just not gone anywhere.
I never heard most of the songs after 2017. Not on the Radio or elsewhere. I guess they are listened to on Spotyfy and other streamingplattforms. How do they calculate the charts these days? I guess Spotify and co count a lot. That would explain my lack of knowlegde
The whole reacting to german stuff actually got popular after the german rapper Gzuz released his music videos on world star hiphop. The video kind of polarized in the us and alot of american youtube channels reacted to the video. American youtubers like james bray started their whole career by reacting to german hip hop. Over time reacting to german music got less popular and so the trend shifted to reacting to german culture or Germany in general. So thats where we are now and I think thats one of the reasons your channel got succesful pretty fast. However I think most of your viewers like to see that you are actually interested to learn more about germany and not just reacting to make some money. I think thats great. Great video again, keep it up!
Hey man! I've been watching your vids a while now and I think your channel is unlike any other really, it's just fueled by your individual perks of interest and you go down all kinds of directions over time as you learn more and are exposed to more, and I gotta say a huge well done to you, hella respect, and keep it up! I'm British born and raised (hence my initial interest in your channel) but have since moved to Austria in 2020 and learnt the language to a pretty workable level however still with many gaps! But I watch your videos to take me back to where I came from sometimes, and to see what you think of the area of the world I've moved to, in the German Sprachbund and sphere of influence. I spend a lot of time in southern Bavaria along the border with Austria and I myself have my observations and reservations on some things (Austria is the best!! XDDD) If you're ever back in the area or intend to venture into Austria, I'd be 100% down and happy to meet up and break you into the culture and help explain things! I could recommend some things that I quite like or that those around where I live listen to: SIDO (ALL) Rammstein (it's metal, but if you like that, then ALL) AnnenMayKantereit (ALSO ALL) Wildberry Lillet - Nina Chuba OHA - Käptn Peng Herr Inspektor - Seiler und Speer (Exclusively in Austrian German dialect) 10 Jahre - 187 Strassenbande Piraten - Ali Affront Wo kann man das kaufen - Alligatoah 110 - Capital Bra Phänomen - Roxy & Cyril Hurra die Welt geht unter - K.I.Z. & Henning May Vergessenes Königreich - GReeeN Ring in der Hand - Josh. Verschwende mich - OK KID Ding - Seeed Berlin - Unprocessed Wenn Du weinst - Lostboi Lino etc. etc. etc. Enjoy! Much love from Steiermark, Austria!
I still love the songs now that I loved then. I do not feel like they would be outdated. Also I feel like you had to listen to more than snippets to get the feel correctly. Plus the lyrics do matter, too.
As you might know I live close to Germany and when I'm driving to work I always listen to FFN, which is a German radiostation. So I hear a lot of German songs. My favourite artist are definitely Tim Bendzko, Philipp Poisel, Herbert Grönemeyer and Revolverheld. Whenever they come to the Emslandarena in Lingen, I do go to see their concerts, because Lingen is very near to where I live.
Hey, I really liked your reaction on the video. For more german music I would recommend the band Seeed and the music of Peter Fox its lead singer. Also Cro is very integrated in german music over the decade. Those examples are more german hip hop to specify :) For more pop music I can recommend songs by Mark Forster, Andreas Bourani, Adel Tawil, Lena and Namika. Even though I named a lot of different artists I would suggest to look for some more German artists suggested in the comments because there are so many good artists and songs!
I enjoy “Die Immer Lacht” by Kirsten Ott and “Oft Gefragt” by AnnenMaiKantereit of Köln. In the latter if you translate the lyrics it really means much more. And Henning’s deep baritone voice is amazing. I also enjoy Schlager and folks music as well! Hopefully I will be able to attend the Austrian band Schürzenjäger’s performance in Milwaukee this weekend!!
The song with the line of drugs you stopped at is called "do you wanna take drugs with me?" And US music heavily impacts German music and TV.. pretty much all popular stuff is "inspired/adapted" from the US or elsewhere.. and then there is soft pop that all sounds the same no matter the year.. Jahn Böhmermann a popular comedian actually let apes in the zoo write a song by giving them several terms and fruits on each word - and they picked them by taking the food. The result sounded EXACTLY like any other song. The Song is called "Jim Pandzko feat. Jan Böhmermann - "Menschen Leben Tanzen Welt" | NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE" If you want to react on it
i feel like in this video its hard to get an actual feel for the songs because they are cut short. id recommend watching either full Songs maybe even with translations or find a Video were they play out a little more
Peter Fox solo and his band Seeed! Enough said, all bangers, peak german music! Check him/them out, especially songs like 'Ding', 'Dickes B', 'Aufstehn!', 'Schwarz zu Blau', 'Alles Neu', 'Augenbling'. :)
I mostly listen to electric music. but with some songs from 2010-2015 i got goosebumps because i just loved them and still love them today 😎😄 i would be interested to know if some of these songs were also played in the USA 🤔
I hope that you are into some rock music, or electronic music as well. Then you should give the band "Electric Callboy" a go! Although nearly all of their songs are in english. Similar style with german lyrics would be "WBTBWB" (We Butter The Bread With Butter). "Seeed" and "Peter Fox" are always a good recommendation, too (more swaggy, flowy, reggae-ish, whatever you wanna call it)!
I am german and I can say most of these songs have a deep meaning not all of them but a lot and if you understand german you will also understand why these songs were popular.
Artist: Shirin David Song: Hoes Up G's down Artist: Gsus Song: warum Both Songs are influenced by American Rap and very cool. Love your content❤ greetings fromm Germany 😎
It's probably just my taste, but my favourite Duetsche music has to Rammstein. Their song Ohne Dich is probably a good starting point 😊 Edit - spotted their song Deutschland at 12:24
@@celinavinzens4043well... thats a good question. Hopefully this all turns out to be false/exaggerated (i personally believe the latter as some of the stories just dont match at certain areas and where they match it seems like an immoral, but not evil situation) I think it'd be ok to react to them, as the US is very disconnected from us here in europe, and even if the accusations turn out to be 100% true, the band will most likely dissolved very soon and none of the money they make now will go them as they have people above them that'll most likely keep it or donate it
And here I am, a german woman, listening to those samples and thinking: "HOW IS THIS 10+ YEARS OLD?" And than I realise: I'm probably getting old cause some songs just doesn't resonate with me anymore the "newer" it gets. I don't know your taste in music. As for me, I really enjoy what we count as "Folk/ Folk Rock" (Not to confuse with "Schlager") with bands like Versengold, Feuerschwanz, Saltatio Mortis and so on. They have nice songs to dance and have fun to, but also have songs with a deep meaning. Some you may like to check out, even though I don't know if you like them or find them with englisch subtitles: Feuerschwanz ft. Melissa Bonny - Ding (a Cover of the Seed Song) Feuerschwanz - Das Elfte Gebot Versengold - Die wilde Jagd (a song inspired by a german myth) Saltatio Mortis - Wo sind die Clowns
A lot of german produced music is sung in english too. So it sounds like american music, but is in fact german, since it is hard to earn money with songs that are in german, since aside from rammstein, they don't sell very well outside of germany when they are in german.
Hey...love your channel (yes I subscribe). 2016 index 8:35...the song Kokaina (aka Cocaine). Nearly every song on these list has an English translation in case you wanna check them out. Just like American playlist these are probably examples of Top 40 popular songs that are most requested or downloaded. I suggest looking for specific Genre's to get a more accurate feel of Germany's music landscape. I say this because here the states Rammstein is considered to be an aggressive Alt Right band, while in Germany many place them in the same category as Alt rock bands like Marilyn Manson, NIN, or even Metallica. It all depends on where you call heim.
The "Willst du" (and several other songs by Alligatoah) is worth a full reaction video on its own. He is one of the most (if not the most) creative and witty lyricists in modern German music.
There are lot's of music groups and artists in Germany, even if you don't like Rap music or electronic that are good, old and new ones. I still have a CD with a remake of the best of Nena she released in 2002, with MV of Leuchtturm and the english version of Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann she sings with Kim Wilde - Anyplace Anywhere Anytime. 😅 All songs are good, old... yes! but good, not bad for being from the girl who had 99 luftballoons 💗 I could continue talking about how much I like Die äerzte, or the evolution of Nina Hagen and her music, but I will stop just mentioning some of the many other music groups I have loved through the years: Sportfreunde Stiller, Wir Sind Helden, Rosenstolz, Fettes Brot, Revolverheld, Silbermond, and many more...
Yes, you should watch the video with the songs or artists you think are american.... As music I would recommend Apache 207, Cro (played in Munich last year for the opening of the NFL game Buccaneers versus Seattle seahawks), and Mark Foster.
The problem is that not all music categories are played on German radios. This means that even if a band or a song is mega hyped, it may not appear in the charts because the radio refuses to play it because they don't think it belongs on the radio or is not suitable for the radio
The biggest problems with these lists is that they are mostly based on sales data (top 100 most sold physical cd's per week) You can see it at around 2016-17 were german pop music basically suddenly disappears in these lists, because that was the time where digital downloads & streaming took really off & from that point forward those pop songs were almost only to find in streaming & download lists but not in cd sales anymore. Nowadays there is like 90% german rap & hiphop in these "top lists" because they have the most support on retail cd's. Everything other genre is almost nonexistent.
@MoreJps you need to watch the top 10 of 2000-2009. it's amazing how much international artists are there. in the last decade there were just german artists
I don‘t listen to much of the chart music. I can recommend the band „Wir sind Helden“, especially the album „Von hier an blind“, right now I enjoy Nina Chuba (Song „Glatteis“ for example). „Die Ärzte“ were my favorite band in my teens (Song „Schrei nach Liebe“). And I adore the album „Alle Liebe nachträglich“ from Mine & Fatoni :) it would be cool to have you react to whole songs with the lyrics translated :)
looking back on this, the song list is a bit embarrassing but at the same time it's what made german youth so fun to yell those hiphop rap songs at house parties. there are some gems in there, like annenmaykantereit. i'd recommend checking him out in a separate video :)
Didn`t know, that Lacoste exists still today. It was a popular brand 30, 40 years ago but only with a certain group of people, we called it Lakotz (puke)!
I grew up between 2004 and 2010 with the rap songs of Bushido, Chakuza, Sido, Sentino, Kollegah, Kool Savas and Azad. Those were the days. During the disco period from 2011 onwards, I also grew up with Strobo Pop and a lot of David Guetta and other DJs. Most of what is shown here in the video is more radio music. It's often played on the radio. Here is the song: ua-cam.com/video/jZIp4NBJLl0/v-deo.html
Not into German music so much EXCEPT .... KRAFTWORK!!! (Band started in DUSSELDORF) "TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS" (the longer nearly 14 minute one was my roller skating jam back in the day.) LOVE House and Techno, examples (USA stuff)...1. CECE Pensiston "FINALLY", 2. Robin S, ‘Show Me Love’, 3. Darude "Sandstorm", 4. Corona - The Rhythm of the Night, 5. Haddaway - "What is love?" (that one still SLAPS today), 6. Kina - Girl from the gutter (Thunderpuss Mix) Vj Carlos 21, 7. CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue [TMT Extended Version] SLAPS HARD -- BEST DOWNBEAT EVER about 4 min in...and so many more!
If you want to listen to one of the most popular artists/groups from Germany (still today) you have to check out the Album "Stadtaffe" from Peter Fox or any songs of Seeed which is a group he is the main artist of. Stadtaffe is still, after nearly 15 years, one of the most succesfull albums from Germany.
imo Peter Fox and Seeed capture the vibe of Berlin City so beautifully. Very multicultural, Party, chill, good vibes. So good! Definitely the best German representation in music for sure!
Ich kann jedes einzelne Lied komplett auswendig aus diesem Album. Ich musste das schon einige Male unter Beweis stellen, was ein wenig dauert aber die Leute waren danach sprachlos. Ich habe kein anderes Album so oft rauf und runter gehört.
10:10 I’m speaking as a Belgian here. What I can say however is; American music has an immense impact on European music as a whole. And it’s not just music either, it’s everything online. A lot of American things get “Europeanised” if you will.
It's true what you say, US music and fashion have a great influence on us and often arrive with a little delay. There are a few music genres that are only popular in Germany, for example, Schlagermusik.
That Schlager is only popular in Germany (and I think you probably mean Austria and Switzerland as well) is a HUGE misconception. Nearly all of Europe has its own "Schlager" very similar to German Schlager. It's very big especially in Northern and Eastern Europe as well. There are most likely only a very few countries where it's very small, like Spain, I would guess or maybe Albania, but I don't know for sure.
For Germans the video is great because you know all or most of the songs, even if the sections only last a few seconds. but for someone who doesn't know the songs at all it's too short. it would be better to take a year off and then listen to the songs individually for 30-60 seconds. But JP can't do much with it - I guess if it's just 5 seconds per song
Wenn ich mir die Musik anhören müsste, aber weiter springen könnte würde ich bei 2/3 der Lieder so schnell oder schneller weiter skippen als es das Video gemacht hat. Its a pity he didn't link the original video. I'd love to see where this list derives from. Since the german charts are mostly international music, I can't find any list that fits to the one shown here.
i think its the top 10 charts songs of each year and i have to say the rap industry in particular is very good in manipulating their ratings (e.g. "selling" their singles with their merch so every time you buy a shirt or something, you also buy the song for the statistic. im not claiming they are the only ones doing stuff like that, but they really mastered their rating game.
I like and would suggest some songs of Mark Forster (Übermorgen, Chöre), Johannes Oerding (Alles brennt, An guten Tagen), Frieda Gold (Wovon sollen wir träumen), Glasperlenspiel (Geiles Leben), Rosenstolz (Gib mir Sonne, Total Eclipse, Amo Vitam (which is completely in Latin) and finally (though I hate Schlager except this one) : Maite Kelly/Roland Kaiser "Warum hast du nicht nein gesagt". Look for the Schlagerboom 2017 video here on UA-cam and you'll get an impression how popular Schlager is in Germany even among young people.😁
Check out the album "Mit freundlichen Grüssen" by Heino. There you have the full variety of well-known contemporary German rock-, pop- and hiphop songs covered by an edgy artist who's been in business since the early 60s. There are so many genres, so many artists, so many decades, so many songs - whatever you pick, 95 % of your audience will be disappointed. And if you choose stereotypical German music (i.e. Bavarian brass music), 99.5 % of your audience will be disappointed.
Dude as a German that list is so embarassing. There are way better Songs than that 😂
Yup. Where was Lena? Surely when she won Eurovision in 2010...
das sind die Charts gewesen...
@@Jonas-tf3im ich weiß, aber für ihn halt ein komischer Eindruck der deutschen Musik, die so viel bessere, unbekanntere Artists hat.
@@peterhoz hierbei ging es nur um deutschsprachige Songs
herzbeben🗿
Now, the real difference between American and German music tastes is that in Germany, a song that once was popular usually remains popular. We hardly ever say, oh, that was so 2011 and it is completely out now. No, like 95 % of these songs can be heard on any regular day in 2023 in German radio… My American friends always got a kick out of listening to the radio and within a hour, hearing a mix of Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Nena, Queen, Elton John, the latest hits, AND the good old oldies…
I agree, same applies to UK...America seems to split their radio stations into genres where as a lot of Europe and possibly Australia have more eclectic play lists...prefer a mix, it's great listening to all types one after the other..😊🇬🇧
one example that counts for me - Depeche Mode... popular in the 80s, electric pop and then in 2023 "ghosts again" got me so good because it's "back to the roots"
thats true but me as a german, trying really hard to dodge radio, i dislike most popular music... its just not unique and because I have very good memory I get bored very quickly when i know whats coming. Even my fav songs I rarely listen to because I always enough the music I just found a lot more.
@@lynnhamps7052 Depends on the mood but I guess I agree if there would be a radio which actually good music and mixing genre well it would be fire
Fully agree. Some German music falls out of style but most songs, even the niche ones, you can play at a party without anyone batting an eye. Classics are classics!
as a german the first half hit me with insane nostalgia. I was born in 2006, so the first songs were basicly my childhood
Me to and I was born 2004
Gosh now even I feel old being born 1996
@@sojus7929 You´re old, 99 here :D
@@hrizwaldieos8239Still 90s so I'd say we are both really old by now ^^
@@sojus7929 by now yes :( :D
In the song with the lines laid out, he literally sings 'You wanna take drugs with me?'
"Willst du" is a great song,tho.
thats honestly probably the best fucking song on this whole list he also got famous with this album and to some non native speaker suprise his songs are pretty deep and political and he is very well in using the german language for metaphors
I recommend in that context the video of Trailerpark - Sterben kannst du überall 😉
@@mogwai76 Thats why you better stay in School XD
Alligatoah my beloved
This made me remember why I stopped listening to German music lol. This genre of rap at the end is intolerable for me
that's no rap, that's trap trash...
I stopped listening to the radio in like 2015, so I don't know most of the songs after that. Seeing this video, I am glad I got to know the good half :)
same, i never liked this kind of rap
From 2016, things went steeply downhill. Also, the charts have been proven to be cheated by these "rappers".
@@Orkimtor me too. everything that came after 2015 I just can't relate to
I’m a German born in the 2000s and I’m so grateful for this throwback. 50% if this songs were on my 2017 MP3-Player. I’m so glad you don’t understand the lyrics. Most of the songs are so embarrassing. But nostalgia is too strong. 😂
Better being embarrassed about listening to songs from a time in which we enjoyed thinking of emotional/fun things in life, rather than being embarrassed by the fact that some people think, blasting the most generic rap around the neighborhood in their BMW makes their sausages grow. Gute Songs bleiben am Leben, ganz egal von wann sie sind.
top song 2010 - "Geboren um zu leben" can be translated to "born to be alive" - the singer lost his best friend (brother?) and made this song to compensate his feelings over the loss...
2014 "Auf uns" had been played in Rio de Janeiro after Germany won the soccer world cup final game against Argentina. What a special moment this was...
He lost his mother
As a German, I have to say that there is much better music here than this cruel German rap.
Die Charts zeigen Musik ja leider nie von der besten Seite
Indeed!
I don't know most of those songs lol
@@birthemuller7310 absolut richtig, auch besonders Rap, ich finde der chart rap ist das schlimmste was man sich an deutsch rap antun kann
Ich stimme zu. Bei 50% der "Songs" ist mir fast das Kotzen gekommen. Vor Allem bei denen, wo krampfhaft versucht wird es den Amis gleich zu tun.
Just listen to every song in that list. It would be fun to see what songs you like/don't like that were so popular in Germany.
I agree and these 2-3 sec clips of a song give a very limited picture of our music.
Totally agree. And read the english translation, because in Germany very often the lyrics are very important.
You gotta listen to Peter Fox at least once! His album "Stadtaffe" is iconic! Honestly, i think all the songs in it are amazing, but the most popular ones are "Haus am See" and "Alles neu", if I'm correct. Please have a listen if you can :)
Him and seeed are so amazing, one of the german rock stars everyone can agree on.
@@xxxpyrosxxxAgreed! He is one of my favourite artists out there!
One of the most succesfull german Songs is "99 Luftballons" by Nena from 1983. I was told that it was known in the US, too.
only german song that ever reached number 1 in the USA was by an austrian :D
Annoying song
anyone noticed that the songs from 2019 have almost the same drum programming? music gets more and more generic these days …
It really started to go downhill in 2017 with that, all those generic wannabe gangsters sound the same😅
a notable exception are ELECTRIC CALLBOY - they will even start a US tour soon.
Musical theory and the psychology behind what makes good sales has been studied for years. Now that we have computers, they can do the majority of the leg work to make songs more appealing to the widest possible audience, and will pitch match any bad singing automatically giving them that perfect voice and beat temp throughout the entire song. There is so much electronic music generated now, and we're just moving in to the era of AI generated singing voices. Just like AI can generate endless South Park episodes with a single prompt now, the music industry will be generating endless masses of songs.
@@dataterminal that’s right. but there’s one problem: computers have no soul. so if you want tho generate a piece of elevator music or a background track for your youtube commercial: go with ai. but if you want to write a piece of music that‘s exiting, rebellious, hits the listener in the middle of the heart or that is played in a way that gives the audience chills or goosebumps, then stick to manmade music.
Have you reacted to the video about songs by german bands / artists nobody knows are german?
Germans really seem to be attached to foreign songwriting and language, so they did their own things, like Mr. Presidents "Coco Jamboo" (german band). Fantastic song btw.
If you LOVE german techno, you need to check out Kraftwerk. They were the original Techno artists, and were a huge impression and idol for bands like Erasure.
For me Still by Jupiter Jones is easily one of the best german songs ever written. It is so simple, but so emotional at the same time.
Sadly, at least for me, german music has really degraded in the last 10 years or so. The addition of german rap, especially the hateful filled one, was a bad one, and there was a rise in the use of autotune and a decrease in vocal talent as well. If the singer can't sing, autotune is used to fix it.
If you compare this to Ich + Ich at their peak, or even songs like Münchner Freiheits "Ohne Dich" (80s song), you will definitely notice it.
With the arrival of new songs the german speech pattern was completely changed, and today you have 6 year old kids calling you all sorts of names. This is really sad.
I just recently read that Milky Chance is German lol He is from Kassel
Another great example is Purple Disco Machine, one of the most streamed artists on Spotify worldwide. E.g. ua-cam.com/video/UbYQErtM9Zk/v-deo.html (btw, he's from Kassel as well afaik)
Biggest surprise for me was that Boney M was a German band.
@@Dschonny Kassel? He was born in Dresden, grew up in East Germany, and still lives in Dresden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Disco_Machine
@@Fragenzeichenplatte Ah yes, must have mixed this up, thanx for clearing this.
Okay I think in like 2015 I started to develop an individual taste in music and stopped listening to radio, because suddenly I don't know most of these songs 😂
Same here! 😅
As you mentioned "Lacoste" as a clothing style ... actually it's avaible in Germany, too, as it is a brand from the nearby France. The americans just went crazy about this brand, though!? oO
Please keep in mind that this were just (!) top 10 songs by radio play. To be honest: I am german and into music, but I haven't heard most of this song from the video! My taste of music goes in another type of music. But I just want to let you know: Germany has the third (!) largest music market on this planet, after the US an Japan! So there is really a lot of extremly good music of all genres avaible and to discover- mostly beside the charts stuff and radio plays! And there are some music legends around here who are doing music since decades! I've just attend a concert of a german Rap/HipHop-band on their 30th jubilee year tour! I first heard them at elementary school and now I am age 40+ ... *damn XD
The top 10s of Songs with German lyrics.
@@ichbinbluna3504 Sicherlich, aber Satelite war doch kein deutsche Lied ( OK Deutsche Sängerin, Deutscher Komponist, Produziert in Deutschland aber ENGLISCHER TEXT)
@@DSP16569"Deutsch" bezieht sich hier auf den sprachkulturellen Kontext, nicht die Sprache selbst.
Well, you know... there is a german style of music that is almost unknown in other contries, through it is becoming more visisble in other contries in the last couple of years. I'm speaking of Medival Rock or Medival Folk or Medival Pop. A simple explanation is that this is Musisc with a mix of modern and old instuments. There are a lot of popular bands over here making all styles of music. If you are interested check out music by "In Extremo", "Saltatio Mortis", "Feuerschwanz", "Schandmaul" or "Faun". Also "Versengold" has its routs in that genre, but moved more to folk by now.
Quite a lot of Americans these days are reacting to Saltatio Mortis, Faun and other bands as well and are usually blown away. I love watching these kind of reactions and I think Joel would be so shocked about this.
This video is so interesting to me. I moved abroad from Germany in 2014, so I really only know the songs up to that year, and then I know some of the songs in 2016 because I was attending some weddings in Germany that year. But yeah, if you're not in the country, there's very little German music that comes through to you unless you actively seek it out.
As for the Lacoste shirts, those have been pretty standard for the last 20 to 30 years, especially in cities like Munich. I think of it as the Munich uniform... or uniform of law and business degree students ;) I didn't even know they were fashionable among young Americans in - what did you say again? - 2016. I feel in Germany they have always been there for the last few decades and just not gone anywhere.
I wore Lacoste in the 80s
@@ronparker73Auch die Deutschen in den 80iger Jahren, Kleidung für Spießer
@@aubergine1236 Grins - hätte ich aus Kontextgründen vielleicht erwähnen sollen... ich auch in Deutschland.
I never heard most of the songs after 2017. Not on the Radio or elsewhere. I guess they are listened to on Spotyfy and other streamingplattforms. How do they calculate the charts these days? I guess Spotify and co count a lot. That would explain my lack of knowlegde
After 2017 the quality of the music decreased 😥... and the number of Lamborghinis appearing in music video increased... 😂
This rap shit was broadcast on "Shisha TV". And they cheated the Spotify and UA-cam algorithm, that's why they dominated the charts
I remember the summer holiday 2016 in Turkey. "Die immer lacht" by Kirstin Ott was played all the time at the pool bar... I loved it ❤
Ja genau…mal so und mal so..😇
"It just goes to show how far we've come in the world of music"? I would have said how far we've descended!! 😄
I love Alligatoah and I liked Cro. Sadly, Cro doesn't make music anymore. Both artists were in the video.
Great video Joel. They have some really good music over there. I heard alot of these songs when I was in Amsterdam.
The whole reacting to german stuff actually got popular after the german rapper Gzuz released his music videos on world star hiphop. The video kind of polarized in the us and alot of american youtube channels reacted to the video. American youtubers like james bray started their whole career by reacting to german hip hop. Over time reacting to german music got less popular and so the trend shifted to reacting to german culture or Germany in general. So thats where we are now and I think thats one of the reasons your channel got succesful pretty fast. However I think most of your viewers like to see that you are actually interested to learn more about germany and not just reacting to make some money. I think thats great. Great video again, keep it up!
Hey man!
I've been watching your vids a while now and I think your channel is unlike any other really, it's just fueled by your individual perks of interest and you go down all kinds of directions over time as you learn more and are exposed to more, and I gotta say a huge well done to you, hella respect, and keep it up!
I'm British born and raised (hence my initial interest in your channel) but have since moved to Austria in 2020 and learnt the language to a pretty workable level however still with many gaps! But I watch your videos to take me back to where I came from sometimes, and to see what you think of the area of the world I've moved to, in the German Sprachbund and sphere of influence. I spend a lot of time in southern Bavaria along the border with Austria and I myself have my observations and reservations on some things (Austria is the best!! XDDD)
If you're ever back in the area or intend to venture into Austria, I'd be 100% down and happy to meet up and break you into the culture and help explain things!
I could recommend some things that I quite like or that those around where I live listen to:
SIDO (ALL)
Rammstein (it's metal, but if you like that, then ALL)
AnnenMayKantereit (ALSO ALL)
Wildberry Lillet - Nina Chuba
OHA - Käptn Peng
Herr Inspektor - Seiler und Speer (Exclusively in Austrian German dialect)
10 Jahre - 187 Strassenbande
Piraten - Ali Affront
Wo kann man das kaufen - Alligatoah
110 - Capital Bra
Phänomen - Roxy & Cyril
Hurra die Welt geht unter - K.I.Z. & Henning May
Vergessenes Königreich - GReeeN
Ring in der Hand - Josh.
Verschwende mich - OK KID
Ding - Seeed
Berlin - Unprocessed
Wenn Du weinst - Lostboi Lino
etc. etc. etc.
Enjoy!
Much love from Steiermark, Austria!
AnnenMayKantereit und Juju :)
I still love the songs now that I loved then. I do not feel like they would be outdated. Also I feel like you had to listen to more than snippets to get the feel correctly. Plus the lyrics do matter, too.
As you might know I live close to Germany and when I'm driving to work I always listen to FFN, which is a German radiostation. So I hear a lot of German songs. My favourite artist are definitely Tim Bendzko, Philipp Poisel, Herbert Grönemeyer and Revolverheld. Whenever they come to the Emslandarena in Lingen, I do go to see their concerts, because Lingen is very near to where I live.
Hey, I really liked your reaction on the video. For more german music I would recommend the band Seeed and the music of Peter Fox its lead singer. Also Cro is very integrated in german music over the decade. Those examples are more german hip hop to specify :)
For more pop music I can recommend songs by Mark Forster, Andreas Bourani, Adel Tawil, Lena and Namika.
Even though I named a lot of different artists I would suggest to look for some more German artists suggested in the comments because there are so many good artists and songs!
Sido is also culture vibe
I enjoy “Die Immer Lacht” by Kirsten Ott and “Oft Gefragt” by AnnenMaiKantereit of Köln. In the latter if you translate the lyrics it really means much more. And Henning’s deep baritone voice is amazing. I also enjoy Schlager and folks music as well! Hopefully I will be able to attend the Austrian band Schürzenjäger’s performance in Milwaukee this weekend!!
The song with the line of drugs you stopped at is called
"do you wanna take drugs with me?"
And US music heavily impacts German music and TV.. pretty much all popular stuff is "inspired/adapted" from the US or elsewhere.. and then there is soft pop that all sounds the same no matter the year.. Jahn Böhmermann a popular comedian actually let apes in the zoo write a song by giving them several terms and fruits on each word - and they picked them by taking the food. The result sounded EXACTLY like any other song.
The Song is called
"Jim Pandzko feat. Jan Böhmermann - "Menschen Leben Tanzen Welt" | NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE"
If you want to react on it
Now we need more Reactions to Alligatoah, Seeed and Sido with translated lyrics
Watch "Electric Callboy" from Germany !!!!
Uh yes please 😍
i feel like in this video its hard to get an actual feel for the songs because they are cut short. id recommend watching either full Songs maybe even with translations or find a Video were they play out a little more
Peter Fox - Stadtaffe
One of the best LP's ever produced
Some of these gave me instant nostalgie man :D .
And then it was all hip hop and im mostly out.
Lila Wolken - Materia ❤
As a German born in 2003, i loved close to all of these songs. Even if am normally a Metalhead. But this was just my childhood.
I didn't know how bad the music was after 2015. That's a shame. Some of them are songs I've never heard before.
For something thats not in the charts but on fire right now listen to Electric Callboy. The entire last album Tekkno is a masterpiece.
Well, you know it, not radio-friendly. 😂
Lacoste is around since 1933 was big here in my youth 1970s-1980s
Try and watch Rammstein - Deutschland. It would be funny to see if you go completely in shock ;). Some People do.
Peter Fox solo and his band Seeed! Enough said, all bangers, peak german music!
Check him/them out, especially songs like 'Ding', 'Dickes B', 'Aufstehn!', 'Schwarz zu Blau', 'Alles Neu', 'Augenbling'. :)
Revolverheld`s music is nice to listen to on the one hand soulful on the other hand groovy. Great band.
Ein Revolverheld- Album war damals das erste Album was ich mir von meinem eigenen (Taschen-)Geld gekauft habe
Gute Wahl.👍@@philippprime6844
I mostly listen to electric music. but with some songs from 2010-2015 i got goosebumps because i just loved them and still love them today 😎😄
i would be interested to know if some of these songs were also played in the USA 🤔
"Tage wie diese" was covered by Anastacia this year. The English lyrics also come from frontman Campino.
So viel Nostalgie ❤❤❤
I hope that you are into some rock music, or electronic music as well. Then you should give the band "Electric Callboy" a go! Although nearly all of their songs are in english. Similar style with german lyrics would be "WBTBWB" (We Butter The Bread With Butter). "Seeed" and "Peter Fox" are always a good recommendation, too (more swaggy, flowy, reggae-ish, whatever you wanna call it)!
I am german and I can say most of these songs have a deep meaning not all of them but a lot and if you understand german you will also understand why these songs were popular.
My childhood songs
Artist: Shirin David
Song: Hoes Up G's down
Artist: Gsus
Song: warum
Both Songs are influenced by American Rap and very cool.
Love your content❤ greetings fromm Germany 😎
It's probably just my taste, but my favourite Duetsche music has to Rammstein. Their song Ohne Dich is probably a good starting point 😊
Edit - spotted their song Deutschland at 12:24
don´t know if he should react to rammstein...
@@celinavinzens4043 I wonder how much this controversy has actually reached US media.
@@Orkimtor yea that's a good question actually, I don't know if it has at all
@@celinavinzens4043well... thats a good question. Hopefully this all turns out to be false/exaggerated (i personally believe the latter as some of the stories just dont match at certain areas and where they match it seems like an immoral, but not evil situation)
I think it'd be ok to react to them, as the US is very disconnected from us here in europe, and even if the accusations turn out to be 100% true, the band will most likely dissolved very soon and none of the money they make now will go them as they have people above them that'll most likely keep it or donate it
11:00 the pond is big and it takes some time for trends to come over both ways
And here I am, a german woman, listening to those samples and thinking: "HOW IS THIS 10+ YEARS OLD?" And than I realise: I'm probably getting old cause some songs just doesn't resonate with me anymore the "newer" it gets.
I don't know your taste in music. As for me, I really enjoy what we count as "Folk/ Folk Rock" (Not to confuse with "Schlager") with bands like Versengold, Feuerschwanz, Saltatio Mortis and so on. They have nice songs to dance and have fun to, but also have songs with a deep meaning.
Some you may like to check out, even though I don't know if you like them or find them with englisch subtitles:
Feuerschwanz ft. Melissa Bonny - Ding (a Cover of the Seed Song)
Feuerschwanz - Das Elfte Gebot
Versengold - Die wilde Jagd (a song inspired by a german myth)
Saltatio Mortis - Wo sind die Clowns
I completly forgot about those songs. Memories
A lot of german produced music is sung in english too. So it sounds like american music, but is in fact german, since it is hard to earn money with songs that are in german, since aside from rammstein, they don't sell very well outside of germany when they are in german.
The Song of >>Alligatoah - willst du
Sayings as/and ²nd meanings or subtext and explicit statement(.....Kind of)
Geile Musik, viele Erinnerungen 👌🏼💯🔥
Hey...love your channel (yes I subscribe). 2016 index 8:35...the song Kokaina (aka Cocaine). Nearly every song on these list has an English translation in case you wanna check them out. Just like American playlist these are probably examples of Top 40 popular songs that are most requested or downloaded. I suggest looking for specific Genre's to get a more accurate feel of Germany's music landscape. I say this because here the states Rammstein is considered to be an aggressive Alt Right band, while in Germany many place them in the same category as Alt rock bands like Marilyn Manson, NIN, or even Metallica. It all depends on where you call heim.
In Germany we have pop music and schlager music. Schlager is also pop music but it has a german stile and nowadays often mixed up with teckno.
Schlager is so much better than the generic pop crap.
@@peterhoz correct
Electric Callboy "Hurrikan":
-> Half German Schlager, half 'something else' 😂
i apparantly missed a lot of 2018 and 2019 xD
The "Willst du" (and several other songs by Alligatoah) is worth a full reaction video on its own. He is one of the most (if not the most) creative and witty lyricists in modern German music.
The Song "Willst du", where in the Video were "drugs", in the Song itself is sung: do you want to take drugs with me, then it will rain Roses
There are lot's of music groups and artists in Germany, even if you don't like Rap music or electronic that are good, old and new ones.
I still have a CD with a remake of the best of Nena she released in 2002, with MV of Leuchtturm and the english version of Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann she sings with Kim Wilde - Anyplace Anywhere Anytime. 😅 All songs are good, old... yes! but good, not bad for being from the girl who had 99 luftballoons 💗
I could continue talking about how much I like Die äerzte, or the evolution of Nina Hagen and her music, but I will stop just mentioning some of the many other music groups I have loved through the years: Sportfreunde Stiller, Wir Sind Helden, Rosenstolz, Fettes Brot, Revolverheld, Silbermond, and many more...
Yes, you should watch the video with the songs or artists you think are american.... As music I would recommend Apache 207, Cro (played in Munich last year for the opening of the NFL game Buccaneers versus Seattle seahawks), and Mark Foster.
Berlin City Girl is a great song. After it's release parody songs were uploaded to UA-cam changing Berlin to different cities in Germany.
In 6:08 where there are the lines of innocent white stuff, the hook of the song actually literally translates to "Do you wanna do drugs with me"🤣
The problem is that not all music categories are played on German radios. This means that even if a band or a song is mega hyped, it may not appear in the charts because the radio refuses to play it because they don't think it belongs on the radio or is not suitable for the radio
Lacoste was popular in Germany back in the 80s when I was a little kid.
The biggest problems with these lists is that they are mostly based on sales data (top 100 most sold physical cd's per week)
You can see it at around 2016-17 were german pop music basically suddenly disappears in these lists, because that was the time where digital downloads & streaming took really off & from that point forward those pop songs were almost only to find in streaming & download lists but not in cd sales anymore.
Nowadays there is like 90% german rap & hiphop in these "top lists" because they have the most support on retail cd's. Everything other genre is almost nonexistent.
@MoreJps you need to watch the top 10 of 2000-2009. it's amazing how much international artists are there. in the last decade there were just german artists
I don‘t listen to much of the chart music. I can recommend the band „Wir sind Helden“, especially the album „Von hier an blind“, right now I enjoy Nina Chuba (Song „Glatteis“ for example). „Die Ärzte“ were my favorite band in my teens (Song „Schrei nach Liebe“). And I adore the album „Alle Liebe nachträglich“ from Mine & Fatoni :) it would be cool to have you react to whole songs with the lyrics translated :)
looking back on this, the song list is a bit embarrassing but at the same time it's what made german youth so fun to yell those hiphop rap songs at house parties. there are some gems in there, like annenmaykantereit. i'd recommend checking him out in a separate video :)
I got some nostalgy watching this 😅. It's funny most of these songs where played in the radio up and down
we need full reacctions to these songs xD I've seen so many reactions to this video, but nobody is actually listening to the full songs...
Jupiter Jones ❤
Lea's Voice !!! I love it ❤
You need to search Wok Racing, a fine German sport invention!
Didn`t know, that Lacoste exists still today. It was a popular brand 30, 40 years ago but only with a certain group of people, we called it Lakotz (puke)!
Some Decent Tunes!
as a german im just straight up vibin to these song snippets, absolute nostalgia
geez, some of them still are my fave german songs
and i am shocked how old all of these SOngs are
@@JU-pq6qu so so true
@@JU-pq6qu 35? Whow, so jung wär ich gern mal wieder für nur zwei Wochen ^^
I grew up between 2004 and 2010 with the rap songs of Bushido, Chakuza, Sido, Sentino, Kollegah, Kool Savas and Azad. Those were the days. During the disco period from 2011 onwards, I also grew up with Strobo Pop and a lot of David Guetta and other DJs.
Most of what is shown here in the video is more radio music. It's often played on the radio. Here is the song: ua-cam.com/video/jZIp4NBJLl0/v-deo.html
Moses Pelham, Xavier Naidoo, Cassandra Steen best German music as well
greetings from AUSTRIA
Alle 2015 Lieder sind kindheit 😢
Talk about an emotional roller-coaster.. 😂
the bassist of Unheilig, Holger Böking is my neighbor, greeting from Germany
Not into German music so much EXCEPT .... KRAFTWORK!!! (Band started in DUSSELDORF) "TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS" (the longer nearly 14 minute one was my roller skating jam back in the day.) LOVE House and Techno, examples (USA stuff)...1. CECE Pensiston "FINALLY", 2. Robin S, ‘Show Me Love’, 3. Darude "Sandstorm", 4. Corona - The Rhythm of the Night, 5. Haddaway - "What is love?" (that one still SLAPS today), 6. Kina - Girl from the gutter (Thunderpuss Mix) Vj Carlos 21, 7. CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue [TMT Extended Version] SLAPS HARD -- BEST DOWNBEAT EVER about 4 min in...and so many more!
its KRAFTWERK
@@aidekhia81 ok, so my spelling sucks...sorry
@@brianmatthews1736 dont worry its still nice people mention the pioneers of german electronic music
If you want to listen to one of the most popular artists/groups from Germany (still today) you have to check out the Album "Stadtaffe" from Peter Fox or any songs of Seeed which is a group he is the main artist of. Stadtaffe is still, after nearly 15 years, one of the most succesfull albums from Germany.
imo Peter Fox and Seeed capture the vibe of Berlin City so beautifully. Very multicultural, Party, chill, good vibes. So good! Definitely the best German representation in music for sure!
I want to see that too
Ich kann jedes einzelne Lied komplett auswendig aus diesem Album. Ich musste das schon einige Male unter Beweis stellen, was ein wenig dauert aber die Leute waren danach sprachlos. Ich habe kein anderes Album so oft rauf und runter gehört.
at 6:10 , the song title is "Do you want to take drugs?" A song about 2 junkie lovers who are ruining themselves, together.
I lived in the region from 2016-2021 and I remember a lot of Apache.
Da waren einige Songs dabei die ich schon längst vergessen hatte 😮😅
10:10 I’m speaking as a Belgian here. What I can say however is; American music has an immense impact on European music as a whole. And it’s not just music either, it’s everything online. A lot of American things get “Europeanised” if you will.
Holy crap Apache and summer cem was a wild throwback
It's true what you say, US music and fashion have a great influence on us and often arrive with a little delay. There are a few music genres that are only popular in Germany, for example, Schlagermusik.
That Schlager is only popular in Germany (and I think you probably mean Austria and Switzerland as well) is a HUGE misconception. Nearly all of Europe has its own "Schlager" very similar to German Schlager. It's very big especially in Northern and Eastern Europe as well. There are most likely only a very few countries where it's very small, like Spain, I would guess or maybe Albania, but I don't know for sure.
For Germans the video is great because you know all or most of the songs, even if the sections only last a few seconds. but for someone who doesn't know the songs at all it's too short. it would be better to take a year off and then listen to the songs individually for 30-60 seconds. But JP can't do much with it - I guess if it's just 5 seconds per song
You can really tell when german rap became popular during the years starting with "ohne mein team" in 2016
Mir gefällt was du tust. Lass dir mehr Zeit- weniger ist mehr.
Wenn ich mir die Musik anhören müsste, aber weiter springen könnte würde ich bei 2/3 der Lieder so schnell oder schneller weiter skippen als es das Video gemacht hat.
Its a pity he didn't link the original video. I'd love to see where this list derives from.
Since the german charts are mostly international music, I can't find any list that fits to the one shown here.
i think its the top 10 charts songs of each year and i have to say the rap industry in particular is very good in manipulating their ratings (e.g. "selling" their singles with their merch so every time you buy a shirt or something, you also buy the song for the statistic. im not claiming they are the only ones doing stuff like that, but they really mastered their rating game.
I like and would suggest some songs of Mark Forster (Übermorgen, Chöre), Johannes Oerding (Alles brennt, An guten Tagen), Frieda Gold (Wovon sollen wir träumen), Glasperlenspiel (Geiles Leben), Rosenstolz (Gib mir Sonne, Total Eclipse, Amo Vitam (which is completely in Latin) and finally (though I hate Schlager except this one) : Maite Kelly/Roland Kaiser "Warum hast du nicht nein gesagt". Look for the Schlagerboom 2017 video here on UA-cam and you'll get an impression how popular Schlager is in Germany even among young people.😁
Check out the album "Mit freundlichen Grüssen" by Heino. There you have the full variety of well-known contemporary German rock-, pop- and hiphop songs covered by an edgy artist who's been in business since the early 60s.
There are so many genres, so many artists, so many decades, so many songs - whatever you pick, 95 % of your audience will be disappointed. And if you choose stereotypical German music (i.e. Bavarian brass music), 99.5 % of your audience will be disappointed.