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Its only redeeming feature is arguably the long-due CD debut of "Japan ist weit", her German-language reading of Alphaville's "Big in Japan" that was a flop single a full year before the release of "Maria Magdalena". AND its all-original B-side "Sekunden", with an eardrum-piercing vocal that...

I don't know if owning a double Arabesque GH qualifies me as an expert. Cause frankly even I seriously STRUGGLE with titles like "Hello Mr. Monkey", "Fly High, Little Butterfly", "Don't Kiss a Crocodile" and "Jingle Jungle Joe"! But you just can't argue with "In for a Penny, In for a Pound"...

She's also wheeling out a remix of "In the Heat of the Night" as a single to promote the new GH. It's subtitled the "Tropical Future Remix" so I presumed it would jump on the 'tropical' bandwagon of Kygo, Sigala, Jonas Blue et al, but no, it's just a general dull soulless dance music bip bip bip...

One of my early-noughties album faves too. I could have done with acapella singsong "Saturdays" being relegated to B-side status though. FRUIT AND CAKE SHOWER CLEAN :manson:

Poor unloved Fun For Europe 'anthem' 'Força" :D I clicked all four of the big Loose singles, now there was an album campaign executed to (near-)perfection. I'm pretty sure I haven't heard "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" a single time since autumn 2012, perhaps I ought to revisit given its...

I recently had a surprisingly jolly evening YouTubing "The Dieter Bohlen Story", documenting every single thing the mulleted one has ever written or produced the past 35 years. I was blissfully unaware of his Eurodance streak under various anonymous projects in the mid-'90s - seek out the...

I refuse to believe that ILM clip was ACTUALLY broadcast on mainstream TV, even if it was in early-'80s West Germany!

And co-written by him off D:Ream to boot! It's no "U R the Best Thing" but better than "Shoot Me With Your Love", AKA the template for Robbie's heinous "Let Me Entertain You".

And in 2003 it would be covered by none other than the Lidl Madonna, C.C. CATCH! Always had a soft spot for this, one of many highlights on NOW 23.

Yes, I do find DAS FISCHER-PHÄNOMEN fairly bewildering as well! Flanders is brimming with similar blonde schlager princesses to her, but none of them appeal to many more people than the blue rinse brigade, the mentally challenged and the odd middle-aged perv, let alone sell any downloads of...

My recent Sandra Ann Lauer fave has been "Around My Heart", particularly in its 2006 Reflections - Reproduced version (that was apparently a massive airplay hit in THE UKRAINE). I especially love how its flat-bed-truck-referencing lyrics sound as if they were originally written in German, then...

Welcome to the forum, Alex Range! What's it like being a Eurovision fan in Russia in 2014?

I had a bit of a MOMENT on public transport the other day to "Loreen", AKA 'how to rewrite "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" just enough not to get sued' <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XbHQFnG7m-k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Sadly it came three...

Some fairly clever lyrics to a breezy "Kingston Town" rehash melody. I think you were generous on even a 2/10 voice though, VoR :D

HI! HI! HI! We need EMOSHUN! :D Don't think I've ever seen anyone name THAT as their Sandra Ann Lauer choon of choice. (Ooh, how nice is it for Sandra and Kylie to have the same middle name?)