Tom Waits in German? WTF???

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― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

'Wärm Bier & Köhl Wiever'!
'Weihnachtskaat Vun Nem Flittche Vum Eijelstein'!!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

A popular Viennese singer called Wolfgang Ambros also released an album of Waits cover versions last year, with the lyrics adapted and translated into German.

I heard it, and it was awful.. but it sold loads and loads and probably made Tom a big pile'o'cash...

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Jogging Botz Voll Bloot

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

16 Memme en d'R Vrrrrrrringmaschinnnnnnnngh

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ambros cd is not awful, and the songs were even better live. Neither that cd nor this one are in "proper" High German -- Ambros sings in the Viennese dialect and this obvious rip-off sings in Kölsch, the dialect of Cologne (which sounds like drunken Dutchmen). There's actually a long tradition of Cologne dialect acts ripping off/paying tribute to Ambros -- see Black Föös, BÄP, etc. "Waits Babbelt Hessisch" is sure to follow.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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