The perfect opening-song for an Open-Air-concert: "Himmelblau" by Die rzte

[DetlefK]

Die Ärzte are a german punk-band, founded in the 1980s and still going to this day.


The song is about a teenager who has just finished school, staring at the blue summer-sky, thinking about the endless possibilities his/her life may take from here.

[ornotna]

1. I like it. Here's the English translation ( according to the internet )

Sky-blue

The sky is blue,
And the rest of your life is before you.
Maybe it would be smart
To look around you one last time.

You don't really know why,
But somehow your curiosity is aroused.
The sky is blue
And the rest of your life's going to be beautiful.

(Yeaah!)

You have a good feeling,
You're thinking of all the good times.
It's almost too much
To be standing next to you at this moment.

You don't have a clear destination,
But a million possibilities.
A good feeling,
And you know it will end well for you.

(Yeaah!)

The sky is blue!

(Yeaah!)

The sky is blue!

The world is yours,
What are you gonna do with it?
Tell me.
Do you feel how the time is passing?

Now you're standing here,
And you can't stop laughing!
The world is yours,
And the rest of your life begins!

(Yeaah!)

The sky is blue!
So blue (5x)

(Yeaah!)

[highplainsdem]

2. Good song! I'll have to check out more of their music. I'd heard of

Die Ärzte only recently, because of their decades-long rivalry with Die Toten Hosen, another German band I'd heard of only recently.

DU's software apparently won't allow the German umlaut in message titles and also drops the letter it's with, so Die Ärzte showed up as Die rzte in your thread title there. Not sure why it's okay in the body of the message but not the title.

Die Ärzte appeared onstage with DTH a few nights ago, getting a lot of attention, and I posted about that and included the video in a thread in the Lounge about DTH

https://democraticunderground.com/10181664814#post65

as well as one here with a Ramones classic, since that was one of the songs they did:

https://democraticunderground.com/103477548

The first link there also has what the German edition of Rolling Stone said about it.

Btw, although that concert Saturday night was the first time I know of when both bands were on stage together, there's a section of the DTH documentary about their 2018 tour, You Only Live Once, that has Rodrigo Gonzalez of Die Ärzte talking about the rivalry between the bands, which he says was mostly before he joined Die Ärzte is 1993, and then he and Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß of the Beatsteaks are onstage with DTH. I posted that documentary, which the film company uploaded to YouTube, in reply 52 in that thread, and that section with Rod starts at about 56 minutes in and runs nearly 5 minutes.

[ornotna]

3. Some times you have to fool the software. Die Ӓrzte

I use the windows character map and pick a non Latin equivalent. This one is Cyrillic capital A with a Diaeresis Ӓ. Greek letters work well too.

[highplainsdem]

4. What I'm seeing in your reply title there still doesn't look like

Die Ärzte, with the diaeresis following the A instead of above it in your title. It's probably just simplest not to use the umlaut in message titles here. That's what I've been doing if a message title includes the name of a German city that has an umlaut, for instance, like Düsseldorf, DTH's home town.

[ornotna]

5. That's weird

Looks perfectly normal on my screen. Oh well, I guess it's not successful %100 of the time.

[highplainsdem]

6. I'm seeing the diaeresis following the A in the body of your reply, too,

not just the title.

At least I can get the umlaut for the proper German spelling in the body of messages, if I copy and paste the word/name.

[highplainsdem]

7. Die Toten Hosen just uploaded a very enjoyable 3-minute video about their concert

with Die Ärzte (and German rapper Marteria as well), showing the rehearsal, the concert, and the celebration afterward. I've posted this in the Lounge topic on DTH, too, as a reply to the post with that Rolling Stone article.