Not Rock On

WOW! There has been Lena-Mania in Germany for a while. We had hoped she could do it with her very fresh and natural personality and finally she really did! She is a natural performer in her very own style and we are all very happy she won!  A few months ago this now 19 year old was unknown, then she became famous through the shows with Stefan Raab. And by the way she also made her High School degrees! What a girl! Sorry, what a woman!!! At first I was a little worried about her rather strange accent but I have grown accustomed to it and so many people in many countries seem to have done too. I hope this will be a good omen on the performance of the german team in the World Cup in South Africa!

This evening there was a show for and with Nena on german television celebrating her 50th birthday (although this was actually March 24th, can you believe it???). I enjoyed it a lot but it also brought back some bitter memories. I still remember the morning after her groundbreaking performance in Radio Bremen's Musikladen. Notorious for showing scantily clad girls performing to obscure dutch Disco, the show did not rate too high in our ranks. As there was not much competition in german tv, everybody watched it nevertheless The morning after August 17, 1982 everybody was talking about that girl in the red leather mini skirt and her astonishing performance. She was absolutely new (although she later often enough showed us her Rolling Stones T-Shirts). Just being there having fun AND singing in german! And later on a lot of success! I loved the song immediately with this picky synth and obviously proposed angular dance moves. nevertheless there also was this floating synth melody ...

Congratulations to Canada and their Hockey team! Last night I was switching channels and finally found the Olympics at Vancouver. The BIG FINAL! I am not a hockey afficionado although I really loved Slap Shot or Schlappschuss as it was called in Germany  Thinking of my canadian relatives I thought I could watch this as well as anything else. But then it got hot. Canada was already leading 2-1 and I thought, Great, Gold Medal for Canada so they are leading the medal count (at least the european way, where gold medals count first!). But then time out USA, time out Canada, ok about 50 seconds to go, they will make it. I was thinking to myself how long these 50 seconds could be and then USA scored the equalizer! What a shock, but they had earned it! Ice time....... opening another bottle, listening to the TV presenters,The re-start! To be honest, I could not look that fast or maybe it was because I do not have HiDef. I still have not really seen the goal. But what a relief! T...

Just to add a new post, here is a slideshow I once made of most of the vehicles I had from 1980 til now. Just have a look! It starts with my Hercules Ultra already mentioned in previous posts. Then there is my first car, the Opel Kadett C City. Liked it a lot and had many nice memories. Like changing the engine in Delft, Netherlands after it quit working due to a lack of oil. We removed the engine of a crashed car and mine and fixed the new one in less than 8 hours after we pushed my car through half the city to the junkyard. In 1990 I had to part with it as the TÜV did not call it street legal anymore. Due to the recent opening of the german border and lots of greedy car sales men selling all the junk to the FNL, good cheap cars were hard to find. Together with financial aid by my parents I bought the Honda Accord hatchback. Great car, power windows, power glass roof, nice interior and exterior. Unfortunately I crashed it just a few hundred meters from my parents home. As an in...

...except for the files I mentioned in the last post. I finally found "Paul van Dyk with Heppner - Wir sind wir" again, the whole Maxi CD (3 versions). Just use the Search function. The link list has been updated too. As with all the links on this site, the links should open in a new window or tab, depending on which browser you use.

It took a while, but now the links on this blog should be fully functional again. If you still find non-working links, please let me know with a comment to the latest post. Unfortunately I lost some of the files I already uploaded because backing up everything seemed to be too hard... Grrr So if you still have one of the following files on your harddrive you downloaded here please let me know so I can update the posts: VA - Pay it all back vol. 1 November Group - 12" 1982 (NG1) JaJaJa - Katz Rap Lost Gringos - Troca Troca Herbert Grönemeyer & Amadou & Mariam - Zeit, dass sich was dreht Oliver Pocher - Schwarz und Weiss I am looking forward to a new post now and then, but do net expect regular posts. I still hope to keep the NRO spirit alive for a long time!!! All comments are welcome!

It has been a very long time since my last post. Things happened good and bad, more of this possibly later. I felt a bit let down when the links to my blog disappeared from the ones I like but could not follow as I wanted. My archive only grew netwise, but no further hardware acquisitions. I had to find out that the thieves did not only steal my CDs but also some vinyls. Of course these had to be some of my Marc Almond/Soft Cell treasures. Whoever has the Burmoe Brothers 12" or 7" of Skin, please drop me a line. I found this in a bargain bin in 85 and was so lucky. Another lucky find was The Whip a few weeks earlier, both really missed like so many other records I could not even track down on the net. I would be grateful and possibly rewarding for anybody bringing me back those treasured goods! The Madsen concert in Lüchow was fantastic! Great songs, nice Lokalkolorit, I had fun. You may experience it second (my) hand here (+ some clips from buntekuh82). Part 1 You...