Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft

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Germany (1978 – 1983, 2003 – present)

The Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) is an influential electropunk / Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 in Wuppertal, Germany featuring drummer/synth player Robert Görl, vocalist Gabi Delgado-Lopez, guitarist Wolfgang Spelmans, Kurt Dahlke “Pyrolator”, Michael Kemner, bassist and bassist/keyboardist/saxophonist Chrislo Haas. The band’s name is a term that had originally been used in West Germany, without irony, in the early years of the Cold War, at the height of German popular enthusiasm for all things American.

DAF’s most famous song is the grimly sarcastic “

Der Mussolini” from the album “Alles Ist Gut”, a pulsing dance song featuring the lyrics “Dance the Mussolini, move your behind, clap your hands, and now the Adolf Hitler, and now the Jesus Christ, and now the communism …”. The song caused a scandal amongst the more humourless elements of German liberal society.

In interviews they claimed to not target anything or anyone specific while creating lyrics to be taken as a parody of words and phrases floating around in the public media. “

Sato-Sato” and “Der Mussolini” are both examples of songs written around Delgado-Lopez’s fascination with the sound of a particular word.

The album “Alles Ist Gut” (All Is Well) received the German “Schallplattenpreis” award by the “Deutsche Phono-Akademie”, an association of the German recording industry.
Following that they released two more similar albums called “Gold Und Liebe” and “Für Immer”, all produced by legendary Conny Plank.

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1	Der Mussolini	398
2	Verschwende Deine Jugend	162
3	Ich und die Wirklichkeit	157
4	Der Räuber und der Prinz	152
5	Alle Gegen Alle	148
6	Mein Herz macht Bum	139
7	Rote Lippen	98
8	Alles Ist Gut	97
9	Sato-Sato	89
10	El Que	85
11	Verlier Nicht Den Kopf	75
12	Kebabträume	72
13	Prinzessin	67
14	Algorithmus full track	65
15	Kinderzimmer full track	51

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Brujerizmo wrote:
yesterday evening

wir züchten uns soldaten...

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aree1987 wrote:
Sunday afternoon

Kuss Kuss mich ^^

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Gedurashka wrote:
Thursday evening

Super-puper!!

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FoxFlexx wrote:
last month

*sing* Kebab Träume in der Mauerstadt *sing* DAF waren einfach toll auf dem Mera Luna!

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quesako wrote:
last month

verschwende deine jugend!

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astraldisaster1 wrote:
last month

gold und liebe is so fucking goddddddddddddddd...

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Ironcastle wrote:
last month

It's only natural tat any person with leftwing opinion would complain about DAF. They were after all a group that took the "other" side in the mostly leftish musicworld at the time. Hence the name Germen American Friendship. To accuse them of beign fascist is however completely wrong as the song "Mussolini" clearly shows. In that sing Nazism, Fascism, Organized Religion and Communism are all bunched together and all considered to be oppressive. It doesn't take a genious to understand this but for a leftist I can understand it's hard.

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najara wrote:
last month

ach... das erweckt erinnerungen ;)

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doceasubio wrote:
last month

uuuunga!!

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tangerman wrote:
last month

"Greif Nach Den Sternen"! Fantastic piece of music!

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Empathy82 wrote:
August 2008

Als wärs das letzte mal ist so toll!!! Aber fast alle Songs sind geil!

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tinnitustimulus wrote:
August 2008

wait they are on tour, even though gabi has been dead for how long?

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Jon-Lucas wrote:
August 2008

Se necesita un poco de gracia, para bailar la bamba...

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LordHali wrote:
August 2008

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Blutadler wrote:
July 2008

I just wanted to enlighten the masses.

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tangerman wrote:
July 2008

Greif Nach Den Sternen!

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skinnydrifter wrote:
July 2008

Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick! Das ist Leben! Das ist Sex! Kuss kuss mich!

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ludwigthesecond wrote:
July 2008

A person called BLUTADLER is telling me that I'm listening to Nazi music? Emm, ok! XD

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scheichyerbouti wrote:
July 2008

gabi delgado meint sie seien "zu lustvoll für faschisten" und ihre musik spreche alle leute an, vom anarcho-skin bis zum disco-nazi (wie geil ist das!!) kennt jemand den vnv nation remix von der sheriff? find ich sehr super und gelungen!!

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lahnix wrote:
June 2008

Alles ist besser, als das von Bluthamster erwähnte "undoubtly fascist" würde ich mal meinen. Egal ist mir das aber noch lange nicht.

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