The song that has been in my head the most this week:
- “Der Kommissar,” After the Fire, 1982 single.
I’m blaming this week’s FFT on my colleague Matt Price, who earlier this week introduced me to the video of the hilarious literal version of A-HA!’s “Take on Me.” I posted it here on the blog earlier this week. (If you missed it, click here.)
Apparently, that song opened the floodgates of my memory and in flowed a virtual tsunami of 1980s New Wave pop songs. But this cover of Falco’s German-language song has been the most pervasive of them all.
According to Wikipedia, the After the Fire English-language translation of “Der Kommissar” was a Top 5 hit in the U.S. in 1982. That’s probably because you can never get this catchy song out of your head.
I have no idea how I’m going to get rid of this song. All those “chas” are like little auditory prickles sticking in my gray matter.
At least I have the satisifaction of putting it all your heads now, especially if you’ve decided to watch the video, posted her courtesy YouTube. Click on that, and you’re guaranteed to be singing “Don’t turn around” for the foreseeable future.
-BAM
October 11th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
This song was already stuck in my head due to its use in a bunch of NBC’s “Chuck” promos. Unfortunately, I guess I’m the only one who saw them because Chuck’s ratings are down by 26%. Maybe if they didn’t schedule it against “How I Met Your Mother.” I will never understand why they put two of the very small number of so-called “comedies” on TV that I actually think are funny on against each other.