Friends, the weekend was made perfect on Sunday, the SGE wins after more than twenty years in Munich against FC Bayern, sensational! Now I would have to post a band from Frankfurt, but I can't find one now, so we visit Berlin and meet the Panzerknacker AG. The band were Jürgen (vocals/guitar/sax), Matthias (piano/organ/synth/vocals/drum machine), Jörg (bass), Thomas (drums) and released their only slab on Schnick-Schnack-Tonträger and the record was made without the rock circus of the Berlin Senate for cultural affairs. The album came in a pretty cool gatefold cover with lyrics on it and each song is assigned to a musical genre, "Schlager/Polit Wave","Ska/Popular Wave", "Tango/Rasta Wave" or "Disco/Cool Wave" and the songs are designed accordingly, although in the end the differences are not that big because the same instruments were always used. In any case, the record is a real German rock delicacy with remnants of the punk wave. The lyrics are pretty wacky and far from the hit-and-run effusions of many later successful bands that swam along on the wave. (A.P.) - Had two appearances on compilatons and broke up in the early eighties. Was bleibt: A funny sound document from a short-lived band and the vinyl has become a sought-after rarity. ENJOY!
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