My companions often asked me, why don't you hear the music of today? My answer is, listen to this song and than you know it. But still I wait for someone, who understands me...
I love Hildegard Knef's original version, of course, but I heard Nico's cover first, as one of her Nico-teens in Manchester in the mid-80s. She was my mentor and my muse and I still miss her so much. She was a goddess, even in her darkest days. Bless you, Christa xxx.
I heard this when I was 15 and lost it soon after...didnt have a clue what it was called other than it was foreign and by Nico. Its only taken me 21 years to find......!!! THANK YOU!!
I agree, yet to see a bad performance from the Shibuya concert, this is rivalling her Manchester Free Trade Hall concert in 1983 as her best live performance, though here it's a bit less stripped down than the other gig.
You mean her look at 0:43, I think. So what if she's scary? She's Nico. She has every right to look scary every now and then. Even at her "scariest" she was still beautiful.
If you were sitting in front of her you wouldn't think "scary", you'd just think she was human, not to mention the depth of her soul that shone through. The camera and screen so often frames the subject and in so doing has a tendency to distort. In real life we all look a little fucked up now and then and it ain't no big damned deal. Heroin is also difficult on the system, not easy to metabolize, leaves one detached from oneself even, I often had to reintegrate on a daily basis when I had a habit. In other vids Nico appears similarly detached, a deep lost and anxious look in her eyes, again no big deal if you are a real person and not just some spectator.
She´s not having an english accent at all when performing this song.This is simply not true and her real name was Christa Päffgen she was from Cologne and from Lindenthal, the part of town where I am living now.I think her music was so intensive that the way she uses her native or any other language falls ino the background.
Anton Caravaggio Yep, you can find it on a live compilation album called "All Tomorrow’s Parties," released in 2003 and available on iTunes. This recording was also released on 1986’s “Live in Tokyo,” although the sound quality is not as good. I think the 2003 release has been remastered.
@nancycochrane75 Nico is haunting you. This song is haunting you. I played this song ín the original version by Hildegard Knef to many - not one person was indifferent to this song.
@@1e0s Well, Nico's first singing gig was in Dec. of '63 and Marianne's earliest performances were in '64, so it's not like there was a huge difference in when they started. By the late 70's, Marianne's voice had gotten rougher and deeper, so from then on she did sound a bit like Nico, but early on, not at all, so, in that sense, yes, Nico was there first.
so calling me an 'idiot' without knowing the backgrounds of my argument is more fair? Nico never wanted to be known as 'the german girl'. Sure, she used to talk with this heavy accent but it was more her 'signature feature' than a true bad pronunciation... When she talked German (which happened rarely) in interviews or something she used to speak and sing with an English accent which was her purpose
Genau, weil sie so völlig talentlos war, ein völlig erfolgloses Model und Velvet Underground ja ein One Hit Wonder, gibt es über Nicos kurzes Leben eine 500 Seiten Biographie, während von Deinem Leben lediglich dein blöder, präpotenter und überflüssige Kommentar bleiben wird.
