Happy 69th birthday to Germany’s berserk punk diva Nina Hagen (née Catharina Hagen, 11 March 1955). Fearless (1983) and Nina Hagen in Ekstasy (1985) are both wildly enjoyable, but Hagen’s defining meisterwerk is NunSexMonkRock (1982) which still sounds like bleeding-edge science fiction all these decades later. Her later work is best approached with caution, but she did a fun heavy metal version of Elvis’ “Viva Las Vegas” in 1989.
“Nina Hagen is at once the most outlandish of rock clowns and the most intensely committed and flaked-out female pop visionary since Patti Smith herself.”
/ From Tim Holmes’ review of the album Nina Hagen in Ekstasy (1985) in Rolling Stone
Nina Hagen NunSexMonkRock - Dangerous Minds
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4 comments:
God yes I love this woman. Might I suggest for those of you not familiar with her work check out The Nina Hagen Band L.P. or Unbehagen
Thanks Jobe - Always appreciate you dropping by and I still really enjoy NunSexMonkRock!
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I adore Nina!
Welcome as always Kostas!
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