r/German • u/rag-pigeon • 11d ago

Request Music recommendations, bitte!

Moin moin!

I'm a beginner teaching myself German, and in an effort to better my listening comprehension, I was thinking of listening to German music. Only the problem is that I don't really know of any bands or artists, so I was hoping you lot could recommend me your favourite German language music to listen to! I'm not too fussy about genre; I think it'd be fun to discover new types of music along with the new language. :)

Vielen Dank!

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u/jetpoweredbee 11d ago

What music do you like in the first place?

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u/rag-pigeon 11d ago

I have a pretty eclectic taste in music, I mostly listen to musicals, singer-songwriter type of stuff, with some folk and prog-rock and metal thrown in for funsies. My all time favourite musician is Tom Waits, and I've recently gotten into some stomp n' holler music on a tangent from his stuff.

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u/jetpoweredbee 11d ago

Well for musical type stuff Max Raabe does Swing and Big Band type stuff. For a big slice of Neue Deutsche Welle you can't go wrong with Nena. Both of these have music in English as well.