Ideal - Ideal

If a German band ever released an LP at the right time, it was certainly Ideal with their self-titled debut album. Hardly any other band has ever hit the zeitgeist so precisely and shaped an entire musical genre in this way. For many people Ideal is still the epitome of the Neue Deutsche Welle (I know, how many are shouting: "but Nena ...!" but was it really NDW?) and paved the way from the underground to the charts. This record is not the best of the Berliners (fans are still arguing about whether it is the dark “Der Ernst Des Lebens” or the experimental “Bi Nuu”), but the raw power was ground-breaking. Musically there is a cool rock sound, which here and there sometimes looks at the late 70s Bowie, with clear punk sounds, a few ska swabs and electronic sounds that ultimately characterize the group as a new wave band of international format. Annette Humpe's style of singing is formative, it became the model for countless other groups and actually gives the music something special. With “Blue Eyes” and “Rotor Rolls Royce” two successful hits are represented but actually, they are not even the most typical Ideal songs. Nasty and somewhat out of the ordinary is "Hundsgemein" (incidentally, Hubert Kah may also have stolen the guitar for his hit "Rosemarie"). Songs like "Luxus", "Berlin", "Irre", "Telepathie" and "Da Ich Ich Lie Ich Lieber Hin" are more typical.