Falco - Der Kommissar

[tpj1965]

Falco's first hit was "Der Kommissar" (a song about drug consumption) from the 1982 album Einzelhaft. An English cover version of "Der Kommissar" by After the Fire became a Top 5 hit in the United States in 1983. Incidentally, the video for the song would later be dubbed by MTV as "The Worst Video of All Time". That same year, Laura Branigan recorded a version of the song with new English lyrics, under the title "Deep In The Dark," on her album Branigan 2. 16 years later, a new version "Der Kommissar 2000" and two new remixes of the original put the song back on the charts.

[DudeAsInCool]

Pretty interesting. I prefer this to the successful cover, mostly because the band is pretty good; but there is something about his German rapping, and all those hands a clapping, which reminds me a bit the Third Reich