> Why IS that? I haven't been to Germany in over a
> decade (though I'm going later this year to see
> family), but when I was there it seemed almost
> impossible to find rock or pop music in German. Is
> there some kind of unwritten code against it? If you
> watch French or Russian MTV, most of the music is in
> the French or Russian (going by the French MTV they
> show at a cafe near my apartment).
Maybe it's different now, but back around '90 people like Herbert Groenemeyer and Die Aerzte seemed to have a lot of currency, even while it was all mixed in with international (read: English language) material.
What I always loved about German radio was its mad eclecticism compared to US radio even then. They'd play the Stones, then "Kung Fu Fighting", then Peter Schilling, then ABBA, then some acid house, some oddball folky thing, all with a liberal sprinkling of The Hoff... I guess it doesn't sound that great compared to a good college station, but man, this was what they had for commercial radio.
I'm sure Angelus will insist that it's always been like Clearchannel.
-- Andy