A kind in germanys charts but over twenty five years high time for a pub export portrait of the band like no other. Lyrics fraught with meaning somber tone the title track to talk a twenty x. Twenty eighteen album do you want endless kite eternity. On the bands twelfth studio album sing a different lot so recounts his life in twelve songs. You also notes that you stuff with the hope is of course to maybe come to a kind of self knowledge like a field study of ones own life and of the same charms to create a portrait of society and present something in which listeners can recognize something themselves of. So you go on with some of us if its like a different country. The band which took its name from a japanese games console has been around for twenty five years now. The three founding members now live in berlin but singer dick for lots o. And bassist john miller first met while studying law in hamburg. I know its good that we met at a Student Orientation course of the university where we were both wandering around disoriented we spotted each other and for someone who looks like me and not like everyone else it was love at first sight. They do eventually dropped out of university to devote all their time to music their aspirations lyrics with depth their style indie rock their look tracksuit jackets thats how i took a tonic started off in the early one nine hundred ninety s. A lot together were talking going to miss arnott and i play drums and also sometimes sing and play guitar. Tribute to my novice my name is jani and i like to play bass its been hard jack and i sing and play guitar intelligence. Was set up by the fact that fat. Guys. Contracts out soon the intellectuals of german pop had amassed a large fan base even though in the beginning they hadnt quite mastered their instruments yet. Another one sure we were willing first met. But that wasnt the most important thing for us to show what we could do on the instruments. Its just good minds on this b. S. For trying those are more interested in expressing something or in getting across a certain mood. Im just doing tonight it will be worth. Trying expands understood them and with their third album the band hit the german charts for the first time. It takes is a good lyrics are interesting and different from most other bands pretty crazy to michelle would. Feel like they understand me to be a supermodel c. S. I. Took a tronic was accepted by the mainstream but they remained rebellious in two thousand and two they appeared with a playback track on a t. V. Chart show and traded instruments with a healthy dose of irony the band always managed to avoid accusations of being sellouts they dont care for genre labels either. Just make music thats enough isnt it. So shy so it doesnt matter if its rock pop or grunge or whatever it doesnt matter what you call it my dad. Rick macphail from the United States started off as the bands roadie before being asked to join as a fully fledged member in two thousand and four. And fix whats been a long stick ever grows together its hard for us and i hope i can prove that i deserve it. Until. Eight german top ten studio albums two of which climbed to number one. Talk of trying to. Are intellectual rock stars even if they dont really seem like rockers. So its because i think that nowadays having a supposedly normal parents is much more subversive them wearing some sort of punk costume that any bank would wear out of us or you just because an artist did. It would be awesome going to sleep we prefer to look like bank clocks are snug states and this is. A bit off. Limits. Recording the twenty twelve album even maybe borland or how we want to live the album marking the bands twentieth anniversary was recorded on vintage analog four track equipment and deals with the topic of aging but the band has no intentions of retiring all my music for its lead if you really love music list then you want to keep going with some because there are always more things that youd like to do get them as often. Reached. Maturity but a long way from being done tucker trying to a quarter century of indie rock from germany. This pop export special is all about took a tonic and the video for electric guitar is all about singing songs coming up at each of the single is off the twenty eight team album. Which went straight to the top of the charts. Oh please please. Please. Slave slaves placed slaves plenty of places a few bombs some Place CollegeSuzanne Simons the additional costs player legislated slaves slave slaves plenty of places to play. To spotify little. Every week bob export publishes a new playlist on spotify worth twenty songs all made in germany. Youll also find chart toppers new releases and classic hits follow pa for export on spotify. Touch on the other superheroes of jam and indie rock loved by fans critics. And now. Some of their favorite things about talk atomics twenty five years of history. From the first time i heard it i thought the name talk on it just sounded great kind of technical like. Second hand and i didas tracksuit jackets they were just awful so i mean we all bought these damn jackets corduroy pants in the worn out adidas sneakers only p. E. Teacher is where yuck. But i like them right away because they had such outrageous song titles click. Click click. Click and strive for. Reason must never prevail i really like that i thought it was. Great. But for the most was. I appreciate their music a lot and im always very very curious about their lyrics and i get a human and especially the smart and exciting stories they tell. Me shes. This. Momentous and you can tell those are people who just do their own thing you know i have nothing to match you can see how much they love each other and i think its a very homogenous band. I was in new orleans and theyre all so funny i mean really really funny. Thats one of those tough to be able to leave your own musical mark and to change the countrys fashion all the entire way it looks i think thats something only the greatest achievement. Will do. Now for something to tell inspiration the video for the song this boy is set in a. Single and the album took a tonic. To the german charts in two thousand and two. Little. Little. Called. The a. Little just slid. The little a. Little a. Little. Lower. The little. Please. Please please. Please please. Now more tales of talk of tonic in the extra segments of those pop exports special. Was. Just talk of tronic wouldnt be enough singer so is involved in a number of music projects. Like working with the beat stakes on a soundtrack for the movie chick. In two thousand and fifteen he and theater director rene polish wrote an opera for berlin spokesman it a full orchestra in course instead of guitars and drums. So there would be a role. For not so and producer to mentor also make up the electrode phantom ghost story which. With fribourg one of their very first songs took a tronic upset the entire city of the same name. Good from not so one study there and in the song he pokes fun at how fanatical people in freiburg are about their bicycles later took a tronic stated that fribourg was just a metaphor for any place where people feel excluded meanwhile tempers have cooled. It. Was either way the song became a classic and inspired other musicians as well heres a cover by the electro project console. Germanys indie rock intellectuals are particularly fond of this animated movie series. Are huge fans of toys. The front man derek from lots o. Has a special favorite im lot stronger than bert about that character and also you so you can build up that evil. Empire and under names quite similar to my roots who votes oh im pronounced anti scored also. On their latest album talk of trying to even quotes the toy astronaut buzz lightyear in german india. Feels ita. Everything from the vibrant world of pop music on facebook d w music. Stories stars and the latest from the music scene. Join us in the universe of pop on facebook send us a message we love hearing from you. Talking on expense number one album on the german charts was shot on vonn in twenty ten its lead single luck to sneeze is an ironic takedown of the do it yourself movement and makes fun of german d. I. Y. Retail chains. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please please. Tim ok a twenty fifth anniversary in twenty eighteen took a tronic released an album called. Extended on it saying it defines deep insights into his self telling his love story in song. Things werent necessarily always better in the old days. Doesnt have very fond memories of his youth he grew up in a small city in seven germany and always felt like an outsider. Lizzie might not be here i recall have fearful i was as a child how little courage and cruelty are present stalls and how strongly you perceived threats from other children vicious or mean they can be so maybe because i didnt really fit into the dominant. Image of what the boys were supposed to be you see. This young man represents the younger lot so into trying to just music videos. The album is like an autobiography in twelve songs memoirs that also reveal sad and embarrassing moments in his life. I think many people who write their autobiography tend to avoid these topics. He said to the wall to run over and my memory starts a blur and you start recalling only the nicer moments instead of the tougher ones. Even though they might be much more formative and small since praying. To a secret love affair in the video for electric guitar. Has been colleagues recognize themselves in many of the stories from not so shares. That she even though we do all come from different places and yanna from hamburg im from a small city and back or hundred years remain in the United States but we still all share similar experiences and our discussions just develop from that after came a starting point for this album the point for us i will. See. The longer talk around the greater the pressure becomes for them to keep. Exceeding and their expectations are rising too they no longer into just thrashing away at a guitar. Mind you i was on how we used to just bash out the albums quickly. Or we too good we had fun doing it and it worked well parts retarded but nowadays that wouldnt be the right way for us to do things anymore the a. Six the a two and a half decades of Music History twelve studio albums and took a tronics journey is far from over me at. The beginning and. To test out the show weve got to talk a tonic first ever video reason to make it in seattle dakota this isnt seattle to the song deals with the process of musical self discovery enjoy and well see you soon on exports. Good. To get. Zero zero. Zero. Zero zero. Zero zero the but. The but the but. The be. Subject to. Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut. Cut the budget the budget budget. The. One hundred million tons of sand. Devastating everything in its look at it with deadly consequences. Dust storms. Because of global menace. Once they start theres no stopping them. Those storms fifteen minutes long d. W. How the germans came together in one nation from shanda minute to chancellor bismark. 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