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# LIFE SOUNDTRACK: Spliff - Herzlichen Glückwunsch
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/2015813life-soundtrack-spliff-herzlichen-glckwunsch/
- Published: 2015-08-13T20:57:34.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-04T06:05:37.000Z
- Author: Oliver Bouchard
- Tags: Music, #oliver-2, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

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Elke already [introduced the Berlin band Spliff](http://www.glamglare.com/music/2015/7/30/life-soundtrack-spliff-85555), whose first two albums were both excellent. They became my favorite band with their second release *Herzlichen Glückwunsch* (“Congratulations”). It has a similar structure like its predecessor *85555* with a weird and trippy opener, a epic closer and a smash hit somewhere in the middle. *Das Blech* (“Sheet Metal”, don’t ask) was the name of the first single and in it keyboarder Reinhold Heil talks (raps?) about a night out at the disco. Like most Spliff songs it is rich on quips: lines like *Bei Wagner muss ich kotzen // bei Mozart werd’ ich krank* (“Wagner makes me vomiting // Mozart makes me sick” resonate well with teenagers at a time when classical music was still considered the “real” kind of music. 

  
With Spliff’s songs it’s often unclear if they are completely nonsensical or have a deeper meaning, like in *Wohin, Wohin?* (“Where To, where To?”) in which drummer Herwig Mitteregger tells the story of a doomed trip through North Africa in his signature, on-the-edge madman’s vocals. Or in *Die Maurer* (“The Masons”), a song about, well, masons (I love the bass line in this one). But on the other side there are songs like the nightmarish *Glaspalast* (“glass palace”), which reflect the dark sides of the 80s zeitgeist. 

The *Neue Deutsche Welle* lasted only a few years, before it melted into the mainstream. While bands like Spliff continued to make music, it somehow had lost the punch of the early years. Today, it is history.