One more German connection, and then I’ll move on:  About a year ago, I found another great German New Wave album from 1982 by Nervösen Deutschen (“Nervous Germans”), called Desolation Zone (or Nervous Germans).  As with Ja Ja Ja, the cover was irresistible.  The first song on Side 2 is “Germans Can’t Rock’n’Roll” – and is that ever not at all true! 

(April 2013)