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For the longest time, I've had a very silly song of unknown origin called "Moscau" on my hard drive. I wasn't sure what language it was in, or what the lyrics were other than that they were singing about Moscow in a rather discoy, mock-Russian way. Well, thanks to a commenter on my Disco Moscow post I have more info (thanks Greg!).

The artist is a German band called Dschinghis Khan. The song is Moskau, track number 1 on their 1979, self-titled album. The lyrics (local mirror, poor Babelfish German-to-English translation) seem to praise Moscow. I'm still a bit unsure if it's sarcastic or not, particularly as there are lyrics like:

Come we dance on the table
Until the table breaks down

Whatever the case, there are traces of the group on the web:

• Greg pointed out one of the most amazing music videos I've seen in a long time.
• thebronsteins.com has a copy of a video of one of their live performances
• As pointed out in the above site, you can buy their "best of" CD on Amazon
• my pugglechump entry which has most of these links.
• An excellent German fan site devoted to Dschinghis Khan. Make sure to check out the photo galleries. Some of those photos there are astounding.
• 2005-03-21: Boingboing discovered this video today. There's another link to a copy of the Moskau video there.