uli Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 (edited) maybe one had to grow up in a german speaking alpine country. i could never totally avoid him. he was in the jukeboxes of every alpine ski bar probably. i even did not mind him. too much this shit was aways kind of funny too me. it was obvious for me that it was more for the older people. he lead the charts in german folk, schlager and even pop he did well and now sings for aging punksand metal fans or what ever it is that he does. the fact is that he sold more million albums than the beatles in germany and still sings that his dream is to get that villa on an alpine lake for his old lady. from a pop kinda way he is a genius to me like Andy Warhol. .for me they even lookalikes. longstory short i find this fascinating and funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-39Unh0X2E Edited March 21, 2015 by uli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Strange that Heino's name should come up on this forum with its decided U.S. slant. Yes he was BIG as a singer of German pseudo-folk music "schlager" pop for decades (often with decidedly old-fashioned lyrics) but his presence certainly was not limited to the Alpine region(s). Heino always was Heino and a category by himself. I can't say I really hated his records leaning on "German folk music" clichés - we rather tended to dismiss him as laughable in our age group, and as time went by it became clear he apealed mostly to an older audience, i.e. not just the younger fans he had in the early 70s that had grown older along with him but an audience that was decidedly older than that. It was pretty amazing when he all of a sudden started to go all "rock" and appear in leather attire and all that some time ago. Can't say many from my generation took this all too seriously - more a bit like that turnaround Tom Jones did in the late 90s when he suddenly sounded like a whitish James Brown. Though many younger ones apparently found this "new" Heino entertaining enough to go wild at his concerts, including at the no. 1 heavy metal festival at Wacken in Northern Germany here. A most unlikely venue for somebody like him. Never mind that interview linked above cannot be viewed here; I saw in on TV the other day and he probably said more or less the same things there. No matter if you like his current act or not , find it convincing or consider it just like a clever marketing plot - you've got to hand it to him: He does what he feels like doing, doesn't give a d.mn about what the music establishment says or whether he is taken seriously by everybody out there, knowing that he doesn't have to prove a d.mn thing anymore, and he clearly relishes the fact that, by his own statement, he has reduced the avarage age of his audience by 40 years. So in some way what he does now seems to be more sincere (by pop music standards ) than all those artificial "Pop Idol" casting show clones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) A great visual presence. He must hold a record for the artist with the largest number of great record covers containing the worst music you would ever want to hear. And I am half German, so that is not a slight against our Teutonic brethren. My wife and I have at times cleared late-night parties by putting on a Heino LP. Liebe Mutter is the greatest album cover ever made, better than every Blue Note sleeve put together. Jello Biafra mused that it looks like the roses are going to explode after they are delivered. Edited March 22, 2015 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Don't tell me there is a "Heino" category in your collection of "Exotica" records, TTK! That late-night party clearout stunt sounds familiar ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Don't tell me there is a "Heino" category in your collection of "Exotica" records, TTK! That late-night party clearout stunt sounds familiar ... I wouldn't DREAM of filing him in the exotica section. That is for true exotica - Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Yma Sumac, and the many one-offs. Heino is filed in a miscellaneous section that includes children's records, Leonard Nimoy, weird religious albums, and other unclassifiable music. I would NEVER pass up a Heino album for a dollar or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) There is/was a record store in Central Square in Cambridge called Cheapo Records. In the early/mid-1990s, the used LPs were on the street level, but the basement had all sealed LPs. It was like the record store that time forgot. It was like looking through cutout bins from the early 1970s. All kinds of sealed stuff for cheap that you couldn't find anyplace else. This is where I found The Many Moods of Murry Wilson. Anyway, they had all these sealed Heino LPs, and I would always spend such a long time looking at the images; this was pre-internet. I was poor and bought only one at the time. This is the one I bought. I thought he looked like such a suave international jet setter: The Heino section soon disappeared entirely. Someone must have picked up Incredibly Strange Music and bought the entire stock to sell on eBay. Edited March 22, 2015 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli Posted March 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) by his own statement, he has reduced the avarage age of his audience by 40 years. maybe we could file it under under progressive krautpop i don't have that problem as i don't have any records he was just always around weather in juke boxes or tv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcjncd3KWdg Edited March 23, 2015 by uli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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