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B-side
  
Heiss

Format
  
7" single

Released
  
1978 August 29, 1979

Length
  
5:15

Recorded
  
1977 Hansa Tonstudio, Berlin

Genre
  
Rock post-punk new wave

"TV-Glotzer" is a song by Nina Hagen Band, first released in 1978 by CBS Records and later, on August 29, 1979 released in United Kingdom. The song is a cover of "White Punks On Dope" by The Tubes, with different German lyrics from the perspective of an East German unable to leave her country, who escapes by watching West German television, where "everything is so colorful". Hagen wrote the song before being expatriated from East Germany in 1976, following her stepfather Wolf Biermann. Later, when she formed the Nina Hagen Band in the West Berlin, they recorded the song and it became the lead single from their debut album Nina Hagen Band (1978).

Contents

Track listings

  • 7" single (Germany)
    1. "TV-Glotzer (White Punks On Dope)" – 5:15
    2. "Heiss" – 4:11
  • 7" single (UK)
    1. "TV-Glotzer (White Punks On Dope)" – 5:15
    2. "Naturträne" – 4:05

    Credits and personnel

  • Nina Hagen – vocals, songwriter
  • Reinhold Heil – keyboards
  • Herwig Mitteregger – drums
  • Bernhard Potschka – guitar
  • Manfred Praeker – bass
  • Tom Müller – producer, engineer

    • References

    TV-Glotzer Wikipedia
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