Made a 3,5 hour playlist of my favourite German pop & rock songs of the past 5 decades mostly outside the mainstream. For anyone interested in delving some more into German music, this one might be for you!

If you can’t find your way around Tokio Hotel, Helene Fischer, Andreas Bourani or had enough Rammstein and are looking for something a bit more wholesome/alternative/lyrically interesting, you might enjoy this playlist I made. It contains a couple of West German/GDR classics as well as weirder stuff (Nina Hagen), singer-songwriter and some more well-known classics plus some Austrian-artist songs. It’s just the take of a German who dislikes 95% of current German-speaking mainstream music, so perhaps you’ll find yourself in that one. Hope you enjoy.

[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Glf8pXCDshOHyWkFVMUkJ?si=U3labFh0QjmWllGNFe6Mmw](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Glf8pXCDshOHyWkFVMUkJ?si=U3labFh0QjmWllGNFe6Mmw)

Any suggestions for some more musically complex and/or lyrically interesting German-speaking pop/rock songs? Please also add some more by Austrian and Swiss artists if you know some. I’ll be happy to add some!

Btw: I realize it’s not “mostly” outside the mainstream, but only at least partly. I couldn’t change the post description anymore after I hit submit. Would be especially grateful for some more alternative/lesser known good music if you know some!

Edit: Just to avoid confusion, because I didn’t make myself clear initially: This is a playlist of German-**language** music. It also includes Austrian artists (Falco, Wanda etc.).