Publisher and music composer Vic van de Reijt previously released the beautiful box De Top 100 Van de Nederlandstalige Singles, the Dutch-language Cover Top 100 and the French-language compilation Les Meilleurs 69. With this compilation he attempted to divide the history of German-language popular music into three Catch CDs. This results in a colorful collection of artists, among which even Johnny
… Cash's German-language version of I Walk The Line (Wer Kennt Der Weg) has found a place. Although there is a lot to be said about the selection (why Cash and not Beatles with Sie Liebt Dich, why Nena and not Kraftwerk?), The sixty songs are a feast of recognition and (hopefully) mean a revaluation of German as a musical language . (MS)more