Classic Oktoberfest songs

Gonna make a compliation of the "best" <cough> Wies'n songs.
Suggestions please, cheers muchly.

1 The ketchup Song

2. Is This the Way to Amarillo?

3. Take me home country roads (because of this song every German thinks I am from West Virginia)

4. Does '54, '74, '90, 2006/10 count (pardon the pun)?

Das Kufsteiner Liedl

Why not mix in some of the cover tracks from Global Kryner as well?

They do a fanstic oompa version of eye of the tiger.

I'm new here. Is it some sort of custom that people only add one song?

Hang on, this is going to sting a little. In no particular order:

Spider Murphy Gang - Skandal im Sperrbezirk
Opus - Live is Life
just about anything from DJ Oetzi
Zillertaler Schuerzenjaeger - Dahoam is dohoam
Extrabreit - Flieger, gruess mir die Sonne
Schuerzenjaeger - Timple Boarischer
STS - Goe, du bleibst heut nacht bei mir
just about anything (everything?) from Hermes House Band
Die Kolibris - Die Haende zum Himmel
Geier Sturzflug - Pure Lust am Leben
Alpensepp - Lieschen
Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5
Geier Sturzflug - Bruttosozialprodukt
Antonia - Er hat ein knallrotes Gummiboot
Drafi Deutscher - Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht, aber unser Liebe nicht! Alles, alles geht vorbei, doch wir uns... ahem.
STS - Fuerstenfeld
Hubert Kah, Sternenhimmel
Schuerzenjaeger - Dafuer mach ma Musik
Frameless - Black and White (od. Schwarz und Weiss)
EAV - Drei weisse Tauben

No, it's just more fun that way.

P.S. Welcome to Toytown!

A few have already been mentioned in this thread: Oktoberfest song lyrics - Bavarian drinking songs

I think "Über den Wolken" is a pretty standard beer tent song.

sweet home alabama

They don't sing "An der Nordseeküste" on the Wiesn? I thought they did. It's a famous German drinking song.

A few years ago "Who the f**k is Alice" was a Wies'n hit.

... ab in den Sueden!!!
Hey baby
In Muenchen steht ein Hochbraeuhaus

only three weeks to go.

I got a Ofest CD a few years ago at Müller for 5 Euro,
had most songs listed plus
bett in kornfeld
Hey Baby
Eisen, Stein und Marmor
La Bamba
La bomba
New York New York
Anton aus Tirol
Ich war noch niemals in NewYork

have fun

yeah the nordsee is a little toooo far north of the Weisswurstequator. They only play Viva Colonia with a grudge and then often they try and bavarianise the lyrics (Viva Bavaria just doesn't sound right, neh?)

Sierra Madre (love the swaying)
Griechische Wein
ich bin wieder Heim...
Er gehört zu mir...
Hölle Hölle Hölle
The Final Countdown

The most annoying song award goes to: Hey Baby Ooh Ahh...etc. It usually takes about a month or more to get it out of me head.

Forgot Europe: The Final Countdown

Que Sera Sera (sp?)...whatever will be, will be...

I remember hearing Opus with "Life is Live" many many times my first Oktoberfest, but it seems to have gone out of fashion.

wahnsinn(Hoelle, hoelle, hoelle)
summer of 69
In Muenchen steht ein Hofbrauhaus
Ab in den Sueden
Die Haende zu Himmel
We are the Champions
Schickeria
Proud Mary
Angel- Robin Williams

These are the hits from Hacker Zelt

Rot-Weiss yuppie-knacker shite.

Choon that's nice to hear bein played this year ...which was being rinsed in the Löwenbräu tent yesterday is the Kaiser Chiefs' Ruby

I haven't heard one single Viva Bavaria this year, anyone else? It's all been Colonia every time.

A couple of weeks ago I had a cd of the German top 100, on that cd were at least six different versions of "Ein Stern der deine Name trägt" (for example "Eine Frau, die du nach Hause trägt")... so I had expected that this song would be a bit hit at the Oktoberfest. Until so far I have only heard it twice.

They played that at the Hofbräutent last Friday as a final song to basically tell everybody to bugger off.

I'm presuming Stern or Ruby will be named as the top song?

In the Teufelsrad tonight they played "Eine Frau, die mich nach Hause trägt, die zu mir sich schlafen legt, die suche ich heute Nacht." Another verse mentioned how this wonderful girl would put aspirin on his pillow too. I've heard the original text many many times this Fest.

http://www.loewenbraeu.de/4_gastro_events/...stat_webcam.htm has downloadable versions of all the Wiesn favourites. It does get you in the party mood but it's hard when you're not in Munich to enjoy it in the flesh.

This is my chance to post a youtube link I found hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQPbLIsmh4

I did not see the following songs listed: ( Big in recent years)

Stones - Satisfaction
Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

I always thought Jimmy Buffet's "Margueritaville" would be a good evening song in the larger tents..

I'm compiling a playlist for a giant Oktoberfest here in Pennsylvania Dutch country and am looking for an Oktoberfest band recording of Country Roads. All the rest are easily found on I Tunes. Any suggestions of a CD or music site for a download?

Darn- looks like the downloadable songs are gone.

Kupe

While hits come and go there is a core collection of very traditional Oktoberfest songs that continue to be standard - classics.
Trouble is that everyone around you knows the lyrics and tunes but you do not.
Not quite as fun- but with a songbook you can join in immediately.

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