Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder...

Bligg - Rosalie (The lovely story of a girl, Rosalie, who’s sitting all alone in a café on a sunday morning, until a guy starts talking to her, gives her roses, makes her compliments and gives her the full treatment, just to tell her he’s actually selling the roses for five bucks each)

Patent Ochsner - W. Nuss vo Bümpliz (1996)

There are a few swiss band’s/ musicians that i like, even fewer that i like allthough they sing in swiss german. Patent Ochsner is without doubt the closest to being epic.

The thing with this song is - nobody knows what it is actually about. “W. Nuss” is spoken exacly like “Venus” in german. “Nuss” means “Nut”, like hazelnut, but a “W. Nut” or “W-Nut” doesn’t make any sense. A lot of people think “W. Nuss” is a name, which is possible since names like “Nuss” are quite common in Switzerland. Some people think tha song is refering to an old tree or the city itself. The band doesn’t give any hints in interviews, and i think this makes the whole song even greater.

Bümpliz is a small city in the west of Bern (the official capitol of Switzerland, allthough people from Zurich know that Zurich is the real capitol city).

Here are the original lyrics and an english translation :

(ae=ä; oe=ö; ue=ü. I hope software in other languages doesn’t convert this to gibberish, otherwise this explanation is massively useless. Also, don’t worry about weird capitalizations, in german and swiss german, nouns start with upper case letters)

D’W. Nuss vo Bümpliz geit duer d’Strass  W. nuss (or Venus) of/ from Buempliz walks the streets
liecht u flüchtig, wie nes Gas light and fleeting, like a gas,
so unerreichbar höch  so unreachable high.
bockstössigi Himbeerbuebe (in this case, ue is actually spoken ue, not ü) goatish (?) raspberryboys,
schüch u brav wie Schaf  shy and well-behaved like sheep
schön fönfrisiert  with neatly done hair
chöme tubetänzig nöch come (tubetaenzig isn’t even a wort, it’s supposed to mean something like “dancing like doves) close
u d’Spargle wachse i bluetjung Morge  and the asparagus grows in the blooming morning,
d’Sunne chunnt ‘s wird langsam warm  the sun comes up it’s getting warm.

sie het meh als hundert Ching  She’s got more than a hundred kids
u jede Frühlig git’s es nöis  and every spring she gets a new one.
het d’Chiuchefänschterouge off  She’s got her churchwindow-eyes open
u macht se zue bi jedem Kuss  and closes them with every kiss.
u we sie lachet wärde Bärge zu Schtoub  And when she’s smiling mountains turn into dust
u jedes zäihe Läderhärz wird weich  and every though leatherheart turns soft.

D’W. Nuss vo Bümpliz   W. Nuss of/ from Buempliz
isch schän win es Führ i dr Nacht   is beautiful like a fire at night
win e Rose im Schnee   like a rose in the snow
we se gseh duss in Bümpliz   when see her out in Bümpliz
de schlat mir mys Härz hert i Hals    my heart my hearth pounds in my throath
u i gseh win i ungergah   and i see how i go down/ drown

sie wohnt im ne Huus us Glas   she lives in a house of glass
hinger Türe ohni Schloss   behind doors without a lock
gseht dür jedi Muur   sees through every wall
dänkt wi nes Führwärch   thinks like fireworks
win e Zuckerstock   like a sugarkcane
läbt win e Wasserfau   lives like a waterfall
für sie git’s nuet, wo’s nid git   for her, there’s nothing that doesn’t exist
u aus wo’s git, git’s nid für ging   and everything that exist, doesn’t exist forever
sie nimmt’s wie’s chunnt u lat’s la gah  she takes it as it comes an let’s it go

Swiss german has a lot of different accents. This song is in “Bärndüütsch”, the accent of Bern, which is mocked for being the slowest accent in Switzerland. Since it’s not the accent i grew up with, there are some words that even i don’t understand, i apologize.

I hope you can read the lyrics, sorry for the horrble layout.

Stress - Libéré

Old, but still great.

Stess feat. Karolyn - Tous les Mémes (all the same)

Stress again, this time featuring Karoly, whom i adore.

And the girls in the clip playing his wife is Melanie Winiger, an Ex-Miss Switzerland and Stress’ girlfriend in real life.

Stress - Fuck Stress

I don’t like rap and shit, but he’s great and so much yummy.

Dabu Fantastic - Discochugle (Disco ball)

The vid was made in one of my favourite Clubs in Zurich, the Bling.

Futurekids - Schebegeil (i won’t even try to translate this…)

Philipp Fankhauser - Please come on home

He’s one of the (if not the) most successful singers of Switzerland.

Baschi - Kensch mi no oder liebsch mi scho? (Do you still know me or do you love me already?)

Not posting because i like him (i don’t. he’s facken sexy, but a complete idiot), but because he’s successful in Switzerland.

James Gruntz - Song to the sea

Couldn’t decide wich one to post, so i posted “Good Times” and this one.

James Gruntz - Good Times

Steff la Cheffe - Annabelle

I love her.