Q: A Song For The Fatherland, or what's the best out of Germany?

I just spent 2 weeks back in the land of poets and thinkers (self-advertising), after having been almost four years away, and not much has changed in the big G's total contribution to world pop culture. Predictably, German hip-hop (shudder) is now massive and has reached the beverage market on the corner, and dark and dangerous (if somewhat wooden) rhymes from the suburbs of Stuttgard and Frankfurt are now wedged between the sanitary products ads on the radio. And little else seems to be happening. So time for a little Rückschau (look back in a bad mood). What was the best stuff to come out of Germany the last couple of decades.
Well, to clear the nasal tracts, let's get the seventies out of the way: Krautrock, Can, Tangerine Dream are awful and overrated, Udo and the Scorpions only slightly preferable to appendicitis, and Kraftwerk a nuisance the first time round. Let's also exclude (rule 12, subsection b) all music completely devoid of humour (Techno, Rammstein etc), and, for practical purposes, all poets and thinkers (hamburger schule, blumfeld etc), because nobody understands them anyway. This leaves, you guessed it (you did, didn't you?) ... tada! ... the Eighties.
The time of Interzone! The time of Trio! The time of Ideal!
Yes, in my humble opinion, the Germans were at their best in 1980, when they came up with some fresh approaches to pop music. The attitude was 'gimme dat casio, set the timer to 3:33, and eins, zwei, drei, fuck krautrock'. It was a brief flare of creativity, and accompanyed by a lot of fecal matter, but still my definitive pick for Germany in the '80 files around the world' compilation. So here is a track by Ideal (from Ideal, 1980, out of print), which translates as 'Red Love'. Right on.

A: Ideal - Rote Liebe