Moskau (2004)

added Nov 16, 2009 at 08:37PM UTC

Origin

Moskau is a song from 1979 by the German band Genghis Khan.

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

The song was released in Australia in 1980, the year of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Australia’s Channel 7 used the song as the theme to their television coverage of the Moscow Olympics. The song became a big hit in Australia, staying at #1 for five weeks.

y.t.m.n.d.

The first YTMND of Moskau was created on May 24th, 2004 by foujax and has over 23,000 views with a rating of 3.74 stars.

Moskau by Dschingis KHAN

The most viewed YTMND in this meme was created on April 7th, 2005 by diaboloco and has over 375,000 views with a rating of 4.34 stars.

MOSKAU MOSKAU

The highest scoring YTMND in this meme was created on May 23rd, 2007 by CraterCreator and has over 24,000 views with a rating of 4.55 stars. This one makes use of an intentionally mistranslated lyrics, or soramimi.(see: Phonetic Translations)

Moose/Cow

Some other interesting examples:

To see all Moskau YTMND’s with the most up to date stats, see the YTMND search results.

Youtube

Shortly after Youtube’s launch in 2005, Moskau spread there as well.

The first instance of Moskau on Youtube was uploaded on October 4th, 2005 and has 25,000 views.

The most viewed instance of Moskau on Youtube was uploaded on September 15th, 2006 by user vemendoza and has 3.9 million views.

On November 25th, 2006, popular Youtube “misheard lyrics” artist Buffalax created his version of “Moskau (in English).” This video has 1.6 million views.

[Many more Moskau videos can be viewed in the comments.]

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Nov 17, 2009 at 12:04AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Wow! 582 YTMNDs! That’s quite a bit.
http://ytmnd.com/search?q=moskau

Firegamer, the next step is to sort these by date, provide a link to the first one, then a link to the most viewed.

Next, find the first Youtube video, and the most viewed.

See where I’m going with this?

Nov 17, 2009 at 12:14AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Also, I think there’s something interesting about a German band named after a Mongolian dictator, singing a disco song about the Soviet Union.

Nov 17, 2009 at 12:23AM UTC , Lolrus wrote:

It won’t let me delete the first image :’(

Still undecided on its meme-ish-ness.

Nov 17, 2009 at 12:47AM UTC , RayquazaMaster wrote:

In SSBB, when Mario uses his down smash, he says, “moskau.”

Nov 17, 2009 at 03:40AM UTC , FallenAngel wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lGEJ6qxqyQ

Nov 17, 2009 at 09:01PM UTC , Ben "Jammin" Proctor wrote:

I’m looking.

Nov 17, 2009 at 11:54PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

From what I’ve seen, the song is more about charming, beautiful and festive Moscow city.

Funny thing is, according to wikipedia, they create the band first to take part in the 1979’s Eurovision Song Contest in wich they ended up at the 4th place.

According to some French web-articles on this, the Moskau clip began to be featured on Internet in 2004. Because of its kitsch-looking tackiness and some choreography mishaps, it became instantly famous from that point.