Hotel St. Pauli

So today's song is the final song that plays over the end credits of Hotel St Pauli, one of the worst movies I have seen. The year was 1988, and Wam & Vennerød is a Norwegian moviemaking duo that operated similarly to the Coen brothers - albeit without the quality the Coen brothers consistently display. Svend Wam directed the movie, while he and Petter Vennerød produced it. According to the duo, the movie is about the universal themes of life, death, and love. It is a pretentious piece of crap, if I remember correctly.

But the song, the title track, is so incredibly amazing that it never left the back of my mind - and every now and then it shows up in the front of my mind as well. It has a sense of yearning, or maybe it's a sense of loss? Much like yesterday's song, I am sucked in by the mood more than anything. I keep hearing the song in my mind, and when I searched, I found this copy of it - from the end credits of the movie itself. As this clearly is digitized from an old VHS tape, the quality isn't the best, but I think the song still comes through. This is once again Anne Grethe Preuss, but this time as a solo artist, with the song Hotel St Pauli.

And... If you should want to watch the movie (I am thinking I should do it again to see if I think it is as bad as I remember it), it is available - without subtitles, unfortunately - on YouTube.