“Ja, ja, ja, now we’re gonna spit on our fingers, we are going to enhance the gross nationwide product!” is the chorus from Geier Sturzflug’s greatest hit. The band’s “Gross Nationwide Product” topped Germany’s pop charts in 1983, when the nation’s work ethic was nonetheless ferocious: “when grandpa will get on his bike on Sunday/and sneaks into the manufacturing facility/then grandma worries he’ll collapse/as a result of grandpa is working an additional shift once more right this moment.”
