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“Nina relajada” by inthesitymad, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

We’ve said it before: Nina Hagen is the queen. So we’re going to give her the spotlight on this Christmas edition of Music Montag, for a couple of naughty and nice renditions of Weihnachten-themed songs.

First up, enjoy her doing what she does best, getting sacrilegious (ish) over the top of some bonkers acid techno. Then, watch the post-punk icon get visibly outside of her comfort zone, and still nailing it, singing a traditional hymn with an orchestra for French TV. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Naughty: “X- Christmas”

Nice: “Stille Nacht” (Silent Night)

Right now, I’m heavy into East Berlin’s queen of post-punk, Nina Hagen – particularly her 1982 masterpiece Nunsexmonkrock. Listen to the album in full below, or read this great Dangerous Minds article about “The greatest (and weirdest) unsung masterpiece of the postpunk era”.