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'''Moskau Moskau''' is a [http://moskaudance.ytmnd.com YTMND] by user diabloloco. It was created on April 7, 2005 and is the inspiration for the Moskau fad. It's components are an animated gif of the German disco group Dschinghis Khan dancing during a television appearance, an excerpt from their song Moskau, and text that reads "LONG LIVE DSCHINGHIS KHAN."
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'''Moskau''' is a 1979 song by the German disco group Dschinghis Khan. It has since gained popularity on many parts of the internet, including YTMND.
  
Although the fad started with this site, [http://moskau.ytmnd.com/ Moskau by Dschingis KHAN] by foujax was created almost a year earlier, and {{ytmnduser|Edgar-Mullins}}'s {{ytmnd|moscow|Moscow}}, another 2004 site, even has the same animated dance (though on a slightly different, slower, uncropped GIF). Sites often depict various people dancing in a similar fashion to the dancers in the video, specifically the middle dancer.
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== The Song ==
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"Moskau" (the German word for Moscow) was a single off the group's 1979 self-titled debut album. It was released in Australia in 1980 to correspond with the Moscow Olympics and became a #1 hit for six weeks. More recently, it was played at the opening of the 2009 Eurovision contest, which was held in Moscow.
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Despite what some might think, due to its title and the group's dress and style of dancing, "Moskau" isn't Russian, but German.
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== The Fad ==
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Although two other sites featuring the song, {{ytmnd|moskau|Moskau by Dschingis KHAN}} by foujax and {{ytmnd|moscow|Moscow}} by Edgar-Mullins, were released in 2004, the most popular, and the version considered to have started the fad, was the 2005 site {{ytmnd|moskaudance|Moskau Moskau}} by user diabloloco. This site had an animated gif of the German disco group Dschinghis Khan dancing during a television appearance, an excerpt from the song, and text that read "LONG LIVE DSCHINGHIS KHAN."
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Sites often depict various people dancing in a similar fashion to the dancers in the video, specifically the middle dancer.
  
 
Moskau was included on Volume 5 of the [[YTMND Soundtrack]].
 
Moskau was included on Volume 5 of the [[YTMND Soundtrack]].
  
 
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Latest revision as of 17:42, September 10, 2012

Moskau
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Original YTMND:
MOSKAU MOSKAU  
by diabloloco 
April 7, 2005  
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Moskau is a 1979 song by the German disco group Dschinghis Khan. It has since gained popularity on many parts of the internet, including YTMND.

The Song

"Moskau" (the German word for Moscow) was a single off the group's 1979 self-titled debut album. It was released in Australia in 1980 to correspond with the Moscow Olympics and became a #1 hit for six weeks. More recently, it was played at the opening of the 2009 Eurovision contest, which was held in Moscow.

Despite what some might think, due to its title and the group's dress and style of dancing, "Moskau" isn't Russian, but German.

The Fad

Although two other sites featuring the song, Moskau by Dschingis KHAN by foujax and Moscow by Edgar-Mullins, were released in 2004, the most popular, and the version considered to have started the fad, was the 2005 site Moskau Moskau by user diabloloco. This site had an animated gif of the German disco group Dschinghis Khan dancing during a television appearance, an excerpt from the song, and text that read "LONG LIVE DSCHINGHIS KHAN."

Sites often depict various people dancing in a similar fashion to the dancers in the video, specifically the middle dancer.

Moskau was included on Volume 5 of the YTMND Soundtrack.

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