Monarchie und Alltag, the 1980 debut album by Die Fehlfarben, is one of the key releases of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) -- the German equivalent of new wave -- and the album grew in stature over the years and rightly became recognized as a cornerstone of modern German rock. Renowned for decades, the band nonetheless only scored one proper hit, "Ein Jahr (Es Geht Voran)," a song from Monarchie und Alltag that belatedly became a surprise Top 20 smash in 1982, after EMI reissued it as a single during the height of the Neue Deutsche Welle. ~ Jason Birchmeier