Codo (song)
"Codo … düse im Sauseschritt" is a song by the Neue Deutsche Welle band Deutsch-Österreichisches Feingefühl.
Release
Initially charting in Germany's Top 100 Singles on 4 July 1983, "Codo" rose up the chart before peaking at number-one on 8 August that year, making it the last Neue Deutsche Welle song on record to attain that peak in the GfK Entertainment charts.Critical reception
American historian Claudia Lonkin noted that the song was a social critique on hatefulness and the division of global society, with Codo playing the role of a "benevolent outsider" who triumphs in abolishing the "global hate regime". However, a reporter for the Deutsch Centre criticized the single for being shallow, stating that it, alongside much of NDW music, was "cringeworthy bordering embarassing."Copyright disputes
Similarities to the "Buffy theme"
Codo contains a chord progression that is very similar to the "Buffy theme", the theme song of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an American TV series that was first aired in the late 1990s.In 2006, Nerf Herder, the band that composed and performed that tune, said that they had "never heard of Döf", and the similarity was "coincidental". Back in 1999, Nerf Herder lead singer, Parry Grip gave the background on the writing of the melody, the original melody was not written specifically for the show, it had been in place before Whedon contacted the band asking them to submit a demo for a theme tune,