Ideal has been played on NTS in shows including Coil Radio, featured first on 7 November 2018. Songs played include Be With Me.

There are four groups with the name Ideal:

1) Ideal was a German Pop band from Berlin, active from 1980 to 1983. Ideal were part of the "Neue Deutsche Welle" movement. The band consisted of Annette Humpe, Ernst Ulrich Deuker, Frank Jürgen Krüger and Hans-Joachim Behrendt.

Well known songs are 'Blaue Augen' (a cover of Annette's former band Neonbabies), 'Berlin', 'Eiszeit' and 'Monotonie'.

During their three years together, the band released three studio albums. A live album was released shortly after the group's split.

Discography: