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Thursday, November 03, 2005

What kind of music do YOU listen to???

In preparation for my trip to Berlin this weekend, I was browsing some music listings. I have to share, because I just kept laughing out loud at the descriptions of the bands. In these listings (NONE of which I made up, I swear), the name of the band is listed first, then their category of music. If you don’t believe me that I didn’t make these up, here’s the link http://www.zitty.de/event/music/index.asp?s=1&e=C

Torchous
Post-Noise, Chanson-Core

Strings Like Wings
Deep-Purple-Cover

Six Reasons to Kill
Melodic Trash Metal

Action
Hardcore aus Tschechien - ''Beatdown Massacre''

(Hardcore beatdown massacre music from Chechnya, sounds lovely!)

Cosma
Rock - ''destination: Rock!''

(Recently I saw an ad for some special exhibit about Martin Luther that was entitled: “Luther!“ That cracks me up every time I think about it, like it’s the title song from a new Broadway musical and someone dressed in a brown cassock is going to come dancing onto the stage with a hammer and a manifesto.)

Cowboys On Dope
Psychedelic Country Rock

Disgrace
Hi-Energy-Punk-n-Roll

Fat Chaplin
Groovy Hardrock

Gods On Vacation
Stoner Rock

(Is there supposed to be an apostrophe in here somewhere?)

Kesseteens
Desperate Glam Punk 'n' Roll

(Are they desperately glam, or just desperate?)

Klingonz
(GB) – Psycho

Lipstick
Post Apocalyptic Electro

Lumpen
(I) - Antifascist Streetpunk

Mantas 666
(Ex-Venom), Support

Phantom Rockers
(USA) – Psychobilly

Porcupine Tree
Psychedelic Space Rock

Rekkord
Funky Blowpop

Skambankt
(S) – Schweinerock

(If you eat schwein, then you listen to schweinrock.)

Female Distortion
Human Eaters – Rock

(I eat humans, therefore, I listen to Human Eaters-Rock.)

1 Comments:

  • Hey you didn't mention Germany's biggest contribution to music, namely, schlagers. It's the ultimately assault on the senses.

    Not to sound like a nerd or anything, although I am, but Tschechien actually means Czech Republic. Chechnya is probably Tschetschenien. That still begs the question what massacre has to do with the Czechs. Funny how Tschechien is one of the few words where the Germans have come up with a shorter word than the English for the same concept. I dare anyone to find a word longer than "Reichseisenbahnhinundherschiebershaueschen", or the small house of the state railway employee who shifts the tracks.

    By Blogger Drezijn, at 12:14 AM  

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