MUSIC ADDICTIONS
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Okay, I’ve got another music offering that’s totally different because I contain multitudes.
Do you want an excuse to feel fucking moved? Like… no joke, tears are practically guaranteed to happen.
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@Pavel Also amazing! Thank you!
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Rammstein have a new album out, titled Zeit.
For anyone who doesn’t know, they’re German industrial metal, and they have a well-deserved reputation for shock tactics and artistically-done videos that leave people uncomfortable and thinking. They stood on a stage in a packed stadium in Moscow and two of the guys kissed, and one of them went crowd surfing in a rubber dinghy in Poland with a pride flag. Brave and brilliant, it’s a winning combination.
The singles (none of which are really going to be SFW, they’re German and they like to shock): Zick Zack is both hilarious and very much a statement, I just about wet myself laughing the first time I saw it but it still left me thinking. Angst is classic Rammstein, a hell of a lot packed into one small track. Zeit is also classic Rammstein and but very much less SFW than the other two, which is saying something. The last one is cued up to watch - I haven’t had the chance to see it yet, but the title is entertaining for English speakers.
Off to see them live next month. Can’t wait.
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@Evilgrayson I would post a gif here to give an example of what you mean, but I forgot how spoiler tags work.
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@Testament Spoiler tags aren’t included by default in NodeBB as far as I can tell. If people feel a need for them you can throw a thread up on the feedback category tho.
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@Tez Well, I just assumed that nobody needed to see Till Lindermann operating a giant mechanical dong spewing the white soap bubbles.
Hence spoiler tags.
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@Testament BUT IT’S CLASSIC!
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@Evilgrayson New album is solid only listen to it 5 times. Have not devoted myself to it yet.
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All mentions of cliques remind me of this song I can’t stop listening to. Clique.
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My new album addiction was turned into a film. It is about racial issues. So that this is a warning, but it is so good!
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I’m going to blame this on Stranger Things, but I started listening to Metallica again for the first time in…decades? I can recall being a freshmen in high school and hearing the Load album over and over again. And while a lot of people think Load and Reload were low points for the band, I think the album has oddly aged really well.
Or this is really extreme nostalgia working on me. But King Nothing and Outlaw Torn are still bangers.
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Similarly, I’m going to blame Stranger Things for making me wander around the house singing “Running Up That Hill” and driving my partner crazy. The Totem remix from the finale fucking slapped.
Stranger Things Season 4 - Running Up That Hill - Totem Remix
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I (suspect I) got Covid at Primus, but between the need to get out to the city for a visit with my still-grieving-but-definitely-better daughter that didn’t center on tragedy or emergency fixes of shit that needed fixing before it broke and really wanting to see Primus not-at-an-Ozzfest, I mean… worth it. Les Claypool had a huge influence on my during my first pass through college, when my majors were music performance and recording.
Clips from the actual show here.
The opening group was some dark, trancy, old school gothy shit called Black Angel and I really wish I’d been able to make it through the gauntlet that was GSR to find their merch, assuming they had any. I LOVED them and I hope I get a chance to see more from them sometime soon. Here’s a link to a page with some of their stuff.
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@eye8urcake PRIMUS! Is the best!
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Had a conversation today with a co-worker who’s far younger than I am. Talked how he had just got into this band called Alice in Chains and I thought it was adorable, while at the same trying to not think of the grey hairs in my beard. So I’m listening to him talk and regret how he wasn’t born yet when Lane Staley passed away and he started to ask, “So what the hell is Rooster about?”
And I had totally forgotten until he asked that that song was written by Jerry Cantrell about his dad, who had been in Vietnam. Jerry never had a great relationship with his dad because of his father’s PTSD from the war, so he tried to write a song from his dad’s perspective about what it was like being in the war. He named it Rooster because that was what his grandfather had called his dad, because ‘he walked with a strut like a rooster’. And when he played it for his dad, asking him if had gotten close, his dad just said “You got too close. You did good.”
After explaining this to my co-worker he was like ‘what the fuck, I never knew that song makes so much more sense’. I agreed, stating the song is far heavier than people realize.
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A+ on the Gogol Bordello. The first time I saw them was in 2006, pictured below via my shitty flip-phone capture. Two years later I started dating @insomniac and even when we were dead broke, they were the band that would scrounge money to go see every single time they came to town.
At this point, we’ve been to so many of their shows I’ve literally lost count.
ETA: The other band we will always go see if they’re within a two hour drive of us is The Struts. Seriously, if you see Gogol Bordello or The Struts live and say you had a bad time at the show, Imma just go ahead and assume it’s because you’re a soulless automaton who hates joy.
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@hellfrog NEW ALBUM IN SEPT!
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@BloodAngel said in MUSIC ADDICTIONS:
@hellfrog NEW ALBUM IN SEPT!
September 16, to be exact.
They’re also going back on tour in October, but the closest they’re going to be to Philly in the dates they’ve listed so far is Pittsburgh. <grumbles>
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@Aria Same. Can’t see them so sad.
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@BloodAngel I’m honestly pretty surprised. With the band having historically been based out of New York, they usually swing through either right at the start or the end of a tour and if they don’t come here, at least play somewhere in Eastern PA. (Seeing them in Stroudsburg was kind of weird, though, ngl.)
I generally find that they update their Instagram a little bit earlier than their newsletter or their website. If you don’t follow them there and want to catch updates on additional stops they might add, that’s how I get their latest.
