You can listen to Neubauten go on about feeding an ego, but let's face it, most of their fans listen to that stuff becuase they think it soudns cool, not because their deconstructing any meanings or messages.
Ayup! I got into Neubauten when I was 13, own a vast quantity of their music, saw them live twice, sing (well, not really sing) along to them when I'm baking, etc. It was not until I got bored and mainlined a bunch of interviews with Blixa Bargeld on YouTube that I had any idea that there was any political dimension to their music at all, and there was also a bored-on-the-internet factor when it came to even knowing what the lyrics were or what their non-English songs were about. Because, well, like a good number of their fans, I don't speak any German. I mean, if you'd cornered me and asked, just by listening to them, what I thought their politics were, I'd have guessed that they were probably a bunch of anarchists or communists because only radical leftists would make music that sounds like that, but was that why I got into them? No. I got into them because I turned on the TV and there were a bunch of guys in a scrapyard making music with jackhammers and chainsaws and it was the coolest shit my 13-year-old ass had ever heard.
SP's politics were more obvious (also, English. And printed on the tapes.), but I got into them because I was a morbid kid who liked horror movies, with the environmentalism/animal rights stuff a cool bonus.
but the one thing I didn't read was that gender gaps in industrial music follow the same gaps in all other genres. And yeah, I could go on there as well...
Yes. I mean, in fairness, he wasn't writing about those other genres, but I just don't see it as an industrial-specific problem.
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Date: 2013-12-14 12:44 am (UTC)Ayup! I got into Neubauten when I was 13, own a vast quantity of their music, saw them live twice, sing (well, not really sing) along to them when I'm baking, etc. It was not until I got bored and mainlined a bunch of interviews with Blixa Bargeld on YouTube that I had any idea that there was any political dimension to their music at all, and there was also a bored-on-the-internet factor when it came to even knowing what the lyrics were or what their non-English songs were about. Because, well, like a good number of their fans, I don't speak any German. I mean, if you'd cornered me and asked, just by listening to them, what I thought their politics were, I'd have guessed that they were probably a bunch of anarchists or communists because only radical leftists would make music that sounds like that, but was that why I got into them? No. I got into them because I turned on the TV and there were a bunch of guys in a scrapyard making music with jackhammers and chainsaws and it was the coolest shit my 13-year-old ass had ever heard.
SP's politics were more obvious (also, English. And printed on the tapes.), but I got into them because I was a morbid kid who liked horror movies, with the environmentalism/animal rights stuff a cool bonus.
but the one thing I didn't read was that gender gaps in industrial music follow the same gaps in all other genres. And yeah, I could go on there as well...
Yes. I mean, in fairness, he wasn't writing about those other genres, but I just don't see it as an industrial-specific problem.