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matrixmannOriginally posted by matrixmann at Memento
Deutschland - Polen.
Beginn des zweiten Weltkrieges.
Germany - Poland.
Beginning of World War II.
matrixmann at MementoDeutschland - Polen.
Beginn des zweiten Weltkrieges.
Germany - Poland.
Beginning of World War II.
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Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 3 September 2017 12:20 am (UTC)Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 3 September 2017 07:15 am (UTC)Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 3 September 2017 04:02 pm (UTC)Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 3 September 2017 04:06 pm (UTC)I didn't watch the video. It just remembered the song from the 80s because it fit the theme. Foetus (J. G. Thirlwell) is apolitical and quite humorous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foetus_(band)
Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 3 September 2017 04:27 pm (UTC)If apolitical or not, I won't be able to say anything about that, but the time episode it is from (discogs says 1984, if that's correct) and the kind of music it is labeled as - well, seems like it's something from the early days of the beginnings of Industrial and EBM. And that stuff I know about from my younger days, how I need to take it. The war topics were full part of the concept. It didn't have anything to do with glorifying Nazi stuff.
(Think the most famous song perhaps from that time episode and genre is "Der Mussolini" by DAF. At least this might be known to a larger audience, not only some subculture.)
Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 3 September 2017 04:41 pm (UTC)Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 3 September 2017 06:33 pm (UTC)I remembered it because of the line "See you at your graveside, baby" - basically that says "in Poland, death's waiting for you" - and that kind of subtle materal in connection with war stuff, I know that. It's been a long time ago, but I remember what I've read about the beginnings of the Industrial / EBM scene and what meaning it had from the side of the musicians.
Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 4 September 2017 04:12 am (UTC)I love other Industrial things. Neubauten sounded so harsh, but were basically writing love songs.
Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland
Date: 4 September 2017 07:14 am (UTC)I think it was the first song from KMFDM's first record - gosh, what was it's name? Discogs says "What do you know, Deutschland?" -, this one also had a pattern like this.
Well, I don't know what was mindset of the 80s, if that was one way possible to talk about those topics without getting arrested, or if that was the view as people in the West saw it with WWII - you know, talking about one's personal experiences in WWII is only a thing of more recent times, perhaps little by little started in the 90s, but fully was in effect than only after the millennium.
Remembering that song, Track 1 on that said record, it had a character like that too. Somebody back then in my younger days drew me a political conclusion from that, but I didn't get why.
Guess then I didn't know enough about that music, right?