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[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Memento

Deutschland - 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

[mexpatriot.livejournal.com]

Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland, Baby

Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland

[matrixmann]

Is this an official video or is it a compilation of material someone else has done on YouTube?

Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't watch the video. I just remembered this song from the 80s that fit the theme. Foetus is quite humorous. He's apolitical.

Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland

[mexpatriot.livejournal.com]

I wasn't logged in before.

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

[matrixmann]

I did some research on the project before unscreening the coment.

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

[mexpatriot.livejournal.com]

Yes! Tanz den Mussolini! It is in line with that stuff. He was friends with Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Marc Almond, Neubauten...

Re: Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: I'll Meet You in Poland

[matrixmann]

Yeah, that guy already collaborated with a lot of people famous names - so far I've seen it through the texts I looked at.
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

[mexpatriot.livejournal.com]

Foetus is interesting because of his humour and because he is a one-man-band. That song is like a romantic relationship between Hitler and Stalin. After all, they both invaded Poland at the same time. The lovers' rendezvous.

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

[matrixmann]

Ah, das you're saying "is like a romantic relationship between Hitler and Stalin", this rings a bell in me...
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?