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Originally Posted by hawkeye
I think that the video makes it pretty damn clear, even if you're just an ig'nant 'merican like me.
and as I said, I don't care, most of my favourite bands have a different political philosophy than I do, I don't listen to music for the politics, I listen for the Music.
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Exactly. Music, to me, is part of an escape from the nonsense of the world.
I disagree with people who call the music simple. The layered uses of the sound effects and varied instruments (like the harmonica on the new disc) that are blended perfectly with the melody. That's what I love, that fact that the vocals are so abrasive, the guitar sound so thick, yet most of the tunes are friggen melodic beyond belief.
And the reason their lyrics often don't make sense is because some of them can't be translated directly into English because of things like German slang and puns. The band has pretty much said this themselves. That's why their English versions of Du Hast and Angel aren't sung as word for word translations. They changed some of the words when they wrote it in English.
This website is pretty informative, and also has loose translations of the lyrics:
http://herzeleid.com/
I like the new album. It kinda tails off at the end with the last 3 songs or so though as they are mid-tempo or slower. My favorite track is definitely "Los", kick ass song from top to bottom. "Keine Lust," "Dalai Lama" and "Moskau" would be my next favorites.