Off: Music help

Christian Mumford cannibal at CUTEY.COM
Thu Dec 4 19:22:15 EST 1997


At 23:25 04.12.97 -0000, Andy Gilham wrote:

>[SMTP:cannibal at CUTEY.COM] wrote:
>> I think the use of the Swastika with Lemmy, Sid Viscious, Siouxie Sioux,
>> Laibach - the latter in particular - is also that its a symbol so firmly
>> drenched in the stigma of WWII it is bound to provoke on either side.
>
>Yeah, but the *really* provocative thing about Laibach is their name, which
>is the *German* name for Ljubljana!

Excactly! And the way they mix all the imagery that's trampled over that
little place in the name of this and that, and their end result seems to be
fascism=nationalism=communism=??????

Apocalyptic in their time, but now they are a sort of industrial Spinal Tap,
albeit still pretty chilling (they were ok when they played here last year
tho). They sort of lost some footing with the fall of Soviet/eastern bloc,
though their NATO album was pretty great. I like their concept of NSK/the
collective art and issuing NSK passports!

I mean, is really converting Queen's "One Vision" to a Nazi hymn so off the
mark??!!!!!!

(BTW, I am an old childhood Queen fan :-)

Christian



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