1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
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If there was a best video you've seen today thread, this would be going on there too
As promised [MENTION=13230]Psychobilly freakout[/MENTION].
Bit of background, I'm a bit peculiar as I have mentioned previously. One of my things is I get deeply affected by huge amount of music. I stumbled across this bloke in the lat 90s while going through some major personal life changes. Now, I love a cover version. And I love sincerity. I was already massivley into Apops when I heard this track. It has everything for me. Pure joy, weak vocals delivered with sincerity and a dodgy accent (Stefan is Norwegian). The audience absolutely into it. Clunky start, messy ending with the police shutting down the concert. At the time I would have given almost anything to have been at that gig. Over the following years I got to see lots of my newly discovered 'darkwave' artists, Assemblage 23, VNV Nation, Icon of Coil, but never the Apops. So, sadly I suspect you will hate this, but nevertheless here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmslyFLUWRg
Not at all I like it, and too be honest in psychobilly nothing is polished as it’s all self financed and I love the “Eurobilly” for the broken English and honest interpretations, I like the fact it’s real honest and flawed.
I love this guy he was in a punk band at school found psychobilly but as with psychobilly you take influences from other styles and adapt them.
Here’s two covers from him of the forest solo, his psychobilly band and third & fourth is he wrote and you can here that nod to early new romantic mixed up punk scene, that’s what music should be powerful - just watch the videos coming from a German of Jewish heritage it’s extremely powerful.<snip>
Not everybody’s taste, I get that, I could pick your brains on music all day.
Have a good evening sir.
I know I have posted this before, but it IS the best song I have heard today, so qualifies on that front alone...
My local radio station played this today, so I pumped up the volume and sang along at the top of my voice, while deadheading my pansies - I think the neighbours were impressed by my falsetto!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybfTKNl2NM