Die Krupps - II (the final option)

https://youtu.be/X4lFA-xK0gM

Jürgen Engler is just an awesome dude. Write your own coffee grinder review...

... i'm kidding, of course i'll do it for you. For starters, the coffee grinder company doesn't have enough letter Ps. Then you gotta deal with that goddamned WWII thing where half the world wants to be fascist, and you have to say "oh, ok here's a guy who didn't like growing up in Germany at all, because actual real old school Nazis would threaten children like him. England's a pretty Nazi friendly island as well, what with their national institutions of cultural segregation and hard right social politics. America is pretty freakin' sweet because at least you can see the security cameras, everybody knows they are being watched, and it takes an actual personal grievance to get you arrested." Granted, the Trump-dumpster is in need of being emptied at the moment, but we're closer to remembering how easy it is to start lighting your trash on fire again.

The politics of Engler and Die Krupps is elegantly simple: yes, complete freedom has its downsides and complications, but that's better than genocide. So what if we're "living in 1984?," that's a fantastically exciting environment for creativity, and in certain ways it does actually help reduce a little bit of crime.

Musically, Die Krupps is probably the most influential band of my beloved industrial metal genre. They evolved from straight industrial noise to experimenting with electronic dance and metal. Remember how you didn't realize that Vanilla Fudge and Spirit were the actual influences on all those famous 70s rock bands? Yeah, industrial metal sprang from a phase Die Krupps went through where Engels experimented with heavy metal guitar riffs. Plus, he thinks trying to colonize Mars is dumb, and since i wholeheartedly agree, it's pretty hard not to mention it.

Now, obviously you should get to know their entire discography, but since you're lazy (no, don't get mad at me, you are, you aren't going to spend your Thursday night listening to Die Krupps, and pretending that you will is what got us into this mess in the first place) we'll just focus on II - The Final Option. To the best of my knowledge, Marilyn Manson didn't steal any riffs from it like III, so it shouldn't confuse you too much. Plus it's the one with "To the Hilt," and who doesn't want to watch two old men slow dance with each other in a dirty bathroom (go find the video, it's great)? That song is about how decidedly not-German he feels about being German.

If you need a more coherent frame of reference, it's the standard Mr. Mackey quote "fascism is bad, m'kay?" Real people experienced that garbage with their own eyes, and Die Krupps is here to say "yes, that crap actually happened, please don't do it again."


Now more than ever you need to hear II, and realize that the final option is run away to a place where there aren't as many fascist imbeciles (sadly, America's form of that particular vermin is getting a whole lot of free advertising right now under the blatantly false blanket of "political conservatism." Conserving what? Rascism, poverty, and disease as an economic weapon, of course. Are you new?)

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