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[quote][i]Originally posted by Fishy[/i] Ah that's correct :) Of course Rammstein, Kraftwerk, HIM and others are huge in Norway too, but still.. [/quote] That is really funny because HIM are not even from Germany, but from Finland ;-). But is is very interesting that they are mistaken for a German band, I guess their pompous goth rock behaviour seems to be somehow typical for German bands? The other thing that is funny for me is to see that you talk about US, UK and *Scandinavian* bands vs. Norwegian bands, whereas from our perspective, Norwegian bands *are* scandinavian bands and we tend to lump them together with bands from Finland, Sweden, Iceland and even Denmark although I cannot really remember any famous Danish bands right now...The Raveonettes maybe *). And indeed, Scandinavian bands do have something in common. They are very melodic and regardless of their musical style, all have some kind of melancholic element in their music that has a strong appeal to German listeners, something that is for the most part absent in music from the USA (their music has other excellent qualities). I guess there are traces of long winter nights and northern lights present in Scandinavian music. The most successful Norwegian band here (apart from A-Ha) is Kaizer's Orchestra, I would say. I agree with you, most German bands that are really really successful *inside* Germany and sell tons of albums here do have German lyrics and are successful exactly because of that, i.e. they are musically not all that special. They are very good, but sound quite a bit like other current international bands. Rammstein, Kraftwerk and other German bands that are/were successful internationally while using German lyrics had something very unique about them, a style that no other artist offered. Of course Kraftwerk also made english versions of many of their albums, but I understand that even internationally, people prefered the German versions!?!? But you are right, apart from these special bands, all other German music that is successful internationally is either instrumental or using english lyrics (Things like Enigma, Scorpions etc come to mind) Anybody who read this far is now rewarded with my personal recommendations: Cool brandnew Norwegian music that is NOT mainstream (i.e. only played at 2:00am): Washington, Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies, Minor Minority, Hello Goodbye, Brimstone Solar Radiation Band. *) Cool new Danish Bands that are worthwile checking out: Traening, Nephew, Lampshade
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