Friday, December 11, 2009

My Favourite Music



Music is very important for me. I listen to music all the time equaly in which mood I am I need my music and I need good music. This is the reason why I decided to write a text about my favourite and not so favourite music. I hope you enjoy reading it!

For me, it is very difficult to decide which is my favourite band . On my mp3-player I have more than 20 different groups and I like all of them. So I listen to them so often until it gets too much for me and I change the groups. I also listen to many different kinds and styles of music. I like rock music in all kinds and variations, metal, ska and a bit of German hip hop but I don't like techno and electronic. In general I also don't like female singers with little exceptions.
In the rock-genre I prefer the Scandinavian groups like Backyard Babies, and Gluecifer but I also like The Offspring, Fall Out Boy and Anti-Flag. I also like NOFX and Flogging Molly which are both quite cool Irish punk bands. The genre metal is I think one of the biggest genres because there are nearly as many sub-genres as metal bands. I don't like all of them just the best ones as In Flames, Darkmoor and HIM. Even if I don't speak Spanish I love one group which is called Ska-P and they really make amazing music where you really get this holiday-feeling and you have to smile.
Here the people often ask me which is my favourite Austrian group and I just can say that I don't have one because I don't listen to Austrian music. I just like one German group, called Die Aerzte because they are all-rounder. People who don't know them think that they are just an old punk band but they have songs from all genres and also the subjects of their songs are very different. One song can make you now shout in triumph and the next one now sink in despair. They have political and love songs as well as songs which have no sense and where you just have to laugh ( which can be pretty embarrassing when you listen to them the first time while you are in the subways and you stand there smiling and everybody stares at you but hey that is the funny thing about this group and the reason why they have so many fans). Twice I was on a concert of this group and both times were amazing because their concert have no relation to "normal rock concerts" because first they last at least 3 hours and second because the members of the band always make jokes and interact with the audience, between and even during the songs. And they will not just say, "now take your hands in the air and sing!" but they will make everybody sit down ( which is quite cool with 11000 people) and then jump at the chorus or they will make everybody repeat senseless but funny phrases. But the best about their concerts is that they always change the texts of their songs. For example one song which lasts 3,5 minutes on the album can last up to 10 minutes on the live version because the two singers spontaneously compose new verses which are good but sometimes just very senseless and you really have to laugh. But when you go home from their concerts everybody is happy and everybody had have fun.
I would highly recommend this group to everyone not important which kind of music this person listens to otherwise, but the problem is that their songs are just in German and the texts are the most important thing about them. You just don't understand why they make songs which are called Whole Milk, My Teddy or My Ex(ploded) Girlfriend. Let alone that you would not understand why their biography is called "An Oversized Guinea Pig Is Eating The World".
This is the only reason why the "best band in the world" as they call themselves, has not yet achieved the world supremacy.

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3 comments:

  1. "Die arzte" I agree with you!
    I can understand nothing, not at all but I saw the video clips and I love the guy with the big smile. It's really amaizing because he is laughing nearly all the time^^ After this year, I want to learn German, too to understand the words of the songs. Thank you very much!

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  2. Yes Farin Ulaub ( this is the name of the one who smiles all the time) is really cool and I am very happy tha tyou want to learn German because you can just appreciate this band when you understand the texts. They will make you love and cry, that's for sure!

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  3. oh sorry the guy's calld Farin Urlaub... oh my gush, I can't even speek my own language any more... how will this end?

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