LILT: Mein Teil 2.0

So much beauty and elegance:

Today I will meet a man
Who would eat me as he can
Soft and hard parts, from front and rear
Are on today's new bill of fare

Since you are what you eat
You well know what this is

This is my part – no
My part – no
That there is my part – no
My part – no

A really dull blade fits the bill
I'm bleeding hard and feeling ill
I am struggling to stay awake and
I keep on eating as I'm shaking

It's just so well-seasoned
And nicely flambéed
Then on porcelain so lovingly displayed
And a good wine with it
Served up and candlelit
Yeah, I should take it slow
You need culture you know

Since you are what you eat
You well know what this is

This is my part – no
My part – no
That there is my part – no
Yes it's my part – no

A cry will to heaven ascend
And through hosts of angels rend
Then their feathered flesh will careen
Into my lasting childhood screams

This is my part – no
My part – no
That there is my part – no
My part – no

This is my part – no
My part – no
That there is my part – no
Yes it's my part – no

[lyrics]

Bring Rammstein to Australia

There're only a few ways to let Rammstein know they should come down this way. One is to buy up every copy of their album you can find. The other is to spam their Facebook page with demands for an Australian visit. The other is to make use of sites like Eventful. I signed up, and promptly unsubscribed from most of their emails, because they do email you everything they can if you let them. Now I want every Australian and Kiwi Rammstein fan out there to kick in:

View all Australia events on Eventful

I have this permanently embedded at the bottom of the site, but I wanted to highlight it.

Danish Support in Denmark

Volbeat will be supporting Rammstein in Copenhagen in June. As with Skunk Anansie I know nothing about them, so I have no comment to make. I'm sure those of you who know these bands will have an idea of how this will work. I've noticed people are sad to see Combichrist go. What are these guys like?

Here Endeth The Day

Rammstein? Who's that? I've had one of those weeks, even if it was short. I'm utterly slammed. I do however have a wee gem to share with you before I crash and burn, and it's a solid and very sincerely positive review of the Belgrade show.

Vladivostok, Are You There?

This article says that Rammstein are playing at RIMSCO-Hall there in September. No confirmation on the Rammstein tour page, so we shall have to see...

Over-sight

Combichrist havebeen replaced by Skunk Anansie in opening for Rammstein in the three May shows at Wuhlheide. This as per the Rammstein site and SA's site. Sorry I didn't post it earlier. I've seen it in so many places I forgot to put it up myself.

LILT: Liese 2.0

My friend in Berlin has given me some tips about this one, so I've developed it further, and am feeling pretty good about the changes:

Sunday out in Ammerwiese
Liese bravely minds the geese there
Then comes Jacob with long strides
Holding his sickle at his side

He nudges now and then with this
At Liese under skirt and bodice
He wants to sample her by forcing
And while he probes her he's singing...

Lovely Liese, leave the geese here
I want to have a taste of your skin
My scythe will be blood-rusted I fear
If you are not welcoming

So Jacob thinks to lick young Liese
Her pear taste will be so pleasing
So many small hairs stand on end
They run to a wheat-filled glen

In the flood of gold, well veiled
Jacob bestrides the youthful maid
And holds her close until the evening
Against her skin he again sings...

Lovely Liese, leave the geese here
I want to have a taste of your skin
My scythe will be blood-rusted I fear
If you are not welcoming

Lovely Liese, leave the geese here
I want to have a taste of your skin
My scythe will be blood-rusted I fear
If you are not welcoming

[original lyrics & translation]

Thanks, F! <3

LILT: Haifisch 2.2

I told you not to hold me to it:

We hold with each other
We all take each other's crap
We hold to one another
None will hold us back

We're holding true to you all
We hold onto that vow
We will uphold all the rules
If our rule is allowed

And the shark weeps very real tears
And they're running down its face
But the shark lives in the water
So nobody sees a trace

We hold to the tempo
We hold true in good faith
When one does not keep up
We hold up right away

We're holding our eyes open
We hold against the storm
Six hearts that are burning
Our fire holds such warmth

And the shark weeps very real tears
And they're running down its face
But the shark lives in the water
So nobody sees a trace

In the depths it is so lonesome
And so many tears run free
And that is how it has happened
That it's salty in the sea

They hold beliefs they want
To hold about us all
We hold each other sound
We never will hold still

And the shark weeps very real tears
And they're running down its face
But the shark lives in the water
So nobody sees a trace

In the depths it is so lonesome
And so many tears run free
And that is how it has happened
That it's salty in the sea

And the shark weeps very real tears
And they're running down its face
But the shark lives in the water
So nobody sees a trace

[original lyrics & translation]

LILT: Donaukinder 1.1

I've switched the rhyming formula in the black flags verse to match the rest of the song, but I'm not entirely certain it works, so that change is on probation:

Danube bleeds from headwaters
Where peace and suffering thaw
No good can now be supported
There in her marshy sward

No one knows what's happened here
The floods are rusty red
The fishes could not draw a breath
And all the swans are dead

In the river's former verdure
The animals fell ill
To the stream from the pasture
Was drifting an awful smell

Where are the children?
None knew what was happening
No one has seen anything
Where are the children?
No one has seen anything

Mothers stood there by the stream
And they wept forth a flood
In the fields and through the wiers
Grew their sorrow all through the mud

Black flags hanging through the town
Rats grew fatter by the day
The wells were poisoned all around
And the people moved away

Where are the children?
None knew what was happening
No one has seen anything
Where are the children?
No one has seen anything

Danube bleeds from headwaters
Where peace and suffering thaw
No good can now be supported
There in her marshy sward

Where are the children?
None knew what was happening
No one has seen anything
Where are the children?
No one has seen anything

[original lyrics & translation]

Schneider at Musikmesse 2010

Thanks to Wickedywhack for to tip to find this one:

RIAA impersonator?

Further to the weirdness on RammsteinActuell's channel, the videos that play through the official Rammstein website are throwing similar messages (I thought they were the same channel, to be honest), except rather than UMG named as the claimant it is the RIAA. Perhaps Rammstein video service is being targeted by a troll. Whatever the case may be, someone needs a kick in the slats, be they RIAA, UMG, or a third party playing silly buggers.

Et Tu UMG?

The RammsteinActuell channel on YouTube has had the video of Schneider drumming removed:

"Der Drummer hat sein Bestes gegeben"
This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.

Oh dear, dear me...

Thanks to morlac for the heads up.

Update: See this for further developments.

Paul at Musikmesse 2010

A little shaky, and a little blurry, but you can't have everything. You can just have Paul:

Halleluja!

I figure this should have its own post, given that my work has been used in a video posted on the official Rammstein Facebook page. I just had a link in the update I made to the Halleluja LILT, but it's kind of cool, even if it has been altered a little, so this is my skite.

Waidmanns Heil Cover

Jamie has come through again, with yet another tight instrumental cover:

Nice :)

Sunshinebob adds his Mite

I don't know who Sunshinebob is, but I find he plays piano:

LILT: Halleluja 3.1

Funnily enough, the recent use and redevelopment of my Halleluja LILT on Facebook has highlighted a need for further change:

Deeply feeling and so pious
On his wall Our Lord is nailed
He wipes the defects from the Bible
He gives Communion without fail

He loves all the choir boys
Their pure souls so crystal clear
But the tenor gives him pause
So he has to keep him near
On the nightstand, not a sound
Our Lord's image
Is turned slowly 'round

When the church bells strike the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is a single priest and
[Hallelujah]
Neighbourly love is in his lesson
[Hallelujah]

The youth is allowed to stay
Sin nests at half his height
Reverend Father kneels to pray
To music and candlelight

When the church bells strike the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is a single priest and
[Hallelujah]
Neighbourly love is in his lesson
[Hallelujah]

When the church bells strike the hour
[Hallelujah]
He includes the boy in his prayers
[Hallelujah]
He is a true Christian
[Hallelujah]
Charity no mystery to him
[Hallelujah]
Turn slowly around
Turn around

[lyrics]

In Fine Vettel

I'm sorry. I know this is way off-topic, but I just heard Eddie Irvine saying what I have thought for a year, i.e. that Vettel is the new Schumacher (as a driver, not as a person, mind). Hell yes! It's always nice when an expert voices your own opinions on international television.

Now RBR need to sort their reliability out...

Fuck April Fools' Day

AFD ended eleven hours ago for me, thanks to the fact that I live in the future for most of you, but I note there are some Rammstein pranks about. Paul leaving, US tour dates announced *BAD Gauntlet*, and no doubt a lot of shenanigans along similar lines.

I opted not to post during AFD, in my time-zone or yours. It's too easy to fool people, or to seem to be doing so, and I prefer to keep the faith. This wasn't because I had nothing to offer (the QotM I posted today was one I found earlier). It was simply because I didn't want to have anything I posted viewed with suspicion, figured there was bound to be content about that is utter bollocks, simply because of the date, and I didn't want to propagate any bullshit accidentally. I believed nothing for the duration.

Does that make me a humourless bitch, or a conscientious one? Maybe I should take a pill.

QotM

This is an article about Lady Gaga, for whom I have a quiet admiration, even if it does revolve around her masterful powers of propaganda and self-promotion rather than her albums. It has a rather a nice line about Åkerlund, who has now made a couple of videos for the funky diva:

...last year he shot a tedious hardcore porn video for the otherwise sublime German heavy metal band Rammstein...

I have no doubt that Kalder speaks for many Rammstein fans.