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Turbonegro - Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed [2003]. Hurricane Festival 2003 (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/alternativenation

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I once sub-let some rooms to a couple of Swedes who were around the same age as me and were studying at a local university for the year. This led me to joining in on a lot of the uni's Scandinavian Society "activities". It was a really great year!

A Norwegian guy I befriended, handed me a couple of "Turboneger" CDs. I was slightly concerned at first, but then I deciphered the Norwegian humour and really got into it.

Fast forward 3-4 years, and I found myself in the front row at a couple of Turbonegro gigs, high-fiving the sweaty, sweaty leather glove of former lead singer, "Hank von Helvete" (RIP) and marveling at the licks of lead guitarist "Euroboy", both seen in this vid of a set at a German music festival. Fun times.

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[–] flux 3 points 1 year ago

Turbojugend unite!

[–] cedarmesa 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, any Norwegians here can probably comment more accurately/from their perspective. From my own perspective, the humour I derived was in:

the antics that riffed on all of the guitar band motifs like, guitar solos behind the head while sat on the bass player's shoulders, fake blood, capes, double denim
the irony they point out in the hard rock/metal community being so homo-erotic but also -phobic
their light-hearted takes on the music industry
their regular self-deprecation e.g the subject of this song, or having an opening song to an album that was all about the pizza shop the keyboard player owned
poking fun at nationalist tropes. This was the main thing that I was concerned about, but then I realised that it was satire and was able to enjoy the other points listed above, which are all mostly some form of satire/parody/burlesque.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ah, back in the days when we thought everybody understood irony

[–] Chickenstalker 1 points 1 year ago

Quick! Let's PC-fy the name before the Yanks wake up. I'll start:

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