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| 10 AUG 2003 at 7:03am |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | The following bands are not very well known outside of Belgium, but definitely worth discovering :
K's Choice: 'Me Happy', 'Winter', 'Mr. Freeze', 'Iron Flower', 'Old Woman', 'Believe', 'Butterflies Instead', 'Almost Happy' (o.k. Basically all their songs are absolutely brilliant Check them out now! ) K's Choice really are an amazingly talented group. They've made funny songs, dramatic ones, melancholic numbers, and all without pushing it too far. Their lyrics seem simplistic at first, but really manage to say big things with little words.
Arid: 'At The Close of Every Day', 'Believer', 'Me and My Melody', 'Life', 'Substitute For Love' (superior cover of the Madonna song) The singer of Arid has a very beautiful voice, just amazing what he can do with it!
Hooverphonic: 'Mad About You', 'Vinegar and Salt', 'Out of Sight' This band brings a succesful mixture of modern pop music with classical instruments and themes.
Soulwax: 'When Logics Die', 'Much Against Everyone's Advice', 'My Cruel Joke'
@Inie: As far as Dutch singing artists go, I'm pretty sure that we have the worst. It's awful what kind of crap they dare to release on cd's. When the Flemish top ten is filled with mainly songs for children, you know you cannot sink any lower. :
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 7:14am |
JoGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Ah this is an interesting question. My real country is New Zealand and I suppose one of my favourites is Po Kare Kare Ana - which is pronounced just as it looks and I guess all Kiwis would relate to Now Is The Hour and of course the Haka (especially when N.Z. beats the Aussies, South Africans and British in rugby - hip hip hooray , we won the tri-nations last night, now bring on the Bledisloe cup)
So far as Australia is concerned - don't really have a favourite.
Like Caroline, by real favourites would be songs most people here have probably never heard of and wouldn't like if they did, like just about all Opera Arias, Musical Comedy, Operetta, Lieder, Gilbert & Sullivan etc etc. (don't know why I put capitals!)
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 10:09am |
InieJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Wimli (10 AUG 2003 7:03am)
@Inie: As far as Dutch singing artists go, I'm pretty sure that we have the worst. It's awful what kind of crap they dare to release on cd's. When the Flemish top ten is filled with mainly songs for children, you know you cannot sink any lower. : How can you say that? > You've got "Kabouter Plop" (rough translation is "Gnome Plop" with his "Kabouterdans" ... .
Nah, you're right! The worst Dutch singing is in part Belgian (I completely forgot about K3 because those Dutch "Idols" are everywhere. They're so awful!).
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 10:27am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (10 AUG 2003 7:03am)
Hooverphonic: 'Mad About You', 'Vinegar and Salt', 'Out of Sight' This band brings a succesful mixture of modern pop music with classical instruments and themes.
everytime we live together we die a bit more!!! that's THE song!
germany has some fantastic bands... diary of dreams come to mind immediately! great 80s thrash metal scene as well (kreator, sodom, desctruction etc)... i love rammstein too... the only lyric i know though is "du hast mich gefragt und ich habe nichts gesagt" (smth like that :-/)
as for greece, 90% of the music consists of neo-pop-folk immense-crap that can make you puke in a second... if you exclude that, sometimes there are some real artists and groups that release good stuff... make believe is a group definately worth checking out
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 10:28am |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Inie (10 AUG 2003 10:09am)
How can you say that? > You've got "Kabouter Plop" (rough translation is "Gnome Plop" with his "Kabouterdans" ... .
You know that that was the best selling song of that year? : yep, the rest of Dutch language songs here is that bad. And you may also recall those bestselling songs of Samson and other similar tv shows.
Nah, you're right! The worst Dutch singing is in part Belgian (I completely forgot about K3 because those Dutch "Idols" are everywhere. They're so awful!).
If you had heard songs by our "Idols", you wouldn't doubt for a second who had the worst singers. If you ever come by a record by Peter or Natalia, ignore it! It's for your own health.
And yes, you are right about K3. Luckily we're rid of them for a few months as they will perform their new show in The Netherlands. Have fun!
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 10:35am |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya Brea (10 AUG 2003 10:27am)
everytime we live together we die a bit more!!! that's THE song!
OMG You know them! That's so great. And yeah, the song you mentioned is fantastic too (just like 'Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs'). I just mentioned their most famous songs hoping someone would recognize them. And you did.
About Rammstein, I don't really like them, although their song really worked on the soundtrack of (and in the film too of course) Lost Highway. Don't know what the title of that track is though.
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 10:43am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (10 AUG 2003 10:35am)
OMG You know them! That's so great. And yeah, the song you mentioned is fantastic too (just like 'Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs'). I just mentioned their most famous songs hoping someone would recognize them. And you did.
only known them since they were still called hoover! have all 4 albums (didn't much like hooverphonic presents jackie cane)
About Rammstein, I don't really like them, although their song really worked on the soundtrack of (and in the film too of course) Lost Highway. Don't know what the title of that track is though.
the album mutter was amazing... especially the songs spieluhr, mutter, feuer frei
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 10:58am |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya Brea (10 AUG 2003 10:43am)
only known them since they were still called hoover! have all 4 albums (didn't much like hooverphonic presents jackie cane)
I thought their last album was still pretty good (esp. Sometimes and Nirvana Blue), although not as strong as The Magnificent Tree album. I must say though that I've never listened their first album which cannot be found in shops here anymore. :-/ I'm looking forward to their next tour. They are doing a series of concerts with a full symphonic orchestra!
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 11:17am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (10 AUG 2003 10:58am)
I must say though that I've never listened their first album which cannot be found in shops here anymore. :-/
afaik their first album is "blue wonder power milk"... it's available on play.com for 13 Eur (free shipping) in case you're interested
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 12:16pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | My favorite changes all the time, right now it's "Alone I Break" I belive its called, by Korn.
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 12:50pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | I think K's Choice is quite popular in German.
How could I forget another great Dutch artist: Anouk
Nobody's Wife is a brilliant song. I know a few others, but only this one really shines.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 9:49pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya Brea (10 AUG 2003 11:17am)
afaik their first album is "blue wonder power milk"... it's available on play.com for 13 Eur (free shipping) in case you're interested
I actually have this album (well, a rerelease then apparently, since the name has been changed to Hooverphonic on the cover of the album). I thought A New Stereophonic Sound was their first album, which is also available from the site you listed. Thanks for the link. I'll order it as soon as I have money (which might be kind of a problem. :)
@Elfstone: I used to really like Anouk, but her most recent work is just awful. Next to Nobody's Wife, Sacrifice and R U Kidding Me are probably her best songs. And I'm glad to hear K's Choice is quiet popular in Germany. Do you like them?
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| 11 AUG 2003 at 4:32am |
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Status : Online | My favourite bands are from Scandanavia, Poland and England, but if I have to choose one song from a US-based band, I would have to say it's "Kingdom of Shadows" by Crimson Moon. They are by far my favourite USBM band.
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| 11 AUG 2003 at 11:36am |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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I remembered Anouk because of K's Choice. They've once done a duet. I don't know that many songs of K's Choice. It's not my prefered style of music. I guess I only like Anouk's Nobody's Wife cause there's E-guitar in it.
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| 11 AUG 2003 at 1:22pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Elfstone (11 AUG 2003 11:36am)
@Wimli
I remembered Anouk because of K's Choice. They've once done a duet.
Yeah they did. I can't remember though whether it was a K's choice song or one from Anouk they sang. Their musical styles are quiet different, so it was nice to see that the duet worked out all right.
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