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That's a lot of Golden Cores! I saw it only three times in well over 50 shows since 1999.
I feel the same about my location in northern Germany. Hamburg, Hannover and Bremen are within easy reach for me.
Have fun in Copenhagen!
I like the first three albums best, too, with Aenima being on top. Thus I was quite happy they played Push it and Hooker with a penis from that one (a long psychedelic trip and a short rocker) and one from each Undertow and Schism. And what a singer Maynard is! He's almost 60 now and still sounds like back in the 90s.
Thanks, Ratmaus. Fates like hers were quite common after the war. A lot of people were moved during the war to the occupied territories in eastern Europe and had to flee after the Allies' victory over the Nazis.
So that article is about a 40 year jubilee of some sort of Snah's mum? I don't speak Norwegian but when reading it I recognize some words and I get the feeling that with some study I should be able to get the gist of texts like this one. I imagine when knowing German, English or maybe Dutch it shouldn't be to difficult to get a grip on Norwegian. But maybe that's a false impression. Are there people here who have studied Norwegian as a second language?
I just realised our discussion here is actually a bit off the point since – as the conscience and I myself :roll: have pointed out earlier – the two lines do not stand together in the original song/poem. So they cannot refer to each other. The question would therefore have to be what the person who put those lines together in s'Numbness had in mind while doing it. But that's most certainly gonna remain a mystery. Although I tend to agree with supernaut, the "it" here seems to be rather abstract.
Probably, mister conclusion was right: One would have to consider it in context with Bent's lyrics… Another time perhaps.
@Mark: I can't blame you for that. Having taught German as a foreign language, I know that the case inflictions and three genders for nouns make studying German as a foreign language a pain in the neck. I myself struggled a lot with (only) two genders in French. Praise English for its straight-forward grammar!
@Mark: I thought about that, too, but decided against it. "Glaube" is male in the German language but the "'s" in wird's is short for "es" which is the neutre pronoun. So, from a linguistic point of view, it can't refer to "belief". Which, admittedly, does not necessariliy mean that your interpretation is wrong. The author of the lines might not have bothered with such grammatical details.
@mister conclusion: I didn't know Snah's mom is/was German. That connection might be an explanation.
Thx to both of you.
@Tomcat & The Void: Thanks! So I must have heard it before… Obviously it didn't stuck with me.
Now that I've listened to the whole thing, I agree with the others here: It'S a great choice of songs that takes you on a 30 year long journey.
Most of the talking by Bent and fellow Norse musicians isn't new though, it's taken from another Deutschlandfunk feature from two or three years ago.
I didn't mean to discredit him and believe you when you say he's a believer. I still find those two things I mentioned strange though.
Thanks for the link, KidA! Maybe it's worth noting that it'll only be available until June 7th.
Have just listened to the first hour. There wasn't too much talking yet, just some info on the beginnings and some random comments on the songs played. Those are: The United debased, Kingdom of Oblivion, Step inside, Nothing to say, Feedtime, Feel & The Golden Core.
I don't know the author/speaker of this documentary, so I don't know if he is a psychonaut, but I suspect not for two reasons: After "Nothing to say" he comments that it seems strange that they sing "nothing/something to say" at the same time. He doesn't say "first nothing, then someting", he says "at the same time". I find that very strange; and would find it even stranger if he was right and I'd never noticed…
The second strange thing: He announces TGC as the last song of TM but then plays a weird instrumental version with a sax and some distorting noises in the beginning. Never heard that before, and didn't like it too much. Anyone know that version?
Funny that one goes to great length to make a 5 hour documentary and then gets basic things wrong… They are are wrong, aren't they?
When I click on Part2, it says I should log in on vimeo because it's a private video… Is it? I don't have an account there and I'd rather not open one. Is there a way around logging in? Thanks in advance!
I'd almost forgotten, but during MP's "cake phase" you were actually able to find quite a few young and beautiful girls in the crowd… *Sigh* I'm so old. :roll:
Thanks, Punj. I didn't think it was rude to mention that. I am just interested in those things. And I agree, the English of the forum members is exceptionally good.
@Punj Lizard: Could you name your source of that definition? I've never heard that before. You as a native English speaker, could you guess how many people get that wrong or apply it correctly in everyday speech?
