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Hans_Solo
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19 Nov 2007, 10:18 pm

Apologies beforehand...

Here goes:

Q: Can Neu! make good dance music?

A: Can Can?

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Sorry! :oops:

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19 Nov 2007, 11:27 pm

Clearly, that joke is the result of some excellent Kraftwerk.

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20 Nov 2007, 1:13 am

How Faustian of you two, but please go ahead and play the Cosmic Jokers. I'll just sit here in my Agitation Free environment.

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20 Nov 2007, 10:50 am

Deus_ex_machina wrote:

How Faustian of you two, but please go ahead and play the Cosmic Jokers. I'll just sit here in my Agitation Free environment.

Whilst I sit here in absolute Ibliss, meditating with my Guru Guru. :lol:

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21 Nov 2007, 3:44 pm

Both of those jokes were magnificent.

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26 Nov 2007, 3:46 pm

No Doubt. Get it? "No Doubt". oh wait...they're weak 3rd-wave ska. doh.

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26 Nov 2007, 11:39 pm

Someone wanna fill me in? I get the "Can-Can" part, but... what is this?

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27 Nov 2007, 12:16 am

I demand someone form a band to become the leader of a movement called Kraut-ska!

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27 Nov 2007, 2:10 am

aguales wrote:

I demand someone form a band to become the leader of a movement called Kraut-ska!

Sure, but if that comes to pass then I demand somebody to assasinate such a leader, ala John Lennon.

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27 Nov 2007, 2:11 am

Capriccio wrote:

Someone wanna fill me in? I get the "Can-Can" part, but... what is this?

If you don't get the rest of it then I doubt you know the relevence of "Can can".

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27 Nov 2007, 3:20 pm

I know Can Can is a classical dancing song, but the way y'all are wording stuff on here... I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to be. Well, I pick up that this thread is supposed to be funny somehow, but I'm trying to make sense of it...

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27 Nov 2007, 4:50 pm

With some knowledge of krautrock as a music genre, I was able to initially get the melange of band name puns. But Capriccio's literal interpretation also opened my eyes to a different way of looking at it that had escaped me. So now I notice the literal-phonetic pun along with the Krautrock puns and how both are entangled. An entangled pun. I had taken it literally from a Krautrock point of view and Capriccio had taken it literally from a cabaret dance point of view and the entangled pun works because both are right. Sorry for trying to explain this to myself as a post. I suppose I do this in real life when I talk to myself sometimes.

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27 Nov 2007, 6:08 pm

I don't understand the jokes, could someone explain to me what I need to know?

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27 Nov 2007, 6:26 pm

QG_Valentine wrote:

I don't understand the jokes, could someone explain to me what I need to know?

"Can" and "Neu!" are (were?) bands from the Krautrock genre. As were "Kraftwerk" and "Faust". :mrgreen:

I've never heard of Ibliss or Guru Guru though. Too obscure for me.

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27 Nov 2007, 8:48 pm

codarac wrote:

I've never heard of Ibliss or Guru Guru though. Too obscure for me.

This is information on Guru Guru

Ibliss was the music project that Andreas Hohmann was involved with before joining Kraftwerk, other members of the band were in the pre-Kraftwerk band 'Organisation'. Here's a very scant piece of information on their seemingly hopelessly out of print album.

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27 Nov 2007, 9:01 pm

aguales wrote:

I demand someone form a band to become the leader of a movement called Kraut-ska!

Bow to the father of all German guitar music.

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