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Scytale:
If you want Poppy metal how can you forget Helloween. The first two parts of Keeper of the Seven Keys pretty much defined poppy metal.
As for Black Metal Compilations, I owned a copy of "Nordic Metal: A tribute to Eurynomous". I lost it a while ago... It had some really good tracks on it too. Dissection's cover of "Elizabeth Bathori" is one of the best songs they ever did IMO. The Thorn's song "Aerie Descent" is an absolute classic. Even the Mayhem tracks on it are half descent. I'd reccomend it if you were going t o buy a compilation album.
Incidently enough Varg's first band was called "Uruk Hai", also from LOTR.
The Eyeball Kid:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 06 Nov 2006, 11:51 ---Varg called himself Grishnack and named his band Burzum as a gesture to his own interpretation of Lord of the Rings, which is a slight twist on the 'misunderstood Mordor' idea, and ties in with his Nazi beliefs. Basically, Varg thinks the orcs drew from the idea of Scandinavian pagans and that Tolkien was writing about the victory of Christianity over heathenism. So, he used orcish as a little reference to that idea. Plus, there's the nice element of a 'secret', if you get what it means. Finally, it's a fucking cool word and it somehow greatly increases the profoundity of the statement: calling a band 'Darkness', as we all by now know, is ridiculous. It's too naive. 'Burzum' has a darker, more powerful ring to it as a word, and the act of translation somehow distances it from being silly. Because it is a profound mission statement if you actually go and try and do it. Nothing to do with Varg was a joke.
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http://www.davidbrin.com/tolkienarticle1.html - overlly serious, much forwarded essay on the same topic
Scytale:
In my teenage interpretation I pretty much saw the Hobbits as children or simply boring. The dwarves reminded me too much of greedy capitalist-pigs and they too were pretty boring. Their runes were cool and Moria was a wonderful place, but I disliked their greed vehemently - and who wants to be short anyhow? The elves were fascinating, beautiful and especially their immortality and closeness to nature was cool, but they were kind of dull and they fought for the wrong side. Instead I felt a natural attraction to Sauron, who was the person who gave the world adventure, adversity and challenges in the first place. His One Eye, the One Ring and the tower of Barad-Dur are all attributes similar to those of ??inn. The One Eye was like ??inn's eye, the One Ring was like ??inn's ring, Draupnir ("Dripper"), and Barad-Dur was like the tower or throne of ??inn, called Hli?skj?lf ("Secret Ritual-Site"). His Uruk-Hai and Olog-Hai ("Troll-Race") were like Viking berserkers, the Warges were like ??innic werewolves, and so forth. I could easily identify with the fury of the "dark forces", and enjoyed their existence very much because they were making a boring and peaceful world dangerous and exciting.
Varg's words on LOTR, the whole "Burzum story" is quite an interesting read, regardless of wether you think Varg is a dick or not...
http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/a_burzum_story01.shtml
muffy:
Prodigy, Underworld and Orbital seconded, and for newer stuff...
Klaxons
Datarock
Shitdisco
and most DFA stuff.
And Felix Da Housecat.
Though this is starting to move away from Rave and more into electro...
Misereatur:
I think you should get Miles Davis - Bithch's Brew and In a Silent Way.
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