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Kaizer's Orchestra
stupendousbadass:
hope so :)
it really will be a while before I get a chance to visit europe - Japan is next on my list, and that will likely cost a lot. meanwhile, I do the best I can to get friends listening to them. though I think that aussies, like americans, are a bit reluctant to listen to music when they can't get the words. fools.
varifrån i sverige kommer du?
_elli:
I've also tried to get my friends to listen to them, but people don't really take norwegian music very serious in Sweden.. I guess we're not better than americans and aussies ;)
Jag kommer från Stockholm, var det här du bodde när du var utbytesstudent?
stupendousbadass:
Really? I allways thought the relationship between Sweden and Norway was a bit like that between Australia and New Zealand, or America and Canada.
See New Zealanders speak with a funny accent, but we basically speak the same language and have a bit in common, so in Australia we steal all their best musicians and claim that they were allways ours anyway.
När jag var utebytesstudent bodde jag i Mönsterås, en liten by som ligger ungefär 5 mil norra om Kalmar. Jag har varit i Stockholm en del, och jag tycker om staden. Jag har kompisar som bor där.
<phew> long time since I've used any swedish...it's an effort :)
_elli:
Well, we do understand them most of the time, but it's hard when they speak (or sing) too fast.. I didn't understand a single word the first time I heard Kaizers Orchestra, but now that I've heard them like 1000 times I'm starting to get a bit more used to the norwegian language.. I guess it also depends a bit on where in Sweden you live, and what kind of norwegian they speak. Some Swedish dialects have more in common with norwegian than the dialect we have in Stockholm, for example.
But I think for most of us, norwegian sounds a bit silly and goofy, and perhaps that's why we don't take them too serious.. Or maybe it's just because we swedes live in a fantasy world where we're the only nordic country that has anything worth mentioning. We kinda see ourselves as Norways bigger brother or something.. Not only in music, but also in sports and movies and pretty much everything.
And in all honesty, if I didn't know who Kaizers where, I'd also find it kinda wierd if someone would say to me that their favourite band was a norwegian folk-rock orchestra with gasmasks who played on oil barrels and accordions ;)
Okej. Jag har aldrig varit i Mönsterås, men Kalmar är en trevlig stad iallafall.
And I must say that your swedish is really good. Your grammar is better than mine ;)
stupendousbadass:
Bigger-brother complex? Oh, absolutely :D It does seem similar to the Australia/New Zealand relationship. Do swedes have stupid-norwegian jokes? Because we certainly have new zealander jokes here. Most of which just aren't worth repeating.
As for the norwegian lyrics, well, I get some of them. It varies from song to song. The few lyrics that I understand are the ones I shout along to, and draw strange looks from people around me :)
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