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ventaI am in a sorry state.
I am listening to a German goth band.
A German "Celtic" goth band.
Who sing in German.
With random bits of plainchant thrown in.
And bagpipes.
And I'm enjoying it.
I'm a fully paid up member of the Society for the Destruction of Highland Pipes (Or At Least Their Relegation to a Distant Place). People playing Scotland the Brave at 22bpm make me really quite homicidal.
I like Nothumbrian and Uillean pipes, but that's because they're not so bloody raucous. Or loud. Or inclined to spew forth Flower of Scotland or Amazing Grace. The trouble is, of course, that on an album with the sound mixed properly, I can't tell what I'm hearing on Subway to Sally. I'm missing the liner notes from the album, and the website just says "bagpipes".
Which is a bit off, really, since it's a .de site, writen in German. And there was me being all smug about knowing the German for bagpipes (Dudelsack), and looking for it, and it just says "bagpipes". Bah.
Dudelsack is a much better word, anyway. We should use it. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
failmaster pointed out earlier: 'bagpipes' sounds far too innocuous. It's like calling weapons-grade anthrax 'lungwimple'.
And anyway. Bagpipes. I ask you.
snow_leopard, you have a lot to answer for.
I am listening to a German goth band.
A German "Celtic" goth band.
Who sing in German.
With random bits of plainchant thrown in.
And bagpipes.
And I'm enjoying it.
I'm a fully paid up member of the Society for the Destruction of Highland Pipes (Or At Least Their Relegation to a Distant Place). People playing Scotland the Brave at 22bpm make me really quite homicidal.
I like Nothumbrian and Uillean pipes, but that's because they're not so bloody raucous. Or loud. Or inclined to spew forth Flower of Scotland or Amazing Grace. The trouble is, of course, that on an album with the sound mixed properly, I can't tell what I'm hearing on Subway to Sally. I'm missing the liner notes from the album, and the website just says "bagpipes".
Which is a bit off, really, since it's a .de site, writen in German. And there was me being all smug about knowing the German for bagpipes (Dudelsack), and looking for it, and it just says "bagpipes". Bah.
Dudelsack is a much better word, anyway. We should use it. As
failmaster pointed out earlier: 'bagpipes' sounds far too innocuous. It's like calling weapons-grade anthrax 'lungwimple'.And anyway. Bagpipes. I ask you.
snow_leopard, you have a lot to answer for.
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Date: 2004-04-29 10:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-29 10:30 am (UTC)Anyhow, a lot of rock involves making a Godawful loud noise. Bagpipes are desinged for that puropse, what more could you want?
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Date: 2004-04-30 01:50 am (UTC)Nice Godawful loud noise.
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Date: 2004-04-30 02:15 am (UTC)By the way, my copy of 69 Love Songs has just arrived, and is fantastic. Thanks for the recommendation. The album seems to be unobtainable in the UK right now, though, I had to order it through the label.
It also refuses to play in my work CD drive without emitting hideous grinding noises - no, the irony of Magnetic Fields upsetting my computer is not lost on me.
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Date: 2004-05-03 12:53 pm (UTC)