venta

I 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

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.