As Long As I Got Chords...
Hey lovebirds,
Autumn is back! :) Reason enough to introduce you to hmm.. how shall I describe it... hmm...
A GREAT, KICK-ASS, STAGGERING, ROCKING German punkrock band ...
yeah...maybe that works...
The name of this band is Itchy Poopzkid. First of all I wanna constate, that this name is not stupid. Actually it's really brilliant! I mean there are a lot of those "The ..pla pla" and so on. See, on placards are lots of bands named playing on any festival and there is this one name and it's just eye-catching like "uhh.. what an awkward name!" .. and I mean they founded a punkrock band.. so they could give a fuck about their name.
As often the title of this blog here is the title of a certain songtext. Hmm.. my story about this song is, that I actually was bored to listen to that song. Therefore I have to say, that I can't stand listening to slower songs. But damn me! This song has such a beautiful message! Last year I traveled 7 hours by train with my best friend to that "Ten Years Of Tightness"-concert in Southern Germany. Of course we had a blast there.. it was absolutely great! Panzer (bassist, vocals) played his song "As Long As I Got Chords" and after that I began to love that song because this message fits exactly to my thoughts about life and music. Great song.
Itchy Poopzkid was founded nearly 10 years ago (now it's a bit longer) in their hometown Eislingen an der Fils near by Stuttgart. Their first drummer Saikov sadly left the band but Max, an old friend of Sibbi (guitar, vocals), Panzer and Saikov, took the empty seat behind the drumkit. Often it's hard for a new member to get introduced to the long-time fans but I think Max has been accepted since the beginning of his career with Itchy Poopzkid.
The lyrics of them are ironic, serious, funny, critical and sad as well. They actually don't write political songs but "Why Still Bother" was written for an animal welfare-campaign called "Sonar Sucks". This song balances accounts with our blinder-society and asks cynically: "Why still bother, when we all ignore each other?" . I think it fits to the whole modern society and not only to our wrong behaviour toward animals. It has a great metal-punk-sound to my mind but I'm really no expert in describing any music genres.. it's just my opinion about that song.
In one of there songs they even used a supermarket trolley as kinda drumkit. Well..this is somehow a kind of art xD. Maybe this can be called as "real industrial punk". As you can see they sing English lyrics. In interviews they were often asked, why. I ask myself, why somebody asks that question. I mean.. why not? What a question is that? It's like "Heyy Van Gogh.. why do you use exactly those colours?" or something like that. Well.. maybe I can't see the aim of this question. You?
Next to their music I enjoyed to watch their self-produced youtube-videos. Some of you may know Criss Angel aka The Mindfreak. Itchy Poopzkid made a nice parody about him in some of their studio diaries and other stuff.
Their live-shows are amazing.. okay.. often Panzer gets hurt and nearly breaks his legs but you still have the feeling on an Itchy-concert, that making music is still their passion. I think in the last years they've developed to an important rockband in Germany. They have some nice Charts-placements and go touring through foreign countries in Eastern and Western Europe. By the way... their answer on that language-question is, that they write English songs to get access to foreign stages. But yeah.. i don't think, that someone decides to write in a certain language to have more chances anywhere. Hmm maybe I'm wrong. Dunno.
At the end of this little introduction I try to name my favourites
Pretty Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbNpYvIs84&feature=related
Why Still Bother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1KLwyaI5Tw (Mind the sonar noise at the beginning, guys!)
Flavour Of The Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt893xANw_4
Pretty cool song!
As Long As I Got Chords (in concert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8N45Dl-SN8
This was the concert I have been to and where I changed my mind about this song.
Well.. I've got all LP's of them and I love to listen to all of their songs. Normally I rarely do this but with Itchy Poopzkid I don't get bored. Their music is so vital.
Okay, lovebirds I'll end this blog with some nice verses from the last song:
"When the heads are hanging low
I still got my stereo
It plays loud from 9 to 5
And it will keep me alive
Just a simple melody
It means everything to me
And again I got no choice
I breath in and raise my voice"
(Itchy Poopzkid)
That's all, my dears :)
Autumn is back! :) Reason enough to introduce you to hmm.. how shall I describe it... hmm...
A GREAT, KICK-ASS, STAGGERING, ROCKING German punkrock band ...
yeah...maybe that works...
The name of this band is Itchy Poopzkid. First of all I wanna constate, that this name is not stupid. Actually it's really brilliant! I mean there are a lot of those "The ..pla pla" and so on. See, on placards are lots of bands named playing on any festival and there is this one name and it's just eye-catching like "uhh.. what an awkward name!" .. and I mean they founded a punkrock band.. so they could give a fuck about their name.
As often the title of this blog here is the title of a certain songtext. Hmm.. my story about this song is, that I actually was bored to listen to that song. Therefore I have to say, that I can't stand listening to slower songs. But damn me! This song has such a beautiful message! Last year I traveled 7 hours by train with my best friend to that "Ten Years Of Tightness"-concert in Southern Germany. Of course we had a blast there.. it was absolutely great! Panzer (bassist, vocals) played his song "As Long As I Got Chords" and after that I began to love that song because this message fits exactly to my thoughts about life and music. Great song.
Itchy Poopzkid was founded nearly 10 years ago (now it's a bit longer) in their hometown Eislingen an der Fils near by Stuttgart. Their first drummer Saikov sadly left the band but Max, an old friend of Sibbi (guitar, vocals), Panzer and Saikov, took the empty seat behind the drumkit. Often it's hard for a new member to get introduced to the long-time fans but I think Max has been accepted since the beginning of his career with Itchy Poopzkid.
The lyrics of them are ironic, serious, funny, critical and sad as well. They actually don't write political songs but "Why Still Bother" was written for an animal welfare-campaign called "Sonar Sucks". This song balances accounts with our blinder-society and asks cynically: "Why still bother, when we all ignore each other?" . I think it fits to the whole modern society and not only to our wrong behaviour toward animals. It has a great metal-punk-sound to my mind but I'm really no expert in describing any music genres.. it's just my opinion about that song.
In one of there songs they even used a supermarket trolley as kinda drumkit. Well..this is somehow a kind of art xD. Maybe this can be called as "real industrial punk". As you can see they sing English lyrics. In interviews they were often asked, why. I ask myself, why somebody asks that question. I mean.. why not? What a question is that? It's like "Heyy Van Gogh.. why do you use exactly those colours?" or something like that. Well.. maybe I can't see the aim of this question. You?
Next to their music I enjoyed to watch their self-produced youtube-videos. Some of you may know Criss Angel aka The Mindfreak. Itchy Poopzkid made a nice parody about him in some of their studio diaries and other stuff.
Their live-shows are amazing.. okay.. often Panzer gets hurt and nearly breaks his legs but you still have the feeling on an Itchy-concert, that making music is still their passion. I think in the last years they've developed to an important rockband in Germany. They have some nice Charts-placements and go touring through foreign countries in Eastern and Western Europe. By the way... their answer on that language-question is, that they write English songs to get access to foreign stages. But yeah.. i don't think, that someone decides to write in a certain language to have more chances anywhere. Hmm maybe I'm wrong. Dunno.
At the end of this little introduction I try to name my favourites
Pretty Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbNpYvIs84&feature=related
Why Still Bother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1KLwyaI5Tw (Mind the sonar noise at the beginning, guys!)
Flavour Of The Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt893xANw_4
Pretty cool song!
As Long As I Got Chords (in concert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8N45Dl-SN8
This was the concert I have been to and where I changed my mind about this song.
Well.. I've got all LP's of them and I love to listen to all of their songs. Normally I rarely do this but with Itchy Poopzkid I don't get bored. Their music is so vital.
Okay, lovebirds I'll end this blog with some nice verses from the last song:
"When the heads are hanging low
I still got my stereo
It plays loud from 9 to 5
And it will keep me alive
Just a simple melody
It means everything to me
And again I got no choice
I breath in and raise my voice"
(Itchy Poopzkid)
That's all, my dears :)
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