Turbonegro - Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed - Hurricane Festival 2003
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Turbonegro - Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed - Hurricane Festival 2003

I once sub-let some rooms to a couple of Swedes who were around the same age as me and were studying at a local university for the year. This led me to joining in on a lot of the uni’s Scandinavian Society “activities”. It was a really great year!

A Norwegian guy I befriended, handed me a couple of “Turboneger” CDs. I was slightly concerned at first, but then I deciphered the Norwegian humour and really got into it.

Fast forward 3-4 years, and I found myself in the front row at a couple of Turbonegro gigs, high-fiving the sweaty, sweaty leather glove of former lead singer, “Hank von Helvete” (RIP) and marveling at the licks of lead guitarist “Euroboy”, both seen in this vid of a set at a German music festival. Fun times.

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  • @[email protected]OP
    4•1 year ago

    Well, any Norwegians here can probably comment more accurately/from their perspective. From my own perspective, the humour I derived was in:

    • the antics that riffed on all of the guitar band motifs like, guitar solos behind the head while sat on the bass player’s shoulders, fake blood, capes, double denim
    • the irony they point out in the hard rock/metal community being so homo-erotic but also -phobic
    • their light-hearted takes on the music industry
    • their regular self-deprecation e.g the subject of this song, or having an opening song to an album that was all about the pizza shop the keyboard player owned
    • poking fun at nationalist tropes. This was the main thing that I was concerned about, but then I realised that it was satire and was able to enjoy the other points listed above, which are all mostly some form of satire/parody/burlesque.