What music do you listen to currently?
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@thelostsoul A very well done song! As for nerdy rap battles, do you know Epic Rap Battles of History (ERB)? I'm not that into rap songs either, but I like many of the ERB videos.
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@Clyde Wow no, I didn't know them. Man they have like 40 or even over 100 million views. There are some very funny "battles"; the Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates is badass.
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@thelostsoul Yeah, that one was the first ERB video I ever saw. It got me hooked. :)
For Christmas, I can also recommend Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge.
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I don't want to spam this thread, 😇 but I recently returned to listen to a czech duo named Dva ("two" in czech) who "consider their music to be of 'tango, cabaret, circus, popsongs, kitchen beatbox, freakfolk, acoustick electro a electrical acousto in double-layer packaging.' [...] Their music is typical by use of fictional made-up languages that mixes German, Hungarian or Swedish." (quote from Wikipedia)
I discovered them as the creators of the soundtrack for the game Botanicula.
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I don't know how I ended up being here, but yeah. That is what i listen to currently. That track is btw my favorite Final Fantasy Battle Theme (if Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Legend not counted).
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Currently trying to finish my play through of Castelvania Rondo of Blood (how did anyone beat this without save states?) And I have this song from the sound track stuck in my head. Overall the soundtrack to this game is awesome!
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Can’t decide between jazz & classical.
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@thelostsoul said in What music do you listen to currently?:
@Clyde Wow no, I didn't know them. Man they have like 40 or even over 100 million views. There are some very funny "battles"; the Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates is badass.
I just stumbled over this rap battle between an
US Americanedit: Canadian who is living in the USA and a Briton about „correct English“. 😉I don't know "Professor Elemental" (yet), but Baba Brinkman is a really good "Science Rapper" I only learned about not long ago. His channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9Qm66ewnY0LAlZlL4HK9g
This reminded me of a song from the German cabaret artists "Pigor & Eichhorn" about how non-native speakers will ruin the language of Shakespeare. 😈
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@Clyde Science and Rapper? What a strange marriage, I quite like the language battle song here. :D
About the language ruining, a lot of old people tell me that this happened already. But I tell them, this is progression and language never stay the same, especially not with the internet and world wide connection like today. And what can we say here in Germany with all those very different idioms, where not only the grammer is different? Its like speaking French and Russian mixed and then converted into German. :D -
@thelostsoul If you've the slightest interest in science and rap music, be sure to try some more songs from Baba Brinkman. I really "dig" his music, rhymes, and video style.
As for Germany's different idoms, I'll quote the German cabaret artist Volker Pispers:
"Anständig Deutsch", wo wird das denn gesprochen? Waren Sie da schon mal? Sind Sie Deutscher? Können Sie sich an einem schwäbischen Stammtisch artikulieren? Die meisten Kölner können doch in der Eifel nicht mehr nach dem Weg fragen, so sieht das doch aus!“
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@thelostsoul - I agree. I took a one day grammar course through work about 5 years ago. The professor ended the session by saying (paraphrasing here) but to always remember that English (any language really) is a living and breathing thing that is always changing. She said some words will die and new ones will be born. What is correct today will be wrong tomorrow.
Hence the word whom which is a great word but it's slowly dying from the English language and is hardly used anymore.
Here the major dictionaries add a few new words every year. That were born from pop culture or whatever and now they are common words used in daily life.
Also dialect and specific words or pronunciation of words is very regional. What people say in the south here is very normal and accepted as proper verbiage but you say that same phrase in the north and you will get mocked a little, but in a good way.
Like how we have "spirited" conversation about emulation on this site it's interesting to go on a grammar site and watch those guys and gals debate proper grammar and usage of words. It's kind of funny but they get really deep on the subject.
That rap was really good. I love some of the words you guys use overseas.
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The whole time, I have this little sketch in my mind. It is not a music and more about grammer, but I think it fits to the current topic we talk.
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@thelostsoul Haha, I didn't know this one, thank you! (One of my friends sometimes calls me a grammar nazi. 😄)
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That was a classic guys, that video was funny.
I am curious is saying "Grammar Nazi's" offensive to you or others nationally? You do hear it here occasionally but being from Germany you have a much deeper understanding and know if it's "ok". I am actually fine when you use it.
I grew up pretty hard core and love jokes about any nationality including my own but for "open" speaking I like to stick with grammarian! ;)
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@Riverstorm said in What music do you listen to currently?:
I am curious is saying "Grammar Nazi's" offensive to you or others nationally? You do hear it here occasionally but being from Germany you have a much deeper understanding and know if it's "ok". I am actually fine when you use it.
That very much depends on the particular person. Some would find it very offensive to make fun of a dark time in our history where millions of people were persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. But others see humor as a good way to disempower the mythos around the (Neo-)Nazi and extreme right-wing movement. I am with the latter most of the time, as long as they make fun of the oppressors and not of their victims. And I don't take any offense at being called a Grammar Nazi. If anything, I see it as a complement. 😉
Besides, Hitler and Nazi jokes are very common among Germans, our comedians, and media. The movie "Iron Sky" is a prominent example from the last decade. If you didn't see it yet, I can highly recommend it. Fun fact: It's half in English and half in German, as Germans speak in their language and people of other nations speak English. Thus, there were multiple versions in German cinemas: one with German subtitles for the English parts, one with English subtitles for the German parts, and one without any subtitles for people who understand both languages. 😊
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@Clyde - Yes an incredibly dark time but well said and I appreciate you sharing. Text books can only take you so far and then you need to rely on others sharing thoughts and experiences. You can't get a better opinion on the subject than someone that was born and raised in Germany. :) It doesn't sound nearly as offensive as I originally thought others might perceive it so that's excellent.
I completely agree using humor to disempower. A sense of humor is priceless in my opinion. You'll read about celebrities doing some really "stupid" things and the tabloids eat them alive. Many times to diffuse the situation they may do a show like Saturday Night Live. It seems in our culture when you make fun of yourself it's not nearly as "news" worthy and tends to die out pretty quickly after that.
I agree it definitely helps to know your target audience. When I get together with the guys I grew up with we hold nothing back and are quite vulgar and insult each other frequently but none of us thinks twice about it because we know each other so well and take it in jest.
You do hear "Grammar Nazi" here regularly and it is usually meant to be light-hearted or maybe mild sarcasm if someone is doing it all the time. The target, as you said, usually takes it as a compliment. Especially if among friends but not so much with casual acquaintances.
Grammar was one of my worst subjects in school so I have to put effort into it. I have grammatical snafu's in my writing all the time so that video above was hilarious. Thanks for the suggestion on the movie. I'll see if I can locate a copy of Iron Sky to view.
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@Clyde I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Sky goofiness and silliness. I remember when the movie was just an idea/trailer and it seemed so over the top that it would become a cult classic.
They were planning a sequel and - lo-and-behold - it was just released last month. -
@Riverstorm said in What music do you listen to currently?:
@Clyde - Yes an incredibly dark time but well said and I appreciate you sharing. Text books can only take you so far and then you need to rely on others sharing thoughts and experiences. You can't get a better opinion on the subject than someone that was born and raised in Germany. :)
I'll have to point out though that the vast majority of Germans living today never had to live through theses times. The contemporary witnesses are literally dying out with an ever increasing rate, and the rest of us only know our gruesome heritage from said text books, movies etc.
With this in mind, aside from serious lore, humorous depictions of those times may help to keep the memory alive, lest we forget what human beings are capable of under the
rightwrong circumstances.@mitu Glad you liked Iron Sky. And yes, its sequel just came out. I only thought of it after I wrote my last post, and I didn't want to edit it just for that detail. So, thanks for the addition. 😊
Ah, for @$#&! sake. Although not "music I'm listening to currently", here's the trailer for anyone too lazy to look it up themselves:
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@Clyde - Part sci-fi...party silly, nuff said, I'm in. It looks like it's on Netflix so I am good to go.
Saddled dinosaurs in part 2 that alone makes it worthy. :)
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