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Blöödhag

If you'd asked me which city in the United States would turn up a heavy metal/speedmetal group that sings short...

Blöödhag -- comment #1 from Kevin J. Maroney

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:24:41 -0500

I seem to have forgotten to mention that Bloodhag were featured on Weekend Edition Sunday this past week. The article (yes! an NPR deep link!) is well worth hearing; it focuses at least as much on Bloodhag's habit of performing in libraries as on their songs.

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Posted July 31, 2002 12:24 AM by Kevin J. Maroney

Blöödhag -- comment #2 from Simon Shoedecker

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:58:38 -0500

That's ... hysterically funny. Thanks.

The Tolkien lyrics seem to scan vaguely to the tune of the song "Mame". Very vaguely, but anyone who writes "Bakshe" or "Similrilian" can't be too picky.

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Posted July 31, 2002 11:58 AM by Simon Shoedecker

Blöödhag -- comment #3 from Bob Webber

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:14:41 -0500

I liked the way loading their web page popped up a little "Microsoft Internet Explorer Script Alert" reading, "Warning! May induce literacy!"

I think they may be trying to adapt to their new-found fame: the song links seem to go over to www.garageband.com, where they have a profile, but no songs listed. Presumably samples will migrate over there eventually.

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Posted July 31, 2002 1:14 PM by Bob Webber

Blöödhag -- comment #4 from Johnzo

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:46:50 -0500

Their live show is something to behold. They dress up in ripped black slacks, white shirts, red ties, and horned-rims. Two of them look like short, fat Cory Doctorows, and the other two look like tall, skinny Cory Doctorows.

They pelt the audience with paperback books. I've seen guys get hit in the head with _Ender's Game_ and girls spanked with _The Left Hand of Darkness_.

At one point during a show, they stopped playing and demanded that five members of the audience produce library cards before they would continue.

The songs are, as Teresa said, pretty much unintelligible, but their between-tunes patter is hilarious. "Allright, we're going to talk about Octavia Butler tonight! Like everyone in this room, Octavia Butler is a black woman genuis!" This is especially funny when you figure that the crowd at a typical thrash show is overwhelmingly white, male, and stupid.

zo.

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Posted July 31, 2002 1:46 PM by Johnzo

Blöödhag -- comment #5 from Mary Kay

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:35:19 -0500

As of this afternoon it's looking a certainty that we'll be moving permanently to Seattle. So I guess I'd better sign up for their mailing list or something. More info on how to find out about their shows is hereby solicited and crash space offered to out of townies making a pilgrimage.

MKK

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Posted July 31, 2002 7:35 PM by Mary Kay

Blöödhag -- comment #6 from Robert L

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:18:21 -0500

I listened to the Wm. Gibson one--the other sound links send you to garageband.com--and if you search for the song in question, then sign up there, it would appear you can then listen to or download the others. Musically it's pretty much generic death metal--but you gotta love the concept. And it still sounds better than a lot of filking...

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Posted July 31, 2002 9:18 PM by Robert L

Blöödhag -- comment #7 from Cassandra Phillips-Sears

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:54:11 -0500

Why did they want to get their money back after they saw Bradbury on TV? I wasn't aware that he'd really ever been on TV in the first place.

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Posted August 1, 2002 12:54 PM by Cassandra Phillips-Sears