Turbonegro: Music Suggestion Of The Day 30/07/2017
It is time to complete another “triangle”
of Suggestions. Since
we finally suggested the Dolls and already having covered their metallic off
springs it is time to proceed with a band that took the glam-drag show of the Dolls
to new level of extreme. Their ferocious attack on conservatism is relentless
and unending pushing their dress-code closer to that of the Disco YMCA band
than any other rockers while playing inspiring garage punk with sexually
explicit lyrics specially designed to attack homophobes anywhere
Experts
have to say about this band from Norway: «Turbonegro (Turboneger
in Norway)
is a Norwegian punk rockband,
initially active from 1989 to 1998, then reformed in 2002. Their style combines
glam rock,
punk rock
and hard rock
into a style the band describes as "deathpunk".
Turbonegro's lyrics often attack political correctness. For example, the cover of the single "Bad
Mongo" depicts Adolf Hitler
as mentally retarded, and in the song "Hobbit Motherfuckers," they
complain that there is "not enough suffering" and "not enough
natural selection". Their genre of punk has been self-described as
deathpunk. The band has stated that their music superseded existing genres, so
they dubbed it "deathpunk" as a way to avoid being pigeonholed into
musical groupings they felt they were above. Lyrics referencing the genre
choice include "gimme deathpunk baby, and I like it" from the song
"Get it On." Sharing characteristics with certain musical
predecessors, (Sex Pistols
wearing swastikas, etc.), Turbonegro has been praised by some as playing the
most up-to-date form of punk with an anarchic blend of humour, shock and
sexuality.
In the Turbonegro
– The MovieDVD extras, Happy-Tom says
that, early on, festival-goers expected Turbonegro to be gothic metal
or black metal in the vein of other Norwegian bands. They are notorious for
their on-stage gimmicks.
An early version of the band wore blackface
and wigs onstage in an effort to challenge those watching their shows. On The Reserection DVD, the band states
that early on they were often driven away from shows they were to play because
they were not edgy enough or did not fit the look that the crowd wanted. As a
result, the onstage schticks started to become as much of the Turbonegro
experience as the music. Following several tours in blackface, the band started
an oddball theme of tight denim pants, nautically themed stage props and homosexual
innuendo, stylistically similar to the characters of Tom of Finland.
A tongue-in-cheek joke, the homosexual/transvestite
stage presence found its way into the band's music, including songs such as
"Prince of the Rodeo" and "Rendezvous with Anus" which are
both thinly veiled references to anal intercourse.
Levi's
jeans endorsements
soon followed, and the trucker-cut jacket soon became standard fare amongst
fans.
The band's first break-out album, Ass Cobra (1996), was widely
acclaimed. Jello Biafra
(DKennedys) would later comment that it was one of the best punk albums of the 1990s.
Following Ass Cobra, was
Turbonegro's most critically acclaimed release Apocalypse Dudes (1998). Apocalypse
Dudes introduced a combination of 1970s arena rock,
irreverent lyrics, and punk stylings, which brought the band a level of
notoriety that they had not achieved at any other point in their career.»
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