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PeskySaurus:
Damn, how come you guys let Rammstein , and then come on stage and SING ON FIRE a song about babies exploding from the awful Ramstein disaster, yet when they come to America they are arrested after one show... but gibbing in first person shooters is commonly accepted here, and they try to ban even blood splatter in TF2? Does not compute. I'm glad I live in America, I'll tell you what. lol


PS: I know the second video wasn't in Germany, but they perform the exact same act in Berlin as well.

Loafie, Hero of Dreams:
If I have a bad time, I go home and bag a couple hundred zombies. Loves me some L4D.

kraid:
Well, this song isn't about exploding babies (who told you that shit?).
And i would say there are Bands doing even worser things on their shows.
The reason for Ramstein are not being censored, is they crypt their texts so it depends on the interpretation (in most cases).
In the song "Ramstein" there are only loosely connected parts of sentences, more like still images of scenes happened, which might be related somehow to the place called Ramstein here in Germany.
It's a military flight base used during WWII and after that by the US Army.
They used it for storeing Atombombs till 2005 and still using it as a flight base today.

I'm not really sure what they wanna say with things like:
(translated to english)

--- Quote ---Ramstein
A body burns
Ramstein
Rancid flesh fills the air
Ramstein
A child dies
Ramstein
The sun shines
Ramstein
A sea of flames
Ramstein
Blood congeals on (the) asphaltene
Ramstein
Mothers' scream
Ramstein
The sun shines
Ramstein
A mass grave
Ramstein
There's no escape
Ramstein
Not a bird will sing
Ramstein
And the sun shines
--- End quote ---


It depends so much on the interpretation that i cannot say anything for sure.
But if i should do a guess, i would say they talk about ramstein military base, where all those aircrafts are starting to kill ppl somewhere else, while there is sunshine over ramstein.
So it's a song against war and they might be not arrested for having some pyrotechnics in their show (was anyone hurt by these pyro things?), but for the critic they do on the US useing ramstein to bring death and destruction to their enemies.
Again just my interpretation of it.

I don't like this song anyway, it's to simple in therms of melody and they've done far better songs.

You're glad to live in America, that's good. But i think there are some things in your country which you dislike too, like Alcohol restriction till 21, or the prudery against everything related to sex.

PeskySaurus:
"A child dies" was the line I was referring to, combined with the blood coagulating. Perhaps the exploding babies interpretation came from me reading a story written by a survivor of the accident. Dude, I have every Rammstein song, CD, DVD ever made, a poster, 4 shirts, and all their really obscure songs not on CD.  I think I know a little bit about the band. Hell, I even study your language cause of them, lol. Also, if I remember reading correctly, "Rammstein" was the first song they ever wrote, and the reason for the song, and the name of the band, was because of the airshow disaster was on TV nonstop and they couldn't get it out of their head. If I can find the interview where this is stated I will show you. I donno where you got that translation either, but I guess no translation in this world is perfect. The one I know is slightly different, such as "und die sonne scheint" would technically be "and the sun is shinning".. but I guess you know more about German if I know more about English. So the child dying line might have been more violent in the translation I know of.

Also, they have far ... more controversial songs then Rammstein, like the song about fish incest and stuff, but I find the stage antics for that song far less interesting, and not noteworthy for arrest. I think Buck Dich is what got them arrested in America, not Rammstein. Though I imagine if they played "Amerika" they might get their ass beat down into the pavement. Then again maybe not, Till is a brick house, lol

But yes, there are a few qualms I have with America, but I'll take my legal riot shotgun to protect my family and uncensored TF2 over a younger drinking age anyday. I'm of age already, so I'm slightly biased on that part. Damn young hooligans drinking.

kraid:

--- Quote ---the reason for the song, and the name of the band, was because of the airshow disaster was on TV nonstop and they couldn't get it out of their head.
--- End quote ---

Hmmm... yea, this sounds belivable. TBH I'm not really a Ramstein Fan.
"Bück Dich!" might be a reason for arresting them, since it's topic is sex.
An even better one would be "Mann gegen Mann" course it's about homosexuality.

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