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Rock n Roll radicals
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Slank will perform at the Roxy on July 28 2007.
Click here for more info. |
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Perhaps the most successful band bridging “underground” and “commercial” genres of popular music is Slank. Since its first album in 1990 it has had a string of “best selling album” awards and maintained a hold on the commercial Top Ten listings with a mixture of soft sentimental songs and growling angry protests. The sentimental “Terbunuh sepi” (“Killed by loneliness”) rated amongst the ten best video clips on RCTI's Video Musik Indonesia program for 1995-96. By contrast, the title track from their 1995 fourth album (on “PISS Records”!) is the Led Zeppelin-ish “Generasi Biru” (Blue Generation).
On their “Generasi Biru” album is a laid back blues track “Blues Males” (“Lazy Blues”). The lyric plays on sleep/ sleeping around (tidur/ tidurin), about how great it would be to get a (girl-)friend (the band is all male) from a (powerfully connected) conglomerate, “so life wouldn't be destitute any longer/ waiting for inheritance while sleeping around.../ If you know the most powerful people/ you can let troubles pass you by/ you can get a well-placed position to sleep around/ .../ a water-bed to sleep around/ a (five-) star hotel to sleep around/ a stack of money for whoever you’re screwing.”
In the scribbled song on the cassette cover, the final line is 'Punya jabatan...Buat nidurin bawahan!!! (“Got a (high) position to screw the underlings!”) - the word “nidurin” struck out but visible through the pen stroke.
Source: www.InsideIndonesia.org
More info and pictures of slank, visit: www.slank.com |
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