History Music / Knorkator

* KillEmAll: Exactly what the title of ''Tötet sie alle'' means.

** LighterAndSofter: A cover of ''Highway to Hell''.

* TakeThatAudience: ''Für meine Fans''

* DoubleEntendre: ''"The song about the horse"'' appears to be dedicated to the vocalists horse. However it could also be entirely about {{fetish}} sex.

** The audience returned the favor and made the motto of the fan club "Ich schäme mich für meine Band." ("I'm ashamed pf my band.")

* TestosteronePoisoning: ''Der ultimative Mann'' (The ultimate man). Do I need to say more?

* CreepyCrossdresser: Alf Ator often performs in a dress, and Stumpen sometimes wears a womans swimsuit instead of his trademark underpants.
* TattooedCrook: Main vocalist Stumpen has half of his body covered in one huge tattoo. To show it off, he always appears on stage in underpants.

---> ''Brass knuckles, bommerang, halberd, foil. Sword, dog, pit, bow and arror, trident. Tank, peacemaker, kalashnikov, whip. Lance, hammer, axe, poultry shears!!!''

** The lyrics of ''Mai khao djaj'' are entirely in Thai. The title translates to "I don't understand this" and the rest of lyrics are the words of Alf Ators thai wife who was asked to write a song in Thai, but she has no idea what she should write about.
** Similarily, ''Aeger sum'' is entirely in Latin, but consists only of medical terms.

** ''Der Werwurm'' (the were-worm) is not so bad because the man turns into a worm, but [[TheCanKickedHim the way by which he infects others]].
** Also ''Nur mal angenommen'' (just supposed) which begins with ''"Just supposed I could stick my head into my ass"'' and continues from there.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Cover of ''All that she wants'' and ''Try again''

* MadScientist: In ''Letter''. After thirty years of research, he invented the letter "pfrrrzchz" (sorry for the lousy approximation), which essentially is a "br" plus loads of spittle, and now suggests that everyone begins using it...and paying him royalities. Proving that even a Germanist can fit this trope.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: ''Evil'' is all about a wanabe thug who joined a ReligionOfEvil, but all his evil visions are merely minor cases ofgoing against ettiquette.

* NoJustNoReaction: ''Nö''

* ScrewYourself: The entire point of ''Ich lass mich klonen'' (I clone myself).

** The audience returned the favor and made the motto of the fan club "Ich schäme mich für meine Band." ("I'm ashamed for my band.")
* TestosteronePoisoning: ''Der ultimative Mann'' (the ultimate man). Do I need to say more?

** "Let your dragon soar / let your kite rise" in ''Geh zu ihr'' (go to her). Suprisingly, it's actually a very sweet romance song.
** ''Schwanzlich Willkommen'' replaces the word "heart" in many expressions with "dick", since that's a much more acurate body part to refer to emotions.

* ''High Mud Leader'', 2002 [[hottip:*: A pun on ''Heimatlieder'', which is pronounced the same.]]

* ''Das nächste Album aller Zeiten'' (The next album of all time), 2007 [[hottip:*: ''nächste'' is no superlative but its ending looks like one, so the name of the album can also be read as something like ''the nextest album of all time'']]

* ''Knorkator - Mein Leben Als Single'' (My life as a single), 2010 [[hottip:*: A compilation of all the singles they released over the years.]]
* ''Es werde Nicht'' (Let there be nothing), 2011 [[hottip:*: The title is grammatically wrong, and a pun on ''Es werde Licht'' = ''Let there be light'']]

** The audience returned the favor and made the motto of the fan club "Ich schäme mich für meine Band." ("I'm ashamed for my band.")

* ''High Mud Leader'', 2002

* ''Knorkator - Mein Leben Als Single'' (My life as a single), 2010

* ''The Schlechtst of Knorkator'' (The worstest of Knorkator), 1997

* ''Das nächste Album aller Zeiten'' (The next album of all time), 2007

* NoJustNo: ''Nö''

* TakeThatAudience: The song ''Für meine Fans'' means "for my fans". However, it's actually only half of the first line of the chorus, which is ''Ich schäme mich '''für meine fans''''' (I am embarrased by my fans).

* TestosteronePoisoning: ''Der ultimative Mann'' (the ultimate men). Do I need to say more?

* ClusterFBomb: Again, there a many examples. ''Narrenkappe'' (jesters hat) mentions is explicitly, but it comes up much more often.

* {{Squick}}: ''Ich bin ein ganz besondrer Mann'' (I'm a very special man) is a song about a man who learned to eat with his asshole. You can imagine where this is going and the song gets quite detailed about it.

* UnusualEuphemism: "Let your dragon soar / let your kite rise" in ''Geh zu ihr'' (go to her). Suprisingly, it's actually a very sweet romance song.

As most of their lyrics are ridiculously silly and many of the vocals are mostly angry yelling, it's easy to overlook that their music is actually of really high quality and that main vocalist Stumpen is actually an [[http://www.myspace.com/knorkator/music/songs/weihnachtsschimpfe-35084612 exceptionally good singer]]. If he wants to be. Similar to the claim of ''Die Ärzte'' as being ''the greatest band in the wold'', Knorkator claims to be ''"Deutschlands meiste Band der Welt"'' (Germany's most band in the world).

Discography:

* ''Tribute to uns selbst'' (Tribute to ourself), 2000

* ''Weg nach unten'' (Way to below), 2008
* ''Knorkator - Mein Leben Als Single'' (My life being single), 2010

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The lyrics of ''Mai khao djaj'' are entirely in Thai. The title translates to "I don't understand this" and the rest of lyrics are the words of Alf Ators thai wife who was asked to write a song in Thai, but she has no idea what she should write about.

* BodyHorror: ''Der Werwurm'' (the were-worm) is not so bad because the man turns into a worm, but [[TheCanKickedHim the way by which he infacts others]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Cover of ''Al that she wants'' and ''Try again''

* Squick: ''Ich bin ein ganz besondrer Mann'' (I'm a very special man) is a song about a man who learned to eat with his asshole. You can imagine where this is going and the song gets quite detailed about it.