Line #52 Music/ErsteAllgemeineVerunsicherung


1	The Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (German for "First Public/General Un-Insurance") is an Austrian fun rock band formed in 1977. During their beginning, they were very poor, but then suddenly became very successful, even drawing kids and old people to their concerts - which surprised even them. True, many of their songs are very funny, but they also make songs about political topics, which are more an example of dry humor or sarcasm, and sometimes reference mature stuff. Band members often changed, but main texter Thomas Spitzer has remained. Had a crisis in the late Nineties, when several prominent members left the band, but recovered and is still around.
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5	* TheAlcoholic: PlayedForLaughs in "Wir jetten"
6	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In "Oh Bio Mio", the singer falls in love with a GranolaGirl, changes his way of living for her, but at the end she falls for a rich guy who is as far from this lifestyle as possible.
7	* AllJustADream: "Einsamkeit": A lonely guy in a bar for lonely guys is unexpectedly invited by a FemmeFatale for a night.
8	* BaitAndSwitch: Like here: "It was exactly three days after Johnny's return from Palermo! Glumly, the barrel of his gun shined in the flickering light of the neon lamp. 'This time, I'll get you!' Johnny cawed. Then he readied the gun, aimed precisely, and in ice-cold blood, pulled the trigger...\Then he took the pink teddy bear he had won at the shooting booth, his girlfriend's hand, and they went to the cotton candy booth."
9	* BankRobbery: "Ba-Ba-Banküberfall". ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
10	* BestialityIsDepraved: "Ihr Rinderlein kommet"
11	* BlackComedy: Literally in "Dürüdldü (my little boy)", about a baby born dead. In SillyLoveSongs style.
12	* BodyHorror: "Schnippel-schnapp" about plastic surgery, the best new song they did in the last time
13	** Also with Burli, who has four hands with ten fingers each, among other things.
14	* ChubbyChaser: Parodied with their song "Ich bin so geil auf feiste Weiber" (I'm so horny for fat females)
15	* CrossdressingVoices: Klaus Eberhartinger sometimes uses falsetto for this purpose.
16	* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Parodied. "That's our dough, and we need a new yacht!"
17	* DisproportionateRetribution: A Turk gets cheated at an imbiss stand, when there is no meat in his kebap. So he buys Souflaki from the next Greek instead. What does the kebap maker do? Impale him with a kebap spit.
18	* DumbMuscle: "Copacabana" parodies bodybuilders. "Ah hooga huhga hooga! Ah hooga huhga hooga!"
19	* EagleLand: Type 2 in "God Bless America":
20	--> "Anyone who doesn't gulp coke and feed burgers, has to be a bloody fucking terrorist."
21	* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: In several [[ArtShift spoken sketches]].
22	--> {{Mook}}: Hey, boss!
23	--> Boss: What's up, Johnny?
24	--> Johnny: You got fire?
25	--> Boss: Fire? [[SarcasmMode Yeah, right,]] Johnny.
26	--> (Cue the [gun]fire, probably killing him)
27	* FemmeFatale: Satanella
28	* FingerGun: In "Ba-ba-bankrobbery", the wannabe robber tries to bluff with his finger in the pocket - he's one of the people who can't see blood.
29	* FoodFight: "Bimsemann und Roggenkeil", involving a baker and his lazy apprentice.
30	* FrontalMaleNudity: In one video of "Tarzan & Jane"
31	* TheFundamentalist
32	--> Taliban, Taliban, Taliban, Nirvana
33	--> Don't you dare to scratch our fundament!
34	--> Vatican, Vatican, just as much banana
35	--> Too sad that no pyre is burning
36	* GoldDigger / HoistByHisOwnPetard / MayDecemberRomance: "Der fesche Franz" is a trickster who marries a... not so hot older woman who's rich, takes all her money, but then loses it to a female GoldDigger.
37	* GranolaGirl: Made fun of in "Oh Bio Mio".
38	* GratuitousEnglish: Several songs. One of them was "Ba-ba-bankrobbery", which was elected worst music video.
39	* HarmlessVillain: The protagonist of "Ba-ba-bank robbery". He's broke, tries to rob a bank, but finds himself unable to do it. He even lines in the queue when a granny tells him.
40	* HumansAreBastards: "Neanderthal"
41	* JadedWashout: In some sketches, they depict certain singers as this, like [[Music/EltonJohn Johnny Elton]] or [[SelfDeprecation themselves]].
42	* LastDisrespects: With an UndeadNarrator. His relatives "have a calculator instead of a bible in the hand, to divide up the heritage", but he gets the last laugh: He wasted his fortune before he died, and just left them his cognac, [[INeedAFreakingDrink which they'll need.]]
43	* LineOfSightName: The band is named after the Austrian insurance company "Erste Allgemeine Versicherung". They had the idea when they drove along a building of said insurance.
44	* TheMafia: The theme of "Heiße Nächte in Palermo".
45	* MisplacedWildlife: Africa in the song "Tarzan & Jane" has coyotes, orang-utans and beavers.
46	* RefugeInAudacity: One song about a drunkard who vomits while in a cab and then asks the driver whether the alcohol stench is coming from ''him''.
47	* SexTourism: Male version in "Samurai", female in "Jambo".
48	* ShaggyDogStory: "Die Geschichte". All a build-up for a sheer unbelievable story that the singer barely survived, it seems. But later: "Only idiots listen until the end!" But if you didn't understand it, press rewind, stop and start...
49	* SillyLoveSongs: parodied in "Himbeerland" (raspberry land)
50	* SubvertedRhymeEveryTime: "Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins / ob du'n Mädel hast oder auch zehn"
51	* TakeThat: Against UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, Austria's right-wing politicians and others.
52	* ThoseWackyNazis: They made fun of them several times.
53	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: In a song about [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Nazis]].
54	-> "The grampa said, don't get agitated,
55	-> but those guys with the swastika, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong?
56	-> Yes, you can go wrong like that.
57	-> Suddenly, it was too late."

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