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3 | ->''Laibach were and still are just about the biggest IRL trolls on the music scene, if not anywhere in the world.'' |
4 | -->--'''Encyclopedia Dramatica''' on Laibach |
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6 | ->''Purpose: to provoke maximum collective emotions and release the automatic response of masses..'' |
7 | -->-- Laibach on Laibach |
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10 | Laibach is a UsefulNotes/{{Slovenia}}n {{Industrial}} music group, formed June 1, 1980 in Slovenia (then Yugoslavia), built upon provoking thought via offensive and often [[SelfParody Self Parodic]] aesthetics and are known for never breaking {{Kayfabe}}. |
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13 | They started off their campaign with their name, which was the medieval[[note]]and - until the 1918 collapse of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Austro-Hungarian Empire]] - ''an'' official[[/note]] German name that the Nazis reimposed on the Slovenian capital during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, [[SerialEscalation from there]], eventually leading to them being banned from UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}} after a interview on state TV where they appeared in full Nazi regalia spewing nonsensical fascist rhetoric. |
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15 | Of course they kept right on going, using a [[FauxSymbolism black cross]] as opposed to their now banned name, until the Yugoslavian government collapsed. |
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17 | Between then and now they’ve covered almost every artist you can think of, [[RevolvingDoorBand gone through a whole roster of members]], worn some unusual headgear, and [[http://www.nskstate.com/ founded their own state.]] |
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19 | The current lineups are: |
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21 | !!Volk |
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23 | * Milan Fras - vocals |
24 | * Ivan Novak - lights and projection |
25 | * Mina Špiler - vocals, synthesizer |
26 | * Janez Gabrič - drums |
27 | * Luka Jamnik - synthesizer |
28 | * Sašo Vollmaier - synthesizer |
29 | * Eva Breznikar - vocals, percussion |
30 | * Nataša Regovec - vocals, percussion |
31 | * Damjan Bizilj - synthesizer |
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33 | !![=KunstDerFuge=] |
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35 | * Luka Jamnik - electronics |
36 | * Iztok Turk - electronics |
37 | * Janez Gabrič - drums |
38 | * Sašo Vollmaier - electronics |
39 | * Ivan Novak - electronics and voice |
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41 | !!Laibach 'music soirée' |
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43 | * Dejan Knez - electronics and voice |
44 | * Srečko Bajda - electronics |
45 | * Marko Košnik - electronics |
46 | * Andrej Lupinc - electronics and bass guitar |
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48 | !!Releases (Not including cassette & Vinyl exclusives): |
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50 | * ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Laibach]]'' (1985) |
51 | * ''Nova Akropola'' (1986) |
52 | * ''Krst Pod Trigvalom - Baptism Below Triglav'' (soundtrack album) (1986) |
53 | * ''Opus Dei'' (1987) |
54 | * ''Slovenska Akropola'' (live album) (1987) |
55 | * ''[[Music/TheBeatles Let It Be]]'' (cover album) (1988) |
56 | * ''[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Sympathy for the Devil]]'' (cover EP) (1988) |
57 | * ''Macbeth'' (1990) |
58 | * ''[[NewSoundAlbum Kapital]]'' (1992) |
59 | * ''Ljubljana-Zagreb-Beograd'' (live album) (1993) |
60 | * ''NATO'' (1994) |
61 | * ''Music/{{Jesus Christ Superstar}}s'' (1996) |
62 | * ''M.B. December 21, 1984'' (live album) (1997) |
63 | * ''WAT'' (2003) |
64 | * ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Anthems]]'' (2004) |
65 | * ''Volk'' (2006) |
66 | * ''[[Music/JohannSebastianBach Laibachkunstderfuge]]'' (Only on CD in Slovenia & Croatia) (2008) |
67 | * ''Film/IronSky - The Original Soundtrack'' (soundtrack album) (2012) |
68 | * ''Spectre'' (2014) |
69 | * ''[[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'' (2017) |
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72 | !!This band exhibits the following tropes: |
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74 | * ArcWords: United forever, featured in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH4SRm9oe7c Rossiya]] |
75 | * AuthorAppeal: Laibach seem to like stags. |
76 | ** Stags (in various forms) show up in many of their videos. |
77 | ** A mounted stag's head was one of the stage props at their show in London 2012. |
78 | ** The [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AWc86pyhL._SS400_.jpg cover picture]] of their early [=LP=] Nova Akropola is a stag. |
79 | * BilingualBonus: One of Laibach's best known songs is "One Vision" by Queen, sung in German. It has been re-titled "Geburt Einer Nation," which translates as ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''. |
80 | ** Also the title of the Volk album - Volk means people/nation in German, and wolf in their native Slovene. The album is a collection of songs inspired by national anthems. 'Man Is Wolf to Man' ring a bell? |
81 | *** And the cover features sheep |
82 | * ConceptAlbum: NATO is about the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, written as it was occurring. |
83 | * CoverVersion: This band is most famous for these, having covered (among others) Music/{{Prince}}, Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, Music/{{Queen}}, {{DAF}}, Europe and even Paul Revere And The Raiders. Also their cover of Opus's "Life Is Life" inspired the Juno Reactor song "God Is God", which they covered in turn. |
84 | * TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: All their covers are re-arranged in their trademark deadpan comic {{Industrial}} style. |
85 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "God is God" and "Life is Life" |
86 | * GenreShift: Far from their current Wagnerian EBM, their early work was a No Wave inspired mass of ominous clattering percussion, guttural growls and Free Jazz influenced brass. |
87 | * LargeHam: Milan Fras imitates demagogues, so this is a given. |
88 | * NonIndicativeName: ''Let It Be'' is a cover album of the [[Music/LetItBe eponymous]] album by Music/TheBeatles. Except the track "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehbDwPNyriQ Maggie Mae]]", which isn't a cover version of the Beatles' song, but a combination of two German songs, "Auf der Lüneburger Heide" and "Was gleicht wohl auf Erden". |
89 | * PoesLaw: It's not uncommon that they're mistaken to be genuinely fascist, no matter how ridiculous they get. Most bizarre of them all was when '''UsefulNotes/NorthKorea''', of all countries, [[http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/asia/laibach-north-korea/ invited them to perform at their capital]], leading many to wonder if the authoritarian nation had finally grown a sense of humor or had just missed all the satire. |
90 | * PuttingOnTheReich: They originally wore Yugoslavian army uniforms, but later got some personalized black uniforms that hit this trope right on the head. |
91 | * RefugeInAudacity: Almost all of the time. |
92 | * RockMeAmadeus: They performed a surprisingly straightforward interpretation of [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Die Kunst Der Fuge]] on synthesizers, and reworked Music/RichardWagner's "Overture To The Tannhäuser And The Singers' Contest At The Wartburg", "Sigfried-Idyll" and "The Ride Of The Walkyries". |
93 | * StealthParody: Probably the point of their totalitarian image gimmick. |
94 | * ShoutOut: |
95 | ** In an interview, the band mentioned that they were influenced by "[[UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito Tito]], Music/{{Toto}} and [[Creator/JacquesTati Tati]]." |
96 | ** "Tanz mit Laibach" includes references in its lyrics to "Ado Hynkel" and "Benzino Napoloni", which were the names of the parodies of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini in ''Film/TheGreatDictator''. |
97 | * SignatureHeadgear: Singer Milan Fras always wears a distinctive cap with long skirts at the back and sides. |
98 | * ThoseWackyNazis: Big time with this trope. |
99 | * TropeCodifier: Of Martial Industrial music, later popularized by their [[FollowTheLeader followers]] Music/{{Rammstein}}. They themselves have described Rammstein as [[TakeThat "Laibach for adolescents"]]. |
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