History Music / KaizersOrchestra

Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian [[AlternativeRock alternative rock]] band who have attained significant international popularity owing to their unique and energetic live act, notably featuring oil barrels and crowbars being used as instruments of percussion, a mysterious gas-masked man playing an antique pump organ, and a charismatic LargeHam lead vocalist. And what's more, they insist on singing in their native Norwegian dialect, making their international renown all the more impressive.

* NiceHat: Øyvind has adopted a nice bowler look over time. ''Viva La Vega'' also shows Janove and Rune sharing the same sweet top hat.

* AnachronicOrder: Hooboy. Always present, but the ''Violeta'' trilogy really takes it UpToEleven. Songs set early in the chronology are as likely to be found on the first album as they are the second or third.

* ''En Aften i Operaen'' (''An Evening at the Opera'')

** ''Violeta Violeta Volume III'' serves as this for both their recorded legacy (for now), and the trilogy as a whole. The song ''Sekskløver'' is the song version of this, using musical elements from three songs from the trilogy: ''Forloveren'' from Volume III, ''Drøm videre, Violeta'' from Volume II, and ''Sju bøtter tårer er nok, Beatrice'' from Volume I.

* ''Ompa til du dør'' (''Grandpa until you die'') (2001)
* ''Evig pint'' (''Eternal Pint'') (2003)

* ''Violeta Violeta Volume I'' (''Violet Violet Volume I'') (2011)
* ''Live i Oslo Spektrum'' (''Live in the Oslo Spectrum'') (2011)
* ''Violeta Violeta Volume II'' (''Violet Violet Volume II'') (2011)
* ''Violeta Violeta Volume III'' (''Violet Violet Volume III'') (2012)

** ''Violeta Violeta Volume III'' serves as this for both their recorded legacy (for now), and the trilogy as a whole.

* NumericalThemeNaming: A conspicuous amount of songs on the ''Violeta Violeta'' albums (perhaps more to come) have these: "Sju bøtter tårer er nok, Beatrice", "Femtakt filosofi", "En for orgelet, en for meg", and "Tusen dråper regn".

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Pretty much describes their entire musical output.
** ''Violeta Violeta Volume III'' is this in album form.

* AscendedFanboy: Well, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... it sure was enough to win Music/TomWaits over, who promptly placed ''Ompa til du dør'' on his list of "music you should hear." In the man's own words:
-->"Norwegian storm-trooping tarantellas with savage rhythms and innovative textures. Thinking man's circus music. Way out."

Kaizers Orchestra is a CrazyAwesome Norwegian [[AlternativeRock alternative rock]] band who have attained significant international popularity owing to their unique and energetic live act, notably featuring oil barrels and crowbars being used as instruments of percussion, a mysterious gas-masked man playing an antique pump organ, and a charismatic LargeHam lead vocalist. And what's more, they insist on singing in their native Norwegian dialect, making their international renown all the more impressive.

* ''250 prosent'' (''250 percent '') [live] (2008)

* ''Maskineri'' (''Machinery'')(2008)

* ''Ompa til du dør'' (2001)
* ''Evig pint'' (2003)

* ''Maskineri'' (2008)
* ''250 prosent'' [live] (2008)
* ''Våre demoner'' (2009)
* ''Violeta Violeta Volume I'' (2011)
* ''Live i Oslo Spektrum'' (2011)
* ''Violeta Violeta Volume II'' (2011)
* ''Violeta Violeta Volume III'' (2012)

* SurrealMusicVideo: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGiC7GIng9g Knekker deg til sist]]". Let's see here, we have inexplicable clones of the band members whose facial expressions range from "happy on crack" to a complete lack of emotion, Janove (''or is it a clone?'') pretending to be a dead body in order to check out a woman's cleavage, and Helge channeling [[TheRing Samara Morgan]]. Yep.

* Music/TheBeatles: One consistently name-dropped source of inspiration. They may even be more of an influence than previously thought, as the distinctive oil barrel section in "Bastard" was directly inspired by RingoStarr's drumming on "Drive My Car".

* LyricalDissonance: ''And how.'' "Tokyo Ice til Clementine" is perhaps their most shining example of this trope, as the song is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECK_laXW6gk overly cheerful and bouncy]]...[[http://www.freewebs.com/kaizersinst/maestro.htm but the matter surely ain't]]. (Scroll to the bottom of the page.)

'''Kaizers Orchestra''' is a CrazyAwesome Norwegian [[AlternativeRock alternative rock]] band who have attained significant international popularity owing to their unique and energetic live act, notably featuring oil barrels and crowbars being used as instruments of percussion, a mysterious gas-masked man playing an antique pump organ, and a charismatic LargeHam lead vocalist. And what's more, they insist on singing in their native Norwegian dialect, making their international renown all the more impressive.

* BadAss: The whole band pretty much qualifies as a BadassCrew, but pick a picture of Terje. [[http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac328/kaizersdaily/KbenKaizers014.jpg Any]] [[http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac328/kaizersdaily/fshyr.jpg picture]] [[http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac328/kaizersdaily/19385.jpg of]] [[http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac328/kaizersdaily/9027.jpg Terje]], just about.

->"''You wake up... you grab the morning paper... and although it seems like any ordinary day... it isn't. For one extraordinary reason: One band; [[EverythingIsAnInstrument two oil barrels]]; [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth three chords]]; four dreams, five lies, [[SharpDressedMan six ties]], seven deadly sins, and eight ways to stay alive...! [[IncomingHam They know who you are... they know where you live... they're the Kaizers Orchestra!]]''"

** Arguably [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Die Polizei", which features English lyrics, albeit spoken in a distinct German accent; this is an explicit reference to dialogue from TheBigLebowski.

** Add a dash of TomWaits in for good measure...