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Sometimes, Pakistan just rocks. I don't mean the landscape, the people or the food. I don't even mean the awesome contradiction of watching poor parents drop their kids off at the madrassa while they go to worship at the shrine of the Hindu-Muslim gay saint couple.
Nope, I mean literally ... rocks. You know...like Guitar Hero.
Watch these videos of Pakistan garage bands and see for yoursef:
(The second song is by a band called Bumbu Sauce, which is a make of instant noodle and might also be an ironic joke since "Bum", as in proper English, means "arse" or "ass" to your regular middle class English-speaking Pakistani while "bu" means " bad smell".)
And:
I'm not sure what they are trying to say. But they sound angry, and I like that. I might put them on my iPod for gym sessions.
hahaha Jiggernaut seems to have a positive message. Something about Jackie Chan kung fu-ing the Taliban with a fish?
Pakistanis (and all muslims) are fun and great people, so long as they stay in Pakistan and not the United States.
Uh oh, look behind you AM...it's your leftie friends, cranking up the peace/hate machine...
Leave Astan or we'll turn on you. No, of course we don't have a plan after"
Sorry Londonstani. Not impressed. These riffs are merely borrowed from their respective Western genres. Sure, they're competent with their instruments and genre, but so what? Where's the Pakistani cultural element. It's totally missing (and please, don't refer to the lyrics in the second clip).
I find it unfortunate when a popular music band falls completely in line with Western norms. I mean, you can get this kind of thing anywhere. Where's' the real Pakistani in any of this? Gone.
"I find it unfortunate when a popular music band falls completely in line with Western norms. I mean, you can get this kind of thing anywhere. Where's' the real Pakistani in any of this? Gone."
Define real? Pakistanis playing the kind of music they want to play seems pretty real to me :)
(I feel like I am at an Indian-American, sorry South Asian, blog, circa 2004. What's authentic, what's real, blah blah blah......I say real is creating what you want to create in the way you want to create it!)
while they go to worship at the shrine of the Hindu-Muslim gay saint couple.
I sooo need a citation for this one!
Its pretty cool that Pakistans most famous TV personality is a cross-dresser as well. But what I want to know is: Wich clubs do these folks play in? Is there a underground scene? And how can we get money to them?
And thank you! Really people, all this talk of the artistic merit, authenticity.. and only Visiteur picked up on the gay saint couple.
Haha, I actually thought you were talking about the Pakistani television show, the one with the cross dressing guy? He's pretty popular, right?
Kinda O/T, but speaking of "Rock On" in a dangerous place...
MeltDown II -2Big2Fail
What is it with the common theme of childish things at this blog?
Legos on the header... guitar hero (above)... movies about legos... discussions about Star Wars... those are just the ones I remember
I'll never understand why the uber lefties at PBS and MSNBC (the only places where Exum apparently won't be laughed off the air) call Abu Muqawama a respected Counter Insurgency Blog.
I think the heavy metal in baghdad groups are a bit more impressive - but they've been around awhile. In order to perform under Saddam, they had to write a song for Saddam called "The Youth of Iraq"
"If you were gonna play without a song for Saddam, the security would capture you and put you in a cell for no reason..."
But the funniest part of all?
Saddam's people thought head-banging was pro-Israel because it looked like the crowd was praying at the Wailing Wall...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLbEb8pSh7s
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