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[Em] Rammstein has been one of the biggest [A] bands on earth for the last 20 years, but still,
in Google, one of the biggest searches for the band [B] is, why are Rammstein so [E] popular?
Now that Rammstein have released two of the biggest songs of their career, Radio and [A] Deutschland,
we're gonna explain exactly why people love them [E] so much.
Number one, the riffs.
If you think about the most popular metal bands, especially [A] from the 90s and the early
2000s, [F#] they're all rhythm machines.
Korn, Pantera, Gojira, Meshuggah, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and every metalcore [A] and deathcore band.
Rammstein are as rhythmically based as any of them, [E] and probably even more, and they
got the kind of riffs that make you [C#] wanna smash someone's face through a [A] plate glass window.
Richard [D#] Krispa and Paul Landers both have right hands like Malcolm Young, and you can
hear it on songs like Sonne, Mein Teil, [A] and Duhas.
Number two, the imagery.
[A#] Look, I'm old enough to remember when [B] Duhas came out, I remember [A] seeing it for the first time.
Masks, needles, setting a guy on fire, it was just too much for my nine year old brain to handle.
That being [C#] said, I never once turned away when Duhas came on MTV, it [C#m] was just too damn
good and too [A] mesmerizing, that imagery.
And [F#] a few years later I ran into them again [E] in the movie Triple X, and to be frank, their
fire masks and them playing foyer fry [A] is easily the best part of that movie.
Even in 2019, [E] Rammstein are coming up with imagery that is pushing [F#] people's buttons,
just look at the [A] Nazi controversy from the Deutschland video.
That being said, number [E] three is the band not afraid to be controversial.
For two decades, PC weirdos have been speaking out against Rammstein's militaristic [F#] imagery,
their BDSM imagery, [E] and a giant penis cannon that we [G#] can't show you thanks to the YouTube police.
[A] Rammstein were arrested and jailed in 1999 [G#] after engaging in a fully clothed [F#] act involving
a fake phallus.
In [C#m] 2009, their Pussy video came out and it's straight up hardcore porn, but the band members'
faces superimposed over porn stars, and this year, as we said, the Deutschland video was
criticized [E] for Nazi imagery and the band members [A] being depicted as concentration camp prisoners
[E] about to be executed.
Sure, it's [G#] provocative and all, but if you actually pay [F#] attention to the video, you can
[A] see that it's about the history and potential future of [C#] human conflict.
And if you read the [B] lyrics, it's clear Till Lindemann loves his homeland, but sometimes
struggles with justifying [A] that pride due to Germany's past.
Pop fans may be satisfied with surface level [D#m] entertainment, but Rammstein fans [C#] prefer to
dig a little deeper.
Number four, German makes the lyrics sound cooler.
German is a brutal [C#] language, just take it from Tim Allen.
The word butterfly.
In French, Papillon.
In Spanish, Mariposa.
In German, Schmetterling!
[C#m] Look, I love Rammstein, but something is sort of [A] lost in translation when it goes from [G#] German to English.
Take Sana for example.
[B] One, here comes the sun.
Two, here comes the sun.
Three, she [E] is the brightest star of all.
Four, here [A] comes the sun.
Not very imposing, [B] but when Till sings it
[Em] [C] And [C#] the verse to kinda lust in English, I [Bm] don't feel like it, I don't feel like it,
[E] I don't feel like it, [A] no, I don't feel like it.
But when Till sings in [C] German
It's just so much cooler, and not actually knowing what he's saying, sometimes that enhances the music.
Fun fact, there's one Rammstein lyric that's way better in English, and that would be Blitzkrieg
with the meat rifle.
Number five, they [Am] appeal to all kinds of music fans.
When you really break down [G] Rammstein's music song by song, you'll [Am] hear industrial stuff,
heavy metal, techno, nu metal [G] grooves, groove metal grooves, gothic stuff, and straight
up rock and roll.
One reason why a lot of bands don't last as long as Rammstein is because there's not enough
of an audience to keep them going through the good times and the [Am] bad times.
If you appeal to such a dynamic crowd of music fans, it's [G] less likely that your music is
going to sound stale 20 years down the line as trends ebb and flow.
Rammstein are still as fresh as a goddamn daisy, and it's because of how [C] unique they
are and how many people they appeal to.
[A] Number six, they're students of Quentin Tarantino [C] and David Lynch.
The Rammstein guys have a great taste in film, [A] and you can see it in their music videos.
Du hast, [C] reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs and Lost Highway.
[G] Engel, from Dusk to Dawn, which was written by Quentin Tarantino.
And what does Deutschland remind you of?
In Glorious Bastards.
Lost Highway even features two Rammstein songs.
Herrheit, [Fm] mich, and Rammstein.
And during a cameo in Twin [G] Peaks, David Lynch himself can be heard whistling Engel.
It's those creative sensibilities that all three share which make them timeless.
Number seven, [D] the live show.
There is no show on the planet more ridiculous than Rammstein's.
They're [E] like Iron Maiden meets Slipknot and Cirque du Soleil.
If you want to see [Gm] blood, fire, explosions, [C] BDSM, cannibalism, and a [C] man playing the keyboard
while riding a [G] treadmill, there's only one band to see.
And it ain't [E] f***ing Coldplay.
I've seen some wild stuff in my time, but to this day, [F] the Du hast bazooka stunt [Em] is
still the most impressive thing I have ever seen.
[E] [Gm] Number eight, Rammstein [A] have not changed a bit.
Rammstein's consistency is stunning.
[G] Few foreign language bands have ever achieved longevity here in the United States.
They've all been Macarenas and Ketchup songs, but [D] Du hast was no one hit [G] wonder.
Rammstein's highest charting album in the US [D] is their latest one, 2009's Love is for [G] Everyone.
And Rammstein's new song Deutschland has racked up 42 million views in a month and
hit number one in [Am] Germany, only the second time that's [C] ever happened.
One reason Rammstein's been able to remain so [E] consistent, they've never had a lineup
change in [C] 25 years.
It's been difficult to stay together at times.
Richard Krispa calls it a [E] marriage with no sex, and the band members have even gone to
[D] therapy together to work out their differences.
Rammstein [G] have never had a Spinal Tap or Yoko Ono moment, tempting the band to over-conceptualize
and futz around with artsy trash.
They took the ACDC route, and for that, [D] we're thankful.
Rammstein are perfect the way they are.
[Am] Number nine, Till's voice.
[G] Who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?
I mean, fat suits, giant wiener cannons, Blitzkrieg with a [D] meat rifle, oh it's so good.
Rammstein's one of the funniest bands out there, but it's not just visual and lyrical.
[A] Till's deadpan baritone voice is the perfect delivery system [G] for Rammstein's [Em] cotton-mouthed
and saltine type [G] of dry sense of humor.
Till's voice is also dark and foreboding when it needs [F#] to be.
He's got that Peter Steele kind of quality to him, and the ladies will back me up on that one.
And number ten, there's no other [C] band quite like them.
Yeah, [Gm] there's oomph in the new German hardness scene, but Rammstein are like [Am] Iron Maiden
in the new wave of British heavy metal.
They're just bigger than the genre itself.
Rammstein's one [F] of the few elite bands with an unmistakable identity.
You're never going to see a Rammstein video and ask, hey, is that [E] Imagine Dragons?
Even your parents know Rammstein.
The band's been [G] pissing them off for 20 years.
Thanks for watching, [F] everyone.
Make sure to like, share, and subscribe.
Visit [G] Loudwire on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
You can follow me on Twitter at GrahamWire, and we'll see you next time.
[F] [A] [C] [N]
in Google, one of the biggest searches for the band [B] is, why are Rammstein so [E] popular?
Now that Rammstein have released two of the biggest songs of their career, Radio and [A] Deutschland,
we're gonna explain exactly why people love them [E] so much.
Number one, the riffs.
If you think about the most popular metal bands, especially [A] from the 90s and the early
2000s, [F#] they're all rhythm machines.
Korn, Pantera, Gojira, Meshuggah, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and every metalcore [A] and deathcore band.
Rammstein are as rhythmically based as any of them, [E] and probably even more, and they
got the kind of riffs that make you [C#] wanna smash someone's face through a [A] plate glass window.
Richard [D#] Krispa and Paul Landers both have right hands like Malcolm Young, and you can
hear it on songs like Sonne, Mein Teil, [A] and Duhas.
Number two, the imagery.
[A#] Look, I'm old enough to remember when [B] Duhas came out, I remember [A] seeing it for the first time.
Masks, needles, setting a guy on fire, it was just too much for my nine year old brain to handle.
That being [C#] said, I never once turned away when Duhas came on MTV, it [C#m] was just too damn
good and too [A] mesmerizing, that imagery.
And [F#] a few years later I ran into them again [E] in the movie Triple X, and to be frank, their
fire masks and them playing foyer fry [A] is easily the best part of that movie.
Even in 2019, [E] Rammstein are coming up with imagery that is pushing [F#] people's buttons,
just look at the [A] Nazi controversy from the Deutschland video.
That being said, number [E] three is the band not afraid to be controversial.
For two decades, PC weirdos have been speaking out against Rammstein's militaristic [F#] imagery,
their BDSM imagery, [E] and a giant penis cannon that we [G#] can't show you thanks to the YouTube police.
[A] Rammstein were arrested and jailed in 1999 [G#] after engaging in a fully clothed [F#] act involving
a fake phallus.
In [C#m] 2009, their Pussy video came out and it's straight up hardcore porn, but the band members'
faces superimposed over porn stars, and this year, as we said, the Deutschland video was
criticized [E] for Nazi imagery and the band members [A] being depicted as concentration camp prisoners
[E] about to be executed.
Sure, it's [G#] provocative and all, but if you actually pay [F#] attention to the video, you can
[A] see that it's about the history and potential future of [C#] human conflict.
And if you read the [B] lyrics, it's clear Till Lindemann loves his homeland, but sometimes
struggles with justifying [A] that pride due to Germany's past.
Pop fans may be satisfied with surface level [D#m] entertainment, but Rammstein fans [C#] prefer to
dig a little deeper.
Number four, German makes the lyrics sound cooler.
German is a brutal [C#] language, just take it from Tim Allen.
The word butterfly.
In French, Papillon.
In Spanish, Mariposa.
In German, Schmetterling!
[C#m] Look, I love Rammstein, but something is sort of [A] lost in translation when it goes from [G#] German to English.
Take Sana for example.
[B] One, here comes the sun.
Two, here comes the sun.
Three, she [E] is the brightest star of all.
Four, here [A] comes the sun.
Not very imposing, [B] but when Till sings it
[Em] [C] And [C#] the verse to kinda lust in English, I [Bm] don't feel like it, I don't feel like it,
[E] I don't feel like it, [A] no, I don't feel like it.
But when Till sings in [C] German
It's just so much cooler, and not actually knowing what he's saying, sometimes that enhances the music.
Fun fact, there's one Rammstein lyric that's way better in English, and that would be Blitzkrieg
with the meat rifle.
Number five, they [Am] appeal to all kinds of music fans.
When you really break down [G] Rammstein's music song by song, you'll [Am] hear industrial stuff,
heavy metal, techno, nu metal [G] grooves, groove metal grooves, gothic stuff, and straight
up rock and roll.
One reason why a lot of bands don't last as long as Rammstein is because there's not enough
of an audience to keep them going through the good times and the [Am] bad times.
If you appeal to such a dynamic crowd of music fans, it's [G] less likely that your music is
going to sound stale 20 years down the line as trends ebb and flow.
Rammstein are still as fresh as a goddamn daisy, and it's because of how [C] unique they
are and how many people they appeal to.
[A] Number six, they're students of Quentin Tarantino [C] and David Lynch.
The Rammstein guys have a great taste in film, [A] and you can see it in their music videos.
Du hast, [C] reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs and Lost Highway.
[G] Engel, from Dusk to Dawn, which was written by Quentin Tarantino.
And what does Deutschland remind you of?
In Glorious Bastards.
Lost Highway even features two Rammstein songs.
Herrheit, [Fm] mich, and Rammstein.
And during a cameo in Twin [G] Peaks, David Lynch himself can be heard whistling Engel.
It's those creative sensibilities that all three share which make them timeless.
Number seven, [D] the live show.
There is no show on the planet more ridiculous than Rammstein's.
They're [E] like Iron Maiden meets Slipknot and Cirque du Soleil.
If you want to see [Gm] blood, fire, explosions, [C] BDSM, cannibalism, and a [C] man playing the keyboard
while riding a [G] treadmill, there's only one band to see.
And it ain't [E] f***ing Coldplay.
I've seen some wild stuff in my time, but to this day, [F] the Du hast bazooka stunt [Em] is
still the most impressive thing I have ever seen.
[E] [Gm] Number eight, Rammstein [A] have not changed a bit.
Rammstein's consistency is stunning.
[G] Few foreign language bands have ever achieved longevity here in the United States.
They've all been Macarenas and Ketchup songs, but [D] Du hast was no one hit [G] wonder.
Rammstein's highest charting album in the US [D] is their latest one, 2009's Love is for [G] Everyone.
And Rammstein's new song Deutschland has racked up 42 million views in a month and
hit number one in [Am] Germany, only the second time that's [C] ever happened.
One reason Rammstein's been able to remain so [E] consistent, they've never had a lineup
change in [C] 25 years.
It's been difficult to stay together at times.
Richard Krispa calls it a [E] marriage with no sex, and the band members have even gone to
[D] therapy together to work out their differences.
Rammstein [G] have never had a Spinal Tap or Yoko Ono moment, tempting the band to over-conceptualize
and futz around with artsy trash.
They took the ACDC route, and for that, [D] we're thankful.
Rammstein are perfect the way they are.
[Am] Number nine, Till's voice.
[G] Who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?
I mean, fat suits, giant wiener cannons, Blitzkrieg with a [D] meat rifle, oh it's so good.
Rammstein's one of the funniest bands out there, but it's not just visual and lyrical.
[A] Till's deadpan baritone voice is the perfect delivery system [G] for Rammstein's [Em] cotton-mouthed
and saltine type [G] of dry sense of humor.
Till's voice is also dark and foreboding when it needs [F#] to be.
He's got that Peter Steele kind of quality to him, and the ladies will back me up on that one.
And number ten, there's no other [C] band quite like them.
Yeah, [Gm] there's oomph in the new German hardness scene, but Rammstein are like [Am] Iron Maiden
in the new wave of British heavy metal.
They're just bigger than the genre itself.
Rammstein's one [F] of the few elite bands with an unmistakable identity.
You're never going to see a Rammstein video and ask, hey, is that [E] Imagine Dragons?
Even your parents know Rammstein.
The band's been [G] pissing them off for 20 years.
Thanks for watching, [F] everyone.
Make sure to like, share, and subscribe.
Visit [G] Loudwire on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
You can follow me on Twitter at GrahamWire, and we'll see you next time.
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_ _ _ [Em] Rammstein has been one of the biggest [A] bands on earth for the last 20 years, but still,
in Google, one of the biggest searches for the band [B] is, why are Rammstein so [E] popular?
Now that Rammstein have released two of the biggest songs of their career, Radio and [A] Deutschland,
we're gonna explain exactly why people love them [E] so much.
Number one, the riffs.
If you think about the most popular metal bands, especially [A] from the 90s and the early
2000s, [F#] they're all rhythm machines.
Korn, Pantera, Gojira, Meshuggah, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and every metalcore [A] and deathcore band.
Rammstein are as rhythmically based as any of them, [E] and probably even more, and they
got the kind of riffs that make you [C#] wanna smash someone's face through a [A] plate glass window.
Richard [D#] Krispa and Paul Landers both have right hands like Malcolm Young, and you can
hear it on songs like Sonne, Mein Teil, [A] and Duhas.
Number two, the imagery.
[A#] Look, I'm old enough to remember when [B] Duhas came out, I remember [A] seeing it for the first time.
Masks, needles, setting a guy on fire, it was just too much for my nine year old brain to handle.
That being [C#] said, I never once turned away when Duhas came on MTV, it [C#m] was just too damn
good and too [A] mesmerizing, that imagery.
And [F#] a few years later I ran into them again [E] in the movie Triple X, and to be frank, their
fire masks and them playing foyer fry [A] is easily the best part of that movie.
Even in 2019, [E] Rammstein are coming up with imagery that is pushing [F#] people's buttons,
just look at the [A] Nazi controversy from the Deutschland video.
That being said, number [E] three is the band not afraid to be controversial.
For two decades, PC weirdos have been speaking out against Rammstein's militaristic [F#] imagery,
their BDSM imagery, [E] and a giant penis cannon that we [G#] can't show you thanks to the YouTube police.
[A] Rammstein were arrested and jailed in 1999 [G#] after engaging in a fully clothed [F#] act involving
a fake phallus.
In [C#m] 2009, their Pussy video came out and it's straight up hardcore porn, but the band members'
faces superimposed over porn stars, and this year, as we said, the Deutschland video was
criticized [E] for Nazi imagery and the band members [A] being depicted as concentration camp prisoners
[E] about to be executed.
Sure, it's [G#] provocative and all, but if you actually pay [F#] attention to the video, you can
[A] see that it's about the history and potential future of [C#] human conflict.
And if you read the [B] lyrics, it's clear Till Lindemann loves his homeland, but sometimes
struggles with justifying [A] that pride due to Germany's past.
Pop fans may be satisfied with surface level [D#m] entertainment, but Rammstein fans [C#] prefer to
dig a little deeper.
Number four, German makes the lyrics sound cooler.
German is a brutal [C#] language, just take it from Tim Allen.
The word butterfly.
In French, Papillon.
In Spanish, Mariposa.
In German, Schmetterling!
[C#m] Look, I love Rammstein, but something is sort of [A] lost in translation when it goes from [G#] German to English.
Take Sana for example.
[B] One, here comes the sun.
Two, here comes the sun.
Three, she [E] is the brightest star of all.
Four, here [A] comes the sun.
Not very imposing, [B] but when Till sings it_
[Em] _ _ _ [C] And [C#] the verse to kinda lust in English, I [Bm] don't feel like it, I don't feel like it,
[E] I don't feel like it, [A] no, I don't feel like it.
But when Till sings in [C] German_
_ _ _ It's just so much cooler, and not actually knowing what he's saying, sometimes that enhances the music.
Fun fact, there's one Rammstein lyric that's way better in English, and that would be Blitzkrieg
with the meat rifle.
Number five, they [Am] appeal to all kinds of music fans.
When you really break down [G] Rammstein's music song by song, you'll [Am] hear industrial stuff,
heavy metal, techno, nu metal [G] grooves, groove metal grooves, gothic stuff, and straight
up rock and roll.
One reason why a lot of bands don't last as long as Rammstein is because there's not enough
of an audience to keep them going through the good times and the [Am] bad times.
If you appeal to such a dynamic crowd of music fans, it's [G] less likely that your music is
going to sound stale 20 years down the line as trends ebb and flow.
Rammstein are still as fresh as a goddamn daisy, and it's because of how [C] unique they
are and how many people they appeal to.
[A] Number six, they're students of Quentin Tarantino [C] and David Lynch.
The Rammstein guys have a great taste in film, [A] and you can see it in their music videos.
Du hast, [C] reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs and Lost Highway.
[G] Engel, from Dusk to Dawn, which was written by Quentin Tarantino.
And what does Deutschland remind you of?
In Glorious Bastards.
Lost Highway even features two Rammstein songs.
Herrheit, [Fm] mich, and Rammstein.
And during a cameo in Twin [G] Peaks, David Lynch himself can be heard whistling Engel.
It's those creative sensibilities that all three share which make them timeless.
Number seven, [D] the live show.
There is no show on the planet more ridiculous than Rammstein's.
They're [E] like Iron Maiden meets Slipknot and Cirque du Soleil.
If you want to see [Gm] blood, fire, explosions, [C] BDSM, cannibalism, and a [C] man playing the keyboard
while riding a [G] treadmill, there's only one band to see.
And it ain't [E] f***ing Coldplay.
I've seen some wild stuff in my time, but to this day, [F] the Du hast bazooka stunt [Em] is
still the most impressive thing I have ever seen.
[E] _ _ _ [Gm] Number eight, Rammstein [A] have not changed a bit.
Rammstein's consistency is stunning.
[G] Few foreign language bands have ever achieved longevity here in the United States.
They've all been Macarenas and Ketchup songs, but [D] Du hast was no one hit [G] wonder.
Rammstein's highest charting album in the US [D] is their latest one, 2009's Love is for [G] Everyone.
And Rammstein's new song Deutschland has racked up 42 million views in a month and
hit number one in [Am] Germany, only the second time that's [C] ever happened.
One reason Rammstein's been able to remain so [E] consistent, they've never had a lineup
change in [C] 25 years.
It's been difficult to stay together at times.
Richard Krispa calls it a [E] marriage with no sex, and the band members have even gone to
[D] therapy together to work out their differences.
Rammstein [G] have never had a Spinal Tap or Yoko Ono moment, tempting the band to over-conceptualize
and futz around with artsy trash.
They took the ACDC route, and for that, [D] we're thankful.
Rammstein are perfect the way they are.
[Am] Number nine, Till's voice.
[G] Who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?
I mean, fat suits, giant wiener cannons, Blitzkrieg with a [D] meat rifle, oh it's so good.
Rammstein's one of the funniest bands out there, but it's not just visual and lyrical.
[A] Till's deadpan baritone voice is the perfect delivery system [G] for Rammstein's [Em] cotton-mouthed
and saltine type [G] of dry sense of humor.
Till's voice is also dark and foreboding when it needs [F#] to be.
He's got that Peter Steele kind of quality to him, and the ladies will back me up on that one.
And number ten, there's no other [C] band quite like them.
Yeah, [Gm] there's oomph in the new German hardness scene, but Rammstein are like [Am] Iron Maiden
in the new wave of British heavy metal.
They're just bigger than the genre itself.
Rammstein's one [F] of the few elite bands with an unmistakable identity.
You're never going to see a Rammstein video and ask, hey, is that [E] Imagine Dragons?
Even your parents know Rammstein.
The band's been [G] pissing them off for 20 years.
Thanks for watching, [F] everyone.
Make sure to like, share, and subscribe.
Visit [G] Loudwire on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
You can follow me on Twitter at GrahamWire, and we'll see you next time.
[F] _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
in Google, one of the biggest searches for the band [B] is, why are Rammstein so [E] popular?
Now that Rammstein have released two of the biggest songs of their career, Radio and [A] Deutschland,
we're gonna explain exactly why people love them [E] so much.
Number one, the riffs.
If you think about the most popular metal bands, especially [A] from the 90s and the early
2000s, [F#] they're all rhythm machines.
Korn, Pantera, Gojira, Meshuggah, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and every metalcore [A] and deathcore band.
Rammstein are as rhythmically based as any of them, [E] and probably even more, and they
got the kind of riffs that make you [C#] wanna smash someone's face through a [A] plate glass window.
Richard [D#] Krispa and Paul Landers both have right hands like Malcolm Young, and you can
hear it on songs like Sonne, Mein Teil, [A] and Duhas.
Number two, the imagery.
[A#] Look, I'm old enough to remember when [B] Duhas came out, I remember [A] seeing it for the first time.
Masks, needles, setting a guy on fire, it was just too much for my nine year old brain to handle.
That being [C#] said, I never once turned away when Duhas came on MTV, it [C#m] was just too damn
good and too [A] mesmerizing, that imagery.
And [F#] a few years later I ran into them again [E] in the movie Triple X, and to be frank, their
fire masks and them playing foyer fry [A] is easily the best part of that movie.
Even in 2019, [E] Rammstein are coming up with imagery that is pushing [F#] people's buttons,
just look at the [A] Nazi controversy from the Deutschland video.
That being said, number [E] three is the band not afraid to be controversial.
For two decades, PC weirdos have been speaking out against Rammstein's militaristic [F#] imagery,
their BDSM imagery, [E] and a giant penis cannon that we [G#] can't show you thanks to the YouTube police.
[A] Rammstein were arrested and jailed in 1999 [G#] after engaging in a fully clothed [F#] act involving
a fake phallus.
In [C#m] 2009, their Pussy video came out and it's straight up hardcore porn, but the band members'
faces superimposed over porn stars, and this year, as we said, the Deutschland video was
criticized [E] for Nazi imagery and the band members [A] being depicted as concentration camp prisoners
[E] about to be executed.
Sure, it's [G#] provocative and all, but if you actually pay [F#] attention to the video, you can
[A] see that it's about the history and potential future of [C#] human conflict.
And if you read the [B] lyrics, it's clear Till Lindemann loves his homeland, but sometimes
struggles with justifying [A] that pride due to Germany's past.
Pop fans may be satisfied with surface level [D#m] entertainment, but Rammstein fans [C#] prefer to
dig a little deeper.
Number four, German makes the lyrics sound cooler.
German is a brutal [C#] language, just take it from Tim Allen.
The word butterfly.
In French, Papillon.
In Spanish, Mariposa.
In German, Schmetterling!
[C#m] Look, I love Rammstein, but something is sort of [A] lost in translation when it goes from [G#] German to English.
Take Sana for example.
[B] One, here comes the sun.
Two, here comes the sun.
Three, she [E] is the brightest star of all.
Four, here [A] comes the sun.
Not very imposing, [B] but when Till sings it_
[Em] _ _ _ [C] And [C#] the verse to kinda lust in English, I [Bm] don't feel like it, I don't feel like it,
[E] I don't feel like it, [A] no, I don't feel like it.
But when Till sings in [C] German_
_ _ _ It's just so much cooler, and not actually knowing what he's saying, sometimes that enhances the music.
Fun fact, there's one Rammstein lyric that's way better in English, and that would be Blitzkrieg
with the meat rifle.
Number five, they [Am] appeal to all kinds of music fans.
When you really break down [G] Rammstein's music song by song, you'll [Am] hear industrial stuff,
heavy metal, techno, nu metal [G] grooves, groove metal grooves, gothic stuff, and straight
up rock and roll.
One reason why a lot of bands don't last as long as Rammstein is because there's not enough
of an audience to keep them going through the good times and the [Am] bad times.
If you appeal to such a dynamic crowd of music fans, it's [G] less likely that your music is
going to sound stale 20 years down the line as trends ebb and flow.
Rammstein are still as fresh as a goddamn daisy, and it's because of how [C] unique they
are and how many people they appeal to.
[A] Number six, they're students of Quentin Tarantino [C] and David Lynch.
The Rammstein guys have a great taste in film, [A] and you can see it in their music videos.
Du hast, [C] reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs and Lost Highway.
[G] Engel, from Dusk to Dawn, which was written by Quentin Tarantino.
And what does Deutschland remind you of?
In Glorious Bastards.
Lost Highway even features two Rammstein songs.
Herrheit, [Fm] mich, and Rammstein.
And during a cameo in Twin [G] Peaks, David Lynch himself can be heard whistling Engel.
It's those creative sensibilities that all three share which make them timeless.
Number seven, [D] the live show.
There is no show on the planet more ridiculous than Rammstein's.
They're [E] like Iron Maiden meets Slipknot and Cirque du Soleil.
If you want to see [Gm] blood, fire, explosions, [C] BDSM, cannibalism, and a [C] man playing the keyboard
while riding a [G] treadmill, there's only one band to see.
And it ain't [E] f***ing Coldplay.
I've seen some wild stuff in my time, but to this day, [F] the Du hast bazooka stunt [Em] is
still the most impressive thing I have ever seen.
[E] _ _ _ [Gm] Number eight, Rammstein [A] have not changed a bit.
Rammstein's consistency is stunning.
[G] Few foreign language bands have ever achieved longevity here in the United States.
They've all been Macarenas and Ketchup songs, but [D] Du hast was no one hit [G] wonder.
Rammstein's highest charting album in the US [D] is their latest one, 2009's Love is for [G] Everyone.
And Rammstein's new song Deutschland has racked up 42 million views in a month and
hit number one in [Am] Germany, only the second time that's [C] ever happened.
One reason Rammstein's been able to remain so [E] consistent, they've never had a lineup
change in [C] 25 years.
It's been difficult to stay together at times.
Richard Krispa calls it a [E] marriage with no sex, and the band members have even gone to
[D] therapy together to work out their differences.
Rammstein [G] have never had a Spinal Tap or Yoko Ono moment, tempting the band to over-conceptualize
and futz around with artsy trash.
They took the ACDC route, and for that, [D] we're thankful.
Rammstein are perfect the way they are.
[Am] Number nine, Till's voice.
[G] Who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?
I mean, fat suits, giant wiener cannons, Blitzkrieg with a [D] meat rifle, oh it's so good.
Rammstein's one of the funniest bands out there, but it's not just visual and lyrical.
[A] Till's deadpan baritone voice is the perfect delivery system [G] for Rammstein's [Em] cotton-mouthed
and saltine type [G] of dry sense of humor.
Till's voice is also dark and foreboding when it needs [F#] to be.
He's got that Peter Steele kind of quality to him, and the ladies will back me up on that one.
And number ten, there's no other [C] band quite like them.
Yeah, [Gm] there's oomph in the new German hardness scene, but Rammstein are like [Am] Iron Maiden
in the new wave of British heavy metal.
They're just bigger than the genre itself.
Rammstein's one [F] of the few elite bands with an unmistakable identity.
You're never going to see a Rammstein video and ask, hey, is that [E] Imagine Dragons?
Even your parents know Rammstein.
The band's been [G] pissing them off for 20 years.
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