# Thanks Jarbaby, thanks a hell of a lot! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 29, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177 "2001-07-29T21:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/1 "2001-07-29T21:24:55Z")
All this talk of Rammstein made me wonder what I was missing. So I went to the used CD store and got a copy of each of their last two CDs. This stuff is absolutely cool! I’ve been listening to this stuff pretty much nonstop since I got it. It’s got the hard edge I like without being completely obnoxious. Now I feel like an addict. Next band you decide you like, please keep it to yourself, lest I succumb again. 😉 Any of you other poor saps become addicted to music because someone recommended it? Please tell me so I don’t feel all alone in this. ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/2 "2001-07-29T21:28:50Z")
Not exactly, but I think **dpr** might have expanded his musical knowledge one hundred-fold since he’s been to the US. I miss my CDs, too, dammit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/3 "2001-07-29T22:21:51Z")
Earlier this year, a friend of mine played a Ben Harper CD while we were in his car. Two months later, I had all his albums. Ben Harper’s albums, not my friend’s albums. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/4 "2001-07-29T22:43:22Z")
You stole Ben Harper’s CDs?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/5 "2001-07-29T23:05:37Z")
Always gotta steal my CDs from you… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/6 "2001-07-29T23:19:07Z")
Nirvana, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Greenday. Among others. I didn’t like music at ALL (except for a select few people) until I was about 16. And only recently have I been able to tolerate or even like Nirvana and Greenday. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/7 "2001-07-29T23:26:58Z")
Hey 'punha, Want to be locked inside my heart shaped box for weeks? ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/8 "2001-07-30T04:09:13Z")
If you love Rammstein, you should also check out KMFDM. Both are great! ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/9 "2001-07-30T13:20:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LNO \* > Always gotta steal my CDs from you… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/10 "2001-08-13T02:14:00Z")
I never saw this thread until today when I was searching for something I wrote a long time ago. I’m so excited for you Airman! More Rammstein converters, and by the way, aren’t they just dreamy? 😃 With all the work I’ve done to promote this damn band I should be getting a kickback, or at the very least some oral sex. jarbaby p.s. and I mean from the band, not you Airman, no offense 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/11 "2001-08-13T04:13:44Z")
Hi, **jarbabyj**. Till sent me. He asks if I’ll do for now? [sub]Let me get my kneepads on.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/12 "2001-08-13T13:47:59Z")
Golly! Well, if he says so, I guess you’ll have to do. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/13 "2001-08-13T14:18:12Z")
Count me as another convert. I noticed _Sehnsucht_ on my neighbor’s shelf and he loaned it to me. I guess I’ll have to trek into the city and buy my own copy now along with _Herzeleid_ and _Mutter_. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/14 "2001-08-13T16:21:12Z")
Ok, **jarbabyj** , I gotta ask. A while ago CMJ (College Media Journal) had “Du Hast” on one of their CDs. I thought the song sounded great, but the lyrics seemed WAY over the top. “You! … You hate! … You hate me!!” Is this song a bitingly clever parody of bad death metal, do the english lyrics not do the song justice, or am I just way too square to get the point? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/15 "2001-08-13T16:30:08Z")
Rammstein hates singing in English, but their management correctly assumed that without providing SOME english to their fans they’d never make it in the states, so Sehnsucht provided two english translations of Du Hast and Engel, both of which are not direct translations of the song. However, much like their name, they also like to deal in double meanings. Rammstein can mean battering ram, but it also is the name of a town in Germany. Du Hast literally means You Have. But Du Hasst means You Hate. The song is basically about bad relationships with women, which seems to be a running theme in their music. But a brutally literal translation of Du Hast (the chorus at least), is You You have You have me You have me You have asked me You have asked me You have asked me and I have not answered. the English they provided to us Americans was: You You hate You Hate me. you hate me you hate me to say you hate me to say you hate me to say and I didn’t not obey. it really makes no sense, but it makes the mosh pit happy to revel in their angst, and it fun at the concerts to watch Till point to people and insist that they hate him and then he bursts into either tears or laughter. They have a very good sense of humor, and they know exactly what most Americans think of them, so they play off the jokes. People who think they’re violent, angry facists should work on translating a few songs. They’re almost exclusively about getting laid or feeling bad after getting laid. and ocassionally murder and necrophilia jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/16 "2001-08-13T16:39:22Z")
I just love to talk about it. Rammstein fans in general don’t like that Rammstein is known for Du Hast, almost as much as we don’t like Rammstein being known for Columbine or “the Dildo”. Du Hast is really poor, lyrically, and doesn’t adequately showcase their abilities. The best lyrics they’ve ever written, IMHO is for the song Seemann (The Sailor): Seemann :: Seaman Come in my boat a storm is rising and it is becoming night Where do you want to go so completely alone you are drifting away Who holds your hand when it pulls you under Where do you want to go the cold sea is boundless Come in my boat the autumn wind holds the sails taut Now you are standing by the lantern with tears in your face the daylight falls on the side the autumn wind sweeps the streets clear Now you are standing by the lantern you have tears in your face the evening light chases away the shadows time stands still and it becomes autumn Come in my boat the helmsman feels longing Come in my boat I was the best seaman Now you are standing by the lantern you have tears in your face you take the fire from the candle time stands still and it becomes autumn They only spoke of your mother only the night is so merciless at the end I am left alone time stands still and I am cold Certainly not as compelling and romantic in English, but in German, trust me, it’s gorgeous. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/17 "2001-08-13T17:35:13Z")
Hey, thanks **jarbaby**! I’m glad to know that I’m not a complete music loser - in this case at least. Now where’d I put that “Best of Rodger Whittaker” CD? > [@](#): > > Come in my boat > I was the best seaman Huh-huh-huh. You said “seaman”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jarbaby-thanks-a-hell-of-a-lot/74177/18 "2001-08-13T20:26:38Z")
That “Boat” is not gonna be very seaworthy with all that Nutella tastin’ come in it.