Lichtspielhaus

I just watched "Lichtspielhaus," a collection of music videos by Rammsteuin. There are two videos for the song "Du riechst so gut." The first one alternates between shots of the members of the band shirtless, flowers and a doberman pinscher. This song was on their first album. The original album had a photo of the band shirtless. Some people thought it was supposed to be about German supremacy. The photo was cropped for a new version. I have always thought they are a sexy band. The second has references to the story of the story of Red Riding Hood but with a werewolf instead of a wolf. The members of the band have red eyes. Till Lindemann appears in one shot with pale skin and lips red on the inside as if he had been drinking blood. Throughout the video there are shots of a ball. Near the end of the video Till Lindemann enters the ball wearing a torn red dress. He thin splits up into six wolves which soon turn into the members of the band. "Seemann", to me, is one of their most interesting videos. There are plenty of shots of Lindemann shirtless and showing his sexy pits. He is on a boat that the other band members seem to be trying to pull through dry sand. A woman appears wearing a leather skirt throughout the video. On the boat with Lindemann is a person wearing a crow mask. Their song "Rammstein" was used in the soundtrack for the movie "Lost Highway" by David Lynch, and the video features scenes from that movie. The video for "Engel" takes place in an interesting club where there are women who wear punkish outfits. There is a stripper with a snake. She puts her toes into Flake's mouth and she pours some liquor down her leg into his mouth. She lies on the floor and turns into Flake. Also in the video there are two children with black around their eyes. They are in a cage, and one of them is lip synching to the female voice in the song. "Du Hast" was the first of their videos that I remember seeing. In the lyrics there is a play on words. Is he saying "Du hast" or "Du Hasst?" The lyrics include a quote from wedding vows, but the response changes from Ja to Nein. The video takes place in what appears to be an abandoned building. Band members appearing wearing masks that cover part of their faces. The video includes fire which Rammstein likes to play in during their concerts. The video of their cover of Depeche Mode's song "Stripped" is made up of shots from Leni Riefenstahl's documentary, "Olympia." (A film about the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. They soften the lyrics from the original. In the original "Let me see you stripped to the bone." In Rammstein's cover we only hear "Let me see you stripped." "Sonne" has a video that is an alternate telling of "Snow White." The band members appear as the dwarves who are forced by Snow White to mine for gold. Snow White is played by a drag queen, but I would not have known that if I had not read it somewhere. In one scene the dwarves line up for Snow White to spank their bare buttocks. Snow White appears to die from an overdose of gold which she has been using like cocaine. The dwarves place her in a glass coffin which they place under a tree that appears to be dead except for a single apple. The apple falls onto the coffin breaking it. Snow White wakes up and looks pissed. The dwarves return to the mines. "Links 2-3-4 is a song that they recorded to refute statements that had been made saying that they leaned to the right politically. The video features ants playing football and attending a rammstein concert. Beetles attack, but the ants are able to defeat them. The last shot is of a human hand on the ground with ants around it. The video for "Ich will" shows criminals celebrated as heroes. The band appears as bank robbers. They have physical disabilities. Lindemann has a leg brace, another band member has an artificial hand. In the video Flake is wearing a bomb that is about to go off. In the video they are receiving some kind of award. There is one shot in which a bank security guard is so frightened that he wets his pants. "Mutter" features Lindemann in a pit without hair and in a rowboat with hair. Their song "Feuer frei" was featured in the film "XXX" with Vin Diesel. They appear in the film in concert with the fire that displays that they liked to use in concerts. One of the band members said in an interview that Lindemann was sometimes burned in concerts, but he did not mind. He said that he was a bit of a masochist.

I just ordered a CD by Lindemann, a new band featuring Til Lindemann singing in English.