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13 Frimaire CCXIV (December 3, 2005)

(Linkage) If the Future Isn't Bright, At Least It's Colourful

This rates as one of the strangest/funniest things I've seen in a while.  To quote from the first clip's title card:

"Blixa Bargeld, leadsinger of the industrial techno* band Collapsing New Buildings**, reads the DIY Catalogue of the Hornbach Home Improvement Superstore"

There were four ads in total.  The first two are merely strange, while in the third one he practically starts singing, and then spends the fourth one screaming the phrases at the camera.  To say that these would have been strange to see on television would be an understatement.

Yippee yah-yah yippee yippee yay.

* This is, quite honestly, the first time I've ever heard them called techno.  I suppose that Ende Neu was sort of danceable, provided you didn't mind power tools.
** That's Einstürzende Neubauten to everyone but the Epica Awards, it would seem.

Update: Turns out I was wrong.  There are 13 of them, although the others are hard to find (and only seem to be available in German).  Anyone care to translate them for me?

All 13 (plus Babel Fish translation of title):

Posted by g026r at 13:08
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