Violeta Violeta
In the fall of 2012, I joined this forum, and my purpose was to explore and find out more about the genre known as “emo”. But there was a time before that, before I started considering myself truly interested in music and got all pretentious and stuff. Back then, my listening habits was dominated by Bruce Springsteen, Queen and other classic rock acts, I thought My Chemical Romance was emo, and (in addition to Coldplay, which I've talked about before) a band named Kaizers Orchestra was among my favourites. They are hailed as one of the best European live acts, and they're also one of the few non-black metal bands from Norway to gain popularity outside the country. Their first two albums, Ompa til Du Dør and Evig Pint were rather dark-sounding and heavily influenced by gypsy music. The lyrics on the former were mostly about war, the resistance, and the mafia, and the latter was more based around themes of life, death and pain. After that, they went in a lighter and more commercial direction, which climaxed, when they started their ambitious project called...
