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Old 03-11-2014, 09:58 PM   #1 (permalink)
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As for the Area album I'm looking forward to this and see that it's Italian Prog from the early 70s, which threw me as the album name is in German!
If the title is Arbeit Macht Frei then the title is a reference to the sign Nazis posted above the entrance to concentration camps. It would be a phrase known to non-German speakers from general knowledge of events that took place during WWII. I would highly doubt if a German band would use such an album title.
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Old 03-12-2014, 01:46 AM   #2 (permalink)
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If the title is Arbeit Macht Frei then the title is a reference to the sign Nazis posted above the entrance to concentration camps. It would be a phrase known to non-German speakers from general knowledge of events that took place during WWII. I would highly doubt if a German band would use such an album title.
A point I made in my review. I guess it's like someone using the phrase "Liberte, egalite, fraternite" but not necessarily being French. As you say, it's a phrase recognised (and shunned, for its connotations) around the world.
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If the title is Arbeit Macht Frei then the title is a reference to the sign Nazis posted above the entrance to concentration camps. It would be a phrase known to non-German speakers from general knowledge of events that took place during WWII. I would highly doubt if a German band would use such an album title.
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A point I made in my review. I guess it's like someone using the phrase "Liberte, egalite, fraternite" but not necessarily being French. As you say, it's a phrase recognised (and shunned, for its connotations) around the world.
I'd never heard of it and asked a few people today and they hadn't either.
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I'd never heard of it and asked a few people today and they hadn't either.
Wow! That really surprises me! Were these older or younger people? Almost everyone I know --- hmm, come to think of it maybe not --- but it is a very well-known phrase in connection with WWII... Maybe you have to watch those programmes on History....

Would it be in bad taste for me to say I'd rather be in one of those camps than listen to this album again? Yes. Yes, I think it would...
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Wow! That really surprises me! Were these older or younger people? Almost everyone I know --- hmm, come to think of it maybe not --- but it is a very well-known phrase in connection with WWII... Maybe you have to watch those programmes on History....

Would it be in bad taste for me to say I'd rather be in one of those camps than listen to this album again? Yes. Yes, I think it would...
I'm pretty big on history but that one has slipped me by! Anyway I'm now even more excited over hearing this album than even before as I've seen that you given it just 1.5. I'm not going to read your review until I'm actually listening to the album
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I'm pretty big on history but that one has slipped me by!Anyway I'm now even more excited over hearing this album than even before as I've seen that you given it just 1.5. I'm not going to read your review until I'm actually listening to the album
I had a feeling you were, for some unknown reason.

I listen to the album, read some stuff about them and decided once again to opt out of the review. If it wasn't for certain things about them that I read and again what TH brought up, I would probably would had done a review.
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I had a feeling you were, for some unknown reason.

I listen to the album, read some stuff about them and decided once again to opt out of the review. If it wasn't for certain things about them that I read and again what TH brought up, I would probably would had done a review.
Jeez N! Again, why broadcast that you're not going to do a review? I bloody hated the thing and I was still the first to review it. What is it with you that you have to let everyone know how much you don't like an album, but won't review it? I honestly don't get it...
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I listen to the album, read some stuff about them and decided once again to opt out of the review. If it wasn't for certain things about them that I read and again what TH brought up, I would probably would had done a review.
But why are you overly influenced by what you read? I always read album reviews and just take that on-board what they've said, but I still make up my own mind in the end. Also this is not some elitist club, anybody can participate whether they feel comfortable writing reviews or not. In my opinion it takes more constructive ability to write a negative review over a positive one.
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