{"id":1014,"date":"2014-07-11T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2015-01-06T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:00:03","slug":"friday-playlist-germany-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/friday-playlist-germany-vs-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist: Germany vs. Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany and Argentina lock horns in the final of a certain major footballing tournament this weekend, and your guess is as good as ours as to who will come out on top (it\u2019ll be Germany \u201d\u201c but feel free to mock us if we\u2019re wrong!).<\/p>\n<p>But forget about football: who would win in a musical battle between the 2 countries? For this week\u2019s Friday playlist, we\u2019ve compiled the best of \u00a0Germany and Argentina\u2019s most popular bands and given each song a score out of 10. The country with the most points at the end wins!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Round 1: Soda Stereo (ARG) vs. Rammstein (GER)<\/h3>\n<p><b>Juegos De Seduccion \u201d\u201c Soda Stereo<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LqWVfv35WMM\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the unique sound of Argentina\u2019s biggest band, Soda Stereo. Well, it\u2019s not that unique. But they do sing in Spanish, which is nice. Overall, a solid effort.<\/p>\n<p>7\/10<\/p>\n<p><b>Sonne \u201d\u201c Rammstein<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kIBeYoP9Wi0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rammstein are actually one of the world\u2019s most popular bands, despite singing only in their native German. <i>Sonne<\/i> was their breakthrough song and is a bit of a classic with crunching guitars, booming vocals and a really, really weird video.<\/p>\n<p>9\/10<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Round 2: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs (ARG) vs. Tokio Hotel (GER)<\/h4>\n<p><b>Matador \u201d\u201c Los Fabulosos Cadillacs<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pjPA7CXutDw\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now this is more like it! Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are renowned for their sunny brand of ska and <i>Matador <\/i>is a perfect slice of summertime satisfaction. They get bonus points for including topical football whistles.<\/p>\n<p>8\/10<\/p>\n<p><b>Monsoon \u201d\u201c Tokio Hotel<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Le_IyYLrUtQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite being German, Tokio Hotel look more like a band from a Japanese anime. The music itself is pretty generic stuff, taking its cue from the likes of My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to Mars. Not a great performance, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>5\/10<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><b>Round 3: Bersuit Vergarabat (ARG) vs. Oomph! (GER)<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><b>Sr. Cobranza \u201d\u201c Bersuit Vergarabat<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MjlYbw9WbHU\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We could barely hear this when we first put it on, but managed to crank the volume up enough to hear a slick slab of Latin funk. We like it, but they lose points for nearly deafening us when we put on the next track with the volume still up.<\/p>\n<p>7\/10<\/p>\n<p><b>Augen Auf \u201d\u201c Oomph! <\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fuLPJg2gwjQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hang on; haven\u2019t we already had this one? <i>Augen Auf <\/i>sounds very, very similar to <i>Sonne<\/i>, complete with a count to 10 in German. Still, it\u2019s a pretty good song and they earn points for having the best band name in the competition (narrowly beating out Los Fabulosos Cadillacs), but the song loses points for lack of originality.<\/p>\n<p>7\/10<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><b>Round 4: Rata Blanca (ARG) vs. Kreator (GER)<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><b>Por Que Es Tan Dificil Amar \u201d\u201c Rata Blanca<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCWYrjJQF2Y\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Why is Love So Hard? <\/i>is the question posed by this moody slice of gothic rock. We can\u2019t answer that, but we can imagine brooding over a nice glass of Rioja while chilling to soothing lead guitar of this track. We like it. A lot. We wouldn\u2019t have minded some vocals, though.<\/p>\n<p>8\/10<\/p>\n<p><b>Phobia \u201d\u201c Kreator<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9u1NPpnbg0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a cut of classic thrash metal, with Kreator sounding quite a lot like a German Slayer (which, incidentally, is what Lionel Messi might be called after Sunday night). It lacks the emotion of Rata Blanca but rocks at least 3 times as hard.<\/p>\n<p>8\/10<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And so, the scores at full-time are:<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Argentina: 30\/40<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Germany: 29\/40<\/h4>\n<p><b>ARGENTINA WINS<\/b> by a solitary point!<\/p>\n<p>Germany performed well, but were let down by the poor performance of young Tokio Hotel. Argentina, meanwhile, performed consistently throughout and that was enough to bring them home the trophy, despite a &#8216;band of the match&#8217; performance from Rammstein.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the football on Sunday and remember, if you\u2019ve suddenly developed a love for Argentine or German music (and why wouldn\u2019t you?), you can <a title=\"sell all your English CDs with musicMagpie\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/entertainment\/sell-cds\/\">sell all your English CDs with musicMagpie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany and Argentina lock horns in the final of a certain major footballing tournament this weekend, and your guess is as good as ours as to who will come out on top (it\u2019ll be Germany \u201d\u201c but feel free to mock us if we\u2019re wrong!). But forget about football: who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}