Anyway, how the Brainbombs got caught up in this, I have no idea. I can read the Brainbombs "misanthropy" on a number of different levels and, while I might think they have reached a dead end creatively with it, I don't look at it as a cheap ploy to upset people. It is too damn over the top, take it or leave it. I don't hear a "tee hee", and it is direct. Wallers isnt direct and his Last Sons of Kypton and jew dropping is clearly baiting, rather than part of some overall "creative statement" or whatever the Brainbombs are trying to do. Apples and shitbiscuits.
I don't get what "baiting" means here. Going by what he says in interviews, and judging by the records themselves (Empire Strikes Back is presented as a textbook on the study of racism for chrissakes, you can't get much more blatant than that) Wallers thinks of what he's doing with "offensive" language as part of an aesthetic/political project. Now, you may decide it doesn't work for you personally, but declaring that what he's up to is "clearly baiting" -- that seems like misunderstanding. I mean, to give one example, a lot of bands and artists flirt with the swastika image, yes maybe as a way of "baiting"; Wallers doesn't do things that blatantly. He bends the swastika into a new shape that looks like it's running away in fright, and even gives it an appropriate name in german "Spakenkreuz" (spastic cross). Now maybe not everybody is an obsessive (who me?) whose going to look into the back story of all of Wallers's allusions, but from what I can tell, he's very careful with this stuff, so I'm curious to know why people see it as "baiting"
Googling spakenkreuz, I found this in a Seattle Weekly interview: "Of his "Spakenkreuz," Wallers writes, "I don't like to say it except when I'm totally cornered by someone really angry with the swastika reference, but it is really an obvious anti-Nazi statement in the tradition of the symbolism battles which raged on the walls of 1930s Berlin between Nazis and anti-Nazis, wherein the latter disfigured the former's swastikas and vice versa, so and so on, until you had umbrellas and seagulls and all sorts of meaning-stripped insignia."
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