Flake's Podcast - Sport

Flake's podcast - Sport

podcasted 2022-08-09

radioeins.de

FLAKE. Des Tastenfickers Podcast.

Flake ist der „Tastenficker“ von Rammstein und Autor von Bestellern. Seine Kenntnis ungewöhnlicher Musiktitel ist grenzenlos; seine Themen u

Finally a theme that doesn't need translation: Sport 😊 Flake doesn't know what's more useless, doing sport or making music, but the most useless is music about sport.

And yes, we have a Rammstein anecdotes, like at 0h10, although Flake is not sure if he should tell his audience this: some of Rammstein are pretty big soccer fans, and when Rammstein does festival tours, this is often in the summer months, just like the major soccer championships (europeans, worlds). Well, one year indeed Rammstein was on tour during the Soccer World Championships, and they decided to take some small tv screens with them on stage, so they could glimpse at the match during the gig.

Flake is not naming the names of his soccer-fan-colleagues, but to stop people worrying at 0h17 he does confirm that it isn't Till. Flake is very glad about that because Till is always working the big flamethrowers and everything, and Flake is happy that he didn't let soccer distract him. Flake also mentions Till is not a soccer fan at all, which he thinks is impressive 🍀

Flake only ever met one soccerplayer, Mehmet Scholl, they met at a social event and talke a bit, but because everyone assumed they were both pretty well known, nobody bothered to introduce them, so Flake only found out afterwards who it was, and Mr. Scholl also didn't know Flake 😊

0h16 he talks about the first tours Rammstein did, when they only had one published album, and that fact, going on tour with just one record of songs, and Flake assumes they added some unfinished songs, or songs that never appeared on an album; he thinks that is an athletic performance all in itself.

At 0h25 the band even considered doing a sports song once, because like Christmas and birthday songs, these are usually popular and used a lot, but it wasn't very good, and never made it to an album, and in hindsight Flake is happy about that 😊

When (at abt 0h42) mentioned the East Germand band Engerling, who went to shows on bicycle, Flake muses that in the past him and his bandmates went to their concerts in a car (5 guys, all smokers, in a small Skoda), or later by bus, and all the warm, nice talks they had when travelling..when he thinks back at those times, he thinks back more fondly on their cartravels than at the concerts themselves (and wonders if they'll ever go to concerts on bicycle)

Rammstein tried (1h32) to make a song for one of the Klitschko boxing brothers once, as an 'entrance to the boxing ring' song; rumour in Berlin at the time was that they were looking for songs for that purpose and lots of bands sent one; allegedly, the Klitschkos liked the Rammstein song a lot, but their management said there was no way they could use something of a band with Rammstein's image. So Rammstein turned that song into 'Sonne'.

The song at 1h33 is called 'Ski Heil' and Flake plays it because his dad (who is from Thüringen, known for many wintersports like 'cross country') used that phrase a lot when Flake was a kid.

At some point (1h14) Flake muses that basically every lovesong is also a sports-song, because the one you love, doesn't have to be a woman, or a man, it can also be a sportsteam 💕

(And ofcourse we end with one of the classic sports songs 'We are the champions'by Queen) 🍀

More of my takes on Flake's podcasts

@hoch-rot tagged me, thanks!

rules: post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips. I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. sketch titles? comics? dnd campaigns? if you have an unfinished project, it counts!

So, in rough order of likeliness to see the light of day:

1986

Sextet

Silver and Gold

The thing is

Salamander (there's a sample of this on an older ask)

PACC6MM (ditto)

Peaches

Caged (also sampled)

Helion (same)

I tag @themarten

Zeit

Bitte bleib steh'n, bleib steh'n

Zeit

Das soll immer so weitergeh'n

I am intrigued by Peaches

Oho, thank you! So the context is that I think that if Rammstein had happened to be women, the resulting band would be Peaches. She has exactly the same shock style - I mean just watch the MV for Boys Wanna Be Her, and separately she crowdsurfs in a giant dick.

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“It’s that I’m not pretty, isn’t it,” Flake said glumly. 

“Sweetie, I promise you the problem is not your looks.” Rik scraped off an errant bit of lipliner with her pinky nail. “Nobody, and I mean nobody, is getting any action out here. And I don’t look this fantastic just to be ignored.” 

“Nobody?” 

“When we played Lilith Fair, I did a survey. I got seven recommendations for vibrators. I ask everyone. Even Peaches isn’t getting laid.” 

“You’re kidding. She can’t just bully the nearest raver? I would do whatever she told me to.” 

Rik quirked an eyebrow. “Well, you should probably tell her that.” 

Flake made a bit of a squeak. 

Algebra

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