Tag: Infernal

Saturday Flashback: Infernal – From Paris To Berlin

“Everybody should know the video.”

Tim: Everybody knows the song; not everybody knows the video. And everybody should know the video.

Tim: Because…oh, so many reasons. So many great reasons, if only because it turns the rather dull lyrics into an actual narrative, chasing around nightclubs trying to find this one guy, and so what if he turns out to be a hologram and ends up merging with you? You can still get back on your Tron bikes and zoom off.

Tom: I think it’s what’s technically called a “homage”.

Tim: Particular highlights for me include actually including the channel tunnel, the random billboard advertising EUROPEMAN and them adding over 980 miles to their journey by randomly stopping off in Bordeaux. To be honest, I haven’t seen a music video this ridiculously entertaining in quite a while (suggestions on a postcard, please), so LOVELY.

Tom: I don’t have a postcard, but if you want the same level of ridiculous bluescreen effects only with more than a decade’s earlier technology: Eiffel 65 don’t disappoint.

Tim: Oh, they certainly don’t. Good work, sir.

Infernal – Love Is All (Summer 2015 Edition)

“A big donk underneath and a massive breakdown in the middle.”

Tim: ‘From Paris to Berlin’ hitmakers Infernal have ditched their Paw & Lina title and are now heading off on tour around Denmark; to celebrate that, a few tracks a getting beefed up a bit. Like this 2010 one – here’s the original for comparison.

Tim: So, synth line is out and piano’s in, and also added is a big donk underneath and a massive breakdown in the middle.

Tom: That basically sums up the last five years of music, right there.

Tim: An improvement? Eehhhh…not so much as far as I’m concerned, unfortunately, as it just sounds a bit harsh on my ears.

Tom: I never did understand why “Paris to Berlin” was such a hit, and I’d put this in the same ballpark — at least it’s trying to do something different, but that breakdown in the middle just isn’t pleasant to listen to.

Tim: Yes, the original might sound ever so slightly dated but surely not enough that it warrants a redo already. I don’t know, it’s still pretty good, but I think I’ll stick with the original for now.

Paw & Lina – Stolt Af Mig Selv?

From that intro I’m hoping they get known for this.

Tim: The two people who make up the (technically still ongoing) band Infernal have decided to make other music but using a different name. A bit like Cheryl Cole becoming Cheryl, but even more odd.

Tom: Still going? Blimey. British listeners will know them for “From Paris To Berlin” and not much else.

Tom: But blimey, from that intro I’m hoping they get known for this.

Tim: Now, here’s what I don’t like about this: the song is absolutely not what the intro and first verse make you think it’s going to be.

Tom: Oh. Now that’s disappointing. Because I want this to KICK IN. Wait, it did. Without wanting to seem to aggressive: what’s your problem?

Tim: Well, the strings in there, the drumming bits and the type of singing got me all lined up for a Call Me Maybe type track of lovely smile-on-your-face pop. But it isn’t, aside from that and the lead-in to the second chorus. It jumps around all over the place – plain pop, electro stuff, a tiny bit of dubstep, occasional autotune – and it just makes me wonder what’s going on.

Tom: I’m not particularly worried about what’s going on, because it’s all good. If Fun—

Tim: The pedant in me needs to point out that the band is in fact called fun., not Fun.

Tom: —fine, if “fun.” can get to number 1 with a track that never settles down into any particular pattern – and that’s a well-deserved number 1, by the way – then the occasional genre mashups that are going on here aren’t going to cause any issue.

Tim: Yes, it is all good – individually, I quite like all the bits, and wouldn’t mind a whole song of each of them, but none of them quite lives up to what the first bit was promising, which annoys me.

Tom: Really? It’s just fine by me.