“We are a punk band from shitty Bavaria…”
That’s DIE DORKS. A still young punk band from Southern Germany.
The cover is already close to the pain threshold, and anyone who hears the first song might think they are being seriously pranked. But no! This has already been done by Die Ärzte with the great “Wenn es Abend wird…”.
To get straight to the point, the first song is extremely punk rock and shocking. Listen for yourself. It’s really quite a spectacle. If Silbereisen were to hear this, he would definitely stop bouncing around uncontrollably (I won’t use the term spastic, as that would unjustly offend people with disabilities) and his jaw would drop. With “Servus, gruezi und K.O.”, DIE DORKS have created a top-notch song that will surely become the next anthem in punk circles, especially in Bavaria.
After that, it continues in the familiar punk style. Faster, scrappy, and somehow still very catchy punk rock in German is offered by DIE DORKS, led by singer Lizal.
The lady at the microphone makes quite an impression with her rough, almost mangy-sounding voice. You do have to get used to the voice a bit, but the ear quickly acclimatizes, and then DIE DORKS are really fun.
The combo has also revived the beautiful tradition of Volxmusik and writes Volk with an X, so for example Volxmusik or Volxfürsorge. The slightly older generations can surely remember that in the late fun punk phase, it was normal to prefix everything that started with Volk with an X to provoke and show one’s difference. Volxmusik was nothing other than fun punk.
However, the band does not just run around unreflectively, as some might think, but has already gained some experience in their young years, as shown by the song “Zivilbullentango,” which is at least lyrically quite good and points to the infiltration of the scene by the police. So always avoid people who ask stupid questions, don’t drink beer, and don’t have cigarettes.
Sure, it’s polarizing and provocative. But that’s exactly what punk is!
Lyrically, the band has quite a bit in store, but unfortunately, the music over the full length of the album is not quite as good as the band’s lyrics.
DIE DORKS offer here the finest Asi-punk with brutal anti-social and partly also
fecal-oriented lyrics (what they want to shit on, man oh man) and find their own niche between Eisenpimmel, local heroes, and their own Bavarian horizon.
DIE DORKS definitely have the potential to really shake things up.
