To be honest I love Krautrock - Neu!, Harmonia, Cluster, Can all worth a listen as well as the mighty Kraftwerk. Also I wouldn't really call Germany full of troglodytes, their philosophers have been among the best in history - Nietzsche, Kant, Hegel etc etc. Also see: Einstein, Brecht, Gutenberg, Levi Strauss for Germans who weren;t mullet wearing fools.
I'm not defending the Hoff or mullets but we have our fair share of shite here too mate.
okay, my comment was more of a inane rant on voronin than a serious commentary on germany. I take your point and the next guys about philosophy, science, the arts and public health but tell me this what have the germans ever done for us except bomb our chippie?
(i have been to Berlin, liked it but preferred Holland to be honest)
I was right about the crap krautrock tho...and The Hoff....
oh and i could match you man for man on the german philosophers and scientist with a Brit. Einstein wouldnt have been anyone without James Clarke Maxwell for example. Finance wouldnt be anything without Adams. Darwin, Newton, Watt, Hawkings, JJ Thompson, Shakespeare, Python, Benny Hill...the Fab Four,....
I love Britain. It isnt as bad as some make it out. Its a daft place, its funny and eccentric, stupid and visionary and full of good people, mostly. We have our morons but theyre our british morons, who manage to take moronity to the extreme and then some.
I actually quite like the germans and the dutch and the spanish and the italians, in fact i like all peoples. I also like stereotypes and bad jokes, generalisations and knob gags.
I bloody hate David Hasselhoff though and find German Techno too cold. Gimme Orbital anyday.