Fukkk Offf, Love Me, Hate, Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Posted on 30th Aug 09 by Paddy Murphy | 
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With a name like Fukkk Offf, you’d be moronic not to review it wouldn’t you? You know when you see that stunner across the floor in a packed club and you just get the feeling that she’s nothing but an attention seeking bimbo so you turn in disgust. Only then you discover while your outside [...]
With a name like Fukkk Offf, you’d be moronic not to review it wouldn’t you? You know when you see that stunner across the floor in a packed club and you just get the feeling that she’s nothing but an attention seeking bimbo so you turn in disgust. Only then you discover while your outside bumming cigarettes off your mates you overhear her talking about the merits of the Rolling Stones versus the Beatles and you think to yourself “I wish I’d stop judging books by their covers”. Well, Fukkk Offf are a bit like that.
Fukkk Offf, Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me
The thing about having such a provocative name is you have to be good to get away with it. Like the Sex Pistols, they had a great name but if they’d sounded like Mud or The Bay City Rollers they would have been a flop. Anal Cunt is a good example, could have done a lot with that name but they’re truly awful. Cradle of Filth are another one, the best thing about them are their t-shirts but at least they bring them some attention. Limp Bizkit‘s another one, if you don’t know the meaning of a limp biscuit ask someone who went to boarding school, or someone that went to a rugby secondary school. Butthole Surfers kind of got away with it, or did they? When they’re good they’re good but they’ve some freaky shit too.
But getting back to the point you need to be good with a name like Fukkk Offf. To bring such attention onto yourself and then to be crap would probably end your career. Fukkk Offf is actually Bastian Heerhorst, a Hambug native famous for his pounding gigs in and around Hambug’s notorious red light district. It’s fitting that his music could be the soundtrack to a seedy night of carrying on in the Reeperbahn (far cooler name than Benburb Street).
It also seems that Mr Heerhorst has become tired of the dance music nerds and wants dance music to come back to what it’s really meant to be about. Dancing.
It’s nasty filthy dance music, the kind of stuff that if you were to ever be (un)lucky enough to direct a porno you’d certainly use his tunes for your hardcore gonzo scenes. It seems that a good chunk of the dance music coming out of Germany lately is the lame-ass-named Intelligent Dance Music (IDM). It also seems that Mr Heerhorst has become tired of the dance music nerds and wants dance music to come back to what it’s really meant to be about. Dancing. Simple as that.
It’s a simple album, but any musician will tell you that keeping things simple is usually better. If you want your audience to respond by getting out on the floor and shaking their thangs then the easiest way to get them bouncing on the floor is to give them something they will enjoy. The trick is to do it in your own style so as not to just rip off what has gone before you. Fukkk Offf succeed here. There’s enough material on the record to keep you busy cherry-picking his influences, but he is smart enough to stamp his authority all over it.
Two areas of disappointment though, firstly the name, Love Me, Hate Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me is too close to U2‘s Batman song, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, but sure, we’ll let him off with it seeing as U2 aren’t particularly popular in Northern Germany, (they’re more of a Southern German’s kind of band). Second is his over reliance on English language samples. True, for international success Mr. Heerhorst does need to have a bit of the lingo to sell records across Europe and in the UK & Ireland but wouldn’t a sexy Frau have done just as good a job in her native tongue on at least half the tracks?
If you like dancing to dance music then you’ll like this, if you like watching a DJ behind a laptop while you nod to the beat then you won’t, actually you’ll hate it more than getting a vasectomy on a wet Monday morning.
Drop-d Rating 8.4/10
Tags: Anal Cunt, batman, Butthole Surfers, Fukkk Offf, Hold Me, Kill Me, Kiss Me, Limp Bizkit, Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me, mud, Reeperbahn, sex pistols, The Bay City Rollers, Thrill Me, u2
God that’s some awful attempt at writing, what’s with the need to hyperlink every single band? Ever heard of spell check?
Oh dear, we musta missed the memo informing us unconventional orthography equated opinions to shit. Read between the lines.
Sorry but I must’ve misunderstood, I thought you people WANTED others to read your site? You’re doing a good job of putting people off anyway, with simple mistakes that a proper music site would iron out pretty early on and quite easily I might add.
Of course we want people to read. Paddy’s style is his own, loved and hated in fair measure. In comparison we have writers of completely different talent: Liam Tyrrell, Adam Lacey, Paul Groome, Mike McGB amongst a number of others. There is also a group of entirely new young people who have gradually submitted better and more interesting work.
This is because here at D-d,we assume every reader is open-minded and intelligent, which leaves us a freedom to cover musical issues as they relate to us. That authors have the freedom to set out their views as they see fit has always been the site’s main creative priority, under one condition: the work must stay on point in relation to music. As a result the end results can be quite varied but overall, we’re happy and proud to write here.
Fair enough you can’t all write the same that’s all well and good but there is such a thing as having standards for writing, you can’t honestly expect this site to stand up against other music sites when some of the articles posted read like you let any teenager off the street write for you. No disrespect to teenage writers but I for one feel music journalism is a skill. Just cos you’re a music fan does not mean you can write. The above post is a prime example (assuming the writer even is a music fan, you’d never tell).
Dear Dermot,
Unlike you, who are obviously well-versed in the musical history of every band on the planet, there are those who exist in this world who may not have heard of some of the bands that get mentioned in articles. With that in mind, Drop-d tries it’s hardest to provide 1 link per band mentioned in any article. This not only serves as an aid to readers who may not know a band, but also helps the band themselves in that, as I’m sure you know, the internet is built upon a series of interlinking connections. In other words, we link to band sites so that people can go straight from here to the source to compare what we’ve written to what they hear, rather than having to search for themselves, thereby improving the band’s own internet presence.
As for your claims re: proper music sites, I suggest if you feel that strongly about the matter that you head off and peddle your brand of irritable pedantry on one of them: we are as we are and always shall be. We care not who reads us or who does not. We care not who likes us and who does not. We care only to share and explore the myriad bounties of musical fruit that lay yet undiscovered and unharvested. We endeavour to educate and astound and confound in equal measure, each of us writing about those sounds that arise feelings of passion, be they positive or negative, in us. That is all we do, we make no claims to be journalists, or critics, or anything else. All we are is men and women who give of their own time freely to craft pieces of writing about music.
If you really are so interested in providing constructive criticism, as I’m sure you mean to do, you might take a gander round the site as Nay suggested to see what our other writers do. That way you might, heaven forbid, come to a more balanced conclusion about the quality of our work, rather than picking on one writer, or indeed taking exception to us commenting on each other’s work as you have done to this point.
Finally, we appreciate you taking the time to visit and to comment, and we hope you will continue to do so.
Best Wishes,
Liam.
Lovely letter there Liam, I feel privileged to have inspired it. One point though “We care not who reads us or who does not.” so basically you only write for each other? Is this website only for you people and your friends and without aspirations at becoming a credible music site? Interesting.
I wasn’t having a pop at one writer, although I have to say I did have a good look around the site as you kindly suggested – I saw a review of the Oasis gig at Slane, my God it’s the first time I’ve cringed reading an online article, it’s just plain embarrassing and none of your pack mentality of stickin up for each other can deny that. I don’t know how you let your names be associated with such terrible “journalism” I mean Ireland is a small country. Then again, if only your friends are reading it, why should you care?