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[jessie-b]

Yay. My two favorite things together; Flight of the Conchords and Korea. Better than peanut butter and chocolate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzusqpeMdf8

[Thedudeabides]

yup, just saw that tonight. So glad that they kept the hangul karaoke characters.

You are healthy. With the qualities of a pheasant. Of a pheasant!

[jessie-b]

Is Brett dressed a bit like an Adjoshi?

[curlygirl]

Sweet! Rock on kiwis.

[soul rebels]

i never thought these guys were any good when i first saw them on a nz comedy show about 7 years ago thought they were too cheesy... jermaines clement has always been a funny dude tho he was on a comedy show in nz called skitz and in the low budget kung fu comedy "the tongan ninja" and that dude bret in a funk/reggae band called the black seeds and was an extra who got screen time in lord of the rings but as a the concords i never got them until they made it in the usa...funny that

new zealand tv network rejected thier idea for this show?.... and they bounced back and got a deal with hbo!

i glad they did thier show is fuckin o for awesome

with the concords cd going platnum and new zealand samoan rapper savage going gold in the usa with the single swing(not really my kind of hip hop but congratulations to that dude as well) nz music is doing well in the usa... the only othersuccesnz has had in usa was crowded house in the 80's and omc's how bizaree in the 1990's

[Thewhiteyalbum]

[soul rebels]

read my post again buddy i agree with a lot of what your saying but with the concords i just didnt think they were funny until i saw the hbo show!

as for savage it's an imitation of US hip hop with little originality but to be honest it's better than a lot of the shitty modern commercial US hip hop so thats not saying much! but good on him for his succes in the US which is a market thats hard break into.

dam native's KDRU album was and still is the best nz hip hop an they are unkown outside nz. trinity roots is one of may favorite nz groups and thier largely unkown outside nz and for left field rock bressacreatincake was awesome. i like the mint chicks song crazy but not dumb its a good song i freaked out when i heard them playing it in what the book in itaewon.


nz is one of the few english speaking countries that has yet to be a major force in world music. when other small english speaking countries like jamaica an ireland have had internationally known artist for decades...but i think our time is coming

[Thewhiteyalbum]

Yeah, Savage is good. Dam Native have been around for years!

I am not too worried about worldwide domination in the music scene. There are plenty of middle of the road acts throughout the world and they tend to be the ones that become really big. I like bands that aren't afraid to do their own thing - commercial success be damned. There is nothing worse than a band with a 'plan.'

Look at Shihad. They jumped on every bandwagon that came along and it was so clearly contrived and fake then someone like FOTC comes along playing their ditties and are really successful!

I think it's good that there are so many NZ underground and indie bands around. I would hate to be a nation of Bon Jovi's. I just wish more NZer's understood that there is good non commercial music out there.

[soul rebels]

savage isnt very good but pop/commercial hip hop these days is even worse remember those hook it up cellphone commercials they made? he had to make it in the US he was dead in nz! and was fading in australia as well.

we are a small country so we need some kind of international recognition i'm glad we had crowded house an omc in the past youve got to admit for pop music there way better than having byran adams an celine dion!

i hear what your saying about jumping on the bandwagon when someones recognized internationally but in the case of the concords i just didnt think they were funny years ago but maybe thats part of our problem we judge people to harshly when thier talents still being formed an because it's a small place it's hard to come back from that.

i think that another problem is we lack original genres in nz most people make music along the lines of foriegn genres rock, reggae, drum n bass, hip hop etc even if we give our own flavour or sub genre like the low fi dunedin rock sound of flying nun in the 80's or wellington dub reggae of more recent times we need our own style

concords are mad original who would have thought a folk comdey duo would be nz music's most popular music export to date.... even if im a late comer to the bandwagon i like thier show an cd

[MillerLite]

This show is consistently rad.

The new one after, Eastbound and Down, is even funnier. HBO has some of the best comedies on TV (see: Curb Your Enthusiasm).

[kiwiduncan]

[ekul]

Don't drag Bryan Adams into this!