Serious -- or parody?

Iowahawk does video now?

Uh, yeah. Not exactly the Blue Man Group.

She is so pretty!

This is a spoof. Nobody can play a guitar through a burka.

Its the Islamic Slipknot or Gwar. It could be anyone under there!

Are they entered in the EuroWeenie song contest?

They're real, they made the video to mock Islamic misogyny and they've since gone into hiding. I linked a story on them a couple of weeks ago. Not that you noticed. Hmmpf!

The announcer says "Afghanische Frauen," so they're claiming to be Afghan women -- but the move like German guys.

I suspect a parody!

Actually, I see great commercial potential in anonymous rock. They can send a dozen crews on the road at the same time, and nobody knows the difference.

"Now is the time on on LGF when we dance."

#1 zombie,

Serious -- or parody?

I think it's serious parody.

I'm 2/3rds through this, and the chick on the guitar needs to learn another chord.

My opinion: It's men, it's a joke, and real footage of Kabul was intercut with performance footage filmed in a free country such as Italy or Greece. Dancing/music etc. were illegal in Afghanistan during the Taliban days, for men and women alike. Moreover the English lyrics fairly shout "Joke!" to me.

Musically, very interesting. Lyrically, I think it's satire.

#5 Earth2moonbat

This is a spoof. Nobody can play a guitar through a burka.

Or perform like Monica either....

Here

This is an old video. I've seen this posted years ago.

That sucks. Quite unlike the Teapacks which we heard yesterday...

Anyway. Imitating the kufaar is haraam. Pft -- yeah right. Sure, Les Paul was a Muslim except he just didn't know it.

I am really really REALLY starting to dislike these people and that's saying something.

Nargiz started the Burka Band when she met a German music producer in Kabul in late 2002. The producer was teaching Afghans to play modern music, and Nargiz learned to play the drums. One day she wondered why all the burkas in Kabul were blue, and together with two friends she wrote the song "Burka Blue" which is about burkas and the way you feel when you wear them. The song was recorded in Kabul with help from the German producers. The band would rehearse behind locked doors, so nobody would find out that the women were playing music. The burka also helped hide who the bandmembers really were.

- Of course it was a joke to sing in the burkas, but it was also necessary to wear them. If people in Afghanistan knew who the members of the Burka Band were, we could be attacked or killed because there are still a lot of religious fanatics here, says Nargiz, who hasn't told any of her friends that she has played in the Burka Band.

In 2003 the German record label Ata Tak released the song in Germany and the song became a hit in German clubs after it had been remixed by a german DJ. The Burka Band even performed at a big concert in Köln during a trip to Germany . Unfortunately, Nargiz couldn't join the band in Köln because she had to work, but she followed all the hype from her home in Kabul .

Re my #13

Perhaps it is hard to play anything but that in a burkha.

But shouldn't each "girl be wearing a different color of burka? You know, we should have six of them, each wearing a burka in a rainbow color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, turquoise, purple).

Then, they can sing "We are the world....Or we want to be."

Catchy. The bass player is smokin' hot- I think.
/drive-by
//NO VIRGINS FOR ANY OF YOU DIRTY KUFFIRS- Ahmed, Taliban spokesman

Here's some more samples from the Blue Burka Band. (scroll down)

Blue Man Group has nothing on these babes!

Anyway. Imitating the kufaar is haraam. Pft -- yeah right. Sure, Les Paul was a Muslim except he just didn't know it.

Aren't we all?

Not to be confused with babba's old group, Burka Jew.

Where's my props?

Sorry OT but this is quite amazing..

Catholic Priest Jonathon Morris gives James Cameron a huge bitchslap over Cameron's supposed discovery of Jesus' tomb on Fox News.com

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

I was gonna congratulate the Marines for doing this, but then I read the posts of the other Lizards...

The Bikini Brigades are highly displeased to know that this video is real...

I saw their ankles! Stone them!

I got yer props right here

I often thought it would be funny to have a guy put on a Burqua, go into a store, "steal" stereo equipment or something, and then shriek 'Islamophobe', 'Islam is a religion of peace', etc after being caught.

Why're so many lizards down on this group? Seems to me they did a terrific job taking the p*ss out of a lot of things that we agree about. And the lines about kissing and that may be your uncle, I mean, come on, brill. Give 'em some credit. They have an extremely hard life. Good on them for defying the worst social prohibitions and making fun of them at the same time. And, of course, let's not forget that it wasn't an easy or safe thing for them to do.

The fabric seems light but still...seems it would dampen the strings. She could play some harmonics, maybe crank out some Red Barchetta or something. That being said, let's hope the Dixie Chicks see this and like the look. If fate is kind they already have their denim, rhinestone-studded burkies on order.

That is seriously erotic.

Damn.

Anyone else see a resemblance to the ghost's in Pac-Man?

Why am I laughing? That is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

#5 Earthtomoonbat.

Its trivial to play guitar through a burka if your song consists of only one chord.

Its also quite possible to play a whole set of music through a burka if your guitar is tuned to an open chord tuning.

I've heard of some group whose guitar player (as a goof) used to play a song wearing an oven mitt on his fretting hand and picking the strings with a piece of dried swiss cheese.

37 sunburned ROFL!

Who's behind the Blue Burka Band?...
Burka Blue

Latest band excursion for the ever accessible Monika label. Some sensation on the internet around this band, who perform all their gigs clad in full Burka costume, but you have to question the frankly awful vocal and lyrical elements. Morgenstern provides a typically chirpy remix but even she's fighting a losing battle. To co-opt Sofia Coppola, something is seriously lost in translation here.

Da Jooooooooos!

#5 Earth2moonbat

This is a spoof. Nobody can play a guitar through a burka.

I actually knew a guy who managed to play with a towel over his left hand, presumably to keep rival players from stealing his chops. I think he's in rehab now. I'm not making this up.

Oh my goodness, they have alot of evolution to go through.

the person holding the bass isn't playing the bass.... and there isn't a guitar to be seen.... is there?

OT
Why is this article on the ABC News list over there->>>?
Now?
Pregnant Iraqi Woman Shot Near Security Checkpoint

I was hoping that they would take there burkhas off at the end to reveal some guys that look like ZZ Top.

Is this the trailer for Return of the Musical Mummy's?

One vocalist, one bass player, one drummer- but I hear a lot more going on musically than 2 instruments and a vocalist can explain. It's too musically complex. The song is simplistic yet engineered.

I think this song/video is fake but accurate.

#44 Windhorse, E2M and all you other naysayers

And, of course, you've never seen ANY lip syncing, musical playing pantomime (or whatever it would be called) etc. in American rock/pop videos and taped performances either, right?

Why are you guys being so aggressive towards them instead of laughing and giving a thumbs up? I don't get it.

Sweet! I think I'll play them on my radio show tonight

A Mili Vanilli comeback?

I didn't mean to sound aggressive at all... I was just commenting for those who wondered if it was intended as a spoof...

I sense a disturbance in the force.

#49 Irene NYC
It's a spoof like Andy Kauffman or Borat. The background story of the women rehearsing behind closed door in Taliban controled Afghanistan is fiction, the singer's accent in German (not Pashtun) and that's a man playing the drums.
It's very funny social commentary.

Ok, the opening bit as she has that "microphone" in her face.........

sorry, it looks like she's performing something else

/mind out of gutter now

Love it... LOL.

8 Peacekeeper

I remember! I've had this link since then. Thank you!

#29 Ginn -- nice OT -- that WAS a real Bitch slap

Here is a backdoor digg upload of the video -

[Link: www.digg.com...]

#11 Kilgore Trout

"Now is the time on on LGF when we dance."

Ya, but first would you like to touch my monkey?

Please consider reading "Veiled Courage" by Cheryl Benard, about real Blue Burka'd women's exploits under the Taliban. Good book for men, women & children to learn what the real "religious fundamentalists" were doing while the Clintons slept (and Arafat slept in the Lincoln Bedroom) during those 8 long years of terrorism gone wild.

HOT! Yeah!

When they swim, if they swim

do they wear a burquini?

BUT...can they play the blues?

I think they play too lively

STONE THEM

Touch the monkey! Love him!

THIS IS GETTING OUTTA CONTROL.

Enough with the Mr. Micorphone bits.

Really....I'm serious....I'd like to record the moment, please...ladies...speak into my Mr. Pocket Microphone. Right here...

:)

THAT'S IT...OUT OUT OUT.....!

Glad this is satire. I find the thought of musical dementors disconcerting.

OT

Not sure if this has been posted, but here's a great story about some true American heroes:

Shortly after 9-11, members of NYC bomb squad volunteered to disarm potential nuke knowing they would likely die

Charles,

I still can't look at your main page without laughing out loud.

that C & F cartoon is so great

that moonbat's shaggy hair. God it's killing me!

Burqua, Falafel and Rock'n'Roll. Hey

#54 KT

Of course, at more than one level it's a spoof. And, of course, the music being heard is not the music being "performed." That's obvious.

I don't care about any of that. There is a serious parody going on here and everyone's p*ssing on the performers instead. That is what I don't get.

"IslamoPop"

Liking it, Charles!

If Wendy O. of The Plasmatics were still alive, The Burqa Band would be a great back-up band for a tour.

Why are you guys being so aggressive towards them instead of laughing and giving a thumbs up? I don't get it.

I agree. This is not really worth overanalyzing.

This is also a chance to shamelessly plug my bro-in-law's band's Nammie (Native American Music) award winner for best video last year by Medicine Dream. A unique blend of Native American vocals and instruments with modern instruments and progressive rock.

Ack! it didn't post the link!

I think I recognize the drummer.....he's wanted in the UK on terrorism charges......

"Welcome to Shprockets, I am your host Dieter"

I think this would qualify for "Germany's Most Disturbing Home Videos."

Well I am thoroughly confused, some posters say they are hot and some that it is men doing a parody. Let's just think of it as a shot across the bow of misogyny wrapped in an ambiance of cheesy 80's Vids with a refreshing, uber-chic, cousin-ittish panache.

Oh yes, and I vould be honored to touch your monkey...

#66 ploome hineni 3/2/2007 10:09AM PST

to continue the surrealistic theme

Gazan to undergo heart surgery in Israel

FLy him to Egypt

And after the surgery's been completed, the Arab will claim and show in their stupid films how the Jooooooos take out and barter their organs, using their blood for Mazas.

(Muddy Waters boogie beat:)

Na-Na-Na-Na

Well I woke up this morning

Na-Na-Na-Na

I had the Burqa Blues

(Had 'em a long time)

the band will now play hit me with your rhythem stick

#8 Peacekeeper: Let's give them sanctuary! They sound pretty.

75 DonkeyJawz

anywhere we can listen to a sample of his music...

I own a couple of native american flute cd's and seemingly find them to be quite good...Carlos Nakai(?)

Argh my version is so much better!

you give me all your love
you give me all your kisses
and then you touch my burqa
and i blow you all to pieces

Well, looks like the moonbat totin' turd at the top of the post dropped his AK47 and picked up a geetar.

How do you play whine and seeth with a jihad melody wearing a towsack and a bag on yer head?

I wander what kinda Koranic dope they're allowed to take backstage.....

#9 Zombie

The announcer says "Afghanische Frauen," so they're claiming to be Afghan women -- but the move like German guys.

Whats the difference?

Is this Afghanistan's entry to the Eurovision contest?

/sarc

#85 scoreboard44

Try here. [Link: www.medicinedream.com...]

They have 2 albums available at Amazon.com. Currently producing their third. They opened last summer at the Choctaw Indian Festival for Dwight Yeokum, this summer same venue with Randy Travis. They are excellent live.

Muslim girls
With a tiny little mustache
Muslim girls
Do you know how they go?
Muslim girls ...

Etc.

Version on Zappa's Lyrics

Y'all hear the lyrics?....that has to be a parody....

But I think I am Burka Blue's #1 fan...that stuff is hillarious!

They should open for Tipex!

#90 Sharmuta 3/2/2007 10:23AM PST

Is this Afghanistan's entry to the Eurovision contest?

/sarc

Sharmuta, do you mean Euarabia-vision? I guess the question should read whether the Europeane can still have an entry to it

/Deadly serious

46 Windhorse 3/2/2007 09:58AM PST

I was hoping that they would take there burkhas off at the end to reveal some guys that look like ZZ Top.

If you got an "up the burqa" photo of these gals getting out of a cab, that might look like ZZ Top.

#29 Ginn 3/2/2007 09:47AM PST

Sorry OT but this is quite amazing..

Catholic Priest Jonathon Morris gives James Cameron a huge bitchslap over Cameron's supposed discovery of Jesus' tomb on Fox News.com

[Link: [Link: www.foxnews.com...]...]

wow, great link, thanks

Islamic University in Netzarim

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas continues to make its mark on formerly-Jewish areas of Gaza, opening a university branch in what was Netzarim and preparing historic Arab names for the old Jewish towns.

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

Probably a romantic ballade on honour killing, women's circumcision, suicide bombers, and the hidden Imam

Maybe its just me, but I can find no humor in the burqa, as it means only one thing to me, the enslavement of women, and I cannot find any humor in Islam, cause it just ain't funny.

#97 akak 3/2/2007 10:31AM PST

Islamic University in Netzarim

Why shouldn't the young Palestinian (de)generation have the right to learn something about rallies, bombs, suicide etc.?

97 AKAK:

Just like the evil, racist, Jewish-only, apartheid, anti-multicultural, state of Israel!

oh wait, never mind.

Just as they have done any other time they have taken over Jewish towns, they 1st had it ethnically cleansed, then they remove all memory of anything that isn't Islamic. 70 years from now (as they still attempt to destroy Israel) they are going to claim that Jews were never in Gaza, and use these streets and schools as proof of the Muslim connection to the land.

DEBKAfile reports: Russia hits back at disclosures of its sophisticated weapons deliveries to Syria with demand that Israel join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – NPT

maybe they are worried about their true intentions being discovered? what could that be?

the two Russian Chechen platoons are setting up their headquarters and surveillance posts in the Lebanese port of Sidon and giving Syrian intelligence a window on their input. Syria is drumming up local support in the strategic port-town by supplying weapons to local branches of Hezbullah and Amal, and to the two pro-Syrian clans which dominate the town

[Link: israelmatzav.blogspot.com...]

Uk airliner liquid thingies discovered in S Lebanon, I am sure they had nothing to do with that?

And they sing a version of Frank Sinatra's New York, New York as well. I'm impressed!

Seems like a cross between Blue Man Group and The Creeping Terror.

Digg this - 'Uncovered Meat' (burka protest video)
[Link: digg.com...]

Music is haram.

Stone them.

/Friday Fatwah!

Can't wait for them to cover "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me..."

Covered meat?

Parody, but extremely funny, nonetheless. :> Priceless!

Maybe it's a girl thing, but I found that vid a few weeks back, and I find it just makes me really sad.

Whether it's a parody or the real thing is irrelevant. That is how women have to live over there. They are segregated, abused and marginalised (sorry for any redundancy), and while we can laugh about it now, I'm sure our wannabe islamic overlords would be more than happy to force uncovered meat into freedom sacks worldwide.

The burkha is abomination.

/snark off

zombie --

I'm Anticipating that you will cover this important moonbat event in San Francisco on Easter Sunday this year

I think these girls are fantastic .. they get the core meaning of rock & roll - which is not necessarily about sex and drugs - it's about Freedom!

Burkha Blue is so far out the bus don't stop there :)

Hey, Peacekeepker - you still around?
This is for you:
[Link: www.reelclassics.com...]

I had these kids on my front porch last Halloween...

Grammy winning lyrics too!

Are the Dixie Chicks doing a cover?

Whatever it is, I like it.

Mandy, you have such good manners.

I'm impressed they were able to even shoot a video without having to adjust the things. A Burka is heavy in the back and constantly rides towards the back of your head. You have to make frequent adjustments to see.