King Luan - No Vampires Remain in Romania (2016)

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After two weeks in rotation I've finally figured out the 'joke' in both songs: Norway is free of gnomes and Romania is free of vampires because those monsters are pillaging other countries; The gnomes are in Finland and the vampires in Transylvania.

ROMANIA! SAN DIEGO NIGHTS!  ROMANIA! SAN DIEGO NIGHTS! TRANSYLVANIAN! SAN DIEGO NIGHTS!



I first heard this on a goth-industrial compilation from Soulseek and have been singing along with it since then.

"San diego was a mistake
The sun burns into my face
At six o'clock I awake
Step into this endless race
...
Straight into your zombie machine"

Are all the lines I remember now, and, of course, the refrain "San Diego Nights!", which might have unconsciously influenced 'Torbay Nights'.    This is a "goth" song because morning and work are hell but the night, ahhhhh, The Night!  The origin song is the origin of much male goth like early NIN and SP, a girl dumped the singer and all that pain and aggression has to go somewhere. [See [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology)wiki/Sublimation_(psychology)[/url]]

"The Eternal Afflict is a band from Essen, Germany, started in 1989."  Weird. I have some sort of innate preference for  'german 1990 synth', I discussed this in a post some years back. I think part of it is that English lyrics intrigues me, there is a weird stilted sound that I like. Add that to their Germanic passion and you get these dark but catchy synth songs with passionate, naive sounding lyrics. It's weird....

[echoing violins & piano]
Ladies and gentlemen I like to introduce to you the extraordinary sensation,
Ladies & Gentlemen - The Eternal Afflict

Watchin' the wheel as it turned
turned down the hill,
like you turned me down
down into my self-destiny,
every kiss means Pain,
pain and secrets to me
I put all my love
love and trust
This permanent permanent
Shattered pride!

San Diego was a mistake
The sun burns into my face
At six o'clock I awake
Step into this endless race [x2]

A man stands there lovely on
The fiels and a rabbit trapped
In the lime light like I walked
Straight into your zombie machine
The rain refreshed the air,
like my old tears reborn on my cheek
This permanent love
shattered pride!

San Diego. San Diego.

My hands could touch the sky
A fence, a wall I couldn't walk
Through the door to your
Killing room touch,
It could be all, it could be all
Catch in green grass
Instead isolation

[car crash effect]

San Diego was a mistake
The sun burns into my face
At six o'clock I awake
Step into this endless race [x2]

San diego nights!
Remember!
San diego nights!
Remember!

San Diego!