Danish
Danish may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
indie-rock
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band that existed from the end of the 1980s and disbanded in 1999. The band started out under the name Naked Lunch, later shortening the name to Naked, and finally to The Naked.
The band was formed by Kasper Andersen (vocal, guitar) and Jacob Als Thomsen (guitar), who met in high school in the mid-eighties. Andersen started out as drummer, but switched to guitar after Thomsen left temporarily to study abroad. At this time guitarist Anders Reuss and bass player Søren Rohde had joined. The band rehearsed with a drum machine until Emil Landgreen joined the band as a drummer in the summer of 1990, coinciding with the return of Thomsen. This line-up started playing regularly on the Copenhagen underground scene from late 1990. At the time of the band's first album, Søren Rohde had left to be replaced by Andreas Koch on bass. During the recording Landgreen left to join Speaker Bite Me and was replaced by Rene Thorny. Astrid Bruun Johansen joined on viola after the second album.
The Naked introduced the experimental, noisy and distortion-laden sound of then contemporary American and British
indie-rock
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to the
Copenhagen
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music scene, inspired by the
post-punk
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Swans
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Loop
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Brands and enterprises
* Loop (mobile), a Bulgarian virtual network operator and co-founder of Loop Live
* Loop, clothing, a company founded by Carlos Vasquez in the 1990s and worn by Digable Planets
* Loop Mobile, an ...
. The band later turned towards a more introverted style which still maintained these dissonant elements but tempered them with almost folk-like arrangements.
The second album, ''Pass Out'', was produced by
Chris Brokaw
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Life and career
While studying at Oberlin College, Brokaw met many people who became figures on the American indie rock scene ...
of
Come
Come may refer to:
*Comè, a city and commune in Benin
*Come (Tenos), an ancient town on Tenos island, Greece
Music
*Come (American band), an American indie rock band formed in 1990
*Come (UK band), a British noise project founded in 1979
**Come ...
and Codeine. The Naked supported Come on the band's tour of northern Europe in 1998. The grand old man of Danish rock, Steen Jørgensen of Sort Sol, also appeared as lead vocalist on a track of the band's 1997 EP, ''Some Kind Of Beautiful''. In Copenhagen, the band opened for
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Buffalo, New York. Original personnel were Smog, amongst others. From 1996 to 1999, Andersen took up the drums again in the band Sfu·ma·to. Anders Reuss played bass in Death Tothe from 1990 to 1993 and Port Friendly in 1995 and 1996.
After the break-up and Andersen's
sex reassignment surgery
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*''All The Good Things Are Gone'' (CD, 1994, AGM Music)
* Pass Out ' (CD, 1996,
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*''Some Kind Of Beautiful'' (10" EP, 1997,
Crunchy Frog
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Crunchy Frog
"Crunchy Frog" is the common name for a Monty Python sketch officially titled "Trade Description Act" (sometimes also known as the "Whizzo Chocolate Company" sketch), inspired by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 in British law. It features two ...