1) A rock band from Seattle, Was… Read Full Bio ↴There are two bands named “Kinski”.
1) A rock band from Seattle, Washington, in the United States.
2) A Danish rap group
1) Kinski is a four-piece rock band from Seattle, WA.
History:
They formed in 1998 in a pub, when bartender and drummer Dave Weeks overheard a conversation between two customers, Chris Martin (guitar) and Lucy Atkinson (bassist) about analog recording. Weeks joined the discussion, and they found they also shared mutual musical interests, and hence agreed to form a band. They started playing live the same year with an expansive, experimental sound.
Near the end of 1999, guitarist/keyboardist/flautist Matthew Reid Schwartz was added to the line-up. Kinski issued its first record Space Launch for Frenchie earlier that same year consisting of six tracks running for 45 minutes. The band went on their first US tour with Mainliner from Japan, where they befriended Kawabata Makoto, also of Acid Mothers Temple.
Tours throughout the US would follow the next two years with such bands as Hovercraft, Silkworm, and Primordial Undermind. Their second album, Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle, came out on Pacifico in 2001. The band also toured Japan with Acid Mothers Temple in late 2001.
In early 2002, after the band finished recording their third album, Weeks left and later went on to join Seattle band Black Panties. That summer, Barrett Wilke took over on drums. The band at this time signed with Sub Pop, the label famous for signing fellow Seattle group Nirvana. The album Airs Above Your Station finally came out in 2003.
Later in 2003, Sub Pop issued a split album with Kinski and Acid Mothers Temple. Each band contributed their own material for this release, along with two collaborative pieces that were recorded during their earlier tour of Japan. Finally, the three-way "triptych" split, Crickets and Fireflies, was released by the Music Fellowship label with the bands Paik & Surface of Eceon.
Around the time that Weeks left the band, the remaining members began performing as an improvisational threesome under the name Herzog. An album, Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water, was issued in 2004 by the Strange Attractors Audio House label consisting of live recordings from Herzog performances. The band also contributed a track to the Franco Battiato tribute album, What's Your Function. A brief west coast tour with Mission of Burma rounded out the year.
In 2005, the band came back with Alpine Static, their sixth album overall and third on Sub Pop. Tours throughout the US, Europe, and Japan followed, stopping in London for a session with Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1.
Kinski was the opening act during the spring 2007 leg of Tool's 10,000 Days tour. Just before leaving for this tour, they finished their seventh album, Down Below It's Chaos with a scheduled Sub Pop release date of August 21, 2007.
Their song Hot Stenographer was featured in 2K Sports' video game title NHL 2K7.
Kinski are poised to release a new album on legendary Northwest indie label Kill Rock Stars in 2013.
2) A Danish group formed in 2008 by the, according to some, best danish freestyle rapper ever Per Vers, the three times DMC-winning DJ Turkman Souljah and rap/spoken word-artist Ole Omkvæd. Their debutalbum "Vi Taler Dansk!" (="We Speak Danish!") can be downloaded for free at their website: www.kinski.dk . This group is also named after German actor Klaus Kinski (1926-1991).
Their first single is called Tal pænt.
Punching Goodbye Out Front
Kinski Lyrics
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Something was going on I should′ve seen going down
Felt the heat in the night air
Felt good to be alive, it felt good to be square
Kept on driving as the sun went down
Fell beneath my skin from beneath my feet
So many things that I wanna say
Possible interpretation:
The opening lines suggest that the singer missed or ignored some clues that might have alerted them to a dangerous or illicit situation in their surroundings, characterized by the presence of multiple police cars. The choice of words "should've seen" and "going down" implies that the singer regrets not being more vigilant or curious, perhaps because they were preoccupied with their own thoughts or feelings. However, as the night air becomes warmer or more charged, the singer experiences a sense of vitality and contentment, expressed through the idiom "felt good to be alive, felt good to be square". The latter phrase could be interpreted in various ways, but one possibility is that it refers to a state of conformity or innocence, like a clean slate or a geometric figure that fits in with others.
The second stanza shifts to the perspective of the driving itself, as the singer continues to move forward while the sun sets. The use of "fell" instead of "set" or "disappeared" again conveys a visceral sensation, as if the singer is falling into a deeper layer of reality or emotion. The third line, "beneath my skin from beneath my feet", could imply that the driving is affecting the singer's physical and mental state in a profound and unsettling way, beyond what they can control or explain. The last line, "But I don't remember how to speak", could suggest that the singer is struggling to articulate their thoughts and feelings, either because they are overwhelmed by them or because they have lost touch with language itself. The tension between seeing and saying, observing and expressing, recurs throughout the song and is a common theme in Kinski's music.
Line by Line Meaning
Past all the police cars in a row
I drove past a line of police cars.
Something was going on I should′ve seen going down
There was something happening that I should have paid attention to.
Felt the heat in the night air
I sensed a tense atmosphere in the nighttime.
Felt good to be alive, it felt good to be square
I felt great to be alive, to be ordinary and unremarkable.
Kept on driving as the sun went down
I continued driving as the sun set.
Fell beneath my skin from beneath my feet
I was moved emotionally by something unexpected.
So many things that I wanna say
I have a lot to express.
But I don't remember how to speak
I'm unable to articulate myself.
Writer(s): Chris Martin
Contributed by Xavier G. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@jwabss
Past all the police cars in a row
Something was going on I should've seen going down
Felt the heat in the night air
Felt good to be young, it felt good to be square
Kept on driving as the sun went down
Fell beneath my skin from beneath my feet
So many things that I wanna say
But I don't remember how to speak
@EvanSchatz
Past all the police cars in a row
Something was going on I should've seen going down
Felt the heat in the night air
Felt good to be young, it felt good to be square
Kept on driving as the sun went down
Fell beneath my skin from beneath my feet
So many things that I wanna say
But I don't remember how to speak
@NATE123451
one of the best songs in SKATE 3
@SkellyBone69
Real
@raresblidar7721
One of the best songs I’ve ever heard. I discovered it through skate 3. And of course this was released on Sub Pop. That’s all :)
@Echolyktuz
This and Drunk Skate Sessions
@oranzaid7776
Bro I swear I'm drunk and high rn playing sk8 3 it's so fun doing speed glitches off of everything
@sniper7303
This is a will always be apart of the skate 3 sound track
@juandelossantos3074
Skate 3 one of my favorite skateboarding game Love this song
@LudovicMac
Amazing band.
@cm7032004
you can buy it at just about any record store band: kinski album: down below it's chaos
@thecopster100
People looking for tabs, try and learn it by ear, its pretty simple, uses the D pentatonic scale.