Rammstein? On a Morrissey fan site? I think you meant to go to the Metallica or Guns 'n' Roses fan sites. That lame band lowers my I.Q.. Gross..just gross.
This just goes to show the ignorance some people have towards music. I'd rate Rammstein in my top 10 bands of all time and am absolutely pumped to see them in Australia in January for the first time since 2001 ... so much like to American fans we're getting a treat too!
I'd like to offer a little insight...
Rammstein are more than just a metal band, and if you don't understand German then you'd be mistaken for thinking that a lot of their lyrics are just German version of death metal lyrics about killing and skull f***ing people or whatever. Till Lindemann is a great lyricist, his words are extremely poetic (hell he's written his own book of poetry), there is very little swearing really as well.
They have a stage show which has been made famous for stuff like the dildo and such ... but it's also a lot of fun, it mixes music with theatre, and I don't see what the problem is with that. A lot of it is dark humour and there's a running joke that the keyboardist is always trying to best the singer but never has things go his way (stunts included he's ended up being cooked alive in a big pot by a flame thrower, his head being cut off, dumped in a bath tub and had lava poured into it from above etc...).
I think Rammstein are largely misunderstood, their music has melody (especially later albums) unlike a lot of metal. It's totally fine if it's not your thing, but to say it lowers your IQ is just an ignorant statement.
A rough translation for example of some of their writing for a song is:
"Come in my boat
a storm is rising
and it is becoming night
Where do you want to go?
so completely alone
you are drifting away
Who will hold your hand
when it pulls you under?
Where do you want to go?
so boundless are the cold seas
Come in my boat
the autumn wind holds the sails taut
Now you are standing by the lantern
with tears falling down your face
the daylight falls into night
the autumn wind sweeps the streets clear"
Even their most famous song "Du Hast" is usually misunderstood ... the English version which was released was "You Hate" but its actually a more clever song than that, it's a play on wedding vows and the original lyrics would be "You Have". It's basically about saying no at the alter:
"Will you until death seperates you,
be faithful to her for all her days?
No"
Again with all the flak they cop just for being German about how they're Nazi's and all that shit ... they wrote a song called Links 2,3,4 which is done to a military march type of beat and talks about how they belong to the left and the song is a bit of a "f*** you" to those who have those asumptions about them:
"Can you break hearts
can hearts speak
can you torture hearts
can you steal hearts
They want my heart on the right side
but then I look below
it beats left there
Can hearts sing
can a heart burst
can hearts be pure
can a heart be made of stone
They want my heart on the right side
but then I look below
it beats left there
left two three four left
Sure it's a different kind of lyric to what people generally hear and comparing it to someone like Morrissey's writing is just not comparing 2 of the same product really. Again, not everyone's cup'o'tea, but it is far from something that'll lower your IQ.
And finally on that, if you want to give them a chance to see a side of them that doesn't get as much publicity as the dildo then check out a song like this: