Talk:Ooberman

The name

The article doesn't explain the origin of the name "Ooberman". Is it possible they named it after Nietzsche's "Übermensch", the super-man? Or is there some other explanation? Nyh (talk) 10:57, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

@Nyh According to a 26 June 1999 article in The Scotsman by Andrew Burnet,

Given the pair's academic backgrounds, it's tempting to wonder whether Nietzsche might have had a hand in naming the band. The German philosopher's notorious theory of the abermensch, or superman -towards whom lesser beings must bend their wills - was among Hitler's main inspirations.
Understandably, it's an idea Popplewell is keen to play down. The truth, it turns out, is far stranger. "It was me and Andy drunkenly making up a story about these three burnt-out hippies from the Sixties who were all going to meet in the Nineties at the bottom of a swimming pool in LA," he explains, lucidly. "We gave them three names: the Scuba Man, the Doobie Man and the Ooberman. And the Ooberman was this skinny little weed who was calling himself the Ooberman because he thought it would make him look bigger. We were going to do a thing called the Scuba Party EP, a concept EP about this story ... And there's this little character that we've got on all our records. He's like a little superhero - he's got a bucket on his head and a curtain for a cape and red Y-fronts. Goes without saying, the Y-fronts."

toweli (talk) 03:16, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

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