Belgium: Is there anything it can't do?

Spinning off yet another thread, this time from the rainy day song thread that checks Bettie Serveert.

Which got me to thinking: is there any nation that has given the world more cool stuff in music and other arts per capita or per square mile than mighty mighty Belgium?

Let's examine, shall we?

 

dEUS


No well-equipped modern home is complete without a copy of Worst Case Scenario.

'There's always something in the air sometimes
Suds and soda mix OK with beer
Can I, can I break your sentiment?'

Indeed. Indeed.

 

You're just too fast for me.


Tintin could kick Harry Potter's ass.

 

If Scott Walker, Marc Almond and Jarvis Cocker all like you, well then dammit I do too. Who cares if you can't speak French - listen to Brel's version of 'The Impossible Dream' from The Man of La Mancha, and believe.

 

"His soul was ambulant and saintly. And his rhythms were his own as the stripes of a tiger, as his phosphorescence and his moustache. He lived within his skin.
He rendered it royal and invisible to the hunter".

Cocteau, on Django.

 

Wicked CD.

 

Well, we may have a controversy here. I could have sworn they were from Belgium actually, and a quick search said more or less the same...but another search I just did says you might be right. Eeek. So they're struck for the moment...

 

This hardly diminishes the treasure trove that is Belgium's cultural exports, however.

 

I wanted to give someone else the honor of being the first to refer to Muscles From Brussels.

I've been to the village of Damme in Belgium, actually. Couldn't help but wonder if that's where his family was from or something. Who knows.

 

Django was born in a gypsy caravan in Liverchies, Belgium, which is a little outside the city of Charleroi, I believe. He did make his reputation in Paris as part of the Quintette du Hot Club de France though, of course.

 

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Finally, science and technology has come up with something useful.

Truly an idea whose time has come.