The Hutterites are an amazing people. . . as is this song.

Hey! Play some fun music... TMBG or somethin'.

I toured a Hutterite communal farm once. They unlike the Amish use modern equipment. They usually do so well they end up buying up all the surrounding farms. Very interesting place. Great song, 9.

This must be the "I'm committing suicide" set. PG's "Growing Up", followed by this droning, morose song.

Quite good, but the Nick Cave influence can be very clearly heard and felt...

Quite good, but the Nick Cave influence can be very clearly heard and felt...

Wikipedia article: The Hutterites practice total community of goods: all property is owned by the church, and provisions for individual members and their families come from the common resources. This practice is based largely on Hutterite interpretation of passages in chapters 2, 4, and 5 of Acts, which speak of the believers "having all things in common".

Hutterite communities, called "colonies", are all rural; many depend largely on farming for their income. Often, they own large tracts of land and use top-of-the-line farm implements. Some also run state-of-the-art hog, chicken, or turkey barns. Hutterites are also venturing into the manufacturing sector.

Each colony consists of ten to twenty families, with a population of 60–150. Approximately half of a colony's members are chosen (usually by lot) to "branch off" and form a new colony, when the colony's leadership determines that branching off is economically and spiritually viable. Although Hutterites attempt to remove themselves from the outside world (in the world, but not of the world), many Hutterite homes have computers and radios; a minority of communities (mostly, liberal Schmiedleut colonies) has some sort of filtered Internet access. Traditionally, Hutterite children leave school at 15 years of age to fulfill their adult roles in the colony. This practice is still strictly maintained by the Lehrerleut and most of the Dariusleut colonies. However, some young Hutterites, especially among the Schmiedeleut in Manitoba, have graduated from high school and have gone on to attend university; many become teachers for their colonies. Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, offers a Hutterite Education Program (BUHEP) to Hutterite high-school graduates for a portion of the Schmiedeleut. Just as the Amish and Mennonites often use Pennsylvania German, the Hutterites have preserved a distinct dialect of German known as Hutterite German.