they're catchy and unllike several of the excellent acts you listed michael, their music is a little more dance friendly.
and yes- DE9 had a lot to do with it. i remember a fellow recordtime employee and serious industrial head going off on some rave kid looking for used nitzer ebb vinyl- "where were you the past five years when i couldn't sell any of them!?" On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > What's with their sudden popularity again? > Is it a result of Richie Hawtin throwing them into his "Decks, efx&909" > mix? > > They were riding the coat-tails of D.A.F. as far as I'm concerned. > They're lyrics were sh!t, their beats were rudimentary, and their debut > album (and those that followed) regurgitates the same elementary themes > over and over. > > There were at least a handful of artists that were better: > Meat Beat Manifesto (used Nitzer Ebb as toilet paper) > Front 242 > Front Line Assembly > Foetus > Depeche Mode > SPK > Test Dept. > Throbbing Gristle > Cabaret Voltaire > 23 Skidoo > A Certain Ratio > > and on and on..... > > each of these bands could do what Nitzer Ebb was trying to do but they all > did it better > and any one of them make Nitzer Ebb look like a teenage boy band. > > If I hear that line "Lies lies etc guns guns etc fire fire etc." anymore > I'm going to lose it. > It's a crap tune - it was a crap tune in 1987 - it's a crap tune now. > > > So - can anyone explain why the popularity of Nitzer Ebb and why do they > end up in so many techno sets nowadays? > > MEK > >
