"headhunter" is another dancefloor killer. you cant go wrong with
those types of industrial tunes man. i guess not too many of you
guys were down with that, but thats the music that made me realise
that synths and drum machines were my friends.
tom
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From: lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:38:47 -0400
>Yep, it's catchy all right. I remember when I was doing a weekly -
all
>you had to do to pack the floor was play Front 242 - Headhunter
followed
>by a Nitzer Ebb tune (one of the overplayed ones) and you'd have
them
>acting all wild and crazy. Even the frat boys.
>
>Hearts & Minds is still a super wicked tune, imho, and I was just
>playing it tonight after dinner before I logged in to see this
thread on
>him. (bring in music from the Twilight Zone...)
>
>Lisa :)
>
>
>[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
>>
>>
>
>
>
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