Crap? don't think u can call their tunes crap...they where one of the very few electronical bands to come out of the UK and have a some reputation or respect within in the Electronic/EBM scene from back in the days.
Togehter with Front 242 and Frontline Assembly they were the 'big names' of the Electronic Body Music scene back in the 80's. U don't have to like thier tunes, the early ones from thier album 'That Total Age' sound like a pitched up version of DAF but try their album 'Belief' or 'Showtime' and u wil hear a different band. Futhermore i think that their titles and lyrics really go well with techno..'let your body learn', 'join in the chant', 'murderous' and 'Control i'm here' just fit well with hard looped techno:-) Hawtin, Surgeon and the rest just might feel that these song are classics and they grew up with it as being their early contact with electronic music and this is their way of paying respect. Dj Hell is playing out Front 242 tunes, would u consider that to be good thing then? i do....great tunes were made back in those days, they deserve to be played out again And yes, Douglas Mcarthy, the former shouter of Nitzer Ebb has made a great, very great album with Terence Fixmer called 'between the devil..' and this mix between oldschool EBM, his vocals and 2004 techno really my stereo at the moment...Highly Recommended! just my 50 cents on this sunny morning.. Martijn > > > > 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 > >
