ive been actively ignoring industrial music for almost 10 years
now, itsd very easy to only remember it in the best possible
light.
tom
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:27:44 -0400
>I guess it depends on your experience. If I never hear those two
records
>(Headhunter, Join in the Chant) again it will be too soon. Not
because
>they suck ('cos they are great tunes) - but they got so, SO
overplayed
>around me. Even now I can go to any goth/industrial night in
>NJ/NYC/Philly and they are still playing that stuff. It's not
nostalgic
>- it's annoying! :o
>
>
>Lisa
>
>
>Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
>> "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
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> 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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