"join in the chant" kills it. don't front.
tom
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:48:59 -0500
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>What's with their sudden popularity again?
>Is it a result of Richie Hawtin throwing them into his "Decks,
efx&909"
>mix?
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>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.
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>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
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>and on and on.....
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>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.
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>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.
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>So - can anyone explain why the popularity of Nitzer Ebb and why
do they
>end up in so many techno sets nowadays?
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>MEK
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