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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