I may be a touch late on this reply, but... I've been an Ebb fan for years and years. TBH I noticed a slight popularity from Decks and Effects, but most of the people that didn't know them before that album, didn't care one way or the other when they heard it. Industrial is making a sudden resurgence of late, as are other forms of electronic music that rooted some people into "techno" or other various forms of electronic music. It has more to do with the argument based on the "future" of electronic music, then it does with Richie's mix.
As for your critique of Nitzer Ebb, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with everything you've stated. In 1987, "That Total Age" was WAYYY before its time, and includes the anticipation of the fall of Communist power in eastern europe, as well as very liberal views on society and change. That album stands out as my favorite by Ebb, but the song "Warsaw Ghetto" is absolutely my favorite tune, and captures the mood of the concentration camps/german work camps, and is a good reminder of the terrible things that happened barely 50 years ago. my $.02 dense On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 [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 > >
