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From: rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Industry, EN, CabVolt
Message-ID: <4105@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 04:07:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 04:07:00 1985
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Unfortunately, the main reason why industrial bands tend to go slick is
that most of them can't think of anything else to do.  Most of these bands
are only interested in sound -- when they run out of sounds (which is very
easy because they first strive to be as anti-melodic as possible), they
have no place else to go.

Cabaret Voltaire was considered the typical industrial style band (not Pere
Ubu, since they had real songs).  A lot of their stuff could chill -- it
had depth and non-trivial content.  ``The Crackdown,'' the album they made
after leaving Rough Trade, was indeed slick, but still had some haunting
moments.  The new album, on the other had, has bland DOR rhythms and the
weakest melodies this side of ``The Wall.''

Einsturzende Neubaten were supposed to be the Next Big Thing, as the NME
babbled on about Metal Music and groups like Test Department.  Nothing ever
happened.  EN's new EP actually has two real pieces that I suppose you
could call songs.  Maybe their learning.

Too many times, people who are looking for challenging music mistake
oppressive single-mindedness or grating noise for geniune talent and the
daring to show it.  For example, the new Swans EP is totally without merit
-- I'll take Culture Club over it any day.  However, some people are going
to like it because they think that anybody who puts out stuff like that must
be really daring and cool.  Actually this is just an exagerated instance of
the ``uncommercial==good'' fallacy, but that's another story.
-- 
``Bob'' (Robert P. Krajewski)
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