Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!spar!ellis
From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: hit by a rock
Message-ID: <206@spar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 09:02:54 EST
Article-I.D.: spar.206
Posted: Wed Apr 24 09:02:54 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 05:27:39 EST
References: <5208@fortune.UUCP>
Reply-To: ellis@max.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Distribution: net
Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA
Lines: 28

From Gregory Strockbine --

>Industrial music you can dance to!
>
>I caught part of a song on the radio, I think it was called
>"Industrial Dance", by a German group called something newbatten
>(spelling is obviously wrong). Can anyone out there fill me in?

    Yow!! That's Einstu:rzende Neubaten!  [nb. `:' = umlaut]

    Has yet another industrial band gone disco?

    To date, the list includes Cabaret Voltaire, Chris & Cosi (1/2 of TG),
    and Surgical Penis Klinik. Any others? Maybe we should conduct a poll!
    Send all replies to net.music.gdead...

    ES's earlier work, complete with power tools, frantic hyper-tense 
    Hitleresque vocals (screaming German males tend to sound the same 
    since WWII), and bleak, hi-energy, clanging staccato rhythms, was
    the most angst-provoking noise I'd heard since before Surgical
    Penis Klinik sold out. Now THAT was MUSIC!!

    Odd that Industrial bands seem to go disco or Christian Punk. Whatever's
    becoming of this generation?

    Oh well, we still have Nurse With Wound. Any Swan fans out there?

-michael