Front Line Assembly (and other 80s industrial bands) S/D C/D etc

Assuming your REALLY a newbie, check out Skinny Puppy, Front 242, haujobb, Lassigue Bendthaus, Clock DVA.

-- Mindphaser (mindphase...), April 8th, 2005

Twitch, Land of Rape and Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste = AWESOME.

Destroy everything else.

They're dud on the whole. most, if not all, the other bands mentioned in this thread are better.

Don't listen to any industrial past the early nineties. especially anything recent. It's pretty much become the worst music ever.

Not that this was a bad thing at all! But I think that, and the popularity of Nine Inch Nails really did create this fork in the road, as did early rave music, almost all simultaneously. Dark electronic dance music didn't have to be "this way" anymore. It's no wonder that Wax Trax! started experimenting a bit more in their artist catalogue by then.. being one of the first labels to release works by Autechre and RDJ, stateside.

But anyway, that said, Frontline Assembly were the example butt of all industrial band jokes -- mainly because FLA were caught sampling parts of other recently released industrial dance songs... they became their own worst cliché. I admitted liking their earlier albums back then, but I quickly fell off the wagon around Gashed Senses and Crossfire or whatever their second album was. I wanted something more unique. Boston's Manufacture were the Nettwerk equivalent.. different sound, but same sense of tasting the raw ingredients of the formula..

"ARMED FORCES! DESTRUCT! DECEIT.. MIND CONTROL! 'YES, SIR!'"
over and over again

(although Manufacture did inadvertently play a part in launching Sarah McLachlan's career, for better or worse, and they went the Depeche/pop route on their second album, interestingly enough.)

-- jason. (jaso...), April 8th, 2005.

OTM

Isn't this stuff due for a revival soon, anyway?

I'M HERE!

* = No, I'm not referring to the Skinny Puppy record of the same name.

Don't listen to any industrial past the early nineties. especially anything recent. It's pretty much become the worst music ever.

-- jason. (jaso...), April 8th, 2005.

what I just said. Love is brilliant.

No mentions either of Throbbing Gristle!? Surely they must be *the* place to start with Industrial!? 20 Jazz Funk Greats?

Because I was out at the bar and not paying attention. OTM, sir. IMHO, one of the only industrial acts with a consistently worthwhile, multi-decade spanning output (although Meat Beat and Severed Heads do quite well also). With one exception (York), I find Foetus to be close to faultless...

-- donut e-goon (do...), June 12th, 2005.

Nah lets have a full search & Destroy of 'industrial'.

I just put on some FLA - god what was I thinking in the 90's

"Er how has no one mentioned Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel/Foetus etc.!?"
Because I was out at the bar and not paying attention. OTM, sir. IMHO, one of the only industrial acts with a consistently worthwhile, multi-decade spanning output (although Meat Beat and Severed Heads do quite well also). With one exception (York), I find Foetus to be close to faultless...

in a recent discussion with Jim re an interview, the one thing he insisted on more than anything was that i did not refer to his music as industrial.

I just put on some FLA - god what was I thinking in the 90's

you were thinking what great music it was

I was indeed but Millenium has aged terribly. Not sure how keen I am to revisit the older stuff, a la 'Caustic Grip'

I still like Millenium a lot, stuff before that sounds really good too.

i used to love these guys a long time ago - but couldn't even imagine it being listenable for me nowadays. Hard Wired is abouts where my interest began to wane.

i still enjoy Dave McKain's artwork tho!

Hard Wired was my last one too (saw them on that tour - awesome) but, i downloaded the new one as it got 9/10 in terrorizer, and i really liked it.

I used to exist on a diet of this stuff for a short period in the early '90s. It still sounds great in short bursts, but I find it quickly gets wearing.

I thought about starting a thread on this but maybe this is the best place to say it: coil > psychic TV