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Subject: Re: What's the best Nitzer Ebb album?
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muchdamage@aol.com (MuchDamage) wrote:
>What does everyone think is the best Nitzer Ebb album?

That Total Age
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From: FEUS71B@prodigy.com (Darren Spinelli)
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belief.
hell, it was so cool depeche mode wore the album shirts
for their "enjoy the silence" video. oh, now that i think about it that
would be reason NOT to like it.
shame shame don't come back.............

-darren in dead loss angeles

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From: Rowan-Morrison
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>MuchDamage (muchdamage@aol.com) wrote:
>: What does everyone think is the best Nitzer Ebb album?

That Total Age, Belief and Showtime are all excellent albums.
If you can appreciate one of these three, then you can
probably appreciate all of them. However, the last
two albums, Big (s)Hit and Ebbhead(ache), represented the band's
attempt to change, as well as to be more commercially
acceptable. The result was a lot of marginal material with
a couple standouts, like Kick It, Family Man, and the
fully orchestral Elemental remix of I Give to You.

chase (exploiter of the poor and electronic)
Re-Constriction Records
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From: efinkler@sun1.iusb.edu (Ripple n' Hookers)
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MuchDamage (muchdamage@aol.com) wrote:
: What does everyone think is the best Nitzer Ebb album?

I've owned That Total Age, Showtime, and Ebbhead, and of those three. I
liked...

...get ready for it...

EBBHEAD the most.

It is by no means a great album, but I think it has some great tracks on it.
I feel that the songwriting is much improved from Showtime, and is far more
interesting than TTA (something of a one trick pony, IMHO). Most NE fans seem
to find it annoying, though, and I can understand why. I just don't.

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From: lalconce@aludra.usc.edu (Leah-Nani Alconcel)
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efinkler@sun1.iusb.edu (Ripple n' Hookers) writes:

>MuchDamage (muchdamage@aol.com) wrote:
>: What does everyone think is the best Nitzer Ebb album?

i would cast my vote for _showtime_.
just like the rest of the world (except for
ed ;)) i don't like their post-_belief_
albums too much. if you like _showtime_
or _that total age_ or _belief_, then you
should check out die warzau's _disco rigido_
same style only better, not as repetitious.

leah-nani alconcel
lalconce@scf.usc.edu

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From: jester@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Jester)
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Ripple n' Hookers wrote:
>MuchDamage (muchdamage@aol.com) wrote:
>:What does everyone think is the best Nitzer Ebb album?
>
>I've owned That Total Age, Showtime, and Ebbhead, and of those three. I
>liked... ...get ready for it... EBBHEAD the most.

I'd have to agree with you here on this one Ed. I've owned all of the NE
albums in the past and sold Belief & That Total Age simply on the fact
that they were boring mostly useless albums with little or no imagination.
One can onyl tolerate the mindless lyrics behind "Join In The Chant" or
"Let Your Body Learn" so many times before the brain explodes. For some
this is a postive aspect to NE, but in my case, I avoid older NE albums
for the same reason why I avoid Kraftwekr in it's entirety, I do not
care much for older minimalistic music on old klunky equipment.

It's just a Personal choice, I prefer a great deal of depth and sound
variation in the stuff that I listen to. I've probably alinetd a lot of
music that people REALLY enjoy, but I just can't get into it. Another good
example would be older Front 242. I enjoy every 242 album immensely
EXCEPT "Geography" simply because that album shows it's age so badly.
I've kind of degenerated from the topic at hand, but what the hey, perhaps
someone will gain some use from my meandering.

Jester
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From: msoto@fas.harvard.edu (Michael Soto)
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Ripple n' Hookers (efinkler@sun1.iusb.edu) wrote:

: I've owned That Total Age, Showtime, and Ebbhead, and of those three. I
: liked...

: ...get ready for it...

: EBBHEAD the most.

This is probably my favorite NE album, too, although I really dig the "As
Is" ep. The songwriting is much denser, tons less repetitive than their
early stuff, but what strikes me most on these cds is Doug McCarthy's
vocals -- eerily atonal in some of the more adventurous songs.

--Mike

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Subject: What's the best Nitzer Ebb album?
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SI>That Total Age without a doubt.

SI>simon


I AGREE whole heartedly!!! I even saw them on that tour and on belief
Favorite song: warsaw ghetto! =]
-Annamarie

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Subject: Re: What's the best Nitzer Ebb album?
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In article <4157vq$eab@mark.ucdavis.edu>, ez010486@dale.ucdavis.edu (Gregoardinale) writes:
>That Total Age. IMHO, Nitzer Ebb went downhill from there.
>
>Greg C
>gfcardinale@ucdavis.edu
>
>
>MuchDamage (muchdamage@aol.com) wrote:
>: What does everyone think is the best Nitzer Ebb album?
i agree with you a 100%. But do you think "VIOLENT PLAYGROUND" had a fascist
overtone? Or, is it a mockery of the far-right by calling the youth "to the Left"?

bolt

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From: randy.goldstein@cynosure.com (Randy Goldstein)
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Whoah. Wait a minute...Belief was pretty strong, and so was Showtime.
That Total Age was probably the strongest, though. Violent Playground,
yes is a great song, but what about Warsaw Ghetto? Damn good sounds.
Nice metal-y sounds.

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In article <42269f$p20@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
Tom Shear wrote:

> I know people generally point out That Total Age as Ebb's best, but I
> have to say I like Belief and it's related singles and remixes the best.

> One of my favorite albums of all time I'd have to say. I think the sound
> design is much better, and it is a lot less minimalist than 'Age.

I have to agree with you there, Tom...I've always thought 'Belief' was a
much stronger (at least on the production side) release and it's always
seemed very much 'darker' in mood to me...And jesus, those bass sounds
they used to come up with! I also have always enjoyed the singles/remixes
from that album, especially 'Shame'.

-Scott
Pain Station

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From: tomshear@aol.com (Tom Shear)
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I know people generally point out That Total Age as Ebb's best, but I have
to say I like Belief and it's related singles and remixes the best. One
of my favorite albums of all time I'd have to say. I think the sound
design is much better, and it is a lot less minimalist than 'Age.

Tom Shear
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