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EDITOR'S PICK // LIVE

Total Tracks: 8   Total Length: 37:57

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Download almost any other EN as an alternative

PeteyP

I LOVE Einstuerzende Neubauten. Ihave been listening to their music for almost 25 years now, and I keep coming back. But this release is just weak, it almost seems like ROIR got the rights to these tracks and just lumped them together on one record. Skip this one, and download Kollaps instead. There are far better live performances by EN on the second Stragegies against Architecture compilation. And, emusic, how about some more of their stuff, like Halber Mensch? 3 stars from me, because it is still EN and I like the track 'Womb' here.

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EN better than TG

FunzaFunza

Let's face it. EN are truely original in their manner of making music and melodies out of everyday tools and machines. TG made noise not songs with conventional instruments. They are not of the same kind. And Blixa Bargeld & Co. always had more talent than the pretentious Genesis P. Orridge Co.

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Cabaret Voltaire before the '80s...

sgtrock

Worth mentioning that Cabaret Voltaire were around a long time before the 80's and indeed were releasing material on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records in the late 1970's...

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Influential, but not alone

7Zark7

Certainly, Neubauten are very important to the history of industrial music. However, Throbbing Gristle are most often credited with creating the beginnings of what we now call Industrial music. They began this work in the 70s, with strange compositions dripping with sarcasm and raw terror all at once. It must be remembered, too, that Cabaret Voltaire came onto the scene around the same time as Neubauten, in the early 80s, and are a very important and often forgotten foundational Industrial band.

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The Beginning Of "Industrial"

visionz

This is the band that started it all, the noise and industrial sound that so many have grown to love. Without these guys such bands as Laibach and Nine Inch Nails may not exist. They are not my cup of tea, but they certainly pioneers and for that I respect them.

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