Ahh, love the Ebb, I'll gladly sit through the entire first three albums, as well as the early singles comp So Bright, So Strong. However, you have to put me in one of those Clockwork Orange contraptions to make me listen to Big Hit ever ever again...
Actually, the major label/Mode tour stuff isn't that odd--they were on Mute Records in the UK, which was a pretty hep thing in the mid-80s, I guess. They toured with Mode a few times, Alan Wilder produced one of their albums and Doug McCarthy sang on some Recoil stuff, so the Mute family appears to have been A Big Happy One. And they really didn't get any MTV time outside of 120 Minutes, although they were one of the few industrial bands that college radio actually played.
Belief is awesome, but you stop right before they got really interesting on Showtime, when they toned down the shouting and varied their style quite a bit. "Nobody Knows" is the greatest industrial blues song of all time!
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Actually, the major label/Mode tour stuff isn't that odd--they were on Mute Records in the UK, which was a pretty hep thing in the mid-80s, I guess. They toured with Mode a few times, Alan Wilder produced one of their albums and Doug McCarthy sang on some Recoil stuff, so the Mute family appears to have been A Big Happy One. And they really didn't get any MTV time outside of 120 Minutes, although they were one of the few industrial bands that college radio actually played.
Belief is awesome, but you stop right before they got really interesting on Showtime, when they toned down the shouting and varied their style quite a bit. "Nobody Knows" is the greatest industrial blues song of all time!