http://popdose.disqus.com/Culturally inspired writing.enTue, 22 Jul 2008 23:51:34 -0000http://popdose.com/lost-in-the-80s-nitzer-ebb/#comment-973386<p>Ahh, love the Ebb, I'll gladly sit through the entire first three albums, as well as the early singles comp <i>So Bright, So Strong</i>. However, you have to put me in one of those Clockwork Orange contraptions to make me listen to <i>Big Hit</i> ever ever again...</p><p>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.</p><p><i>Belief</i> is awesome, but you stop right before they got really interesting on <i>Showtime</i>, when they toned down the shouting and varied their style quite a bit. "Nobody Knows" is the greatest industrial blues song of all time!</p><p></p>The Flyin Hawaiian UKTue, 22 Jul 2008 23:51:34 -0000