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Classic Tunes to Memorize and Hum at Will

omniconsumer | Heart of the Great Satan (midwest america) | 12/19/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I had never really heard industrial music before this... just some pop electronica/techno (Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk), pop punk rock (Green Day, Rancid, Screeching Weasel, AFI, The Offspring), and european classical (Satie, Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Wagner); this collection of songs really transformed my listening habits, because most of them get TO THE POINT, which is total auditory overload accomplished through bizarre use of synthesizers, voice-distortion systems, and even mass-produced factory objects (hence the 'industrial'): you are meant to feel and act like a piece of machinery, an oddly liberating concept, i've found. Anyway, disc one is the best, since it has the 3 best songs on the entire collection: tracks 1, 8, and 13 (Laibach's "Die Liebe", Controlled Fusion's "Disregards", and Neotek's "Pink Noise", respectively), but really all these discs are great and almost all the songs are too. In short, if you were ever facinated with the modern world of advanced technology and curious about its applications to human culture, this is a pretty good choice to start learning with."

The Best

Sandra Adams | Los Angeles, California USA | 02/23/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This collection of Industrial Music is by far the best I've heard. Classic Industrial songs that never die, as well as the best Industrial Song ever recordered to this day... "Desert Storm" by Klute. If you are a big fan of Industrial Music, this is a "must have" for your collection. No collection is complete until you have this!"