Industrial Strength Machine Music: Framework of Industrial Rock 1978-1995

• Artist: Various Artists
• Release Date: September 14, 1999
• Total Time: 79:09
• Type: Collection (various artists), Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Rock

Review

Rhino's AP presents Industrial Strength Machine Music: Framework of Industrial Rock 1978-1995, with 16 tracks from the heyday of industrial, when the music was part of the underground and progressing at a rapid speed. Actually, the title is a bit misleading, since the disc doesn't contain all that much from the late '70s, or even the mid-'90s -- it concentrates on the salad days of the late '80s and early '90s, when the music ruled college airwaves. Any industrial fan or anyone who followed college radio during those days will recognize many of the names here -- Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel, Front 242, Clock DVA, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, Revolting Cocks, Nine Inch Nails. Most of the groups are represented by their most familiar material and when they're not, such as the previously unreleased RevCo cover of "Physical" or the previously unreleased live version of NIN's "Gave Up," they're sops to collectors who already have all this material in their collection. Does that mean that Industrial Strength Machine Music is only for collectors? Hardly. As a matter of fact, there are probably enough rarities here to make it truly of interest to them, but for casual fans or neophytes, this is a good basic primer. Sure, it might have been nicer to have "Head Like a Hole" instead of "Gave Up," but that's only one minor flaw in an otherwise strong collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Hamburger Lady	Throbbing Gristle	Throbbing Gristle	(4:11)
Nag Nag Nag	Cabaret Voltaire	Cabaret Voltaire	(4:37)
Out Out Out	Boyd Rice	Non	(3:30)
Panic	J.G. Thirlwell, John Balance, Peter Christopherson	Coil	(4:18)
Kick to Kill	Graham Cunnington, Paul Hines	Test Dept.	(6:11)
Yü-Gung	Einstürzende Neubauten	Einstürzende Neubauten	(7:15)
Anything (Viva!)	J.G. Thirlwell	Scraping Foetus off the Wheel	(6:46)
Dig It	Skinny Puppy	Skinny Puppy	(6:04)
Funkahdafi	Daniel Bressanutti, Jean-Luc de Meyer	Front 242	(3:17)
The Hacker [Video Mix]	Paul Browse, Dean Dennis	Clock DVA	(3:24)
Psyche Out	Jack Dangers	Meat Beat Manifesto	(4:46)
Stigmata (Lyrics)	Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker	Ministry	(5:43)
Godlike-Doglike	Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Günter Schulz	KMFDM	(5:37)
Kooler Than Jesus [Electric Messiah Mix]	Groovie Mann, Buzz McCoy	My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult	(4:10)
(Let's Get) Physical [#]	Terry Shaddick	Revolting Cocks	(4:49)
Gave Up [Live][#]	Trent Reznor	Nine Inch Nails	(4:31)

Credits

Throbbing Gristle (Performer), David McLees (Project Director), Coil (Performer), Non (Performer), Test Dept. (Performer), Daniel Goldmark (Editorial Research), Steven Chean (Editorial Supervision), Jason Pettigrew (Producer), Ted Myers (Project Supervisor), Scraping Foetus off the Wheel (Performer), Clock DVA (Performer), Mike Shea (Producer), Cabaret Voltaire (Performer), Eric Kayser (Liner Notes), Emily Cagan (Project Assistant), Einstürzende Neubauten (Performer), Patrick Mulligan (Project Supervisor), Sevie Bates (Art Direction), Nine Inch Nails (Performer), Elizabeth Pavone (Editorial Coordinator), Eric Kayser (Compilation Producer), Dave Schultz (Remastering), Jason Pettigrew (Compilation Producer), Ted Myers (Project Director), KMFDM (Performer), Christopher Benton (Art Direction), Andy Wombwell (Compilation Assistant), Patrick Milligan (Project Director), Bill Inglot (Remastering), Revolting Cocks (Performer), Christine Ostrander (Compilation Assistant), Steve Woolard (Research Assistant), My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (Performer), Eric Kayser (Producer), Skinny Puppy (Performer), Jason Pettigrew (Liner Notes), Front 242 (Performer), Michael Shea (Compilation Producer), Meat Beat Manifesto (Performer), Ministry (Performer)