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What is your favorite industrial/synthpop band?

Greenham
28-02-2006, 11:57
My personal favorites are: Melotron, God Module, Absurd Minds, SITD, Stromkern, Fiendflug, Die Krupps, Punish Yourself, Birmingham 6, And One, Covenant, Ministry, Unit 187, Funker Vogt, Skinny Puppy, Grendel, Neuroticfish, Hocico, E Nomine, Icon of Coil, Rotersand, Neuroactive, Ikon, XP8, Negative Format, Cobra Killer, Seabound, Suicide Commando, Assemblage 23, Mechanical Cabaret, Apoptygma Berzerk and Oil 10. There are more, but I can't think of them at the moment.
Mariehamn
28-02-2006, 11:59
Schalger? Are we talking about schlager?
Cabra West
28-02-2006, 12:06
Hmm... no, don't know any of them. What's that you're talking about?
Greenham
28-02-2006, 12:08
Schalger? Are we talking about schlager?


Is that a band I'm not familiar with?
Mariehamn
28-02-2006, 12:15
Is that a band I'm not familiar with?
Its a word for easy to listen pop in Swedish at least.
Sdaeriji
28-02-2006, 14:03
The only band on that list that I've ever heard of is Ministry.
Jello Biafra
28-02-2006, 14:14
Ministry, by far. Godflesh in second place.

I also like Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Cop Shoot Cop, Sisters of Mercy, Switchblade Symphony, Pitchshifter, November 17, Nihil.

I haven't decided yet if I like Cabaret Voltaire or Frontline Assembly.
I plan to get into Laibach next.
Cahnt
28-02-2006, 15:48
Vast, Nine Inch Nails, Men Without Hats, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Goldfrapp (even if the last album does stink), Snake River Conspiracy, Replicas by Gary Numan, Freq by Robert Calvert and In Camera by Peter Hammill.
Trotskytania
28-02-2006, 19:20
Industrial- Einsturzende Neubauten, Big City Orchestra, Killing Joke, Bigod 20, Front 242.

Synthpop- Devo, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fad Gadget
Cahnt
28-02-2006, 19:31
Industrial- Einsturzende Neubauten, Big City Orchestra, Killing Joke, Bigod 20, Front 242.

Synthpop- Devo, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fad Gadget
Echo and the Bunnymen? Are you sure?
Disturnn
28-02-2006, 19:57
With the best artist on top in each list(my list is mostly industrial-metal)

German--
*Rammstein
*Eisbrecher
*Megaherz
*Oomph!
*Joachim Witt
*KMFDM
*Die Krupps

American--
*Nine Inch Nails
*Static-X
*Rob Zombie
*Hanzel und Gretyl
*Godhead
*Spineshank
*Fear Factory
*Acumen Nation

Norweigan--
*The Kovenant
*Zeromancer

Swedish--
*Pain
*Covenant

Finnish--
*Turmion Kätiloet
Greenham
28-02-2006, 20:10
Ministry, by far. Godflesh in second place.

I also like Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Cop Shoot Cop, Sisters of Mercy, Switchblade Symphony, Pitchshifter, November 17, Nihil.

I haven't decided yet if I like Cabaret Voltaire or Frontline Assembly.
I plan to get into Laibach next.


I like Sisters of Mercy (going to see them this saturday in Atlanta) & Switchblade Symphony, but I consider them to be mainly gothic.
Greenham
28-02-2006, 20:14
With the best artist on top in each list(my list is mostly industrial-metal)

*Hanzel und Gretyl



You seriously like them? They are so cheesy. The rest of your picks are good though.
Greenham
28-02-2006, 20:16
Its a word for easy to listen pop in Swedish at least.


Is that kind of like Ikea (easy to live with furniture)?
Greenham
28-02-2006, 20:18
Industrial- Einsturzende Neubauten, Big City Orchestra, Killing Joke, Bigod 20, Front 242.

Synthpop- Devo, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fad Gadget


EN was one I forgot to mention same for Front 242.
Bodies Without Organs
28-02-2006, 20:37
Tangerine Dream <--- old man answer.
Trotskytania
28-02-2006, 23:01
Echo and the Bunnymen? Are you sure?
as a child of the 80's, yes, am sure.
Trotskytania
28-02-2006, 23:04
*Rob Zombie
He cracks me up. Did you know he was one of the techies for the PeeWee Herman show?
Minarchist america
28-02-2006, 23:20
probably the faint, but i odn't know if they apply to this genre or not.
Straughn
01-03-2006, 02:46
Props for
In Strict Confidence
and
Machines of Loving Grace
...since a lot of the good ones are already spoken for here.
The Front Line Assembly "Live Wired" album has some good ones.
Skinny Puppy's "Too Dark Park" and "Last Rights" were excellent.
I liked all of the MoLG albums but "Concentration" the best.
And "Seven Lives" and "Eye Of Heaven" are pretty good from ISC.
Jello Biafra
02-03-2006, 12:29
Dammit, I forgot Killing Joke and Machines of Loving Grace.

I like Sisters of Mercy (going to see them this saturday in Atlanta) & Switchblade Symphony, but I consider them to be mainly gothic.Yeah, I do, too, but there isn't much of a line between synthpop and goth.
Mariehamn
02-03-2006, 12:45
Is that kind of like Ikea (easy to live with furniture)?
Maybe. Thank you for explaining "Ikea".
Grave_n_idle
02-03-2006, 19:06
Velvet Acid Christ, Haujobb, Dementia Simplex, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Covenant, VNV Nation, :Wumpscut: , Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Download, KMFDM, Ohgr, Rx, Revolting Cocks, Schnitt Acht, Malhavoc, Lab Report, Skrew (were Industrial before they went metal), Evil Mothers, Chemlab, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Pigface, Machines of Loving Grace, Curve (Chinese Burn era), Suicide Commando, Die Krupps, Steril, Eco, 16 Volt, Mentallo and the Fixer, Forma Tadre, Heavy Water Factory, Kalte Farben, Einsturzende Neubauten, Noise Unit, Unit 187, Gary Numan, Cyan, Doubting Thomas, 1000 Homo DJ's, Nine Inch Nails, Lead Into Gold, P.T.P., Squid, Angelwhore, Excessive Force (KMFDM side-project), Jackofficers (Butthole Surfers side-project), Clock DVA, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Apoptygma Berzerk, Mesh, Das Ich, Juno Reactor, C-Tec, Delerium....
Greenham
02-03-2006, 21:41
Maybe. Thank you for explaining "Ikea".


With you being Swedish I wasn't sure if you've heard of the company. By the way I was trying to make a joke out of it. ;) It could've been a worse attempt if I used ABBA as an example. :D
Greenham
02-03-2006, 21:43
Velvet Acid Christ, Haujobb, Dementia Simplex, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Covenant, VNV Nation, :Wumpscut: , Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Download, KMFDM, Ohgr, Rx, Revolting Cocks, Schnitt Acht, Malhavoc, Lab Report, Skrew (were Industrial before they went metal), Evil Mothers, Chemlab, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Pigface, Machines of Loving Grace, Curve (Chinese Burn era), Suicide Commando, Die Krupps, Steril, Eco, 16 Volt, Mentallo and the Fixer, Forma Tadre, Heavy Water Factory, Kalte Farben, Einsturzende Neubauten, Noise Unit, Unit 187, Gary Numan, Cyan, Doubting Thomas, 1000 Homo DJ's, Nine Inch Nails, Lead Into Gold, P.T.P., Squid, Angelwhore, Excessive Force (KMFDM side-project), Jackofficers (Butthole Surfers side-project), Clock DVA, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Apoptygma Berzerk, Mesh, Das Ich, Juno Reactor, C-Tec, Delerium....


Good list. I've seen 13 of those bands and you've listed a couple that I had forgotten about.
Greenham
02-03-2006, 21:47
Props for
In Strict Confidence
and
Machines of Loving Grace
...since a lot of the good ones are already spoken for here.
The Front Line Assembly "Live Wired" album has some good ones.
Skinny Puppy's "Too Dark Park" and "Last Rights" were excellent.
I liked all of the MoLG albums but "Concentration" the best.
And "Seven Lives" and "Eye Of Heaven" are pretty good from ISC.


Shit, I forgot ISC. I really like them alot since I saw them last year at WGT. I'm not too big a fan of MoLG.
Czar Natovski Romanov
02-03-2006, 21:50
Ministry, by far. Godflesh in second place.

I also like Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Cop Shoot Cop, Sisters of Mercy, Switchblade Symphony, Pitchshifter, November 17, Nihil.

I haven't decided yet if I like Cabaret Voltaire or Frontline Assembly.
I plan to get into Laibach next.

KMFDM is my fav.
Soviet Haaregrad
04-03-2006, 04:16
Expanding it to include some more techno and noise based stuff; Front Line Assembly, Suicide Commando, Hocico, Atari Teenage Riot, Fear Factory, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Cheap Czad, Edgey, Mike V2.0, Kaput and Brighter Death Now.
Defuniak
04-03-2006, 04:24
Hmmm... I have no idea what the categories are but two bands I like are the drive by truckers and Greenday.
Straughn
04-03-2006, 04:39
Shit, I forgot ISC. I really like them alot since I saw them last year at WGT. I'm not too big a fan of MoLG.
If you don't mind me askin', WHERE DO YOU LIVE THAT YOU CAN SEE THEM? *salivates/whimpers*
Straughn
04-03-2006, 04:41
Velvet Acid Christ, Haujobb, Dementia Simplex, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Covenant, VNV Nation, :Wumpscut: , Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Download, KMFDM, Ohgr, Rx, Revolting Cocks, Schnitt Acht, Malhavoc, Lab Report, Skrew (were Industrial before they went metal), Evil Mothers, Chemlab, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Pigface, Machines of Loving Grace, Curve (Chinese Burn era), Suicide Commando, Die Krupps, Steril, Eco, 16 Volt, Mentallo and the Fixer, Forma Tadre, Heavy Water Factory, Kalte Farben, Einsturzende Neubauten, Noise Unit, Unit 187, Gary Numan, Cyan, Doubting Thomas, 1000 Homo DJ's, Nine Inch Nails, Lead Into Gold, P.T.P., Squid, Angelwhore, Excessive Force (KMFDM side-project), Jackofficers (Butthole Surfers side-project), Clock DVA, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Apoptygma Berzerk, Mesh, Das Ich, Juno Reactor, C-Tec, Delerium....
You don't appear to have listed Duran Duran here, anywhere ... just a heads up. Your list doesn't seem complete ;)
RetroLuddite Saboteurs
04-03-2006, 04:46
do the butthole surfers and alien sex fiend count as industrial
Jello Biafra
04-03-2006, 12:55
Dammit, I forgot the Revolting Cocks and Atari Teenage Riot.

do the butthole surfers and alien sex fiend count as industrialThe Butthole Surfers don't, unless you mean the atrocious Weird Revolution album. I'm not sure about Alien Sex Fiend.
Greenham
04-03-2006, 15:53
If you don't mind me askin', WHERE DO YOU LIVE THAT YOU CAN SEE THEM? *salivates/whimpers*


Oh I saw them at last years 14th Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany. Not exactly close to where I live. I highly recommend (if you have the means) to attend at least one WGT in your lifetime. The 15th WGT is taking place on June 2nd.
Greenham
04-03-2006, 15:55
do the butthole surfers and alien sex fiend count as industrial


Butthole surfers no, but ASF definitely although they run that thin line between goth and synthpop/industrial.
Wentland
04-03-2006, 16:28
Laibach, Atari Teenage Riot, Front 242 and any of Jim Thirlwell's foetal personae.
Demented Hamsters
04-03-2006, 16:40
Favourite industrial/sythpop band?

Definitely 'The Young Gods'.
Grave_n_idle
04-03-2006, 20:31
Dammit, I forgot the Revolting Cocks and Atari Teenage Riot.

The Butthole Surfers don't, unless you mean the atrocious Weird Revolution album. I'm not sure about Alien Sex Fiend.

The Butthole Surfers 'project' Jack Officers are kind of synth-pop, though... :)

How could you forget the Revolting Cocks? Especially with a new album due any day? ("Cocked and Loaded", I think they went for, in the end.... although I remember when they were pushing that as the name for a 'greatest hits' type album...)

I wsn't that impressed by ATR when I saw them live (they were the warm-up for NIN).
Grave_n_idle
04-03-2006, 20:33
You don't appear to have listed Duran Duran here, anywhere ... just a heads up. Your list doesn't seem complete ;)

I didn't include Ultravox or OMD, either... but that's because I think all three are better described as 'New Romantic' than as synthpop.

Also - since I've typed the list, I've realised I could probably have argued Devo and Yello in as synthpop, and the later Pop Will Eat Itself material as industrial.... curses.
Megaloria
04-03-2006, 20:43
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Jello Biafra
05-03-2006, 02:48
How could you forget the Revolting Cocks? Especially with a new album due any day? ("Cocked and Loaded", I think they went for, in the end.... although I remember when they were pushing that as the name for a 'greatest hits' type album...)Lol. I suppose I view them as Ministry's bastard cousin, and since I said Ministry already, it made it easier to forget about them.
There will be a Ministry/Revolting Cocks tour this summer, huzzah!

I also forgot Foetus, by the way.
Harlesburg
05-03-2006, 02:51
Aqua?
Grave_n_idle
05-03-2006, 19:38
Lol. I suppose I view them as Ministry's bastard cousin, and since I said Ministry already, it made it easier to forget about them.
There will be a Ministry/Revolting Cocks tour this summer, huzzah!

I also forgot Foetus, by the way.

A tour I'd love to see, but, I'm not sure if I'm going to get to.... only one date in Georgia... (I believe).

Perhaps more importantly, for me, at least... the Pigface tour hits Georgia in late April. If I only get to go to one... that's likely to be it.
Jello Biafra
06-03-2006, 10:47
A tour I'd love to see, but, I'm not sure if I'm going to get to.... only one date in Georgia... (I believe).They're playing here, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to go, as I'm all but positive that the bus lines don't run to the venue, and I dunno if I'll be driving and have a car by then.