Don't really get Nine Inch Nails lads.There's like one or two good songs (Survivalism) and the rest... dunno maybe "Industrial" sounded more shocking in 1989. Between Trent's whiny vocals and the kind of flat mid-range all the synths seem to inhabit I just don't get it
>>127714172>two good songsYou're being generous
Industrial, when it was closer to digital/new wave dance music, like the first 9in album, was the last dying gasp of the 80s new wave dance club scene.
>There's like one or two good songs (Survivalism)you're forgetting Capital G and Every Day is Exactly the Same
>>127714172I don't get it either. Industrial has never sounded good to me, and I doubt the boomers on this board are smart or cultured enough to provide an explanation, defense, and recommendations that assuage our doubts.
>>127714245Front 242 is pretty emblematic of that. This was the most successful Wax Trax release ever because it turned into a big club hit:https://youtu.be/lPpUFBVSyWs>>127714316I like industrial music a lot but some people are just not going to like it. I think it's kind of like Dadaism in visual art. To me it's conceptually interesting, and it touches on ~themes~ about ~our society~ when you think about living in a world in which people's brains are being destroyed by algorithms and bodies are being obliterated by kamikaze drones.https://youtu.be/loUfxFIlXWU
Cabaret Voltaire (industrial group from the 1980s) was also named after a Dada art salon where these masks were displayed. Some say they may have been intended to evoke the bloodshed and disfigurement of the war (which they were against).https://youtu.be/8awXGkgW1vIhttps://youtu.be/RkfzXq0tA3c>The portrait of Tzara by Janco is one of several visual sources that help us understand what went on at the Cabaret Voltaire. In an era where video recordings were not yet possible, the only documentation we have of the creative output of the Dada group is in the form of literary sources like memoirs and diaries and some visual sources, namely paintings and photographs.>What these sources show us is that the Cabaret Voltaire became home to multimedia performances combining poetry, music, visual arts (notably collage and posters), and dance (often entailing the use of masks and puppets). These performances were modeled on the aesthetic principles of Richard Wagner and Wassily Kandinsky and echoed the notion of a “total work of art” (a work of art that makes use of many art forms, also called Gesamtkunstwerk).
whats with the NIN hate lately? theres like a hate thread every other day now, did fantano shit on them or something recently
>>127714569Some people are too special regarding Tront
https://youtu.be/3vfzZg7hl7Y
>I had been thinking about making works that dealt with layers, physically, materially and conceptually. I wanted to produce works that were about both exposure and revealing and at the same dealt with closure and covering. Given the nature of the lyrics and the power of the music I was working with, I felt justified in attempting to make works that alluded to the apparently contradictory imagery of pain and healing. I wanted to make beautiful surfaces that partially revealed the visceral rawness of open wounds beneath. The mixed media work 'Wound' was the first piece I tackled in this vein (no pun intended) and it became the cover of the album. It is made of plaster, acrylics, oils, rusted metals, insects, moths, blood (mine), wax, varnishes, and surgical bandaging on a wooden panel.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Mills_(artist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Dix
