Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Industrial : 101

Industrial :101

Welcome to the first part in an on-going series where EIC will dive headphone first into a particular sound/style. In the "101 Series" EIC will hand pick 101 of the most "important" albums that help define a genre. This first part, "Industrial : 101", is sort of an ode to my childhood. Growing up I was (still am) a big "rivet head". Generally about 95% of the music I listened to from the age 0f 13 to 21 was Industrial music. Sometimes dark & harsh, sometimes fun, sometimes melodic & gorgeous, factory sounds just seemed to make for a perfect adolescent soundtrack. Although these albums are numbered and (somewhat) in-order, it's more of a reference as to which ones had a bigger impact on me personally. They're not necessarily going to be every one's favorites, although I am sure you will agree with quite a few. I'm sure you may even want to add a few to this list that you think I missed, but remember, it's all subjective anyways. Some with guitars and some without, some old and a few new, these 101 albums are (to me) THE shining moments in the history of Industrial music. Anyways, without any further ado please enjoy..




..if you like your Industrial classic and inspirational, this compilation shaped my entire musical life
2. Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
..if you like your Industrial "scary minimalist"
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
..if you like your Industrial mad & melancholy as well as setting the standard for future Industrial Rock radio acts
4. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
..if you like your Industrial captivating, exhilarating, and extremely addictive
5. Coil - Love's Secret Domain
..if you like your Industrial weird, very weird
6. Skinny Puppy - Brap: Back And Forth Vol. 3-4
..if you like your Industrial noisy and un-human like (I prefer SP this way) UNDERRATED
7. Coil - The Ape Of Naples
..if you like your Industrial romantic and surreal UNDERRATED
8. Skinny Puppy - The Process
..if you like your Industrial dark and HARD, a stunning tribute to a lost member UNDERRATED
9. Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not
..if you like your Industrial with bizarre emotional layers, no other Industrial album sounds like this UNDERRATED
10. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
..if you like your Industrial amazing, I love every track on this double disc UNDERRATED11. Coil - Scatology
..if you like your Industrial slow, Classical & Ambient
12. I, Parasite - On This Cold Floor
..if you like your Industrial angsty, dark and catchy UNDERRATED
13.Prick - s/t
..if you like your Industrial with a bit of Alt-Pop UNDERRATED
14. Nine Inch Nails - Further Down The Spiral
..if you like your Industrial a little bit "techno sounding"
15. Nine Inch Nails - Broken
..if you like your Industrial mean and fast
16. Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
..if you like your Industrial with a bit of abstract Art Pop
17. Android Lust - Resolution
..if you like your Industrial dark and seductive UNDERRATED
18. Gravity Kills - s/t
..if you like your Industrial catchy as hell and you're guilty too-ooooo!
19. Wumpscut - Dried Blood Of Gomorrah
..if you like your Industrial different, dark, maddening and slightly brilliant
20. Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
..if you like your Industrial heavy and dark as well as terrifically produced
21. Coil - Black Antlers
..if you like your Industrial artsy and unique
22. Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers + Queers
..if you like your Industrial the Wax Trax way
23. Ministry - Psalm 69
..if you like your Industrial as much as you love your Metal
24. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
..if you like your Industrial heavy and dark as well as terrifically produced
25. Revolting Cocks - Big Sexy Land
..if you like your Industrial (see 22)
26. Nine Inch Nails - Closer To God
..if you like your Industrial (see 14)
27. Hate Dept. Omnipresent
..if you like your Industrial Rock to be extremely addictive and somewhat therapeutic UNDERRATED
28. Wumpscut - Embryodead
..if you like your Industrial dark with some terrific melodies
29. Razed In Black - Overflow
..if you like your Industrial sexy, Gothic, & somewhat dancey
30. Razed In Black - Shrieks, Laments, And Anguished Cries
..if you like your Industrial aggro style with a "lo-fi-esque" recording quality
31. Leaether Strip - Self Inflicted
..if you like your Industrial emotional and exceptionally produced/written UNDERRATED
32. VNV Nation - Empires
..if you like your Industrial more on the synth side, but not necessarily (today's) EBM
33. Ministry - Twelve Inch Singles
..if you like your Industrial cheesy/80's style (how can you not be in-love with "Everyday Is Halloween"?)
34. Noise Unit - Strategy Of Violence
..if you like your Industrial "like an instrumental Front Line Assembly"..only better (it's a side project) UNDERRATED
35. Velvet Acid Christ - Church Of Acid
..if you like your Industrial sick, twisted, mopey, dancey and trance-like
36. Numb - Blood Meridian
..if you like your Industrial HARD & very aggro
37. Bile - Teknowhore
..if you like your Industrial mixed with drug infused Metal "slop"
38.-39. Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1-2
..if you like your Industrial in a way only Coil could share with you:)
40. Razed In Black - Sacrificed
..if you like your Industrial to shred and have a clubby beat
41. Frontline Assembly - Millennium
..if you like your Industrial produced by a a bunch of metal gods
42. Hate Dept. - Meat Your Maker
..if you like your Industrial simple and Synth-Rock driven
43. Fracture - Killernet
..if you like your Industrial unique and filled with prophetic sounds UNDERRATED
44. Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey
..if you like your Industrial to sound a bit more metal than it is Industrial, but still displaying dark factory sounds
45. Throbbing Gristle - D.O.A. The Third And Final Report of...
..if you like your Industrial weird, noisy, abstract & acquired.
46. Flux Information Sciences - Private/Public

..if you like your Industrial loud, klangy, weird & Punky UNDERRATED
47. Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report Of...
..if you like your Industrial music in it's earliest form (this is regarded as the first "Industrial" album).
48. 1000 Homo DJ's - Supernaut/Apathy
..if you like your Industrial to sound like Ministry or NIN..hmm, I wonder why?
49. Kill Memory Crash - When The Blood Turns Black
..if you like your Industrial mechanical dark and club friendly (somewhat) UNDERRATED
50. Foetus - Hide
..if you like your Industrial to not really sounding "Industrial", but referring to it slightly
51. KMFDM - Xtort
..if you like your Industrial like standard KMFDM releases, only "more experimental" UNDERRATED
52. C-Tec - Darker
..if you like your Industrial like Front 242 meets late 90's EBM
53. KMFDM - Nihil
..if you like your Industrial to be liked by every one in the room
54. Die Form - Duality
..if you like your Industrial seductive, Gothic, and Operatic UNDERRATED
55. Skinny Puppy - Rabies
..if you like your Industrial mean and sleazy
56. Pig - Sinsation
..if you like your Industrial scary, seductive and twisted
57. Coil - The New Backwards
..if you like your Industrial ..you know, is Coil even really "Industrial"?
58. Kevorkian Death Cycle - A + 0 [m]
..if you like your Industrial mid 90's EBM stlye mixed with a bit of Mentallo
59. The Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
..if you like your Industrial abstract and french
60. Sister Machine Gun - Burn
..if you like your Industrial to sound "radio-friendly" and catchy
61. Machines Of Loving Grace - Gilt
..if you like your Industrial with AMAZING bass lines and catchy hooks
62. VNV Nation - Futureperfect
..if you like your Industrial pitch perfect and glorious
63. Wumpscut - Music For A Slaughtering Tribe
..if you like your Industrial the way Wumpscut normally delivers it
64. Ministry - Twitch
..if you like your Industrial right about when/before Ministry got into guitars
65. Cabaret Voltaire - CODE
..if you like your Industrial Classic EBM style
66. Sister Machine Gun - Sins Of The Flesh
..if you like your Industrial Wax Trax-y:)
67. Kill Memory Crash - American Automatic
..if you like your Industrial to sound like a "lighter" SP's "The Process" only more clubby
68. Front 242 - Geography
..if you like your Industrial cheesy and Lo-Fi
69. Nine Inch Nails - Fixed
..if you like your Industrial remixed and clubby
70. Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold And Manipulate
..if you like your Industrial right about when Skinny Puppy began writing more "humanistic" songs
71. Necrofix - Nefarious Somnabulance
..if you like your Industrial like Mentallo And The Fixer UNDERRATED
72. Combichrist - The Joy Of Gunz
..if you like your Industrial with a bit of Power Noise
73. Machines Of Loving Grace - Concentration
..if you like your Industrial to rock
74. Carbon 12 - Very Harsh Frequencies
..if you like your Industrial extremely aggro UNDERRATED
75. The Electric Hellfire Club - Kiss The Goat
..if you like your Industrial Gothic, Satanic and filled with murder
76. Ike Yard - 1980-1982 Collected
..if you like your Industrial to evolve from the No Wave scene
77. Wumpscut - Wreath Of Barbs
..if you like your Industrial right before Metropolis went "full-on EBM" with everything, this is one of Wumpscut's catchiest releases
78. Skinny Puppy - Remission
..if you like your Industrial classical Skinny Puppy style
79. Android Lust - Devour, Rise, And Take Flight
..if you like your Industrial Gothic and well produced
80. Error - Error EP
..if you like your Industrial kind of like MSI only darker, harder, and faster featuring Atticus Ross UNDERRATED
81. The Young Gods - Only Heaven
..if you like your Industrial "Young Gods style"
82. Skinny Puppy - Bites
..if you like your Industrial (see 78)
83. 16 Volt - Supercoolnothing
..if you like your Industrial catchy and Rock-y
84. Hate Dept. - Technical Difficulties
..if you like your Industrial (see 83)
85. KMFDM - s/t
..if you like your Industrial sounding like KMFDM's best produced album to date
86. Birmingham 6 - Assassinate
..if you like your Industrial sounding like KMFDM only (sometimes) waaaay better UNDERRATED
87. Godhead - Power Tool Stigmata
..if you like your Industrial mixed with a healthy dose of Alt-Rock UNDERRATED
88. Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
..if you like your Industrial, Industrial.
89. Fear Factory - Remanufacture
..if you like your Industrial more like metal remixed by a club kid
90. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
..if you like your Industrial sounding like one of Throbbing Gristle's most "Poppy" releases UNDERRATED
91. Numb - s/t
..if you like your Industrial aggro and classical UNDERRATED
92. Coil - Selavaggina Go Back Into The Woods
..if you like your Industrial live UNDERRATED
93. Numb - Wasted Sky
..if you like your Industrial dark and slightly mind bending
94. Velvet Acid Christ - Fun With Knives
..if you like your Industrial filled with drug and rave references
95. Christ Analogue - In Radiant Decay
..if you like your Industrial to sound like a "radio-friendly/more relaxing Skinny Puppy", kind of UNDERRATED
96. Big Black - The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
..if you like your Industrial more Punk-Rock than Industrial
97. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus
..if you like your Industrial mixed with Surf Rock (maybe?), and trailer park jams
98. White Car - No Better

..if you like your Industrial classic only done by a newbie
99. //Tense// - Consume
..if you like your Industrial (see 98) ..only more Classic EBM
100. Malformed Earthborn - Defiance Of The Ugly By The Merely Repulsive
..if you like your Industrial to sound like a post-apocalyptic-Metal-esque soundtrack
101. Dismantled - Demo Variation
..if you like your Industrial insanely well produced, post-human, aggro-emotional & clubby

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