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- From: pml3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Paul Michael Lewis)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
- Subject: Re: Cop Shoot Cop/ Sister Machine Gun
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.150543.27299@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:05:43 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- >I wasn't about to spend megabucks on "unknown" bands, so I bought CSC's single
- >"Suck City", 'cause it seemed more of an ep than a single. I don't really know
- >what I was expecting, but it wasn't a bass/guitar/drums/vocals band. The liner
- >says that there's a guy whose sole job is "tapes and samples", but I didn't hea
- rmuch of those. I guess I was expecting somthing more..."industrial". Any
- >comments on the sound of their albums compared to this single?
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- I liked _Consumer Revolt_ MUCH better than "Suck City". Revolt is much
- harsher, and if you will- industrial sounding. There you'll here a lot of
- samples and heavy, heavy beats. Give this one a listen, I liked it.
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- >Its the Sister Machine Gun album that really interested me, but not for its
- >music. The liner says its was produced by Sascha KMFDM, and most songs were
- >mixed by Dave Ogilvie, with Dwayne of SP playing keys on one track. So I
- >figured that buying a used copy of this CD was a good use of money. Right?
- >Well...sorta. The whole album is a NIN wannabe session. Everything about the
- >music screams "WE WANNA BE THE NEXT NINE INCH NAILS!!". The beats are blatant
- >attempts to update the "PHM" beats (let's face it - they sound kinda dated now)
- ,the lyrics are about the same sorta stuff: God/Christ, lovers, sin,etc. (SMG
- even says "I get what I have earned" in the chorus to one song...gee...what doe
- sthat remind you of??). The vocal delivery is identical to Trent's, or as near a
- sthis guy could get. The songs are the same sort of keyboards/beats/samples/nois
- ewith occasional guitar. The guitar processing is remarkably similiar to what
- >Trent used on "PHM".
-
- Yeah, I felt the same way. I also felt the same way about Machines of Loving
- Grace. PHM wanna-bees. I really have no interest in either of these bands.
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