Einsturzende Neubauten

Five on the open-ended Richter scale is really moody stuff.

They're also incredibly magnetic as individual personalities, it's a shame the 'Liebeslieder' documentary film is no longer on YouTube (it is on Apple TV), but pretty much any documentary about EN is worth checking out.

Generally a fan but find that Blixa followed a pretty similar path to Nick Cave both as a person and as a musician. Namely, (highly) thinking of himself as an intellectual from the mis90s onwards. Music growing equally pompous and affected.

xpost I think I found it here:

https://vk.com/video151174670_162373052

Halver Mensch is so good!

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*Halber

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would have been a much better choice imo

With Blixa being a renowned vegetarian who has appeared on cookery shows , has he ventured into middle eastern cookery and created a manly sweetmeat called halva Mensch yet?

Halfway through Haus der Lüge - its some kind of peak. Junkyards of percussion to a stuttering set of beats and baselines. Blixa has got the 'singing' really down too!

His voice has always been a major stumbling block for me tbh.

Blixa got a role in The Mummy as the voice of the mummy's ghost because of that shriek. Which was why I went to see the film when it came out.

& Michael Mann heard Armenia off Zeichnungen der Patienten O.T. and started using it as a theme.
I've wondered if it was down to Henry Rollins who is in a supporting role in Heat where it appears every time Val Kilmer's character's wife does. Rollins having the Neubauten man prominent on the top of his arm and all.

I did not know about The Mummy. Wow!

I have long wondered about how Michael Mann got into Neubauten - the Rollins theory seems highly plausible. He must have really liked 'Armenia' as he used it again in 'The Insider'

Mann works a lot with Neville Brody I think. If I remember correctly, the graphic designer in Heat has some Brody-related stuff in her office? It's covered here http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2011/09/09/graphic-design-in-heat/ And Brody is Über-industrial person – so many labels and record covers designed by him

cool, wasn't aware of that. Now i need another book. lovely.

i'm a Brody Über fan and have seen Heat several times yet have never spotted the Last Testament or Eight Eyed Spy artwork in it before. Worryingly unobservant!