einstuerzende neubauten: classic or dud?

Even better that Blixa would also be a Bad Seed.

I honestly haven't listened to them in years. Within some time of the initial infatuation, I more or less found them to be inconsistent and often dull. I mostly just haven't been in the mood to listen to that clunky, lugubrious sound in ages. If I was to pick a track to put on now it would be "Kalte Sternen" (it's pretty and catchy) or "Headcleaner".

Classic, classic, classic.

Maybe not weedy so much as aiming for intensity and power and falling well short of it and sounding like someone throwing a tantrum instead (see William Bennett)

nagel mein herz an ein fensterkreuz (nail my heart onto the crossbar)

Half Man from 1984 is the album I will treasure; the late-'90s stuff was interesting but not as exciting, and haven't seen/heard them since...

Ende Neu.

Can understand why 12-15 year-olds would say "classic", but it's harder to comprehend the notion of adults (17 and up) giving this codswollop the time of day (at least not without extreme embarrassment).

Then again, arrested development is the coin of the realm, ain't it?

The music of, say, "Vanadium I-Ching" is the product of a quite focused and disciplined attention to objects and sounds, and the structure of the piece is pretty far removed from any kind of childish tantrum. The entrance of musical lines was determined by a temporal map of cracks in a piece of metal; this kind of conceptual compositional strategy seems pretty coolly analytic and controlled to me.

On February 20th, the ICA will stage a Re-enactment of the now-legendary ICA performance, Einstürzende Neubauten’s ‘Concerto for voice and machine.’ The original event took place in 1984 when it was seen as a reaction against music as an easily and readily commodifiable package and industry in post-punk conservative Britain. The event comprised of cacophonous but orchestrated noise and destruction with industrial machinery and tools being used to drill holes in the stage of the ICA and was called to a halt after 21 minutes when ICA technicians turned off the power! On February 20th, emerging young artist Jo Mitchell will direct the re-enactment of this seminal event in an attempt to highlight the gap between the real and the represented and to question notions of expectation, consensus and the conventions of (the different) times.

Okay, seriously the last minute or so of Yu Gung: Classickerist or Classicumilingus?

What's their new album like? I sorta tuned out after 'Perpetuum Mobile'

I like the new album. Posted this on another thread in September:

Most (okay, probably only) country song on the new Einsturzende Neubuaten album Alles Weideroffen is "Nagorny Karabach, which has a very recognizable Lee Hazelwood (R.I.P.) clippity-clop to it. Lots of repetitive electronic factory clang to the rest of the album, often building gradually into something tangibly if Teutonically identifiable as a groove, with repeatedly chanted harangues on top, which slow-building sometimes makes me more impatient than other times. Faves are opener "Die Wellen" (reminds me of Faust), humorlessly titled and minimally starting "Let's Do It Dada," nine-minute "Unvollstandigkeit," and "Ich Warte" (maybe their most danceable track since Adrian Sherwood produced "Yu Gung" for them 22 years ago.) Part that sounds like "bacon bacon bacon bacon" in "Von Wegen" is also neat. Didn't know they still had it in 'em.

Classic, but more for the quiet drony bits than the shrieking clanging bits.

Eyethengyew.

wow, is that available through normal channels or is this another website/supporter release?

I also have not heard anything past Perpetuum. Somebody on another thread was extolling their supporter's club deal, it seemed interesting.

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/281460-02.htm&highlight=neubauten

Lol "Genre: downtempo"

I've never heard these guys but they sound like something I like. How are they, compared to like, early Cabaret Voltaire or Throbbing Gristle?

more visceral, you need this stuff.

Apropos of sod-all, Dingsaller is bloody fantastic.

Please tell me you posted that to a rolling country thread, xhuxk.

Turns out this album hasn't reconciled me with them. Impressive but ultimately a bit boring.

okay this is pretty cool and then at 4:30 AW YEAH

stick around for blixa's covergirl moment

US leg of 30th anniversary tour cancelled

It is with great regret that Einstürzende Neubauten announce the cancellation of their planned thirtieth anniversary appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto and New York. While the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did issue approvals for the band’s visas, it was not done in time to secure the appointments at the overseas embassies and consulates that represent the necessary final step in the process.

The band members are tremendously disappointed by this turn of events and wish to thank all those fans who purchased tickets for these performances for their support. The band would have loved to do the tour and meet their overseas fans. Because this tour was a time-sensitive production, it will not be rescheduled. Ticket holders can obtain refunds from their point of purchase.

poop! i was really looking forward to seeing them. i'm especially miffed that it won't even be rescheduled.

may as well mention how great the ANBB album Blixa has done with Alva Noto is, its probably my favourite album at the moment

I've been listening to the recordings of the latest tour (they are doing the Grateful Dead recording every show and selling soundboard USBs at the end of the night) and they are so so so so tight and the setlists are so so so so amazing right now. The world's best live band. Whoever said Blixa needs to stop the inhale scream and wearing suits upthread 15 years ago is a fucking idiot.

jesus christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxyWStLB0z0

<3 <3 <3 bookmarking for later

Ende Neu tour I saw in 1998 remains one of my top ten concert experiences

I saw them four times over the years: in 1989 in a tiny club in L.A., in 1990 at the (new) Ritz on 54th Street, in 1993 at Roseland, and in 2000 (I think) at Irving Plaza. Always fantastic, but the 1989 and 1993 shows were the life-changing ones.

And thanks to this thread's revival reminding me of their existence, I just bought a very rare (so rare it's not even listed on Discogs) Japanese 3CD set that contains Strategies Against Architecture Vols. I and II on eBay.

Saw them for the first time on the Ende Neu tour in London, it was incredible and have tried to see them every time they've rolled around since, that YouTube concert is fantastic but man, the illuminated perimeter of the stage is like some Trypohobic nightmare.

(uploaded to Bandcamp, I mean, although yeah if they were available aftershow then it does muddy those waters a bit but afaict Bandcamp treats reissues as having the release date of the reissue not the original)

Thanks for the clarification! It's useful information, and I'll pass it on.

Gonna give the new one a proper listen over the weekend, might dig out The Jewels too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQoBph_FTFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNR1nGolZVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyaGBSDpiA

Halber Mensch time. yes this is my industrial week because there are limits to how much metal I can consume a year even for me.

this is my very first listen.

Ohhhh nice, that's a great record.

the intro track I coulda listened to for a half hour, if my mother wouldn't have run in screaming

my EN favourite.

so many greats; the title track, der tod ist ein dandy, seele brennt, yu gung, sehnsucht....

the intro track I coulda listened to for a half hour, if my mother wouldn't have run in screaming

amazing!

yeah this fucking ruuules. anything percussive and mechanical works for me and this has that in droves.

How much of their other music have you heard N?

somewhere between 0 and none

Oh nice, what a journey!

This may be worth your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=posxMfqdgIM

And if you can track down the Liebeslieder documentary also, it's some story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VsIW3M5p1o

hell fucking ya

please sir, can we have some more...

<3 N.U. Unruh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDriPLyBqo

New single!

Just got the new one. Sort of in vein of Alles In Allem, but less accessible on first two listens. I'm sure it'll sink in.

Per an announcement on the official forum, Alex Hacke has left the band. Sad to see him go, he'd been a member almost as long as the two remaining founder members Blixa and Unruh, but the last two albums haven't done much for me.

I am sad it's come to this. But I also feel that Neubauten is very much Blixa and Andrew and whoever plays with them. I wish good luck to Alex with his other projects, but I'm also glad that Andrew and Blixa are committed to carrying on in whatever form they continue.

Their supporters show of almost entirely improvised work in Berlin last year was one of the best concerts I've seen in a long time. I hope that they release it as a live album!

But I say that as someone who really loves the freeform Kosmische jams of Rampen / Alien Pop Music!

In case you missed the livestream of the 46th anniversary show today, someone uploaded it to archive.org here:
https://archive.org/details/einsturzende-neubauten-46th-anniversary-concert-2026-04-01-berlin

ty!

They have a lady bassist now! Cool!