http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:53:07 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/28/193546.php#comment-282 No, Throbbing Gristle were around long before then - as <A HREF="http://www.brainwashed.com/axis/coum/frendz.htm">COUM Transmissions</A> they were performing in 1971. But I think your point is correct in many cases - some of the more pantomime forms of industrial music in the late 80s were basically dysfunctional white boys who would have tried rap if not for the example set by Vanilla Ice.... As for Trent Reznor - I still think of him as a Rocky Horror Show version of Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, J.G. Thirwell gothed up for MTV. ]]> 282@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:53:07 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/28/193546.php#comment-281 Good point James, but remember they started at about the same time in the late-70's, they were using the same tools. ]]> 281@blogcritics.org Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:37:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/28/193546.php#comment-280 I don't know, Eric, somehow I think Throbbing Gristle might take issue with your characterisation of industrial music as a response to rap... ]]> 280@blogcritics.org Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:20:40 EDT